Northern Virginia’s premiere off-season FRC event is back!
When: November 2nd, 2012
Where: Battlefield High School (Haymarket, VA -- 30 miles west of DC)
Price: $300
Game: Ultimate Ascent
Info: www.irocoffseason.org
After much fundraising, Teams 1731 & 1885 are pleased to announce and confirm the third annual IROC!
Along with a fun-filled day, we will host a “Meet the FTC Field” for teams interested in trying their 2013 FTC robots out on a full competition field.
Note, we have many teams registered already, but we seem to be having issues with the Google Docs linkage that happens behind the scenes for that page … check back periodically…
We want to do IROC in October for that exact reason, since it also forces our dates for our FLL tournament. Yet VA FIRST is concerned about us putting IROC too close to Robot Rumble. Maybe you and your team can work on them from a different angle for next year? We put on a great show and really want you guys to be able to come!
Teams currently registered for IROC - 1885 ILITE Robotics,4242 Fresh T.E.C.H, 4464 Team Illusion, 422 The Mech Tech Dragons, 1418 Vae Victis, 449 The Blair Robot Project, 2402 RoboJackets, 2537 RAID Robotics, 339 Kilroy Robotics, 384 SPARKY, 623 Cougar Robotics (Oakton HS), 3939 JRHS Robotic Knights, 539 Titans, 1895 Lambda Corps, 3373 Team Robohawk, 620 JMHS Warbots, 1915 Firebird Robotics, 1731 Fresta Valley Robotics, 2186 Westfield (Dogs of Steel), 4472 SuperNOVA, 2068 Metal Jackets
21 teams and I heard at least 2 more teams from the robot rumble are signing up this week. Virginia teams get your registrations in lets make the Ascent on Battlefield High School
We hit 24 teams within the last couple of days! We have space & room in the schedule for a few more.
Sign-ups for lunch have been extended to Monday.
Any teams who sign up within the next week who would like to receive the emails we’ve already sent to teams, please use the ‘email this user’ function here on ChiefDelphi.
We’d like to thank our alliance partners 3373 and 422. That was one of the best alliances I can recall being a part of, both from my time as a mentor and as a student.
We apologize for not having the opportunity to talk to more of the participants - we had a very small and very “young” group with us (all freshmen and sophomores) and were kept pretty busy just “taking it all in”! Plus - the 3:00 AM Wakeup and 4 1/2 hour drive left us a bit less spirited than we usually are!
Thanks to everyone involved for running such a great event.
Thanks for everyone who participated! All in all it was a great event, with some fierce competition and upsets in elims. We raised over $11k in scored points for a hunger charity donation!
We look forward to expanding the event to 30 teams next year, and hope that just maybe 116 and 612 will finally attend (NoVa’s best teams are definitely missed each year!).
We had a great time at the IROC. Our rookie drive team showed continuous improvement through the competition. Plus, we finally got our 5 disk autonomous mode to work in a competition setting. As an added bonus, we had our first ever 1st seed position after qualifications.
We were impressed by both the high level of play at the competition, and by the low number of committed penalties. The competitiveness felt more like a regional than an off-season competition.
The innovation of having the 1st seed play the 8th seed 2 robots to 3 robots in the quarter finals was very cool. I’d love to see this model propagated throughout regional competition. It is also cool to be able to pick your third alliance partner after the QF matches finish, giving everyone else a chance to ‘resurrect’. We still prefer reverse round robin picking order better than two rounds where the highest seeded teams pick first, though.
All in all, a great event.
For those interested, I have a playlist of matches in which we played here.
There were team photos being taken at the competition. Does anyone know where these can be found online?
Sparky had an amazing time at IROC. Personally as a senior, it was a great off-season event and I’ll remember my last off-season event as a student for a very long time!! Our entire team had a lot of fun, so thank you for hosting such a spectacular event!
(NoVa’s best teams are definitely missed each year!).