FIRST Championship Allocation for Districts

We’ve determined the number of FIRST Championship slots the Districts are getting in 2018. See the table below:

FIRST Robotics Competition District FIRST Championship Location FIRST Championship Slots FIRST Israel Houston 15 FIRST North Carolina Houston 14 Pacific Northwest Houston 32 Peachtree Houston 16 FIRST Chesapeake Detroit 21 FIRST in Michigan Detroit 89 Indiana FIRST Detroit 9 FIRST Mid-Atlantic Detroit 22 NE FIRST Detroit 37 Ontario Detroit 29

Wondering how we calculate this? See the quoted section from the 2017 FRC Game manual below and take a deep breath*:

Districts receive the percentage of 'available slots' at their assigned FIRST Championship location, rounded up to the nearest whole slot, equal to the percentage of teams they have in their District compared to the total of all FIRST Robotics Competition teams in the current season who would normally be assigned to their FIRST Championship location. 'Available slots' are calculated by taking the total number of slots at each FIRST Championship location, subtracting the number of pre-qualified teams assigned to that location, and also subtracting a 10% allowance for waitlisted teams, as Districts are still allowed to send waitlisted teams to the FIRST Championship. Further, this overall calculation uses a ‘snapshot’ of teams that have registered and paid as of a specific day a week or so after season payment due.

This season, we actually took the ‘snapshot’ referred to above on December 8th, several weeks after initial registration payments was due.

Edit, 12/21/17: Full calculations can be found here.

FIRST POWER UP Buttons

Check out this complete set of Drive Team buttons for FIRST POWER UP!

Oh, wait, did we accidentally show…rats…OK, well, whatever. Have fun.

Frank

*Yikes, Frank, can’t we do something the easy way? I mean, just once???