1. The FTC Tournament Experience Presented by: John Pilvines, coach/mentor of Team Unlimited and members of Team Unlimited

2. The FTC Tournament Experience Outline  Registration  Team setup – pit area  Robot inspection  Practice rounds  Judging interviews  Opening Ceremonies  Qualifying matches  Scouting  Alliance selection  Elimination rounds  Awards  Closing Ceremonies Questions?

3. The FTC Tournament Experience Team arrives at tournament  Registration  Coach supplies release forms for team  Receives info packet

4. The FTC Tournament Experience Team arrives at tournament  Team setup – pit area  Setup on assigned table  Displays, tools, give-aways  All need safety glasses  Always exhibit “Gracious Professionalism”

5. The FTC Tournament Experience “Gracious Professionalism”  GP is a Guiding Mantra in FIRST  Call it Good Sportsmanship, Coopetition, the Golden Rule...  Always been loosely defined by FIRST  But.. we know it when we see it!

6. The FTC Tournament Experience Morning activities  Robot inspection  Box – fit within 18” cube, unrestrained  Parts and materials restrictions  Bill of materials  Re-inspection needed for significant design changes

7. The FTC Tournament Experience Morning activities  Practice rounds  Access to informal practice field(s) to test robot operation  Scheduled round(s), same as qualifying rounds but they don’t count  Up to 2 drivers and 1 field coach (who never touches the controls)

8. The FTC Tournament Experience Morning activities  Judging interviews  10-15 minute session  Present your most significant points  Answer questions  Engineering notebook represents you to ALL the judging panels

9. The FTC Tournament Experience Morning activities  Opening Ceremonies  Formal start – speeches and dignitaries  Mandatory attendance

10. The FTC Tournament Experience Morning activities  Qualifying matches  Scheduled matches – red vs. blue alliance  Random assignment of alliances  QP (qualifying points) and RP (ranking points)  Referees run the field!

11. The FTC Tournament Experience Morning activities  Scouting  Interview teams (especially potential alliances)  Observe field matches, keep notes  Have a system – note capabilities, reliability, flexibility, offense/defense tactics  Critical info for alliance selection!

12. The FTC Tournament Experience Afternoon activities  Qualifying matches continue  Scores rank the teams for alliance selection  Scouting continues – deciding which teams would be a good match

13. The FTC Tournament Experience Afternoon activities  Alliance selection  Top 8 seeded teams are called to choose  In order of their ranks, #1 goes first  If one top seed chooses another, 2 nd team can accept or choose their own alliance partners  Lower ranks fill in vacancies – #9 becomes #8  If chosen team not in top eight refuses, they cannot be chosen by another team  Each alliance consists of 3 teams  Second round of teams chosen, #1 team first again  “Our team graciously accepts”

14. The FTC Tournament Experience Afternoon activities

15. The FTC Tournament Experience Afternoon activities  Elimination rounds  Seeding pyramid (1 vs. 8, etc.), best 2 of 3 matches  All 3 teams in alliance must play in the round’s first 2 matches  Finals determine the over-all winners

16. The FTC Tournament Experience Afternoon activities  Awards & Closing Ceremonies  Design Award – esthetic design elements, notebook  Innovate Award – most innovative design, notebook  Connect Award –community outreach, fundraising  Motivate Award – spirit & enthusiasm  Think Award – engineering process, notebook  Finalist & Winning Alliances Awards  Inspire Award – Top award, aspects of all, notebook

17. The FTC Tournament Experience Afternoon activities

18. The FTC Tournament Experience Questions?unlimited.syraweb.org