Tournament Process Overview

Tournaments and Volunteers

Most coaches have several questions at the beginning of the season, especially relating to schedules and tournament events.  The tournament planning committee, those that organize your tournaments, are anxious to be sure the events are the best they can be for your teams.  The single most significant element of a tournament is the volunteers who make it happen - the Judges, Referees and Event Staff working the day of the tournament to bring it all together.

This year, our process is to identify the volunteers EARLY in the season.  You'll find that when you log in to the site, you'll go through a couple of steps for your team: First, we need to learn a few things about your team and how we can contact you over the course of the season through the Team Survey.  Next you can choose a tournament for your team to attend in November.

Tournament registration will be contingent upon volunteer registration.  As a team in the ColoradFIRST LEGO League, you are expected to provide two volunteers for every event that you participate in.  Start NOW to recruit your volunteers!  Tournaments are not till November, and a couple of months lead time will certainly improve your chances! Please read Food Factor Qualifier Registration for addition details.

Team Survey

 After updating your user information the system will guide you immediately to the Team Survey page.  Please provide the information requested to help us reach you if we need to (i.e. evening hours when our volunteers are working helping you get to the tournament you requested).   Tournament registration will be available on a first come, first served basis this year, and you won't be able to register your team until your volunteer commitments are registered in the system.  So recruit your volunteers early and we'll get yourself registered for an event!

Stuff you've already completed

This page is for teams to find information about the season, with links to resources about the challenge  - missions & project, team work exercises, tournament registrations and your own Team blogs. 

Team Registration

All teams must first register with US FIRST (https://gofll.usfirst.org/). Complete the registration for each team competing. This is also your opportunity to purchase the field setup kit (LEGO elements and mat that the robot interacts with) and a FIRST LEGO League optimized NXT kit. Keep track of the team ID assigned to your team(s) from FIRST. Your team ID will be required to register for local events (e.g. booster and qualifier).

Other Resources

There are a great number of Challenge Resources available to you through the US FIRST site, including mission details and the ever-evolving Q & A.  You can find this at the US FIRST FLL
(www.USFIRST.org > Robotics Programs > FLL).

Colorado FIRST

This new site is built so that your teams can interract with these resouces.  If you find cool web based research content, share it here with the the Colorado league on the Coaches' Forum or a blog post. 

The Colorado FIRST site will probably carry the same ID and e-mail that your account with US FIRST carries - we manually update the Colorado FIRST site with the US FIRST team registration every few days.  There is no systematic interface between the two sites at this time.

This is how the planning committee will communitcate with you, the coaches, teams & volunteers.  We will generate news pages for the user group you are a part of - Team Coaches and Mentors, Volunteers, Officials, etc.  The updates will come to you by e-mail, or if you elect, RSS feed.  Of course, you may also log on to the site to check for updates.

If you receive an e-mail, the subject may say something like, "Colorado FIRST has sent you an update".  In the body of the message, you'll find a link to the new article.  If you click the link, you'll be presented with the Colorado FIRST web page, and quite possible the message, "Access Denied".  This is because you may need to log in to the Colorado FIRST site before the system will present some pages.  Some pages are publicly visible, but some will require a log in.