Duel on the Delaware 2016 - October 22

[Mr MOE]

NOTE: Team contacts – please share this information with your team as appropriate. Thanks!

2016 DUEL INFO BLAST #3

Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall, Carneys Point, NJ
Co-hosted by MOE 365 and LuNaTeCs 316

FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – REMINDER – Registration Updates - Duel Awards and Deadlines

• Success Won’t Wait Book Drive – focus areas and details
• October 1 – Duel Master Volunteer Submission (please recognize a volunteer/mentor on your team!)
• September 30 – Mock Chairman’s Award interest – let me know

(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- While many types of books are accepted, the organization is asking for CHILDREN’S BOOKS in particular-
- Please donate books that are organized in boxes that are easily/safely moved by one person. Please don’t leave books in bags or very large containers. Also, please do not put books in bins/boxes that you want back.
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information about Success Won’t Wait, check out http://www.successwontwait.org

(2) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD (submission form attached)
- Mike Wade worked for NASA Goddard and single-handedly is responsible for the creation of a number of off-season events on the East Coast. Please honor his memory by submitted the great things that a mentor or volunteer is doing for your team.
- Teams can submit one nominee who has not yet won the award from their team.
- Nomination form is attached. Please complete and return by October 1st
- Please recognize a worthy volunteer on your team. All submissions will be posted at the event and on the Duel on the Delaware website.
- Send submissions to john.a.larock@gmail.com

(3) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *4th year*
- This is not an award per se, but is an opportunity for teams to practice their Chairman’s Award presentation in front of judges
- Teams interested in participating must do the following:
o Respond by September 30th or earlier to let me know that your team is interested in participating. We will have 6 (six) judging slots. These will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
o Send in a FIRST Chairman’s Award Executive Summary (same as FIRST typically requires for the Chairman’s Award). We expect that teams will just send in the same Executive Summary that they may have used for their Chairman’s Award earlier this year.
o Due date for Chairman’s Award Executive Summary is September 30 (sign-ups), and October 10 (submission)
o Prepare to present your Chairman’s Award to judges at the Duel. Currently, the presentation would be the same as a typical Chairman’s presentation at an official FIRST event. Depending upon the number of teams who are participating, we reserve the right to modify the presentation time. We expect that it will not change.
o Let us know what you need for your presentation (AV, easels, etc.)
- Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2016 competition season.

(4) DUEL SPECIAL AWARDS (to be shared soon)

(5) GENERAL INFO
- Doors will open at 7am
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 16th as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at http://moe365.org/duel2016/traveldetails.php

(6) FIRST TECH CHALLENGE PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- New FTC game field will be available for registered teams to use.
- FTC workshops will be available to attending teams.
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at JosephPerrotto@comcast.net for more information

(7) REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)

Paid? Team # Team Name
Yes 87 RV Robotics
Yes 225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
Host 316 Lunatecs
Yes 321 RoboLancers
Yes 341 Miss Daisy
Host 365 Miracle Workerz/MOE
Yes 369 High voltage
Yes 384 SPARKY
Yes 433 Firebirds
Yes 533 PSIcotics
Yes 1089 Team Mercury
Yes 1111 The Power Hawks Robotics Team
Yes 1218 Vulcan Robotics
Yes 1626 Falcon Robotics
Yes 1640 Sab-BOT-age
Yes 1647 Iron Devils
Yes 1719 The Umbrella Organization
2180 Zero Gravity
Yes 2539 Krypton Cougars
Yes 2607 Fighting Robovikings
3314 The Mechanical Mustangs
Yes 3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
Yes 4342 Demon Robotics
Yes 4505 McDonogh Robotics
4575 The Tin Mints
4954 Palindrome Robotics
5113 Combustible Lemons
Yes 5310 Eagles Apex
Yes 5401 The Fightin' Robotic Owls
Yes 5420 Velocity
Yes 5457 Falcobots
Yes 5938 Razor Steel Robotics
6226 Blue Devils

WAITLIST
Yes 303 The T.E.S.T. Team


Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

John

[Mr MOE]

2016 DUEL INFO BLAST #6

Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall, Carneys Point, NJ
Co-hosted by MOE 365 and LuNaTeCs 316

FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – Cell Phone Contact Info – What to Bring – Book Drive – GoBabyGo Toy “Ride-On” Car Donations – Food Pre-order Form

SPECIAL NOTES:
- Keep collecting books for book drive
- Food pre-order form is attached. Please follow instructions on form to pre-order.
- Duel Team Information Packet is attached. Tentative practice schedule is included.
- Bake Sale Table and Concessions will be available for food purchases. These are team fundraisers.
- The Duel will be webcast. Information will be shared next week.

CELL PHONE NUMBERS FOR TEAM CONTACT THE MORNING OF THE EVENT

Please take a minute to have a key mentor, who will be attending the event, complete this brief Google Form to provide your cell phone contact info the morning of the event. By doing this, you help the organizers confirm your attendance early the morning of the event. This is critical to developing the qualification match schedule and getting it to teams as soon as possible. Please complete this now at Thanks!
Link for Contact Info:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AQe...T1gZz4/prefill

Please complete so that we can quickly confirm your team's attendance and develop a qualification match schedule the morning of the event. Thanks!

STRONGHOLD DEFENSES WE WILL USE AT THE DUEL

The MAR equipment committee is recommending that the fall off-season events not make use of the Portcullis and Drawbridge defenses. Additionally, they have asked events to select a set of defenses that will be left in place on the field throughout the event. With this in mind, the Duel Planning team needs your input. Based on this request, we have recently conducted a survey and are basing the survey results on the defenses which we will use for the Duel, which will be stationary for the event. We currently do not have the specific locations for each defense determined and may not until the event day.

The four defenses (in addition to the Low Bar, which will be in the same position it has for official Stronghold competitions) selected are…

- Rock Wall
- Rough Terrain
- Moat
- Cheval de Frise

WHAT TO BRING TO THE EVENT

Teams should plan to bring the following to the event:
- Safety glasses for ALL team members (we have a limited number of loaners – individuals MUST wear safety glasses in the pit area)
- One multi-plug power strip (due to electrical limitations, teams will only be able to use ONE power strip)
- Used books to donate to the Duel Book Drive
- Used & working toy “ride-on” car(s) for donation to GoBabyGo! Program
- Gracious Professionalism
- Energy & Spirit!

(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- While many types of books are accepted, the organization is asking for CHILDREN’S BOOKS in particular-
- Please donate books that are organized in boxes that are easily/safely moved by one person. Please don’t leave books in bags or very large containers. Also, please do not put books in bins/boxes that you want back.
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information about Success Won’t Wait, check out http://www.successwontwait.org

(2) TOY “RIDE-ON” CAR DONATION – GoBabyGo!
http://sites.udel.edu/gobabygo/
- Donate a toy “ride-on” car (electric cars that are electrically powered for children from 2-10 yrs old) to GoBabyGo, a program whose goal is to provide mobility solutions to children who have mobility challenges. Cars should be working and used (we will accept new cars also).

(3) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
Mike Wade worked for NASA Goddard and single-handedly is responsible for the creation of a number of off-season events on the East Coast. Please honor his memory by submitted the great things that a mentor or volunteer is doing for your team.
- Nominations are closed.
- The following teams have submitted a nomination:
o 365
o 1089
o 1626
o 2607
o 4575
o 5401

(4) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *4th year*
Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2017 competition season.
Teams signed up for Mock Chairman’s
o 321
o 1626
o 3941

(5) DUEL SPECIAL AWARDS
The following judged awards will be presented at the event:
- Gracious Professionalism (teams will vote via a form)
- Outreach
- Spirit
- Creativity

(6) GENERAL INFO & AGENDA
- Doors will open at 7am
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 21st as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at http://moe365.org/duel2016/traveldetails.php
- Tentative Agenda

Time Activity
7:00AM Doors / Pits open
7:45-8:45AM Practice Rounds
8:45 AM Opening Ceremonies
- Featured Speakers
- National Anthem – Oak Singers
- Game/Scoring Review
9:30AM-12:30PM Qualifying Rounds (~5/team)
10:00AM Chairman’s Award Reviews – Classroom 117
12:30PM Alliance Selection / LUNCH
1:15PM Awards
- Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer
- “Success Won’t Wait” Book Drive
1:30PM-4:30PM Elimination Rounds
4:30PM Awards/Closing Ceremonies
- GP, Outreach, Creativity, Spirit
- Duel Finalists
- Duel Champions
5:00PM Field Breakdown

Special Events: FIRST Tech Challenge Play Day and workshops (all day)
Book collection for “Success Won’t Wait”
New Castle County Delaware Bomb Disposal Robot Demonstration (around noon outside of Davidow Hall and inside Field House)

(7) FIRST TECH CHALLENGE “VELOCITY VORTEX” PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- “Velocity Vortex” field will be available for registered teams to use.
- FTC workshops will be available to attending teams.
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at JosephPerrotto@comcast.net for more information

(8) REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)
All teams are paid (thank you!). At this time, if you pull out of the event, we cannot refund your registration fee.
If any team CANNOT attend, please let me know as soon as possible. Team 203 is still on our waitlist.
Team # Team Name
87 RV Robotics
225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
303 The T.E.S.T. Team
316 Lunatecs
321 RoboLancers
341 Miss Daisy
365 Miracle Workerz/MOE
369 High voltage
433 Firebirds
533 PSIcotics
816 Anomaly
1089 Team Mercury
1111 The Power Hawks Robotics Team
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1719 The Umbrella Organization
2180 Zero Gravity
2539 Krypton Cougars
2607 Fighting Robovikings
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
4342 Demon Robotics
4505 McDonogh Robotics
4575 The Tin Mints
4954 Palindrome Robotics
5113 Combustible Lemons
5310 Eagles Apex
5401 The Fightin' Robotic Owls
5420 Velocity
5457 Falcobots
5938 Razor Steel Robotics
6226 Blue Devils

WAITLIST
203 Campbells Soup / Camden County Technical Schools


Get ready to Duel!

John

[Mr MOE]

DUEL IS THIS SATURDAY - OCTOBER 22!!!

2016 DUEL INFO BLAST #7 – FINAL (FRC)

Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall, Carneys Point, NJ
Co-hosted by MOE 365 and LuNaTeCs 316

FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – Cell Phone Contact Info – What to Bring – Where to Park – Practice Schedule - Book Drive – GoBabyGo Toy “Ride-On” Car Donations – Food Pre-order Form – MAR Forms/Meeting

SPECIAL NOTES:
- Keep collecting books for book drive
- Food pre-order form is attached. Please follow instructions on form to pre-order.
- Duel Team Information Packet is attached. Tentative practice schedule is included.
- Bake Sale Table and Concessions will be available for food purchases. These are team fundraisers.
- The Duel will be webcast. The link to the webcast is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-4ijcR9oM

CELL PHONE NUMBERS FOR TEAM CONTACT THE MORNING OF THE EVENT – Still need the following teams to respond (225, 271, 369, 433, 533, 1089, 1647, 1719, 2180, 2539, 2607, 4342, 4575, 5310, 5420, 5457, 6226)

Please take a minute to have a key mentor, who will be attending the event, complete this brief Google Form to provide your cell phone contact info the morning of the event. By doing this, you help the organizers confirm your attendance early the morning of the event. This is critical to developing the qualification match schedule and getting it to teams as soon as possible. Please complete this now at Thanks!
I've invited you to fill out a form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...ewform?c=0&w=1


WHERE TO PARK – Salem Community College

Teams can drop off team members/robots/books for the book drive at the Davidow Hall entrance on the map below. Robots only drop off is in LOT B entrance to DuPont Field House. All large vehicle parking will be in LOT A. Parking attendants will be on duty early Saturday morning to assist. Cars can park in LOT C.

TENTATIVE PRACTICE SCHEDULE (see schedule in Team Information Packet)

MID-ATLANTIC ROBOTICS TABLE (PA Act 153 Clearance Forms for Volunteers) and MEETING

If you are planning to volunteer at a PA FIRST event int he future, FIRST Mid-Atlantic will have an Information table set up at the Duel to collect the required PA Act 153 clearance forms. You can ask questions about the clearance there, or drop off your clearances early and receive a “FIRST Stronghold” volunteer shirt or “FIRST Stronghold” Pin (limited quantity based on first come, first serve). For more information, please visit http://www.midatlanticrobotics.com/v...er-clearances/.

A MAR District meeting facilitated by Brian Sherman will be held ~12:30pm in Conference Room 117 (down the ramp to the left of the Main Registration Table).

STRONGHOLD DEFENSES WE WILL USE AT THE DUEL (NOTE: Towers will be set for 8 boulders to weaken)

The MAR equipment committee is recommending that the fall off-season events not make use of the Portcullis and Drawbridge defenses. Additionally, they have asked events to select a set of defenses that will be left in place on the field throughout the event. With this in mind, the Duel Planning team needs your input. Based on this request, we have recently conducted a survey and are basing the survey results on the defenses which we will use for the Duel, which will be stationary for the event. We currently do not have the specific locations for each defense determined and may not until the event day.

The four defenses (in addition to the Low Bar, which will be in the same position it has for official Stronghold competitions) selected are…

- Rock Wall
- Rough Terrain
- Moat
- Cheval de Frise

WHAT TO BRING TO THE EVENT

Teams should plan to bring the following to the event:
- Safety glasses for ALL team members (we have a limited number of loaners – individuals MUST wear safety glasses in the pit area)
- One multi-plug power strip (due to electrical limitations, teams will only be able to use ONE power strip)
- Used books to donate to the Duel Book Drive
- Used & working toy “ride-on” car(s) for donation to GoBabyGo! Program
- Gracious Professionalism
- Energy & Spirit!

(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- While many types of books are accepted, the organization is asking for CHILDREN’S BOOKS in particular-
- Please donate books that are organized in boxes that are easily/safely moved by one person. Please don’t leave books in bags or very large containers. Also, please do not put books in bins/boxes that you want back.
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information about Success Won’t Wait, check out http://www.successwontwait.org

(2) TOY “RIDE-ON” CAR DONATION – GoBabyGo!
http://sites.udel.edu/gobabygo/
- Donate a toy “ride-on” car (electric cars that are electrically powered for children from 2-10 yrs old) to GoBabyGo, a program whose goal is to provide mobility solutions to children who have mobility challenges. Cars should be working and used (we will accept new cars also).


(3) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
Mike Wade worked for NASA Goddard and single-handedly is responsible for the creation of a number of off-season events on the East Coast. Please honor his memory by submitted the great things that a mentor or volunteer is doing for your team.
- Nominations are closed.
- The following teams have submitted a nomination:
o 365
o 1089
o 1626
o 2607
o 4575
o 5401

(4) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *4th year*
Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2017 competition season.
Teams signed up for Mock Chairman’s:
o 321 10:00 am interview time
o 1626 10:30 am interview time
o 3941 11:00 am interview time

** All Chairman’s Award interviews will be held in Classroom 117, which is down the ramp to the left from the main registration table. **

(5) DUEL SPECIAL AWARDS
The following judged awards will be presented at the event:
- Gracious Professionalism (teams will vote via a form)
- Outreach
- Spirit
- Creativity

(6) GENERAL INFO & AGENDA
- Doors will open at 7am
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 21st as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at http://moe365.org/duel2016/traveldetails.php
- Tentative Agenda

Time Activity
7:00AM Doors / Pits open
7:45-8:45AM Practice Rounds
8:45 AM Opening Ceremonies
- Featured Speakers
- National Anthem – Oak Singers
- Game/Scoring Review
9:30AM-12:30PM Qualifying Rounds (~5/team)
10:00AM Chairman’s Award Reviews – Classroom 117
12:30PM Alliance Selection / LUNCH
12:30PM MAR Meeting – Classroom 117
1:15PM Awards
- Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer
- “Success Won’t Wait” Book Drive
1:30PM-4:30PM Elimination Rounds
4:30PM Awards/Closing Ceremonies
- GP, Outreach, Creativity, Spirit
- Duel Finalists
- Duel Champions
5:00PM Field Breakdown

Special Events: FIRST Tech Challenge Play Day and workshops (all day)
Book collection for “Success Won’t Wait” (morning until 10am)
Wilmington Police Bomb Disposal Robot Demonstration (around noon outside of Davidow Hall and inside Field House)

(7) FIRST TECH CHALLENGE “VELOCITY VORTEX” PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- “Velocity Vortex” field will be available for registered teams to use.
- FTC workshops will be available to attending teams.
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at JosephPerrotto@comcast.net for more information

(8) REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)
All teams are paid (thank you!). At this time, if you pull out of the event, we cannot refund your registration fee.
If any team CANNOT attend, please let me know as soon as possible. Team 203 is still on our waitlist.

Team # Team Name
87 RV Robotics
225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
303 The T.E.S.T. Team
316 Lunatecs
321 RoboLancers
341 Miss Daisy
365 Miracle Workerz/MOE
369 High voltage
433 Firebirds
533 PSIcotics
816 Anomaly
1089 Team Mercury
1111 The Power Hawks Robotics Team
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1719 The Umbrella Organization
2180 Zero Gravity
2539 Krypton Cougars
2607 Fighting Robovikings
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
4342 Demon Robotics
4505 McDonogh Robotics
4575 The Tin Mints
4954 Palindrome Robotics
5113 Combustible Lemons
5310 Eagles Apex
5401 The Fightin' Robotic Owls
5420 Velocity
5457 Falcobots
5938 Razor Steel Robotics
6226 Blue Devils

WAITLIST
203 Campbells Soup / Camden County Technical Schools


Get ready to Duel!

John

[nathannfm]

We are live at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-4ijcR9oM

I will be running the webcast, let me know on here or the YouTube chat if you are having any problems with it.

[nathannfm]

Starting Semi Finals now!

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-4ijcR9oM

225, 5401, 4505 vs. 1640, 341, 5420

1089, 4954, 5938 vs. 303, 4575, 316

[Brian Maher]

What are alliances and results?

[nathannfm]

Originally Posted by Brian Maher

What are alliances and results?

Sorry for the delay, scores posted: https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016njdd

[nathannfm]

Congrats 1640, 341, 5420! Hope to see everyone back next year!

[Mike Marandola]

Did anyone take any full field elimination videos? I had to leave for work after alliance selections and missed them. Thanks!

[nathannfm]

Originally Posted by Brian Maher

What are alliances and results?

Sorry I missed this post live, picking results are listed at 7:00:00 in the webcast archive, full event results will be on TBA shortly.

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

Did anyone take any full field elimination videos? I had to leave for work after alliance selections and missed them. Thanks!

Not full field, but the webcast archive of elims starts at 7:25:00
We have live score overlay this year

[John Weissman]

I would like to thank Duel for a very well run event. I would also like to thank all of the teams for a fun game.
A special thanks to our partners Miss Daisy and Velocity for being on our alliance, without you, we couldn't have won.
Again thanks to everyone!!!