**FIRST Email**/Second Regional Event and 2009 Championship Participants Registration

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

Second regional event and 2009 Championship participants registration will open this Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 12:00 noon EDT via the Team Information Management System (TIMS).

Please read the following to understand your team's registration status during this process.

Wait List Process

If the event you select is full, your team will be added to the wait list;
FIRST reserves places for late registering rookie teams for every regional event. Once registration closes on November 30th, if there are any reserved slots left, wait listed teams will then be moved in;
A team can only sign up for the maximum number of regionals for a particular registration period (e.g., two (2) regionals per team). This includes being on a wait list;
For each event weekend a team can only sign up or join the wait list for one event (i.e., a team cannot be registered/wait listed for two events occurring on the same weekend
Teams may drop from any second event wait list via the "Drop Event" button in TIMS;
FIRST does not issue the wait list. Teams attending any given regional can change at the last moment as their finances are determined, therefore the number of places available can also change. It is also unknown how many late registering rookies there will be. We do not want teams making definite plans based on their place on a wait list when information may be changing.
Tip! If you find yourself on a wait list please bear in mind that teams drop out of events for various reasons and many times a wait listed team is able to get into the event of their choice!

Windows 7 “Heads Up”

National Instruments and Wind River have not finished their compatibility testing with Windows 7, and thus won’t be supporting it for the 2010 FRC season. We don’t know of any reasons why it wouldn’t work, but wanted to let you know that if you use the development software on Windows 7, you do so at your own risk.

If you have any questions please contact us at frcteams@usfirst.org

Go Teams!