If you’re attending a kickoff, consider bringing a dolly or hand truck with you to make kit of part pick up easier on your back. Also, heads up. While you are picking up the kit this year, you will be asked to open a security tag on one of the plastic totes and confirm the classmate computer is inside. I suggest you bring your own clippers or wire cutters. This process might slow down the line, so please be patient. We want to make sure everyone goes home with everything they need.
Did you know planning for the 2010 game started at a meeting of the GDC the afternoon of the 2009 kickoff? It’s true. And while you’re brainstorming robot designs after kickoff this Saturday, the GDC will be discussing the 2011 season. My thanks to all of them for their hard work to create this year’s game. It’s your future.
Did any of you notice that I wore the 2009 Championship Alliance Captain hat during the Kickoff last year?
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Oh and there might be a good reason to monitor the FRC landing page of the usfirst.org website today…**
Maybe he tries to tell us to pay attention to the kick-off itself, there gonna be a lot of hints there before the actual revealing (it’s every year like that).
He would mention that because there is possibly/maybe a change in the alliance structures this year. Remember he said to make sure everyone reads the tournament document, big changes seem to be in place.
I am feeling we will be going to 4 vs 4 or 3 vs 3 vs 3 (or maybe 2 vs 2 vs 2 vs 2? but I dont see them reducing the total per alliance) I seem to recall a lot of discussion about offering everyone more matches. Easiest way to me seems to have more active robots on the field at once.
It’s just a baseball cap that says alliance captain and the alliance seed. they only use them at the championship I believe.
I was thinking this may mean a return to the rarely used autoselected alliances based on seeding like in 2001 (1 & 4, 2 & 5, etc). Bill wearing the hat means the he (FIRST) is selecting the alliances.
“Hrm…the GDC…very cunning, I see, and very bright too…must be…SLYTHERIN!”
I’ve never seen or heard of the alliance captain hats before. If they’re just regular baseball hats without special designs for each year, I don’t think that there’s too much to interpret with that, other than the possible clue about changing alliances. He might just be telling us that they’ll once again be dropping hints during the broadcast, and we could pick something up from the hints.
I do hope they switch up the alliances this year. I think having 2v2v2 would be fun. I think it would enable the teams to have more strategy planned out, and perhaps even some sidings, like red and green up against blue. It would certainly be more interesting that way.
