Bill Blogged - What do you mean this is the last full week before CMP?

4/18/2011 Bill Blogged - What do you mean this is the last full week before CMP?

Good Afternoon Teams,

The Kit of Parts survey will go live today. It’s earlier than usual this year, so I don’t want you to miss it. Kate and Collin read every response and take teams’ input into consideration as they put together the kit of parts. So, please make sure your team reads the email blast (sent to your main and alternate contacts) and participates before the May 17th deadline.

The GDC Q&A forum will close today because we’re going virtual with the Q&A for the FRC Refs at CMP. Please tweet your rules questions to @FRCrefs by Monday - your questions will be answered during the Driver’s Meeting on Thursday morning (this replaces the live Q&A).

I need your help. I know all FRC teams are innovative and creative (you wouldn’t be in FRC if you weren’t). But, I need to find a few of the most innovative and creative FRC teams. Is your team especially ingenious? Has your team applied for a patent? Do you know any other FRC teams that are particularly original and inventive? Please send me an email about innovative teams that includes the name, number and a brief description of the team’s accomplishments. As always, I can be reached at FRCTeams@usfirst.org.

I invite all of you who will be attending Championship to join me for FRC Live. If you won’t be in St Louis, we’ll be posting video recordings of the meetings on the FRCTeamsglobal youtube site and providing links in this blog.

  • Thursday 10:30AM - Kit Happens - Get Control System news first as we discuss FIRSTChoice and the 2012 Kit of Parts.
  • Thursday 3:30PM - Behind the Scenes at FRC - Learn what it took to make 2011 a success and let us know what you want to see in 2012.
  • Friday 10:30AM - The Future of FRC - Come hear what’s on tap for game design, Bag & Tag, and competitions.

I also plan to tweet from Championship. I’ll be using and monitoring #FRCCMP.

I mentioned the Popular Mechanics Supplement in my last blog and have received a few questions since. Yes, Eric Sofge mentions the discussion we had about possibly going to a three year game cycle. No, that’s not the only conversation the GDC has had about the future of game design. We’ve considered a number of ways of restructuring games and game design. I’ll discuss this topic further during FRC Live.

The supplies for CMP are packed and ready on the third floor waiting for the trucks to arrive. We always stage the materials on truck-shaped outlines beforehand so we can load the trucks quickly and smoothly when they get here. These two truckloads will join the 8 fields already on their way.

9 Days until Championship
See you then!