**FIRST EMAIL**/Championship Updates and Reminders

FIRST General Forum
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FIRST EMAIL/Championship Updates and Reminders

Greetings Championship Teams:

We are looking forward to seeing all of you in St. Louis! In the weeks leading up to Championship (CMP), we will be emailing you each Monday with important updates and reminders.

Please visit the CMP Planning section of our website for important information: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/championship-event. We update this page regularly, so check back periodically for new posts.

New! Team Load In Map: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/championship-event.

Don’t forget your Safety Glasses! Everyone is required to wear Safety Glasses at all times in the Pit area. When you are packing up to go to CMP, please remember to pack Safety Glasses for every Student and Mentor who will be in the Pit area. FIRST has only a limited supply of extra Safety Glasses on hand, so we appreciate your efforts to supply enough Safety Glasses for your entire team!

As you make plans to attend CMP, be aware the Wednesday night Load In will include the opportunity to work on your robot and encrypt your radio—details to come. Again, qualification rounds start at 1 PM on Thursday, April 26th—your robot must have passed inspection by then! Plan ahead to make sure you have all the necessary team members on hand. Only five (5) team members per team will be allowed in the pits. Please remember one (1) of these team members must be an adult.

Robots/Crates: Every team receives a donated FedEx shipment HOME from the CMP. You must ship your robot and any additional crates home through Shepard Exposition Services. You cannot take your robot or crate from the event unless you have received written permission from FRC. All exception requests for the CMP should be received by April 18th.

FIRST Event at the Ballpark: Don’t forget to order your tickets for the Friday night FIRST Event at the Ballpark with the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals as they host their #1 rival, the Milwaukee Brewers, at Busch Stadium! Ticket price includes admission and a hot dog.

The FIRST Event at the Ballpark order form is available here: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FIRST_Championship/2012_FIRST_Championship_Event_Order_Form.pdf.

Finally, if you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to contact Team Support at [email protected] or 800-871-8326, “0.”

Go 2012 Championship Teams!

FRC Team Support

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Team Load In Map: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/championship-event.

The Load In Map link on that page yields a document which shows only an aerial photo of the Edward Jones Dome area with an arrow pointing to a street corner labeled “team staging area”. As a “Load In Map” it leaves much to be desired. I certainly hope a lot more information will be forthcoming.

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So can you only have five team members in your pit area, or in the pits on the practice day? Because drive team + 1 mentor would be all five, which would allow for no pit crew.

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That’s just while loading in on Wednesday. (They could have been clearer about the way they placed that sentence.)

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That limitation is just for the Wednesday load in not for Thursday morning.

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Only during the early load-in periods. After that, the limit is dictated simply by the dimensions of your pit area, the dimensions of your team members, and the limits of safe behavior. (And perhaps by the limits of your team members’ deodorant.)

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The arrow in that photo is pointing to the team trailer/bus parking area, so it is not even related to load-in. As I recall they had a good load-in map last year showing the entrances on the west side of the building in detail, so I would presume they will post it again.