Typically we spend a few days helping the chinese teams before the competition starts. This year, 9 international teams attended the event: 118, 148, 359, 525, 987, 1538, 1595, 1772, 2468, and 4613. The international teams are each assigned to help a set of chinese teams. Here are some pictures of our team helping out:



The competition this year had a set of typical FRC-style qualifcation matches where random alliances were formed. After the qualification matches were finished, there were two elimination tournaments. One which allowed all teams to compete and one chinese-only tournament.


The chinese teams are advancing quickly! In other competitions such as Vex Robotics, China has many extremely competitive teams. If the CRC merges with FRC I have no doubt that soon they will be equally as successful in the future. This was a great trip, we got to see lots of amazing sights in China and it was really rewarding helping the chinese students work on their robots.