**FIRST EMAIL**/Championship Registration to Open to Tier 2 Teams!

FIRST General Forum
#1

Hello. This is an important announcement for all FIRST Robotics Competition teams. Please share this information with the rest of your team in a timely manner. If you think that other members of your team would also like to receive these announcements, please encourage them to sign up at http://listserv.leapit.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=frcpublic.

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Greetings Teams:

Championship Registration will open up to teams in Tier 2 on Wednesday, November 10 at 12:00 noon EST. Please note that even if you are eligible to register for the Championship, you will not be able to do so until you have selected a regional event.

If you have any questions please contact team support at frcteams@usfirst.org, or call us at 800-871-8326, Option 1.

Go Teams!

#2

So does this mean there is still a lottery for Tier 2 teams or are we back to first come first served. Hmmmm??

#3

From the FIRST website on Championship Elgibility:

A selected number of Championship slots will be available for open registration. The slots will be based on the number of years since a team last attended the Championship. All teams will be classified in a Tier, i.e. Tier 6 equals six years since attending a Championship; Tier 2 equals two years since attending. Teams never attending will have their tier based on their rookie year: 2004 rookies are tier 2, 2003 rookies are tier 3, etc. If the number of teams in a tier is greater than the number of available openings, FIRST will use a lottery system to determine team eligibility for remaining open slots. The final determination will be first come/first serve until all available openings are filled. A wait list will be maintained for any openings that become available during the season.

Since there are more teams in tier 2 than openings, I would assume a lottery will take place, or they might go first come first serve. The only lottery last year I believe was for Tier 1.

#4

FIRST actually held a lottery last year for Tier 2 also, but due to low registration opened it up to all Tier 2 teams before eventually holding the Tier 1 lottery.

#5

According to http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/FMPro?-db=team%20events.fp5&-lay=web&-format=team_list.htm&event=CMP&event%20year=2005&status=registered&-sortfield=team%20id&-max=all&-find, there are two rookie teams registered for the championship. Don’t rookies have to qualify by way of performance at a 2005 regional?

~Allison

Edit - Must have been a mistake because they’re not on the list anymore. Looks like a few other teams changed their mind and/or mistakenly registered because this morning there were 93 teams registered and now there’s only 83.

#6

They should… that must be some kind of mistake.

#7

unless they are veteran teams that just had to take a rookie number for some reason…

#8

Yeah I wondered about that. I know nothing about 1503, but one of the leaders from 1506 has posted here a few times about being a rookie team. Although it does say on their website that some of the students are from schools that already have a team.

Edit - Must have been a mistake because they’re not on the list anymore. Looks like a few other teams changed their mind and/or mistakenly registered because this morning there were 93 teams registered and now there’s only 83.

#9

1503 is a rookie team. We signed up for the finals not knowing about qualifying first back in September. We found this info out from 1114 - Simbotics our partner team when they stepped in to start mentoring us.

#10