Signed us up for the CHP Blacksburg event. On the waitlist so hopefully we’ll get in but I don’t have my hopes up.
CHS events appear to have lowered their capacities this morning, so that any inter-district registrations would be wait lists instead of guaranteed registrations. I understand this, as they wanted to preserve any open slots for potentially late registering local teams.
I believe they did the same in GA a while back, because I know that PCH Gainesville will have 36-38 teams, and only 32 have registered to date.
All inter-district teams last year were immediately waitlisted. Those who applied for this kind of participation will have to wait until likely the first or second week of December.
So far Ontario has 5 teams coming to visit from other districts.
33 - Windsor
190 - Western
216 - Victoria Park
244 - Victoria Park
288 - Victoria Park
Does anyone else have data on teams taking advantage of inter-district play?
Many districts seem to be taking the wait list approach to all inter-district play. Good chance we won’t know any meaningful data on it until later.
Michigan team here, about 15-20 minutes from Detroit, but attending “local” competitions for multiple reasons. Of course, I don’t speak for my whole team, but lots of people on our team are mostly worried about the travel expenses and time. Hope to see some Canadian teams in the Michigan District, maybe for a chance to be on Robozone.
I was told that FIRST isn’t allowing events to open up the waitlist until 12/12/16*.
*I used the American date format instead of the International one
Thanks for the clarification. :rolleyes:
I do not believe there will be a lot of open spots in Michigan unless we add another another event (a couple were added a couple weeks ago). That being said, we are now a large enough organization that we might have some pre-season fallout which could open up a few spots.
Relevant to this thread, the standard 40 team district format with 12 matches requires 80 matches for qualifying (every match counts). Each team added or removed increases or decreases the schedule by 2 matches effectively. With an early season cycle time of likely 7-ish minutes, adding a team basically adds about 15 minutes more towards the qualifying schedule. Later in the season, adding 1 is a bit less impactful as the cycle time tends to get faster with practice and experienced robots.
My fuzzy memory and math skills tell me there will be about 8 extra slots.
456* teams x 2 events = 912 slots needed
23 events x 40 teams = 920 slots
Fuzzy math skills tell me 920 - 912 = 8 extra slots
*Fuzzy memory tells me that was the number Gail gave
Hey Karthik, you guys should come to Indiana.::rtm:: :ahh: :yikes:
From the registration thread, there is a team from Israel (5715) signed up for FIM - Lake Superior State University.
Those were the numbers I was told a week or so ago. I would suspect that at least a few of those 456 teams (WOW) will drop out, but we should not plan on having a lot of open slots.
We have 8 teams from MI coming to the St. Joseph event (74, 226, 503, 2771, 3357, 4004, 5110, 5502). Subject to change, of course.
I think you mean 2771
I do. My bad.
1076 was originally planning on trying to come, and then we ended up hosting an event Week 2, soooo better luck next year ):
Not to be a party pooper, but with 8 MI teams coming to an Indiana District Event, I feel like the Indiana teams at the event will be at a major disadvantages as they are simply trying to get points, but they keep getting taken away by MI teams.
Tradeoffs. Live in a bubble and never meet a new team from someone far away, or lose a couple points because MI teams have magic mojo in the water that inherently makes them better than IN teams. :ahh:
Or learn from these teams and use that as motivation to be better than them. Your choice! I personally think that anyone at the event will have a major advantage as they are able to play with high level teams and will understand the game way better than the teams that didn’t attend the event.