Promotional Video for the Texas Robotics Invitational. More info can be found at http://www.spectrum3847.org/TRI.
Texas Robotics Invitational (TRI) a new off-season event in Houston, Texas designed to get local teams more play time. It's going to be a relaxed event that will work to strengthen our community. For those of you who have attended Houston Robot Remix in the past two years this event will work in a very similar way.
Planned and organized by Spectrum FRC#3847, Houston area teams and volunteers, and the Lone Star Regional Committee with support from FIRST in Texas and the Texas Workforce Commission.
When
June 21st. All qualification rounds and eliminations will happen on June 21st. Field setup and load in will be June 20th
Where
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory Gymnasiums
8900 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX, 77036
Cost:
Free to all invited team
Social Media:
Twitter: @TRIrobots
Facebook: Texas Robotics Invitational
For More Information:
Email us at TRI@spectrum3847.org
Alliance Selection and Elimination Tournament
The top 8 seeds will be the alliance captains but their selection order will be randomly assigned. Alliance captains may not select other alliance captains. A serpentine order will be in place for first two selection of an alliance. The fourth members of each alliance will be randomly assigned to them from the remaining teams.
1. Top 8 Teams = Alliance Captain
2. Top 8 Team numbers are placed into a hat, the first team drawn is now the #1 alliance captain and allowed to select their first alliance partner from the pool of teams that are not captains.
3. This continues through all 8 teams.
4. The last team drawn from the hat is allowed to select two teams just like a normal 8 seed alliance captain and we continue back up in reverse order like a normal serpentine draft.
5. After all alliances have three teams, the remaining 8 team numbers will be placed in a hat and they will be randomly selected by the alliance captains in 1 - 8 order.
6. This will end with each alliance consisting of 4 teams. During elimination play each member of the alliance must play in one of the first two matches of each series. (In practice this means after the first match, an alliance must switch in the team that didn't play in the first round). Alliance captains must turn in a line up card to the head ref prior to each elimination match and may not deviate from that line up for that match.
