Chezy Champs 2024

Good morning all!

Payment is due tomorrow. All teams should have received an email this morning indicating if their payment was received or not.

Volunteer Assignments have gone out to everyone who filled out the volunteer form thus far. If you think you applied to volunteer and haven’t heard back, please send us an email. We still have room for just a few more volunteers.

Looking forward to seeing everybody in San Jose soon!

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Got my volunteer assignment a few days ago, I can’t wait!


As an aside, I’d like to pass on this amazing idea from @Adriana_M:


[Alt-text: Screenshot of a Discord message from “Adriana | Mentor🌈𐐘” reading “I think chezy champs should replace the warning guitar riff that plays for endgame with the buddy holly weezer riff”]

I mean all you need to do is replace a single file on the FMS computer, so it should be possible…

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Information about shirt pre-sales is in this thread. Please keep all discussion about shirt sales there.

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Hello teams,

We’ve published a new version of the rules for Chezy Champs 2024.

The only difference is that [CC9] now reads:

[CC9] Alliance Selection will be conducted in accordance with the newly released changes for 2025 from the FIRST Alliance Selection Task Force, with the exception that there will be a break of at least 15 minutes between the end of qualification matches and the start of Alliance Selection.
Rationale: Align with the rules and procedures expected to be in force at official events in 2025.

For comparison, the previous rule iteration can be found here. Putting aside any opinions about FIRST’s changes, we would rather not potentially confuse teams by introducing yet another unproven variant on the alliance selection process.

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The following email was sent to attending teams tonight:

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Good Evening Teams,

Chezy Champs is coming up in just over two weeks. This email contains a few updates.

Event schedule
As a reminder, the event schedule is posted at chezychamps.com.

Shirt sales close tomorrow at 3pm PDT
Please forward this to interested team members.
Place orders on our secure web store here.
There will be some additional quantity of event t-shirts for sale onsite, but sizes and quantities may be limited.

Rule changes
We have updated the Chezy Champs game rule changes to version 2. Specifically, rule CC9 has been updated to better align the alliance selection process with the 2025 FRC Season. The latest rule changes are always at chezychamps.com.

Robot Radio
As a reminder, we will be using the new Vivid-Hosting robot radios. Teams are required to provide their own radios.

Late Check-In
We’re expecting all teams will arrive at Chezy Champs on Friday the 27th. If for whatever reason your team won’t be arriving until Saturday, please reach out to let us know. We hope that everyone can get at least one practice match on the field on Friday night to confirm robot functionality.

Robot Shipping
If you are shipping a robot or crate to CC, we need to know about it. Please reach out if you haven’t already.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in San Jose on the 27th!

-Team 254

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I noticed 2 teams dropped off of the TBA page, will they be replaced by anyone?

It seems pretty late for teams to be able to make last minute plans to go, so I doubt they will invite any more teams off the waitlist.

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Plenty of Bay Area teams could do a 15-day turnaround for an offseason.

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Who dropped out

It looks like 1538 Holy Cows and 2854 Prototypes are no longer listed.

Also, my earlier Statbotics Hypothetical Event link (up-thread) is missing 694 Stuy Pulse. Not sure if it was a late add or I missed them. Either way, I’m going to wait for @NickE to confirm the “final” list before I regenerate it, as I cannot edit the old post link.

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We had a hard time getting students and their families to commit. While we would have loved to compete among the best teams in FRC, we had to forfeit our spot :frowning:

I’ll be there supporting!

Nothing is “final” until all teams check-in on Friday night, but The Blue Alliance is the home of the most up-to-date team list.

We intentionally overbook slightly to account for drop-outs, so a team dropping out does not inherently mean that we have an opening for a wait-list team.

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