Welcome to the NorCal 2010 FLL Season!
We will NOT be using FIRST’s Event Registration system this year!
There are three tournament registration phases:
Special-Case Registration – 9/9 – 10/1 (*) – CLOSED as of 10/2. Teams were notified Monday 10/4 evening
First-Come-First-Served Registration – 10/5 – 10/8 CLOSED as of 10/8. Check Team Status
Teams whose payment and waivers have been received by Playing at Learning by 10/1 will be able to register for a qualifying tournament – first come, first served. For best results, you should have a prioritized list of tournaments as well as any dates that your team can’t make when you begin this online registration process as we expect that some tournaments will fill rapidly.
Open Registration – 10/11 – 10/18 WILL OPEN 10/11 at 7pm for those Eligible Check Team Status
Teams who didn’t get forms and payment to us by 10/1 can register into a tournament that has open slots during the open registration (assuming that your forms and payment are in place prior to registration).
Did your team miss the 10/8 deadline to complete both steps? We won’t kick you out – but your tournament choices will be limited. We will enable your team to register once the two prerequisites are complete AND the team is marked eligible on the Team Status page. For those completing these steps after 10/8, you will be enabled no sooner than 10/12 7pm to allow those teams that did complete the steps by the deadline a chance to finish their registration.
It is important that you know your correct team number and understand how the process will work. If your team is not planning on competing at a Nor Cal tournament this year, please send an email to jillw@playingatlearning.org so that a space is not held open for your team. Your timely notification will also save the registration team time and effort.
The list of confirmed tournaments is here. We hope to have the rest of the tournament sites confirmed within the next couple of weeks. If you can help find additional locations, please let us know. Based on current expected registration, we still need to confirm at least 3(possibly more) sites..
IMPORTANT: Before you can register for a tournament in Nor Cal, you must pay the tournament fee and Playing at Learning must have received physical copies of liability WAIVERS for all team members, coaches, and mentors. More Details were sent out on Sunday 9/5 about sending in the waiver forms. All teams that expect to compete this season should get payment and waivers completed as soon as possible and absolutely no later than by 10/8 – please develop a plan for completing these now. Your cooperation with this necessarily complex process is appreciated.
After you have registered your team into a tournament, changes to registrations really can’t be accepted – it will mean finding a team willing to trade with you. Given the planning that teams put into choosing tournaments, it is unlikely that another team would be able to trade with you. The Community site group, “Tournament Trades” exists for coaches to requests trades.
Please communicate with your team, plan ahead, and observe the various dates. This schedule was put into place in order to best serve the needs of our entire NorCal FLL community and to ensure that all teams have an opportunity to compete. It will work most smoothly if everyone participates in a thoughtful and considerate manner.
(*) The 10/1 date is intended to be 1 day after FIRST FLL National team registration is closed. If FIRST changes their date, we’ll change the close date for special-case registration accordingly.
Thank you ahead of time for your gracious professionalism!
Regards,
Jill & Mark