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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">The Georgia Tech RoboJackets are prepared to host a RoboCup Small Size League competition in March of 2019. We would like to gather a list of interested teams to see if a North American open
is feasible. We have a location reserved and field materials sourced. </div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>When and where is it?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">If enough teams are interested, the event will be held on March 30-31, 2019. It will take place at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">The event will begin early Saturday morning and will conclude in the evening on Sunday. Teams are advised to arrive Friday afternoon or evening and depart Monday morning. </div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>Who can sign up?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">We welcome any team to this event, even if you have not been to an official world competition. We want to provide a stepping stone for young teams in the region to practice and qualify for
the world competition.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>What field configuration will you be running?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">We will be running a division A field, but we will support dividing it to handle teams that want to play on a division B field.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>How much will it cost?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Team registration will be less than $100, and there will be no individual registration fee. This small fee will help cover the cost of the venue and field materials that we couldn’t get sponsored.
Your team will still have to cover transportation and lodging.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>How many teams can you support?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">We want to hear how many people interested teams would bring, but right now <b>we will host the event if at least 3 other teams can commit to bringing robots</b>. (Teams that cannot field
robots are still welcome to attend and collaborate.)</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>Are there any other things going on?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">RoboJackets will be hosting a small BattleBots and autonomous robot racing competition, as well as a few events targeted at a younger demographic. We also anticipate Georgia Tech’s Institute
for Robotics and Intelligent Machines to be demonstrating some of their research.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">As always, there are many fun things to do in Atlanta.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>What do we need to do to sign up?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>Don’t book tickets yet</b>; we want to make sure enough teams can make it. If you are interested, please reply to this email (either in a thread or back to me personally) stating that
your team is interested in coming. Please include the number of people you think you can bring and the likelihood that you can acquire funding to send those people if you don’t already have it.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"><b>Please let me know by November 5th</b>. Shortly after that, we will inform the mailing list if we had enough interest to move forward. You should book tickets at that time.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">I hope to see as many of you as possible in Atlanta this March!</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Peace, Love, and Robots,</div>
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