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2007 FTC Program

2007 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE

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Results of the Intel Oregon FIRST TECH CHALLENGE 2007 Championship Tournaments

World Festival Update! 4/22/08 Congratulations to our FTC representatives to the FIRST World Festival. Our FTC Psychotic Strawberrz competed all the way to the Semi-Finals! They were 7-0 going into the elimination rounds and didn't lose until the very last match in their division. They received the Finalist Alliance Award. The Pigmice, 5th Place Alliance Captain on the Edison Field competed until the quarter round. Benson High School did a great job representing ORTOP as a demo team for the new 2008 FTC Tetrix robot.

2006 Program

FIRST VEX CHALLENGE (program name was changed in 2007 to FIRST Tech Challenge)

HANGIN'-A-ROUND

A pilot program in 2006 implemented by ORTOP for 16 teams launched FTC in Oregon. The first championship was held at the Intel Jones Farm Conference Center. The Inspire Award Winner was the Psychotic Strawberryz from North Plains and The Winning Alliance were Hicks from the Sticks from Springfield, OR and 1st Salem Vex from Turner, Oregon. All three teams represented Oregon at the FVC World Festival in Atlanta, GA in April 2007.

Oregon FTC Championship Advancement Criteria

Advancement Criteria / Additional Information / GP, Coopertition, Core Values/ Your Input at the event

ADVANCEMENT CRITERIA

The 2010/2011 Oregon FTC Championship Tournament will consist of 24 teams from 6 qualifying tournaments.  The Qualifying events consist of five, 16 team tournaments a one, 24 team tournament.  Each of the 16 team tournaments will advance three teams and the 24 team tournament will advance five teams to the championship tournament.  In addition, an FTC team hosting a qualifying tournament will also advance to championship.

For each qualifying tournament the Inspire Award and Winning Alliance teams will automatically advance to the championship.  Any remaining open slots are filled from the highest advancement scoring teams.  A team’s advancement score is determined as the sum of the team’s accomplishments as shown in the table below.

 

Award
Winner

Award
Finalist

Elimination
Round
Captain

Elimination
Round
Pick

GP (Gracious Professionalism)

Inspire

Advance

3

 

 

 

Motivate

2

1

 

 

 

Connect

2

1

 

 

 

Rockwell Collins Innovate

2

1

 

 

 

PTC Design

2

1

 

 

 

Think

2

1

 

 

 

Winning Alliance

 

 

Advance

Advance

 

Finalist Alliance

 

 

3

2

 

Elimination Round team

 

 

2

1

 

Exceptional acts of GP or Un-GP**

 

 

 

 

+/- 1 or 2 max

A team may only receive one invitation to the championship tournament.  In the event that the Inspire Award winner is also a member of the Winning Alliance; or if a host team is the Inspire Award winner or a member of the winning alliance those slots are opened up to additional teams.

In the case of a tie score then a random drawing will be used to select the team that will advance.

Any points for exceptional Gracious Professionalism will be awarded by the collective decisions of the Tournament Director, Judge Advisor and Head Referee.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

There are 20 slots for advancing teams from Oregon Qualifying events to the State Championship and 4 slots for QT HOST teams who organized an Oregon FTC Qualifying Tournament.
2010- OREGON FTC Qualifying Tournament HOST TEAMS
#3257    QTHillHI –Jan29
 #267     QT-HilHi B – Jan 30
#3727    QT HillHI-A – Jan 30
 #4508   QT OMSI – Feb 5
Evergreen is being produced by ORTOP and the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum with assistance from FTC Amity Coach Craig Hudson and Kelley Eng, OSU is produced by OSU Robotics Club. 

ELIMINATION ROUND ALLIANCES
There are two team alliances in the elimination rounds for 16 team events.
There are three team alliances in the elimination rounds for 24 team events (OSU and Championship).  Although only two robots play on the field during the match and one sits out.