2015 Minnesota State Championship

[jajabinx124]

http://mnfirst.org/docs/2015/2015_States.pdf

Congrats to the top 30 teams who qualified for the Minnesota State championship tournament! It'll sure be a fun competition

[Puneet4778]

Should be a great competition as always!

[Jon Stratis]

Reminder to all teams attending... States is a Bag and Tag event! If you have any issues with that, please let me know ASAP - the sooner I know, the better it will be for you!,

[jvriezen]

I'll be there in spirit with my team 4859, but I'm away on vacation that week !

[CNewt4539]

Team 4539 is excited to compete with all the talent that Minnesota has to offer! Should be very competitive this year!!

[Kingland093]

4215 is excited to compete at State for the first time! Good luck to all teams!

[Caleb Sykes]

Reminder to all teams attending championships, request a shipping exemption by April 16 from FIRST to get your robot back before the state championship. This document can be found on the FRC Championships page on the FIRST website.

[allgoodthehood]

I have 3 medium 2512, Duluth East Daredevils, shirts and 2 medium 2052, KnightKrawler, shirts that I'm willing to trade at state. I'm looking for mediums in return. If you are interested in trading at state feel free to PM me or shoot me an email at goatnipper@gmail.com

I'll be at state all day, and Team 2512 is excited and is intensely looking forward to competing with our Minnesota friends again!

[Shrub]

Good luck to all teams competing! I'll be resetting the field one last time. :>

[Doug Frisk]

See you all there, I will be behind the FMS under the hat.

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

http://mnfirst.org/docs/2015/2015_States.pdf

Congrats to the top 30 teams who qualified for the Minnesota State championship tournament! It'll sure be a fun competition

With now roughly 200 teams in the state, a 20% representation (FIRST's goal at Worlds) would be closer to 40 teams. I think I'll chat with folks about expanding state next year.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by DareDad

With now roughly 200 teams in the state, a 20% representation (FIRST's goal at Worlds) would be closer to 40 teams. I think I'll chat with folks about expanding state next year.

I don't think we could expand State's without adding a second day for competition. As it is, we get just enough matches for the 30 teams for qualifications, and that's running quals through to a very late lunch. Many teams, at this point, can't afford to have their students take yet another day off school, especially with all the tests and such that are happening this close to the end of the school year. Think about it... if your team went to two regionals and worlds prior to this, that's a minimum of 7 days out of class to compete - a week and a half off school. Additionally, adding another day would increase costs for many teams, as they would then need additional hotel stays. As it is, teams that aren't within easy driving distance of Minneapolis often send in a skeleton crew (sometimes just 2 people!) friday for load-in/inspection, and the rest of the team drives in Saturday morning and back home Saturday evening.

Yes, having more teams at State's would be awesome... but it adds a number of logistical issues that would, I think, end up hurting the event this late in the season.

[northstardon]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I don't think we could expand State's without adding a second day for competition. As it is, we get just enough matches for the 30 teams for qualifications, and that's running quals through to a very late lunch. Many teams, at this point, can't afford to have their students take yet another day off school, especially with all the tests and such that are happening this close to the end of the school year. Think about it... if your team went to two regionals and worlds prior to this, that's a minimum of 7 days out of class to compete - a week and a half off school. Additionally, adding another day would increase costs for many teams, as they would then need additional hotel stays. As it is, teams that aren't within easy driving distance of Minneapolis often send in a skeleton crew (sometimes just 2 people!) friday for load-in/inspection, and the rest of the team drives in Saturday morning and back home Saturday evening.

Yes, having more teams at State's would be awesome... but it adds a number of logistical issues that would, I think, end up hurting the event this late in the season.

As a parent/mentor, I completely agree that limiting the number of missed school days is important. It helps that most teams are located within a relatively short drive of either Mpls or Duluth. Teams can also send skeleton crews to do load-in/inspection/pit set-up during regional events, right?

On a related note, would the number of missed school days be different if/when Minnesota adopts the district model? Looks like the Michigan FRC State Championship is a Wed-Saturday event.

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by northstardon

On a related note, would the number of missed school days be different if/when Minnesota adopts the district model? Looks like the Michigan FRC State Championship is a Wed-Saturday event.

Potentially, some districts run Saturday-Sunday events and some run Friday-Saturday events.

District Championships are run exactly like a Regional is run. Load-in Wednesday night and everything else takes place Thursday through Saturday.

[northstardon]

Originally Posted by ehochstein

Potentially, some districts run Saturday-Sunday events and some run Friday-Saturday events.

District Championships are run exactly like a Regional is run. Load-in Wednesday night and everything else takes place Thursday through Saturday.

According to this event schedule, Michigan's championships had the opening ceremony and 7 hours of qualification matches on Thursday. Qualification matches for regionals like Duluth or Mpls don't start until Friday morning, right? That gives many teams the option of sending a skeleton crew Wed after school or early Thurs (missing 2 days of school), and sending the rest a day later, so that they only miss one day.