{"id":1549,"date":"2019-08-14T05:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2019-08-14T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:46:09","slug":"08-14-19-early-game-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/2019\/08\/14\/08-14-19-early-game-information\/","title":{"rendered":"08.14.19 Early Game Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATCH for\u00a0EARLY\u00a0GAME INFORMATION<\/strong><br \/>\nContributed by: Paul Dressel, FTC 5385 &amp; 5391<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You do not have to wait until kickoff for general game\/season information.\u00a0 The Game Manual is divided into two parts.\u00a0 Part 1 is typically published on the first Wednesday in July after the July 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0holiday.\u00a0 The Game Manual Part 1 will have information on general tournament rules; award criteria; Robot hardware, electrical and software requirements; judging processes and advancement criteria.\u00a0 Note that the game materials page will still mention last year\u2019s game.\u00a0 The Game Manual Part 1 for SKYSTONE was released on 7\/10\/2019. \u00a0The Game Manual Part 2 with game play specific information is the only new material made available during the kickoff. Reference:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstinspires.org\/resource-library\/ftc\/game-and-season-info\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.firstinspires.org\/resource-library\/ftc\/game-and-season-info&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1565867921681000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHcqgeANNQRpmeJYLppTfceYr_2uQ\">https:\/\/www.firstinspires.org\/resource-library\/ftc\/game-and-season-info<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that the majority of The Game Manual Part 1 is the same from year to year.\u00a0 Reading a previous year\u2019s manual gives you a good idea about how everything works.\u00a0 Some major changes to this year\u2019s manual:\u00a0 &lt;RG06&gt;Alliance markers will replace flags.\u00a0 The alliance markers are a team not an event responsibility.,\u00a0 &lt;RE06&gt;We are made aware that some phones will not be usable next season(2020-2021) and what new phone options we have for this year, &lt;7.4&gt;\u00a0 Team Scoring Elements are addressed. \u00a0\u00a0All is great information to know before Kickoff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoy a great SKYSTONE season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH for\u00a0EARLY\u00a0GAME INFORMATION Contributed by: Paul Dressel, FTC 5385 &amp; 5391<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/2019\/08\/14\/08-14-19-early-game-information\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-tammy","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-1549","7":"format-standard","8":"category-team-talk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstinmichigan.us\/FTC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}