Hmm,… Autodesk usually announces the 5 finalists in the Design Competition about 2 weeks before the Championship. Nothing on FIRSTbase yet.
Has anybody heard anything?
I suppose when they announce the 5 finalists it will be posted here:
I think they wait until all the regionals are done and all the regional winners are announced.
when the planets align correctly
Do you have to win your regional to be considered as one of the six finalists or do they look at all of them?
You don’t have to win a Regional to be one of the 5 finalists. I know because last year we lost the Regional 
but later were chosen as a finalist 
Autodesk just posted the 5 finalists in the visualization Design Award:
http://firstbasefrc.autodesk.com/?nd=finalists_2009
Congratulations to the LIONS (Team 1099), Redbird Robotics (Team 1716), PhyXTGears (Team 1720), Forsyth Alliance (Team 1746) and Cougars Gone Wired (Team 2996)!
Congrats on the five finalist. Now its a race to get the most votes. Campaign away!!
There is no voting this year (thank goodness). Industry professionals from Autodesk will select the overall winner.
Really? that was one of the best parts being one of the finalist. Ah well, Good luck.
Good Luck to the finalists!
i have a question that doesn’t pertain to animation but to the top 5 for inventor. on the Firstbase.com website it says:
The winner will be announced during The 2009 FIRST Competition Championship Awards Ceremony.
When does this take place? saturday afternoon is what i think of normally but on of my team members told me it might be friday morning.
Good luck to all the finalist.
It appears that the awards will be saturday after the matches, it looks to be 4ish - 5
But will more likely be 6ish- 7ish.
congrats Redbird Robotics (Team 1716)!!!
nice job!
Our animation group thanks you.
Other 1716 videos can be viewed at:
Thanks again…
Team 1716
Awesome character modeling & animation!