We still don’t have a complete FRC Event list, but I will post what we have on our website tomorrow, September 24th by noon EST. Look here. I will update the items marked TBD as details are finalized.
This year we are definitely considering permitting teams attending specific events to bag their robots and transport them to events themselves (similar to the Michigan District Pilot last year). Stay tuned.
Do you want to know what the Beta teams are up to? Look here for Chapter 0 of the control system document.
And I promised you an update on the GDC meeting last weekend. In addition to discussing scoring for the 2010 game, we previewed robot capabilities, discussed traction mechanisms, made decisions about the game manual, picked the game name and reviewed the current FRC awards. Throw in gallons of Haagen-Dazs, a mountain of tacos and several interesting dry runs of the new game and it was a full weekend.
Since I took the time to type it out…
Here is the latest from VIMS… Week 1
March 4-6
BAE
Bayou
F.L.R.
Kansas City
Oregon
Peachtree
San Diego
Wash D.C.
March 5-6
Traverse City District
Kettering Univ.
March 5-7
N.J. Week 2
March 10-13
WPI
March 11-13
Arizona
Chesapeake
Florida
Pittsburg
Wisconsin
Dallas
March 12-13
Cass Tech District
Ann Arbor District
March 12-14
N.Y. City
March 14-16
Israel Week 3
March 18-20
Boilermaker
Connecticut (TBD)
Midwest
VCU
Silicon Valley
St. Louis
Utah (TBD)
N.C.
March 19-20
Detroit District
West Michigan District Week 4
March 25-27
Boston
Buckeye
Colorado
Hawaii
Los Angeles
Seattle
Oklahoma
Palmetto
Philadelphia
Long Island
Waterloo
March 26-27
Troy District Week 5
March 31-April 1
Sacramento
April 1-3
Toronto
Las Vegas
Lone Star
Michigan State Championship
Minnesota 10,000 Lakes
Minnesota North Star
**April 15-17**
FIRST Championship
Still a couple TBD’s. I also noticed N.C. is week 3, and the regional FIRST contact, Marie, said week 5, but she did warn that it wasn’t 100%
This is a little interesting for me. You’d think there’s not much left to discuss for carpet traction systems, with the 14 years of carpet games, unless there’s something specific about the game / field or a rule change being considered (“no metal on carpet”). Or maybe they’re just trying to figure out how to push Truck Town.
Good to see what my team’ll be doing for Beta Test (I’m not currently at the shop on anywhere near a regular basis), looks like fun. Hope that the 2009 robot’s still drivable when all is said and done; it’s definitely my favorite demo robot.
If memory serves, VIMS usually lists Regionals as four days long because they need volunteers to set up the field (usually Wednesday night) thus the 4th day.
Even in carpet games, there are sometimes elements to the field that could merit discussions. i.e. Ramps, HDPE, metal grating as in the ramps from Stack Attack. Just trying to convince myself that we’ll go back to a nice carpet/traction game…
Some things that jumped out at me…
WPI is still 4 days, whereas most other regionals are 3.
N.C. went to week 5 as I thought it would.
Palmetto is listed as Sat. and Sun.?:eek:
N.J. and N.Y. City are doing theirs Fri. to Sun.
Sacramento is still at mid-week.
Palmetto is now switched to a Friday, Saturday, Sunday event. Only one listed that way. Don’t like the ideal of driving home 7 hours late sunday evening and having to get to school early Monday morning.
WPI is now back down to three days - March 11 - 13
I wonder if this will take some of the pressure off of BAE GSR and Boston? In the past, we’ve had to choose one or the other, as both of those events would fill up on registration day!
