Announcing the 1st Annual Robo Showdown in Austin, TX!

[StephBrierty]

FIRST Community,
I would like to formally announce the inaugural year of the Robo Showdown - an Offseason Competition hosted by National Instruments during our annual user conference, NI Week, in beautiful Austin, Texas.


Details:

• $300
• August 5-6
• Austin Convention Center
• Hotel rooms for $99/night (sleeps 4)
• T-shirts
• Rule changes TBD but will definitely include longer Autonomous or higher point values during Autonomous
• ~10 matches per team plus finals
• No team count limit (we have an entire room in the convention center)

AND as part of attending you will be able to go to the Exhibition Hall to see other types of robots, vision applications, and lots of other fun demos for free! Mentors will be able to pay an extra fee to attend the technical training sessions (cost TBD). Attendees will also be encouraged to watch the Keynote Thursday morning by Dr. David Barrett from Olin College on robotics.

Email me with questions or to pre-register! More info to come soon!

[Pjohn1959]

Team 1429 is planning on coming. We have a complete flooring (regolith) if you need it.

[Coach Norm]

Hey Steph,

Team 2468 is excited to be coming.

Originally Posted by StephBrierty

FIRST Community,
I would like to formally announce the inaugural year of the Robo Showdown - an Offseason Competition hosted by National Instruments during our annual user conference, NI Week, in beautiful Austin, Texas.

Email me with questions or to pre-register! More info to come soon!

Did the carpet and Regolith get here? I know they was some discussion about us storing some of it.

[StephBrierty]

We will be using the Regolith from the Dallas regional - thanks though Paul!

Norm - Lockheed is holding on to it for us still and haven't followed up yet about storage so I'll let you guys know soon. Thanks!

[JaneYoung]

Thank you for posting the thread, Steph. I am really looking forward to having an off-season in Texas and it's really cool that it is being sponsored by National Instruments during NI Week. Thank you to NI and thank you to all the folks who are planning (and will plan) to volunteer to help make this a fantastic and successful off-season event to participate in.

This might be a fun and helpful website to browse for more information about Austin, in general. (Please don't let this confuse you readers regarding the info/website that will be put up at a later date specifically developed for the Robo Showdown. It's just meant to give you a little view into our world here in Austin.)

Jane

[Ramiro_T]

Is there a registration deadline? Maybe team 842 might head there.

[Pjohn1959]

Originally Posted by Ramiro_T

Is there a registration deadline? Maybe team 842 might head there.

That would be cool to have a HOF team there!

[StephBrierty]

We would be honored to have 842!!!

Registration will be up from May 18 - June 24th ( I just checked with our events guy) but again no limit to the number of teams that can come so no huge rush to sign up day 1!

[ginosoprano09]

Team #2585 will be there.

Are you going to need any volunteers?

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by ginosoprano09

Are you going to need any volunteers?

I can definitely say yes to that. If Stephanie answers just consider my 'yes' a strong 2nd! We are still organizing that aspect of it but if you know you are interested in volunteering, let the committee know through Stephanie for now.

[Danny Diaz]

Team 418 is definitely going to be there. We can't wait to have an offseason in our own backyard!

-Danny

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

Team 418 is definitely going to be there. We can't wait to have an offseason in our own backyard!

-Danny

I vote for purple polos. That way I can find you guys. (I lost everyone in the stands on gray tee-shirt day. Not that I'm complaining....*cough*)

[Pjohn1959]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I vote for purple polos.

Yeah, I kept wondering who those gray guys were on alliance selection at LSR...

[James Tonthat]

1477 will be there.

[StephBrierty]

Hi teams!
You can now register for Robo Showdown! Details are below or checkour the webpage (still a work in progress) at ni.com/roboshowdown!

Registration:
1. Go to www.ni.com/niweek and click on "Registration Page". Then click on "Sign Up Now".
2. Fill out contact information
3. When prompted for a registration code enter FRCleader
4. Complete registration
Registration options for Leaders and Team:
1. Team only (no leader at the showdown): $300.00
2. Leader only (full conference access): $300.00
3. Team and Leader with Robo Showdown access only: $300.00
4. Team and Leader (leader with full conference access): $500.00

5. A confirmation email will be sent to you after registering.
6. Instructions for your team registration will be included in the confirmation email. Please forward to your team.

Can't wait to see you there! Email us at roboshowdown@ni.com with any questions!