Kickoff essentials

FIRST General Forum
#1

I’m putting together a package of stuff to distribute to the members of my team who are bringing their computers to kickoff. So far, I have:

  • The encrypted manual
  • Selected past manuals
  • Summaries of past games
  • Guide to reading and getting information out of the manual
  • Guide/steps to analyzing generic [this years’] game

What else should I put in there?

#2
  1. A place to write down/take a picture of the password once it is released.
  2. If you’re a mentor, any required rosters and consent forms.
  3. I always like to bring a pencil and a pad of paper to jot down ideas and to strategize.
#3

Maybe one of these Manuals/PDF’s that fits your team’s “style” well.
Also, you should consider getting a bunch of team members to go hang out somewhere afterwards to talk about it. A lot of members on 461 eat at Taco Bell that night.
-Duke

#4

I assume this is a data package, e.g. a zip file attached to an email, right? Maybe if it’s not too large, you could include game animations and robot design files.

#5

Zip file hosted on dropbox, so yeah. The whole 60 person team is staying for brainstorming until 5:00, so thats not an issue.

EDIT: I’ll throw in a link to the Chief Delphi rules forum, and also the data for a team IRC channel later that night.

#6

I would recommend telling members to bring the manual on both a laptop and a flash drive, as I’ve had people who had one or the other but no game manual and it’s rather appreciable to give a copy to them.

#7

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?prodid=11236116&whse=bc&topnav=&cat=87290&hierPath=906085662587290*&lang=en-US

#8

If anyone wants to use it, here it is!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6865197/Kickoff.zip

#9

There is a house address in one of the files from the .zip package, I’m not sure if you were aware of releasing that publicly. Thanks for the useful information!

#10

It’s not that big of a deal, I mean, it’s in the phone book.

#11

True. Just wanted to make sure. :slight_smile:

#12

What’s a phone book? :wink:

#13

Mountain. Dew.

Enough said.

Seriously: paper,pen, manual, rosters, a way to re-watch the animation/kickoff

Like Duke, we used to love get some food and just sit and chat about the game and what we thought would be the best course of action.

#14