Next Years Events

[andrewwski]

What level is that (Regional, State)?

At my regionals we have 7 blocks for about 30 teams. Building events only take ~10 minutes each, generally they try to fit 6 or so in an hour. More for the balsa events as they have two teams loading at once.

Of course, it's a lot closer from event to event - it takes place at a large High School. Although it can still take 10 minutes or so to get from one event to another, especially if you don't know where you're going.

[Pleiades]

It is for states. They are at a college campus with the building events on one side of the campus and the study events on the other side. It takes a long time to go from one side to the other which i dont like. Last year after my last event me and my friends wanted to go down to the building are to watch the scrambler event to see what it was like and we had no clue where we were going so it took us over 20 minutes to go from the study event area over to the building event area. Once we got there we couldnt find the scrambler event so we just walked back.

[Bryant]

about the building events. i'm not sure if its entirely the parent thing but, at competition, one team always win the building events, partially due to parents, mostly because they are a very experienced team and they save their devices from the past twenty some years of SO, so each year they just tweak one of the numerous devices they have. allowed??

[rocketman1555]

yeah, as long as it fits the rules and was student made, it should be allowed

[Pleiades]

i dont think thats allowed. i believe on page 3 of the rules book it says something like one of the 15 team members mush have built the device therefore a device from a few years ago cannot be entered since it wasnt built by one of the 15 team members.

[sachleen]

that shouldn't be allowed anyway, they haven't learned anything from making the device. If they just tweak a past device and win, then they don't deserve to win.

[carneyf1d]

i have mixed feelings about it. sure it helps a team consistently win year after year, but also provides an incentive for a new team to make something better to beat that team. My event was wright stuff. The same team kept winning our regional division. Last year our teams best flight was 13 seconds. This year i took over the event, was determined to beat the team at regionals. My flight at regionals was 1:52, and i came in fourth...the same team still won. However the improvement was pretty awesome. Our team made it to nationals, where we had a 3 minute flight. If only I had one more year of wright stuff, i would've beat that darn regional team.

[rocketman1555]

its great having to beat the teams on top, its fun having to beat them and earn your way to the top

[fleet130]

i dont think thats allowed. i believe on page 3 of the rules book it says something like one of the 15 team members mush have built the device therefore a device from a few years ago cannot be entered since it wasnt built by one of the 15 team members.

The rule you're referring to is rule #6 of the general rules on page 3 of the rule book.

[Pleiades]

yeah, that one. I dont actually own a rule book therefore i didnt know what number it was.. i only knew it was there from reading my coach's rule book one day. I didnt know it was posted on the website either.