Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Kickoff Flashbacks, Programming & Tournament Registration


Qualifying Tournament Registration
Over 80 Arizona and New Mexico teams have already registered for at least one qualifying tournament! Help us reach our goal of 100 teams competing in our region this season by registering for your events! 

  • Teams can register for up to two events through Friday. 
  • Starting on Sat. September 22 teams can select a 3rd event. 
  • After October 5, teams may register for any available event. 
  • After mid October, out of region teams may register for available tournament spots on a case-by-case basis. 

If you haven't registered for your 1st two events, please do so ASAP!!! The Phoenix tournament is already full, and there are six other events with 10 or fewer spots available! Don't plan on waiting until the season is underway to register for additional events - we expect many to fill in the next week!


Control System Tips from Head FTA Eric!
FTC has recently provided an update for the new Control System software version 4.0 for the 2018-2019 season. We highly recommend that you download this update as it contains new features, improvements, and bug fixes. 

You can your install Version 4.0 of the Driver Station app and Robot Controller app by going to the Google Play Store. 

The update contains 1) support for UVC cameras, 2) 5GHz wireless channel changing (Moto G5 and E4 phones), 3) improved REV Expansion Hub firmware update support, 4) Robot resiliency and auto reset, 5) Vuforia Vision Processing updates for this season, 6) improvements in BlocksProgramming along with many other updates.


Programmers using Android Studio must also down load the FTC 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) at this web site.

Happy Programming!


And...just in case you're reminiscing about Kickoff...


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