Robot Rodeo

[Michelle Celio]

See, as a new comer...I was really looking foward to this.

Stupid Hurricanes.

I hear that Osceola Schools are going to become shelters? well some of them, including TECO PATHS ...that'll be interesting.

So what should I expect when the new date does come around?

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

So.... I was wondering for reasons completely unrelated to the Robot Rodeo.... What teams have conflicts with November 5th or November 12th? Any other major events that would keep multiple teams from doing any traveling on either of these dates?

November 5th is an SAT testing date.

[Scythe]

November 12th is a S.P.A.M. carwash, I know that, the 5th would mean that all of our team members would be able to go instead of just rookies and select veterans. Just my $.02

[Tytus Gerrish]

Nov 5 SAT testing
Nov 12 Heatwave's Tropical wave FLL comp
nov 19 S.P.A.M."s Treasure coast FLL comp

[David Guzman]

I will be there if is the 12th because I will be taking the SATs on Nov 5th.

[Tytus Gerrish]

Welsh, Dan to Tytus
More options 11:57 am (4 minutes ago) Teams, the FIRST Robot Rodeo is rescheduled to Saturday November 12, at Freedom High School in South Orlando. Hopefully, we will be hurricane-free on that weekend. In the meantime, best wishes to all who may be effected by the weather in the next few days.

Here's the agenda for Robot Rodeo:

What: A competition and team-building event, to help our FIRST Robotics Teams get ready for the coming season. We will be playing last year's game on an official FIRST Competition field.

Where: Freedom High School, 2500 Taft-Vineland Road, Orlando , FL, 32837

When: Saturday November 12

Agenda:
8:15 AM Doors open.

8:15 to 9:00; Check-in .

9:00 to 10:30 ; Practice rounds on field.

10:30 to 10:45; Opening Ceremony and National Anthem.

11:00 AM ; Start Match Play.

11 to 3 PM; Match Play and special events.

3 to 3:30 PM; Alliance selections for finals.

3:30 to 5 PM; Finals and Rodeo Championship.

5 to 7 PM; field dissassembly and clean-up.



Refreshments and lunch will be available at the arena.
Registration fee is $100 per team. Please pay the registration fee when you register your team at the beginning of the event.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

When: Saturday November 12

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

Nov 12 Heatwave's Tropical wave FLL comp

ah, glad to see the schedule worked out perfectly.

[Barry Bonzack]

The rodeo can't revolve around an individual team's schedule... I think Nov. 12th probably is the best date, would not be good to have it on an SAT day. That being said... I had nothing to do with it.

[miketwalker]

I have to agree with Barry, any weekend that could've been chosen would be conflict with at least 1 team. I think that considering the last-minute reschedule this is the best that could be done for everybody. I think this'll be a really great event still, and I'm looking forward to it.

[viking1902]

is the competition still going to be on an official FIRST field?

[Arefin Bari]

I just got an email from Dan Welsh.

Robot Rodeo NOT being held this year.

Teams, I'm sorry to report that we will be postponing our Robot Rodeo for this year. As you know, the event had been scheduled for November 12 at Freedom High School. Unfortunately, due to many logistics problems and serious cost issues involving the playing field shipping from FIRST, etc, we will not be able to have the event this year.

I hope that you will be at the next Robot Rodeo in Fall 2006.

We have been holding the Robot Rodeo in Central Florida for the last 5 years, and we will make sure it continues to be a high-quality event. We would not want to put on the event without being able to play the full game, etc, .... we believe it's better to postpone it for this year, rather than doing something that would not meet or exceed the standards of past Rodeos.

I assure you we'll be working to overcome this year's hurdles and will bring back the Robot Rodeo, bigger and better in Fall 2006 !

In the meantime, many of you will be at the DeVry University Orlando Campus, Robot BootCamp on Saturday Nov 19, we'll see you there.

Thanks, and sorry for the late-breaking bad news.

Wishing you all success in the upcoming FIRST Season,

Dan Welsh .

[Barry Bonzack]

Whoa. Didn't see that coming. How heart breaking!

[savage]

first of all can teams still get in to the rodeo 1368 might want to reg go but i have to talk with the team can some one pm more info on the event
also do you need any refs i was one last year in israel

i live in clearwater fl it about 2 hours from ucf

[Barry Bonzack]

This is the first official announcement about the rodeo, I do not believe registration has even officially opened yet. I am not involved with planning the event, I just wanted to share the information I received with everyone else. I can accept no credit or blame if the event goes well or if it goes awesome. All questions should be directed to Dan Welsh at Dan.welsh@disney.com


Perhaps the 2006 edition should have its own thread.

[Dan Richardson]

Can we please start this in a new thread for 2006 to avoid confusion.

Conflicting dates locations... all kinds of stuff just give it a new thread.