2017 National Tournament: Wright State University

[texas]

What's the best way to transport builds to nationals from far away? usually we ship our stuff, but we need to ship like 35 lbs of counterweights for Robot Arm which is not fun for our wallets... also Towers/Helicopters are bad to ship, but last year TSA officials got rough and made our Wright Stuff break. We're considering a bus but the drive is like 12 hours :/ thoughts?

A couple options if you don't want to spend much money:

1. Get a few willing parents to drive the stuff there in their own cars.
2. Get another bus from school and put all the builds in there.

[cs5260]

Do you guys know what the trial events will be in nationals???

[John Richardsim]

Do you guys know what the trial events will be in nationals???

I know Roller Coaster and Herpetology are 2 trial events locked down. There is still some discussion about whether to add 2 more or not.

[SSD_scioly]

There will be an Ultimate Frisbee tournament whenever someone steps up to organize one

I'd be interested in helping to organize it, but this year is my first year going to Nationals so I don't know what the tournament is usually like.

I honestly have no idea either. I think the most recent high-quality Ultimate tournament was organized by Z, he'll probably be on here soon.

Who's Z? How could I contact him?

[Unome]

I'd be interested in helping to organize it, but this year is my first year going to Nationals so I don't know what the tournament is usually like.

I honestly have no idea either. I think the most recent high-quality Ultimate tournament was organized by Z, he'll probably be on here soon.

Who's Z? How could I contact him?

zyzzyva980

[rfscoach]

In response to the various questions, I think some more info will be posted this week, and a lot more next week. I believe there is still a minor pricing issue for the dorms/meals to be resolved before they can post all the details (and no, before anyone asks, they aren't going to post everything else sooner for some reason). I know Roller Coaster and Herpatology are 2 trial events locked down. There is still some discussion about whether to add 2 more or not. I think the Event Supervisor list will be published in the program (like it was in 2013). I'm not sure if it'll go on the website or not.

There is lots of planning activities going on behind the scenes, and yes the reality is we are a bit behind schedule of where we had hoped to be. I fully expect us to be able to pull everything together in the next few weeks. In general, we are relying heavily on the plans/experience from the 2013 Nationals as well as the January Invitational.

What happened to Herps as a trial event ? It's not on the trial/pilot list posted today....

[chalker]

In response to the various questions, I think some more info will be posted this week, and a lot more next week. I believe there is still a minor pricing issue for the dorms/meals to be resolved before they can post all the details (and no, before anyone asks, they aren't going to post everything else sooner for some reason). I know Roller Coaster and Herpatology are 2 trial events locked down. There is still some discussion about whether to add 2 more or not. I think the Event Supervisor list will be published in the program (like it was in 2013). I'm not sure if it'll go on the website or not.

There is lots of planning activities going on behind the scenes, and yes the reality is we are a bit behind schedule of where we had hoped to be. I fully expect us to be able to pull everything together in the next few weeks. In general, we are relying heavily on the plans/experience from the 2013 Nationals as well as the January Invitational.

What happened to Herps as a trial event ? It's not on the trial/pilot list posted today....

Yeah..about that... as I indicated, there was still discussions going on and they ended up deciding not to include Herpatology. The 4 that are posted are indeed the final ones that have been selected:

Division B

ROLLER COASTER

Prior to the competition, teams design, build, and test a roller coaster track to guide a vehicle that uses gravitational potential energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as close as possible to a target time.

ROTOR EGG DROP

A team will construct an unpowered, autorotation helicopter device, which uses one or more helicopter rotor(s) to safely transport a raw chicken egg from a specified height to the floor.

Division C

INDOOR BOTTLE ROCKET

Prior to the tournament, teams will construct up to two rockets designed to launch a Ping-Pong ball using air pressure only that stays aloft for greatest amount of time inside a typical gym.

ELECTRIC WRIGHT STUFF

Teams will construct and test up to two electric motor-powered monoplanes with a single propeller assembly to achieve maximum flight times. Energy to the motor is provided by a capacitor.

[Unome]

In response to the various questions, I think some more info will be posted this week, and a lot more next week. I believe there is still a minor pricing issue for the dorms/meals to be resolved before they can post all the details (and no, before anyone asks, they aren't going to post everything else sooner for some reason). I know Roller Coaster and Herpatology are 2 trial events locked down. There is still some discussion about whether to add 2 more or not. I think the Event Supervisor list will be published in the program (like it was in 2013). I'm not sure if it'll go on the website or not.

There is lots of planning activities going on behind the scenes, and yes the reality is we are a bit behind schedule of where we had hoped to be. I fully expect us to be able to pull everything together in the next few weeks. In general, we are relying heavily on the plans/experience from the 2013 Nationals as well as the January Invitational.

What happened to Herps as a trial event ? It's not on the trial/pilot list posted today....

Yeah..about that... as I indicated, there was still discussions going on and they ended up deciding not to include Herpatology. The 4 that are posted are indeed the final ones that have been selected:

Division B

ROLLER COASTER

Prior to the competition, teams design, build, and test a roller coaster track to guide a vehicle that uses gravitational potential energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as close as possible to a target time.

ROTOR EGG DROP

A team will construct an unpowered, autorotation helicopter device, which uses one or more helicopter rotor(s) to safely transport a raw chicken egg from a specified height to the floor.

Division C

INDOOR BOTTLE ROCKET

Prior to the tournament, teams will construct up to two rockets designed to launch a Ping-Pong ball using air pressure only that stays aloft for greatest amount of time inside a typical gym.

ELECTRIC WRIGHT STUFF

Teams will construct and test up to two electric motor-powered monoplanes with a single propeller assembly to achieve maximum flight times. Energy to the motor is provided by a capacitor.

Is so few particularly common? I recall three per division last year, and four the year before.

[rfscoach]

What happened to Herps as a trial event ? It's not on the trial/pilot list posted today....

Yeah..about that... as I indicated, there was still discussions going on and they ended up deciding not to include Herpatology. The 4 that are posted are indeed the final ones that have been selected:

Division B

ROLLER COASTER

Prior to the competition, teams design, build, and test a roller coaster track to guide a vehicle that uses gravitational potential energy as its sole means of propulsion to travel as close as possible to a target time.

ROTOR EGG DROP

A team will construct an unpowered, autorotation helicopter device, which uses one or more helicopter rotor(s) to safely transport a raw chicken egg from a specified height to the floor.

Division C

INDOOR BOTTLE ROCKET

Prior to the tournament, teams will construct up to two rockets designed to launch a Ping-Pong ball using air pressure only that stays aloft for greatest amount of time inside a typical gym.

ELECTRIC WRIGHT STUFF

Teams will construct and test up to two electric motor-powered monoplanes with a single propeller assembly to achieve maximum flight times. Energy to the motor is provided by a capacitor.

Is so few particularly common? I recall three per division last year, and four the year before.

There were 2 in Div B last year.

[kenniky]

Is so few particularly common? I recall three per division last year, and four the year before.

There were 2 in Div B last year.

Pretty sure there were three - Potions and Poisons, Geocaching, and Hovercraft

only 2 trial events kinda sucks, we're taking 5 alternates which means one of them won't be able to do anything :/ Plus they're all building, so the more study-oriented alternates kind of got screwed over

such is life I guess