The Regional FTC Championship for North Texas will be held on February 25, 2017 at W E Pete Ford Middle School (630 Park Place Dr., 75002) in Allen, TX. Forty-eight teams will be competing for awards and a chance to attend the FTC South Super Regional Championship on March 23-25 in Athens, Georgia.

Event format: This year’s regional championship will be a dual-division event.  All teams will compete for the same set of event-wide judged awards.  The robot game will be organized into two divisions of 24 teams each.  Each division will separately play five rounds of qualification matches, then go through alliance selection and elimination rounds to produce a Winning Alliance for each division.  The two division Winning Alliances will then play against each other to determine the Championship Winning Alliance and Championship Finalist Alliance.

• Event schedule (revised 2017-02-20)
• Judging schedule (tentative)
• Map to Ford Middle School

Promote / Compass Awards: If your team is wanting to submit a Promote and/or Compass Award video for competition, please upload the videos to YouTube or some other public video service and forward the URL link to the video(s) to <seec@utdallas.edu> with a subject line of “Promote Award Video for team ###” and/or “Compass Award Video for team ###”.   Be sure the judges will have permissions to view the video.  If you’re unable or do not wish to use a public service to upload your videos, contact Patrick directly at <patrick.michaud@utdallas.edu> and we’ll make arrangements.

Team registration:  Teams that have registered for the Regional Championship:

127 Fighting Pickles, Mansfield
3899 Terror Bytes, Pittsburg
4705 Adamas Robotics, Fort Worth
4707 R2-DCrew, Woodway
4745 Thorn’s Army, Bedford
5443 Synergy, Fort Worth
5970 Ambassadors, Fort Worth
6566 Circuit Breakers, Aledo
6832 Iron Reign, Dallas
7172 Technical Difficulties, Plano
8114 EFFoRT, Lewisville
8130 Vikings, Arlington
8204 Wylie East Robotics, Wylie
8242 Steerminatorz, Fort Worth
8406 Filthy Horde, Hughes Springs
8418 The League of Legendary Scientists, Plano
8514 Circuit Breakers, Dallas
8565 TechnicBots, Plano
8626 The Prototypes, Dallas
8811 RoboBison Amistad, Dallas
9010 Robotic Rangers, Carrollton
9038 Mission Control, Plano
9054 Viridian, Addison
9161 Overload, Aledo
9167 Robosapiens, Dallas
9256 RoboBison Esfuerzo, Dallas
9386 Elmer & Elsie Robotics, Frisco
9403 Hive of Steel, Stephenville
10044 Mecha men, Richardson
10143 Gear Force, Fort Worth
10577 ThunderChicks, Dallas
10579 Lazy 8, Dallas
10985 Cosmo, Fort Worth
10992 Arsenal, Fort Worth
11085 Mad Hackers, Mansfield
11097 Cyber Surge, Dallas
11185 Robotic Revolution, Plano
11366 The Smarty Party, Plano
11419 Jasper Jaguars Robotics, Plano
11745 Robocats I, Dallas
11761 Robocats II, Dallas
11793 Tricerabots, Allen
12048 BoSCo SRRT Alpha, Waco
12167 FABOO/minies, Carrollton

Volunteer! We’re also looking for volunteers for the event… please consider volunteering!

Notes for teams

This is a Championship Event, which means that teams are expected to be prepared and perform at a higher level than at a League or Qualifying event.  Teams should arrive at the event with their robots completely ready for inspection, having already completed the Robot Self-Inspection Checklist .  Matches may also run at a somewhat quicker pace than at earlier tournaments.