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2009 East Bay Regional FLL Tournament

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Location/Directions

The 2009 East Bay Regional FLL Tournament will be held at Gunderson High School in San Jose. Yes, Gunderson is in the South Bay     :-)

Gunderson High School is located at:

622 Gaundabert Lane
San Jose, CA 95136

Here is a Google Maps link to the school.

General Tournament Information

Absolutely No Food or Drink in the Gym - NO EXCEPTIONS

Open Pits - the pits will be open to the general public throughout the tournament day. Teams are responsible for the management and security of their equipment and personal items.

Closed Judging - Judging interviews will be conducted in closed classrooms. Only team members and judges will be present during the judging sessions. Coaches, parents, siblings, etc. will not be allowed.

Table Rounds - Each team will have 5 rounds on the tables throughout the day. The first round is a practice round. It will be timed, the scoring process will be exercised with the referees, but the match will not be scored or count towards robot performance awards. The remaining 4 rounds are the competition rounds. The robot performance awards will be based on these 4 rounds, following FIRST LEGO League guidelines (i.e. best score counts)

Teams need to email as soon as possible the team profile form just to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org    Deadline to submit this form is no later than Thursday at noon. [please do not add any other playingatlearning.org addresses to the email].       Please continue to submit team profile form - I can collect them for the judges up to about 7pm on Friday.

Public Schedule

HELP !!   We really, really need help with tournament setup starting at 6:30am (ouch!) on Saturday. We do not have access to the site the day before. In the best case, we would have 5-6 volunteers for Pit setup and up to 10 for Competition setup. If we don't get adequate help, the whole day will be delayed while setup finishes - which no one wants.

All teams need to identify a team volunteer (not the coach) or bring their challenge table with field setup kit for use by teams as practice area in the pits [as of Friday 12/11, we only have 3 tables coming - we had hoped for at least 6]. The team's volunteer should just check-in in the morning at the Volunteer Registration table to get their assignment.

Final 12/11: Tournament program - off to printer...

Tournament checklist           Team Schedules (Overview, All Details, Detailed Judging)

Team List

Food

Snack type foods will be available for sale in the lobby outside the competition area.

FIRST Robotics Competition Team #2489 - The Insomniacs will be taking pre-orders for pizza to be delivered during lunch. Orders must be placed by 9:30am

There are several places to purchase food in and adjacent to Oakridge Mall, approximately 1/2 mile from Gunderson High School

Awards

The 2009 East Bay Regional FLL Tournament will be giving the following awards:

In addition, 16 teams will be given invitations to compete at the Northern California Championship.

Selection of advancing teams is done by the judges, following the Northern California FLL advancement policy. Advancement is based on the Champion's Award criteria - namely teams must be well rounded in all four key FLL areas: Teamwork, Robot Design, Project, and Robot Performance. All four areas are weighted equally.

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Last Updated: 12/15/2009 9:45 AM