What sort of trinket?
VIQ Tournament format question. I presume there will be 10 divisions of roughly 80 teams. They will compete in a ‘regular’ tournament. How many of these teams transfer to the finals? Just the 1 winning alliance? Once in the finals, do you stick with your alliance partner or is it a new tournament? Are finals a single match with your partner and top score wins?
Do have one that you get your banners from? What’s a good one that isn’t expensive?
Stickersbanners.com has been an inexpensive option for custom banners in previous seasons. They charge by the square foot, and ship very quickly.
Well carry on limits restrict VRC robots from being carry on and being forced to be put in the belly. Turbulence and other factors destroy the robot while it is in the belly.
We use StickerBanners a lot… running events takes a lot of signage. Here is an example for Regional Awards (yes we have to mail them out - sorry guys!)
These are 2’x4’ and suitable to fit in classroom, shops, hallway bulletin boards…
3’x5’ is unwieldy
These being printed after event allows us to include team number and name on banner.
But I know some people like to get them immediately, for all the pictures and everything. Maybe you could have big sheets of paper fairly crudely painted just for the pictures. Probably too much work, just an idea.
Do note, we give out the standard 3’x5’ for major awards at the event - Excellence, Tournament Champions, Robot Skill Challenge Champion, and Design. They also get 12" trophies.
Other awards get trophies at event, and these 2’x4’ custom banners. Typically we print them for event, but this year we faced a challenging season logistically, so cash flow was uncertain.
But hey, I get you - instant recognition is best!
That’s really cool that you give the “lesser” awards banners!
For example we are handing out a 3D printed Arizona with our team logo on it
please no we dont need more arizona in this world
What do you think the best size for a pit would be, for a landscape banner?
8’x’2’ is what we put on top of pit drape in back, then hang any season championship banners the team earned that season.
We then hang these after Worlds in our robotics workshop. Each year we tweak design - some years has pictures of all club members, others feature logo design changes. This year our district is promoting welcoming message to all - progress flags fly year round.
If it is your last season with lots of successes, like 44 Green Egg, get venue to hang all your banners vertically from ceiling - it was very impressive their final season Toss Up.
Division lists
Any idea how to copy/paste these PDF lists in to Excel? I am just getting one long string of text.
Elbow grease 
and crowd sourcing would help too!
I would rather spend a week figuring out how to automate it 
It turns out that if you open your PDFs with Chrome as a browser, then there is a ‘tools’ in the upper right hand corner and a handy convert PDF to Excel. This puts it in a usable format. I am tired now!
thanks for pro-tip - does not appear to work on Chrome on Mac - maybe it is an extension?
also for Google Sheets you can use CONCATENATE function to construct URLs to RE teams stats…
=CONCATENATE(“https://www.robotevents.com/teams/VRC/”, A2) will produce a URL for team number in cell A2.