ROUND 1 FiM FTC EVENT REGISTRATION

1st Round Event Registration will open on Tuesday, October 3, at 7:00AM. This is the only email reminder that will be sent. The Round 1 event registration form is linked below and is also available on the FiM FTC EVENTS site page and the EVENT PROCESS site page. 

Form link: Round 1 FiM FTC Event Registration Form.

Please read these key points:

• This eblast has been sent to the Lead Coach/Mentor 1, Lead Coach/Mentor 2, and Team Administrator for your team. The team should submit ONE Round 1 Event Registration Form.
• The Home Event Pre-assignment IS NOT an event placement. A 1st Round Event Registration form must be submitted even if your team would like to “keep” their pre-assigned home event. FiM FTC Home Event Pre-assignment list (link).
• If your team does not have a pre-assigned home event listed above, please fill out the linked FTC Season Status form to share the team’s season participation status.
• If you are a league team, your pre-assigned home event should be your league tournament. If this is not the case, email tammy@firstinmichigan.org.
• If your pre-assigned home event is a crazy distance away from your location, there is likely a mistake. Email tammy@firstinmichigan.org.
• FiM FTC will not be able to officially place a team into an event through the FTC Scoring System until the team is registered with FIRST HQ for the 2023-24 season ($295 FIRST HQ season reg fee is paid).
• States’ advancement:
  • Each qualifying event (qualifier or league tournament) advances a set number of teams to one of the two FiM FTC State Championship events:12/9-10 States-SE or 12/16-17 States-NW.
  • A team can earn advancement to only one State Championship event.
  • If a team has a strong preference for attending a particular State Championship event, the team should choose to participate in qualifying events that advance to that preferred State Championship event. It will not be possible to switch an advancing team from one State Championship event to the other.
  • Once a team earns a state’s advancement spot, they are no longer eligible to earn advancement spots at subsequent qualifying events where the team participates. The team can still earn awards at the subsequent events.

Overview of Round 1 Event Registration:

• The Round 1 event registration form will prompt the team to make a choice: “Keep” their pre-assigned home event or “Change” events.
• If a team chooses to “change” their Round 1 event from their pre-assigned home event, they must provide 5 ranked alternative preferences of events. These are preferences and not a guarantee of where the team will be placed.
• For multiple teams out of the same school/org. that want to be placed in the same event: Opting to “keep” your team’s Home Event Pre-assignment is the only choice that guarantees that this occurs due to capacity constraints at events.
• When processing the forms, all of the teams that choose to “keep” their pre-assigned home events will be placed in those events first. Then, in date/timestamp order, the “change” request preferences are processed.
• For example, when processing a team’s “change” form and their first choice preference has space, the team will be placed in that event. But, if the team’s first choice preference is at capacity, the 2nd ranked preference is checked. If the team’s 2nd preference still has space, the team will be placed in that event. If not, the 3rd ranked preference is checked, and so on.
• If a team does not provide enough ranked preferences (like only one, for example), and their 1st ranked preference is at capacity, the team will be placed in their pre-assigned home event by default. It is recommended that if a team really doesn’t want their pre-assigned home event, the team should provide all 5 ranked preferences.
• 2nd and possibly 3rd round event registration will occur after 1st round event placement is completed. Stay tuned to team blasts!
• Please refer to the https://firstinmichigan.us/FTC/event-registration/ site page for more details on the event registration process if you have more questions. The allocation of advancement spots by event is posted at the above link.