Hello Everyone,
I hope you’ve had a chance to watch some of the matches at championships. From here they are definitely a blast!! If you have and you’ve been in the Newton field, you probably know that we are doing amazing, and that is even without scoring as great as we have before… yet. 
I am rooming with Sydney and Wendy and we agree that today felt like a total Friday. We started qualification matches, picked decent seats and kicked-off our scouting team on a 60 match day. I guess this is kind of like a regional at this point, except that with about a hundred teams just on our side of the stadium. Also, the regular thrill (and sometimes a little stressful) push of scouting brings up the tossing of great team numbers to roam in the back of our heads.
As of tomorrow, we will have 5 more matches and one more on Saturday. If you have been wondering what types of other teams are also at championships, Navid had a great way of listing it out on an email for the team. He said:
“‘400 Teams are attending, to get in you needed to either:
-Win a Regional
-Win Chairman’s
-Win Engineering Inspiration
-Win Rookie All Star
-Be a Hall Of Fame team (Meaning you have won world Chairman’s before)
-Or be a select few from a waitlist who are granted a spot
Then the 400 teams are split up among 4 different fields: Archimedes, Curie, Galileo and Newton. We are on Newton where we are competing with 100 teams on that field. Each field or division is essentially a regional of it’s own. All four divisions play matches simultaneously and entirely separately. Qualification matches started this afternoon and will continue all day tomorrow and will finish Saturday morning. At this point, each division does their own elimination matches separately, just like at a regional. If you seed in the top 8, you choose your alliance partners and play with them in the eliminations. After each division has their eliminations, one alliance (of three robots), will have one each division.
Then Saturday afternoon, the winning alliances from each of the four division will take their robots over to Einstein field. They will play Semi-Finals where the alliance from Archimedes will play the Alliance from Curie. Galileo will play against Newton. The winners of those matches (best of 3 as usual) will play against each other in the final rounds of the World Championship, period. There will again be matches play, best of 3. At this point the winning alliance will be crowned the World Champions of 2012.’”
Since I should go to bed right about now, I would like to give a shout out to the scouts for working really hard today! As a very tired Sydney says, “All the robots looked really pretty…we are looking forward to tomorrow’s matches, so STAY TUNED!!”
And remember to:
Stay Smelly!
Camila
