Frank's Blog: Water Game or New FRC regional in Australia!

[FrankJ]

Link to Frank's Blog

New FRC Regional in Australia!
Blog Date:
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 09:52

The rumors are true! We will have an official FRC Regional Down Under in the 2015 season. We couldn’t be more excited about this, or about helping our friends at Macquarie University, who honestly are doing most of the heavy lifting, make this happen. It will be a Week 3 event. Look for more details in the events listing: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events

The crack FRC Engineering team is currently working on dealing with the fact that water circulates in the opposite direction when draining in the southern hemisphere compared to the northern hemisphere.*

Frank

*It doesn’t, actually. Snopes! And 2015 will not be a water game.

[dodar]

Dont know if happy for regional in Australia or ruin thread by going off on a tangent about an official from FIRST confirming water game...

[FrankJ]

The other Frank started it...

[BrendanB]

Way to go 3132! I remember when some friends moved to Australia and started the FIRST FRC team down under and now to see the growth in FIRST programs and now a regional!

Next stop: districts.

[Christopher149]

Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre looks like a decent venue (basketball court with bleacher seating). Hopefully this can stick around better than the Brazil regional event.

[dag0620]

Immediately starts trying to figure out how to make a trip to Australia week 3 work....

All kidding aside, congratulations to the Australia FRC community on having your own event. This is insanely awesome! I know a bunch of us in New England are excited to watch and will be cheering everyone on!

[Ian Curtis]

Frank is clearly telling us that next year we're all playing footy. Can't wait!

[Lil' Lavery]

Glad this finally happened! They announced an Australian regional at the 2009 championship event as well, but it ultimately didn't materialize and [some portion of] the teams ended up competing in VEX, iirc. Guess my old school Australian regional shirt will become relevant again.

[waialua359]

We have our airfares reserved already. 99.99% chance we will attend.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by waialua359

We have our airfares reserved already. 99.99% chance we will attend.

Wow. Its only 1000 miles extra to go to Sydney from Hawaii then to Chicago from Hawaii. Thats not alot further to travel for you guys.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Thad House

Wow. Its only 1000 miles extra to go to Sydney from Hawaii then to Chicago from Hawaii. Thats not alot further to travel for you guys.

Its actually a lot of miles considering that we are looking at week 1 in either Georgia or Dallas.

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Its actually a lot of miles considering that we are looking at week 1 in either Georgia or Dallas.

We would love to have you in Georgia!!

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Its actually a lot of miles considering that we are looking at week 1 in either Georgia or Dallas.

Let's hope your robot can travel that fast!

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by waialua359

We have our airfares reserved already. 99.99% chance we will attend.

Glenn, it is fantastic to hear that you and the Kids will be in attendance supporting a new Antipodean regional! You are true ambassadors of FIRST! I can also confirm that while Team Tators has not yet confirmed their air travel, there is a 00.01% chance we will be there... (so wish we could go....)

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Little bit of a thread necro, but huge congrats to everyone that's making this happen - it's this coming weekend! This event might have the most competition for the rookie awards for any event in a long time - does anyone know what the highest portion of rookie teams has been at an event since '92?