MARC 2010 IS OPEN

[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

[Chris is me]

I'd love to attend if someone could get me from WI to MARC I'll split a long road trip with someone... No way 1714 or 2791's going though of course, but it's the summer and I won't have anything else to do so I might as well volunteer.

[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.

[Koko Ed]

What's the current team list?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by 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.

In as far as I recall something similar was tried several years ago in FIRST (I want to say 2001 but I can't recall exactly) perhaps reading up on the pros and cons of that would be beneficial.

[XaulZan11]

I would like having a 4 team alliance with every team having to play once. I only suggest the alliance selections go 1-8, 8-1, 1-8. I'm not sure it is that fair to force the top seed to play the 32nd best team at the event, while giving them 24th and 25th team gives them a lot of flexibility in strategy (and tough decisions).

If you haven't recieved offical word yet, it is looking good that 1732 will be returning to MARC after missing last year.