Purdue FIRST Programs and Purdue University would like to announce Boiler Bot Battle, our first annual FRC off-season event. Current date is September 16-17, 2016. More details to follow.
Is the location determined yet? I presume it will be in a campus facility.
It hasn’t been finalized yet, but it will more than likely be on West Lafayette’s campus
Finally! An off season event I can sleep in and still attend on time.
This event should provide a great opportunity to get some more use out of your robots as well as an opportunity to see the Purdue University West Lafayette campus. Hopefully Purdue FIRST Programs will have tours or something similar to give prospective students a closer look at the great facilities and programs Purdue has to offer.
Boiler Up!
Any idea on cost and number of teams?
Cost is TBA/TBD, but number of teams should be ballparked around the size of a district (35ish).
Here is some more information about the event:
-The cost is going to be $200 per team, and there will be up to 32 teams (subject to change).
-If you are familar with Purdue’s campus it will be held in the Armory (throwback to BMR).
-And finally the schedule is listed below
-Here is a link to sign up for the mailing list, this will NOT sign you up for the event.
Friday September 16th
2:00 - 7:30 PM Check In
2:30 - 2:45 PM Event Introduction
3:00 - 5:00 PM General Purdue Info Sessions, Major Specific Info Sessions, Club and College Fair
5:00 - 6:00PM Campus Tour
5:30 - 7:30 PM Pits Open (Robot Drop Off ONLY)
6:00 - 7:30PM Dinner
7:45 - 8:30 PM Opening Ceremonies
8:30 - 9:30 PM Evening Social Activity
Saturday, September 17th
8:00 - 11:30 AM Qualification Matches
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 PM Alliance Selection
1:40 - 5:30 PM Tournament Matches
6:00 - 6:45 PM Awards and Closing Ceremonies
If there are any other question feel free to message me on here or you can directly email the organizer of this event (Maggie) at [email protected]
Looking forward to the turn out at this event! 
Registration is now open for Boiler Bot Battle (B^3).
The link is http://www.purduefirst.org/boilerbotbattle
We look forward to seeing everyone.
Still openings available for this event! RoboPride is excited for our trip to Purdue University!
What about volunteers?
This includes volunteering.
Is there any way a list could be posted of what all teams are signed up?
Second request for the above.
Also, is there a registration deadline? Our callout is Thursday, so it may be a week before we get our heads wrapped around the 2016/17 team and what we can attend this year.
I will check on the above questions and respond by later tonight.
EDIT: There is no official end of registration date (besides the event obviously). We are hoping to finalize team registration at least a week before the event. I’ll update when that is more solid.
As for the team list, I’m waiting to hear back from the Purdue Conventions Representative on who has registered.
Thanks Peyton!
Current Team List as of 8/31
45 Technokats Kokomo, IN
135 Penn Robotics Mishawaka, IN
234 Cyber Blue Indianapolis, IN
292 PantherTech Russiaville, IN
461 Westside Boiler Invasion West Lafayette, IN
1646 Precision Guessworks Lafayette, IN
1739 Chicago Knights Chicago, IL
1747 Harrison Boiler Robotics West Lafayette, IN
2781 RoboPride Burbank, IL
4926 GalacTech Columbus, IN
I know a few of our local teams are still planning on signing up as well.
The registration date cutoff for Boiler Bot Battle is officially 11:59 pm on Saturday, September 10th. We have travel grant funding available for teams and the information for that is at our website under thetravel tab.
Teams may also bring and compete with practice robots if they like at no extra cost.
Could I ask that we get an updated list of teams?
Any idea on how many teams will be there? Will we be running 3 team alliances no matter what(even if there are only 14 teams)? Thanks.
Current Team List as of 9/8/16
1.) 45
2.) 45b(Practice bot) I believe
3.) 135
4.) 234
5.) 9234(Practice bot)
7.) 292
8.) 461
9.) 4611(New Robot)
10.) 1646
11.) 1739
12.) 1747
13.) 2781
14.) 3940
15.) 4103
16.) 4272
17.) 4926
Practice/2nd bots are still okay since we haven’t hit the event maximum yet.