Michigan State Championship

[Jaywalker1711]

Congratulations to over 100 teams that have qualified for the 2015 MSC! I cannot wait until competition, and I am sure that many of you are the same way.

I wanted to let all of you know that event information is now posted at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...5InSksJkc/edit
The pits are a very nice size at either 9x10 or 8x11, with no Chairman's award displays.


I look forward to seeing all of you compete!

Good luck!

[April_robo]

I am very excited to be volunteering even though my team won't be there!!!!!!!!!!! I love doing field reset for FiM. Can't wait to see all the teams at MSC!!!!

[Jaywalker1711]

Originally Posted by April_robo

I am very excited to be volunteering even though my team won't be there!!!!!!!!!!! I love doing field reset for FiM. Can't wait to see all the teams at MSC!!!!

Sorry that your team won't be there, but thank you for volunteering! We couldn't have a competition without you and many other fantastic volunteers!

[Christopher149]

857 is excited to be attending, but I'm a little disappointed that our sister team 2586 might not have made the cutoff. There are also several well-known teams that I'm surprised won't be at MSC (like 74 Team CHAOS and 51 The Wings of Fire).

But I can't wait to head to Grand Rapids on Wednesday!

[ThunderousPrime]

Originally Posted by Jaywalker1711

The pits are a very nice size at either 9x10 or 8x11, with no Chairman's award displays.

What is meant by "no Chairman's displays?"

[Aaron (Awe-Sum)]

Team 4961 is very excited to have qualified, and are looking forward to competing!

[Jaywalker1711]

Originally Posted by ThunderousPrime

What is meant by "no Chairman's displays?"

In past years there was a separate area for little chairman's award pits, but these (thankfully, in my opinion) will not be there this year

Originally Posted by Christopher149

There are also several well-known teams that I'm surprised won't be at MSC (like 74 Team CHAOS and 51 The Wings of Fire).

I was pretty shocked to see that as well, especially considering 74's performance last season. A pretty good team from our area, 3767, didn't make the cutoff either.

It should be one very exciting district championship

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Jaywalker1711

I was pretty shocked to see that as well, especially considering 74's performance last season. A pretty good team from our area, 3767, didn't make the cutoff either.

It should be one very exciting district championship

Yeah, 74 really suffered performance-wise at Kentwood. If they could have only counted their 2nd and 3rd district events, they probably would have made MSC.

[hardcopi]

Does anyone know how MSC will be set up this year? I know there are going to be 2 fields. Are team matches split between the two or are they run like the divisions in St Louis.

Our data collection people are going a little nuts trying to figure out how to do data (our team takes data pretty seriously, this year we have 9-11 people at any given time doing data and adding another field to keep track of would be a bit overwhelming to say the least.

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by hardcopi

Does anyone know how MSC will be set up this year? I know there are going to be 2 fields. Are team matches split between the two or are they run like the divisions in St Louis.

Our data collection people are going a little nuts trying to figure out how to do data (our team takes data pretty seriously, this year we have 9-11 people at any given time doing data and adding another field to keep track of would be a bit overwhelming to say the least.

From what I heard, even number matches on one field and odd number matches on another. Tell me about the problem with collecting scouting data. You probably know 2834 is also very very serious about collecting data. We bought 6 more tablets in order to get all the data from both fields. Tell me we are obsessed with data.

[hardcopi]

Really you hide your obsession so well.

We have 6 kids with tablets... 1 per team keeping track of quantitative data. Then we have 3 kids and 2 mentors keeping track of qualitative data. This of course doesn't include the scouts who are coming up with strategies for upcoming matches and talking to the drive team using the data from the qualitative data team.

The quantitative data comes into play when we decide our pick list. To properly do 2 fields we would need to double our team size. At the end of each event we have a full database and several full binders of information. Might not be at your level yet Ed but we are working on it.

[NathanCJohnson]

5517 is very excited to be attending the Michigan State Championship! We are a rookie team and when we first started we did not think we would ever make it this far at all. This has been an amazing experience the last few months for us all.

Jaywalker1711: What a small world haha... my team chose your team at Kettering for eliminations! Great job at winning Traverse City!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by ThunderousPrime

What is meant by "no Chairman's displays?"

MSC used to have a Hall of Fame like setup in the hallway for all the Hall of Fame finalists up until last year but did away with it.

[Spartan710]

Yeah we were upset we didn't make it but we had a rough start at kentwood and then got it together at west Michigan and escanaba. It was to late though. Good luck to all the teams there and we will see some of you in St. Louis.

[JosephC]

Can't wait to see all the great teams at MSC and my volunteer buddies! Hopefully Ed will be returning this year

Let's put up some scores and show the rest of the world what we got!