2011 FRC Season dates

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by Madison

Yes, we do. Seattle is very likely going to be the largest event in the world in 2011, save for the Championship.

Does this mean it will be a double field FRC event or are you talking about a combined FRC/FTC/FLL event? I am curious from a planning perspective.

[Mark McLeod]

FIRST has sort of published some of the important 2010-2011 dates at:
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...alendar(1).pdf
This was indirectly linked to by Bill's 9/8/10 Blog

Event registration is slotted for October 7 for instance.

The Season Calendar hasn't been updated with this information yet, so take it as you will.

[ATannahill]

September
Wed 15

VIMS goes live (tentative)
2011 FRC Competition dates/locations announced on FIRST website

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

FIRST has sort of published some of the important 2010-2011 dates at:
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...alendar(1).pdf

That shows six weeks of regional FRC competitions, with a two-week break before the FIRST Championship. Good to know.

(The rescheduling of the VEX world championship puts it the week after the last FRC regionals, yay.)

[Mark McLeod]

Perusing the Regional Director contact list I see two new Regionals referenced as of August 12:

• Alamo Regional, San Antonio, TX
• Tennessee as a TBD

No surprises there.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That shows six weeks of regional FRC competitions, with a two-week break before the FIRST Championship. Good to know.

(The rescheduling of the VEX world championship puts it the week after the last FRC regionals, yay.)

Now I have to rethink this out.
If we attend a week 6 regional in Virginia or NC, we could then make it a back to back trip to the VEX Worlds CMP to save on cost......hmmmmmm.

[hg273]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze

Does this mean it will be a double field FRC event or are you talking about a combined FRC/FTC/FLL event? I am curious from a planning perspective.

Seattle will be a double field event held week three with a capacity for 100+ teams.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

September
Wed 15

VIMS goes live (tentative)
2011 FRC Competition dates/locations announced on FIRST website

So...let's see if today's the day. Nothing posted yet.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

So...let's see if today's the day. Nothing posted yet.

Bill said he'll try to get them out quickly. Apparently not all contracts are signed yet or something like that...

[Mark McLeod]

Bill did say "FRC team registration will open September 30th at noon ET (that’s official)."

That's a week earlier than the August draft calendar listed.

VIMS seems to be open.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

VIMS seems to be open.

It's the same as it's been for the past month. Working, but no events listed in signup.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

It's the same as it's been for the past month. Working, but no events listed in signup.

That makes sense.

[EricH]

Well, speaking of what Bill said...

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010...e-is-here.html

Note that some dates are still tentative.

New or split-up events:

Alamo Regional (San Antonio, TX, Week 1)
Lake Superior Regional (Duluth, MN, Week 2)
Cascade/Olympic Regionals (Seattle, WA, Week 3--appears to be the split of MSR)
New district event (Still on TBD status)
GTR is now GTR East and GTR West (Week 5)
Smokey Mountain Regional (Knoxville, TN, Week 5)

4 brand-new events and 2 split ones.

[Fletch1373]

just to help everyone out... I have compiled a google calendar with all the regional events, as well as a few others(kickoff, ship date, champs)...

google provides 3 different formats so I will provide them all to you:

• HTML
  
• ICAL
  
• XML

Let me know if you have any issues viewing it or if you'd like anything added. It should be set to public, so I don't anticipate anyone having much trouble viewing it.


ENJOY!

[Francis-134]

Originally Posted by EricH

Well, speaking of what Bill said...

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010...e-is-here.html

Note that some dates are still tentative.

New or split-up events:

Alamo Regional (San Antonio, TX, Week 1)
Lake Superior Regional (Duluth, MN, Week 2)
Cascade/Olympic Regionals (Seattle, WA, Week 3--appears to be the split of MSR)
New district event (Still on TBD status)
GTR is now GTR East and GTR West (Week 5)
Smokey Mountain Regional (Knoxville, TN, Week 5)

4 brand-new events and 2 split ones.

Looks like the emergence of the famed "double regional" (what does it mean!). I'm a huge fan of having the New England regionals on the first two weeks and the last two weeks of the season if only so I can have two weeks off between events!