Duel in the Desert

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Off-Season Events

Northeast Battlecry@WPI Beantown Blitz Brunswick Eruption Capital Clash (DC area) Duel on the Delaware Finger Lakes Invitational Mayhem in Merrimack New Jersey FIRST Invitational Pascack Panda-monium Pennsylvania Robot Challenge (PARC) Rah Cha Cha Ruckus Ramp Riot RiverRage Robot Rumble Rumble at the Rock Southeast Bash at the Beach Tempest 'n' Tampa (TNT) Midwest Ann Arbor Spring Repeat Indiana Robotics Invitational (IRI) Kettering Kickoff Michigan Advanced Robotics Competition (MARC) Ralley in the Valley Summer Frenzy Sweet Repeat Fall Fury West California Robot Games Duel in the Desert Robot Rodeo San Diego Scrimmage SCRRF Fall Classic International Monty Madness Paramount Canada's Wonderland Other FIRST related competitions ChiefDelphi Invitational (CDI) FANATIC (animation competition) NRG RoboCoder OCCRA (fall competition w/ new robots) Savage Soccer (fall VEX competition)

History

The Duel in the Desert is an off season competition held by team 64, the Gila Monsters, in Gilbert, Arizona. It is a pre-ship scrimmage where teams can get practice with their robot on a practice game field. Although there are sometimes mock "matches" played for fun, there is no organized competition or awards at the event. Instead, the scrimmage focuses on giving teams driving practice, and teams are alotted practice slots where they have time to test their robot on field while other robots are also active on it.

Teams may also run their robots off of the practice field to debug and test components. The pits for teams to work on their robots have been in seperate buildings as well as the same building as the game field.

The Duel in the Desert has been running since at least 2001 (possibly earlier, more research needed), and has run through the 2005 season. There was no Duel in the 2006 season due to problems of attaining a usable game field and venue in adequate time.

The 2007 Duel in the Desert was recently announced. This year it will be hosted by team 39 (after the 2005 season, 64 split into team 39 and 1013) at Highland High School. It will not contain a full game field but will still have enough components to give valuable practice to participating teams

Location

The Duel in the Desert has been hosted at both Queen Creek High School and Highland High School, two of the high schools that team 64 drew members from.

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