Compass Award Submissions due SATURDAY & Petrified Wood Livestream

Compass Award 2025 - Videos due February 1 at 6:00 PM

All teams are welcome to nominate a coach or mentor for the Compass Award, which will be given at both the Four Corners and Arizona Championships! Teams must submit a 1-minute video following the guidelines in the Game Manual and submit it by February 1 at 6:00 pm. Videos should be submitted to this folder, clearly named with the team number and the name of the mentor. There are separate submission folders for Arizona and Four Corners. Teams are eligible to submit for the Compass Award, even if they don't qualify for their region Championship. 

NEW YEAR'S CLEANING - DASHBOARD MAINTAINANCE

Take five minutes to check your team information in your Dashboard. Login to your account at www.firstinspires.org and check the following (look on the left of your dashboard). Remember, it can take up to 48 hours for changes to team information and payments to sync to the system! Please make any changes a couple of days prior to your event to see changes.

• TEAM INFORMATION:
• Team Profile
• Team Name
• Contact name
• Address
• Website
• School/Organization
• Team Sponsors 
• This is one of the best ways to say thank you to your team supporters - no matter how big or small!
• TEAM FINANCES
• Verify that your season registration payment is complete
• YOUTH MEMBERS
• Verify that all students on your team have a completed FIRST Consent and Release Form
• Verify that any mentors working with the team more than 30% of team meetings has completed Youth Protection Screening

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Can't get enough robots? Volunteer for an FRC Regional in March! Sign up via your FIRST Dashboard or learn more about event volunteering HERE. 

Arizona FIRST Event Dates:

• Arizona North FRC Regional: March 13-15, Coconino High School, Flagstaff
• Arizona East FRC Regional: March 20-22, Corona Del Sol HS, Tempe

Congrats to the teams that advanced to the Arizona Championship from the Desert Vista qualifying tournament: 

• 202: BrocoBots 2
• 8499: RoboHawks
• 10369: Robosapiens Robotics
• 15058: RoboJags
• 15477: Robo-Assemblers
• 23737: BroncobotsMax
• 23766: Az-Techs
• 26664: YetiMachina

GOOD LUCK to all the teams competing this weekend at the Petrified Wood Qualifier! You can watch all the action HERE.

Compass Award due SATURDAY FEB 1, Dashboard Maintenance + Palo Verde & Saguaro Blossom Livestream Links

 

Compass Award 2025 - Videos due February 1 at 6:00 PM

All teams are welcome to nominate a coach or mentor for the Compass Award, which will be given at both the Four Corners and Arizona Championships! Teams must submit a 1-minute video following the guidelines in the Game Manual and submit it by February 1 at 6:00 pm. Videos should be submitted to this folder, clearly named with the team number and the name of the mentor. There are separate submission folders for Arizona and Four Corners. Teams are eligible to submit for the Compass Award, even if they don't qualify for their region Championship. 

NEW YEAR'S CLEANING - DASHBOARD MAINTAINANCE

Take five minutes to check your team information in your Dashboard. Login to your account at www.firstinspires.org and check the following (look on the left of your dashboard). Remember, it can take up to 48 hours for changes to team information and payments to sync to the system! Please make any changes a couple of days prior to your event to see changes.

• TEAM INFORMATION:
• Team Profile
• Team Name
• Contact name
• Address
• Website
• School/Organization
• Team Sponsors 
• This is one of the best ways to say thank you to your team supporters - no matter how big or small!
• TEAM FINANCES
• Verify that your season registration payment is complete
• YOUTH MEMBERS
• Verify that all students on your team have a completed FIRST Consent and Release Form
• Verify that any mentors working with the team more than 30% of team meetings has completed Youth Protection Screening

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Can't get enough robots? Volunteer for an FRC Regional in March! Sign up via your FIRST Dashboard or learn more about event volunteering HERE. We also need more judges for the FLL and FTC Championship events. 

We prefer that judges have no affiliation with a team competing at the event. Please consider judging if your team doesn't qualify for your region championship.

Arizona FIRST Event Dates:

• FTC Qualifying Tournaments near you! (Feb 1, 8)
• Four Corners FTC Championship: Feb. 8, Dine' College, Tsalie
• Arizona FTC Championship: Feb. 21 & 22, Embry Riddle, Prescott
• Arizona North FRC Regional: March 13-15, Coconino High School, Flagstaff
• Arizona East FRC Regional: March 20-22, Corona Del Sol HS, Tempe

Congrats to the teams that advanced to the Arizona Championship from the Desert Vista qualifying tournament: 

• 15461: Nutz & Bolts
• 18625: Trivium Knightmares
• 23572: Copper Catz
• 26578: HYSA HYDRAS

Good luck to all the teams competing at this weekend's PALO VERDE & SAGUARO BLOSSOM Qualifying Tournaments! 

        

PALO VERDE                                            SAGUARO BLOSSOM

Team Update to Rules, Compass Award due Feb. 1 + Desert Vista Livestream

Compass Award 2025 - Videos due February 1 at 6:00 PM

All teams are welcome to nominate a coach or mentor for the Compass Award, which will be given at both the Four Corners and Arizona Championships! Teams must submit a 1-minute video following the guidelines in the Game Manual and submit it by February 1 at 6:00 pm. Videos should be submitted to this folder, clearly named with the team number and the name of the mentor. There are separate submission folders for Arizona and Four Corners. Teams are eligible to submit for the Compass Award, even if they don't qualify for their region Championship. 

IMPORTANT - Team Update to rule G427

On January 16, FTC leadership created a team update that rewords rule G427. This rule clarifies robot interactions during end game when some robots may be trying to ascend, and some may be trying to continue to collect samples. Please be sure to read this, and ALL TEAM UPDATES prior to your next competition. Referees must abide by rules and clarifications in all team updates. 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Can't get enough robots? Volunteer for an FRC Regional in March! Sign up via your FIRST Dashboard or learn more about event volunteering HERE. We also need more judges for the FLL and FTC Championship events. 

We prefer that judges have no affiliation with a team competing at the event. Please consider judging if your team doesn't qualify for your region championship.

Arizona FIRST Event Dates:

• FTC Qualifying Tournaments near you! (Jan 11, 18, 25 and Feb 1, 8)
• Arizona FLL Championship: Jan. 18, ASU West Campus
• Four Corners FTC Championship: Feb. 8, Dine' College, Tsalie
• Arizona FTC Championship: Feb. 21 & 22, Embry Riddle, Prescott
• Arizona North FRC Regional: March 13-15, Coconino High School, Flagstaff
• Arizona East FRC Regional: March 20-22, Corona Del Sol HS, Tempe

Congrats to the teams that advanced to the Arizona Championship from the Cactus Wren qualifying tournament: 

• 7156: Wolves Robotics 2
• 13968: Herberger Howlers
• 14524: Trivium Knight Lights
• 14855: Shamrocks
• 18583: BASIS Java Beans

Good luck to all the teams competing at this weekend's Desert Vista Qualifying Tournament! Watch all the action here: 

FTC Premier Events and FIRST Championship Allocations

FTC Premier Events and FIRST Championship Allocations

We're excited to announce that 2 Four Corners Teams and 3 Arizona Teams will advance to the FIRST Championship from their respective Championship events! 

In addition to the FIRST Championship, FTC is rolling out the first year of PREMIER EVENTS - a new event type this season and will be a parallel capstone experience to the FIRST Championship. While we are still eagerly awaiting our Premiere Event allocations, teams can find out more ON THIS BLOG POST.

Compass Award 2025 - Videos due February 1 at 6:00 PM

All teams are welcome to nominate a coach or mentor for the Compass Award, which will be given at both the Four Corners and Arizona Championships! Teams must submit a 1-minute video following the guidelines in the Game Manual and submit it by February 1 at 6:00 pm. Videos should be submitted to this folder, clearly named with the team number and the name of the mentor. There are separate submission folders for Arizona and Four Corners. Teams are eligible to submit for the Compass Award, even if they don't qualify for their region Championship. 

REEFSCAPE IS HERE! 

Good luck to all the Arizona FRC Teams with their new game! 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Can't get enough robots? Volunteer for an FRC Regional in March! Sign up via your FIRST Dashboard or learn more about event volunteering HERE. We also need more judges for the FLL and FTC Championship events. 

We prefer that judges have no affiliation with a team competing at the event. Please consider judging if your team doesn't qualify for your region championship.

Arizona FIRST Event Dates:

• FTC Qualifying Tournaments near you! (Jan 11, 18, 25 and Feb 1, 8)
• Arizona FLL Championship: Jan. 18, ASU West Campus
• Four Corners FTC Championship: Feb. 8, Dine' College, Tsalie
• Arizona FTC Championship: Feb. 21 & 22, Embry Riddle, Prescott
• Arizona North FRC Regional: March 13-15, Coconino High School, Flagstaff
• Arizona East FRC Regional: March 20-21, Corona Del Sol HS, Tempe

Congrats to the teams that qualified for the Arizona Championship from the Diamondback qualifier!

• 201 BroncoBots ONE
• 2844 Valley X Robotics
• 14584 Pioneer 327
• 26128 Wrightly Reconfigured Robots

Congrats to the teams that qualified for the Four Corners Championship from the Chinle qualifier!

• 11529 Navajo Code Writers
• 23948 Chieftains
• 26002 Navajo Code Breakers
• 26008 SHIPROCK
• 26010 ROBO-Tech

Good luck to the teams competing in the Cactus Wren qualifier this weekend! You can catch all the action HERE: