MARC 2010 IS OPEN

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by pathew100

I say let the mentors go in the question box if they want, but they have to put up another $5 charitable donation first...

Can we prepay? Get some sort of 3 for the price of 4 deal going? I guess I would be willing to challenge calls with Gary for a good charity.

This sounds like a fun competition.

EDIT: No, 3 for 4 is not a typo. Wouldn't want to get a discount on charitable donations now would we?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Can we prepay? Get some sort of 3 for the price of 4 deal going? I guess I would be willing to challenge calls with Gary for a good charity.

This sounds like a fun competition.

Sure, if you want to ask 3 questions for $20, we'll let you.

[BX MARK]

i have a question about the mentor matches....who is the drive coach? Because I was thinking it would be kinda cool for a team member to be the drive coach....

[MrFixIt2719]

Originally Posted by BX MARK

i have a question about the mentor matches....who is the drive coach? Because I was thinking it would be kinda cool for a team member to be the drive coach....

the driver coach can be anyone you want but we like to see the students back there getting revenge at yelling at us mentors for a change in the heat of battle

[BX MARK]

haha ok cool I was kinda hoping on getting my revenge up close

[Bjenks548]

Originally Posted by MrFixIt2719

the driver coach can be anyone you want but we like to see the students back there getting revenge at yelling at us mentors for a change in the heat of battle

We have a student coach anyway. I want to see the mentors take all four spots and see how they do!

[MrFixIt2719]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

We have a student coach anyway. I want to see the mentors take all four spots and see how they do!

and that is perfectly fine and allowed

[maverickfan138]

Team 573 decided on signing up today! We're excited to be a part of the competition!

Interesting tid-bit...My name is Marc, so it was really confusing communicating about the competition at the meeting today. I can't wait to get a shirt though!

[Lisa Perez]

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered for the event so far. I have most of the volunteer positions filled a whopping 2 months before the event!

I *am* still in need of photographers and queuers for MARC, so if you are interested, please feel free to shoot me an e-mail at lisaperez[at]gmail[dot]com.

[Bob Bonczyk]

Last year was our first year at the MARC and we loved it!!! We are signed up.

[Steve Ketron]

2010 MARC Event Schedule

24-Jun-10
10am - 2pm Pit Set-up
2pm - 8pm Field Set-up/testing


25-Jun-10
12pm -3pm Team Registration and set-up
12:30pm - 2:30 pm Practice Begins
2:30pm -2:45 pm Drivers Meeting
2:45pm - 3pm Opening Comments
3pm - 6pm Qualification Matches
6:15pm - 8:15pm Mentor Driver matches
9pm Pits Close
6pm - 10pm Team Social (PIG Roast)

26-Jun-10
8am - 8:45am Pits Open
9am - 9:30am Opening Ceremony
9:30am-1:15pm Qualifying Matches
1:15pm -1:30pm Final Alliance Selection
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch Break
2:30pm - 4:30pm Eliminations Matches Begin
4:45pm Awards Ceremony
5:15pm Event Ends/Field Breakdown

FINALS: Top 8 seeds w/3 partners (looking for teams input on how to run alliance selection)

[johnr]

This will probably be like blasphemy to some but i would like to see someday all the teams participate in the eliminations. I know time constraints would be one problem and how would you divide up the teams another. Maybe based just on rank with team 1 getting 9,team 2 getting 10 and so on. It could be run like wrestling were if you lose one match you drop into a second tier and can work your way back up to the top. Lose two matches and go home. Just a thought. It looks like you are having four teams on an alliance. Do they all have to play?

[Steve Ketron]

I am still looking into that. You should have received an e-mail and I am waiting on those replies. I am currently favoring 4 team alliances and every team has to play at least one match. Not one match per round like last year.

The selection of 1-9, 2-10, 3-11, 4-12, 5-13, 6-14, 7-15, 8-16 and then captain selections 1-8, 8-1 might be a possibility also.

[Mr.G]

We are planning on attending and I must say i am excited about the mentor matches.

I was thinking about how to format the mentor matches and nothing I could think of really made it clean and easy. Was wondering how you were going to match the mentor teams up?

[Steve Ketron]

Originally Posted by Mr.G

We are planning on attending and I must say i am excited about the mentor matches.

I was thinking about how to format the mentor matches and nothing I could think of really made it clean and easy. Was wondering how you were going to match the mentor teams up?

There are only 24 spots with a waiting list available if something goes wrong. The teams that pay first (with exception to last years winners) are in. As far as format, it is the same as eliminations rounds go except when the team arrives/pays they will pull a number out of a hat and they fill that spot in the brackets. Double eliminations.