Hi Teams,
We hope you are all doing well this week and continue to be excited and engaged in the PA FIRST Tech Challenge season. As of this past Sunday, April 11th the Central League Tournament was successfully completed; and what a week it was, right through to Closing Ceremonies. Congratulations to all of the participating teams for their stellar performance but especially to those Judged and Robot performance leaders and award winners. Seven (7) teams have now advanced to the PA State Championship. Well done!
We are now looking forward to the Eastern League competitions that will commence with our Opening Ceremonies tonight at 7:30PM. Of course, all teams are welcome to join regardless of the League you are associated with. As usual, please go to our EVENT page to see the results of the Central League Tournament as well as to access the link for this evening Eastern Opening Ceremonies and this week’s AGENDA.
http://www.ftcpenn.org/ftc-events/2020-2021-season
IMPORTANT note for the EASTERN LEAGUE TEAMS – The Judging Schedules for your teams are already assigned posted for both the Morning Interviews and Afternoon Follow-up Pit-style interviews. You may access them by entering the Remote Scoring Cloud-based system, the same location where you have and will continue to post your robot field performance scores. The link is embedded in the Eastern Tournament Agenda page. Please let us know of any issues accessing your schedules.
http://www.ftcpenn.org/ftc-events/2020-2021-season/eastern-league-tournament
We strongly encourage ALL teams to go into their scheduled times and practice joining in and using the conferencing tool at your own time and convenience and especially before Saturday assuming your team members will join from different locations. Please do not worry about conferencing in, practicing and breaking anything. The scheduled judge times assigned to you are unique to your team so enter often and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
Primary / Secondary Coaches actions:
- Obtain web conferencing links and share with your team
- Share this email with your team members as well so they have the information necessary to access on their own and be successful
- Upload Judging documents before 7:00AM Saturday. You do have time to continue to work on and improve you Engineering Portfolios and Control Awards, but please be sure to upload these on time and preferably the Friday night before.
There were many lessons learned from last week’s Judge Sessions as were communicated to us by the Central teams through a provided post-competition Feedback Form. As such, we have complied and published a Remote Judging FAQ as guidance for your teams to hopefully avoid many of the challenges experienced by teams last Saturday. Please be sure that any of your team members that will be joining the Judge Sessions are up to speed on how to utilize the system and understand the FAQ subject matter. Should you have any questions please reach out to us ASAP.
http://www.ftcpenn.org/ftc-events/remote-judging-faq
Additional to the above, the attached ppt slides for the “Remote Judging via the Remote Scoring System” provides instructions for joining your sessions. We also recorded REMOTE JUDGING SESSION #3 – “Remote Judging via the Remote Scoring System” and it is available for viewing. The link to the video is accessed on our EVENTS page with event date of the same name, Mar 31 7:30 PM. 2021-03-31 PA FTC Remote Judging via the Remote Scoring System
Thank you for your attention and best of luck in your practices and Matches.
Tom Zawislak and Dave Hackett
Pennsylvania FIRST® Robotics
FIRST Tech Challenge® Program Delivery Partner
phone: (302) 383-9925
email: ftc@pennfirst.org
Website: www.FTCPenn.org