Wednesday, May 6, 2020

FARML teams; next weekend's practices; extended t-shirt deadlines

Hi everyone, 

Here's a bunch of information regarding our plans for the next few weeks.

FARML teams

Thanks for everyone who came to tryouts the past few weekends. The coaches have selected three "elite" teams of 15 students to represent the SFBA / Northern California region at FARML on May 16, and those lists are at the end of this email. 

If you were not selected for one of these teams (regardless of whether you attended tryouts), you are also invited to participate in FARML. Please fill out the following sign-up form, which also gives you an opportunity to request teammates! This form is due by the end of day on Thursday, May 7.

Note: If you want to participate in FARML, you need to fill out this form even if you opted-in for tryouts on an earlier form. However, if you were selected for an elite team and your name appears at the end of this email, you do not need to fill out the form. If you miss this deadline, we may need to consider you an "alternate" for the competition. We will collate sign-ups and teammate preference information on Friday, and we expect to send out full team rosters for all of our FARML teams (both elite and non-elite) before our next practice. While we cannot promise to fulfill every teammate preference request, we will try our best, and remaining spots will be filled mostly geographically. 

For those of you from outside of SFBA / Northern California (the "Wild Wild West and Friends" contingent of our team this year), we have not yet selected any Wild Wild West teams yet. You also need to fill out the form above and indicate teammate preferences, if any. We also plan to announce WWW teams before our next practice.


Plan for this weekend (May 9 and May 10)

We will have our practices online at the usual times: 5pm-7pm Pacific time on both Saturday and Sunday. However, the two days will not feature the same material this week.

On Saturday, we will have a FARML team practice with your FARML teams (that we will announce over email before practice). This is your chance to practice with your team before the competition on May 16. While some of you might only usually attend on Sundays, we encourage you to also attend on Saturday this week so you can work with your teammates.

On Sunday, we will have a typical set of other activities during the usual practice time. Rumor is that Simon is going to show some cool math! We'll have more details soon, to be announced over email and posted on the practice website.


Plan for FARML (and following weekends)

The FARML competition will be 8:30am-3:00pm Pacific time on Saturday, May 16. A detailed schedule is available at http://mathleague.org/farml2020/. Please note the much earlier time of the competition compared to our usual practices.

We plan to have a Sunday practice on May 17, with a similar set of non-ARML activities as Sunday this weekend.

We have not yet started putting together ARML Local teams. Since FARML requires 15-person teams and ARML Local requires 6-person teams, we will likely need to go through a similar team formation process (select elite teams, accept teammate preferences, then announce full roster) as the current process for FARML. We intend to start this process during the week after FARML, in time for us to have an ARML Local practice on May 23. The ARML Local competition will be on May 30. 


Other housekeeping announcements (and more time to submit shirt designs)
  • Practice materials from last weekend's practice are now online at the practice website. Use username=sfba and password=arml to access the files.
  • The practice schedule at the practice website is also frequently updated as we plan for each weekend's practice.
  • Past emails are available at the email blog.
  • If you aren't on the email list yet, please subscribe.
  • We have extended the shirt design submission deadline until the end of day today (Wednesday). See my earlier email for details.

Best,
Moor

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Elite Team Assignments

Note: if your name appears below but you can no longer participate in FARML on May 16, please let us know as soon as possible so your team is not left short-handed.

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