Hello coaches, we are approaching the halfway mark of the
season in the next few weeks and I hope all is going smoothly. In this
email blast I'm happy to announce that the Nature's Fury Qualifying Tournament
Registration system is live! Below are the two topics for this email.
TOURNAMENT
REGISTRATION
PRACTICE TOURNAMENTS
TRAINING
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Tournament
Registration
Please note that Ontario is divided into two distinct
regions based on numbers and geography. The short story is that if your
team is based west of Toronto you will register for a Western qualifying
tournament which will feed into the West Provincial Championships at the
University of Waterloo on January 11th, 2014. If your team is based IN* Toronto or East of Toronto
you will register your team for an Eastern Qualifying Tournament which will
feed into the East Provincial Championships at UOIT in Oshawa on January 18th,
2014.
Links to register for qualifying tournaments in both
divisions can be found on our website here: http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/main/fll-tournament-registration/
You'll notice a tab on the page that says "East Championship
Qualifiers" and one that says "West Championship Qualifiers".
Please click on the appropriate tab and then register your team using the
link provided in the appropriate box. There is a PDF of the questions
you'll be asked which you should download and read through before registering
so you have the necessary information at your fingertips for actually
registering (i.e. food order from the kids, etc.). Please see attached
screen shot for further clarification.
Teams may only register for one event at this time. If
space allows we may open up a second round of registrations. In this
case, the 2nd event attended would be simply for fun and no awards or
advancement would be provided to teams attending their 2nd event.
Deadline: Please
register your team by Friday, October 25th at the latest.
Tournament Fee:
The tournament fee is in
addition to the Team Registration fee you paid to FIRST
HQ/Spectrum. These fees help to cover the cost of running the event.
Practice Tournaments
Practice tournaments are one of the most valuable ways you
can prepare your team for your qualifier. I HIGHLY recommend attending
one if there is one in your area. Currently we have 3 events
planned...don't know if there is one in your area? Check out this page to
see!
Training
We had a great turnout at both the FLL Kickoff in September
and the Swatposium (last Saturday). If you missed these opportunities, plan
to attend next year. There is information prepared for all stages of
teams from rookie to advanced. For those of you who want more...we have
been hosting our online webinars in the evenings and you can see the upcoming
workshops here: http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/main/fll-ontario/training-resources/
You'll also note that all of our webinars are recorded and
posted on this same page for you to review in case you can't make it live.
Make sure to tune in on October 15th for our next webinar
where we will be discussing the Research Project. To register for this
webinar specifically, click here.
Take care,
Dave
* The exception to this rule being one TDSB tournament which will be in
the West Division to help even out the numbers on each side of the province.
TDSB teams will be contacted directly by their Tournament Directors to
indicate which tournament they should attend.
