2024 PNW Block Party

September 21-22, 2024
HM Jackson High School, Mill Creek WA

It’s our fourth year on this “block” and we cannot wait to have your team come and play at our house! We’ll have donuts!

We will be playing the 2024 FRC game CRESCENDO with the real FRC field. The event will include a full set of qualification matches, alliance selection, and double-elimination playoffs.

Event Rule and Other Modifications:

• Protected zone boundary tape will be placed inside of Stage truss lines
• The Podium will be an unprotected zone in the last 20 seconds of the Match
• The threshold for the Melody ranking points will be 18/21, as set for PNW District Championship
• Rule G420 (pinning): “Violation: TECH FOUL, and for every 5 seconds in which the situation is not corrected, a TECH FOUL is assessed.” (Changed so that all violations are TECH FOULS)
• Teams from the same school/organization may not pick each other during the first round (1 to 8) of alliance selection.
• Old radios in use: We will not receive extra VH-109 radios for loan in time for Block Party. Given that that was a condition of running the new radios at the event, we will be using the old OpenMesh radios at Block Party this year.
• If your team has extra Notes, please bring them for back ups for the field.
• We have decided to try out the new Alliance Selection process from FIRST that will be implemented for 2025 season:
  • Each team will be allowed to have up to 3 team representatives, up to 1 representative may be an adult, provided that a team’s student representatives outnumber a team’s adult representatives.
  • We will eliminate the shuffling and reintroducing of teams by only bringing out an Alliance Captain when it’s their time to pick.
  • Alliances will be given 45 seconds to make their pick in round 1, and 90 seconds to make their pick in round 2. To give teams an opportunity to experience this time limit, we will track and call out time but will not call a penalty for going over unless it’s egregious.