Iowa Regional Qualifiers – Smart Move

Regional Qualifier registration has closed. Please email fll@iastate.edu if you would like to place your team on a waitlist. Please include your team number in the email.

This season, Iowa has created a regional qualifier system for FLL teams. With this system, every team has the opportunity to attend a FLL regional qualifier near them. With this system, our goal is to slate the teams into a regional event so no team will have to travel more than two hours from their FIRST team registration team address. The nearest event may not be the one they would attend, because we know some areas will have heavier team concentration. Once FIRST’s international FLL team registration closes (end of September) and our Iowa FLL online registration for those teams wishing to participate in the state tournament structure is closed (likely on or about Oct. 15), ISU will plot all interested teams into a Google map. This will show us all the teams and allow us to do mileage checks to slate them into their regional event site. To be totally fair, we will not look at who teams are, just team numbers and addresses.

Team registration to participate in the Iowa Regional Qualifier system will open in late September. An email will be sent to all teams in Iowa with information about Regional Qualifier registration in late September.

Want to know when the regional qualifiers will be held? Here’s the schedule:
Cedar Falls – December 5
Des Moines – December 5
Sioux City – December 5
Cedar Rapids – December 12
Ottumwa – December 12
Quad Cities – December 12
Marshalltown – December 19

As a reminder – your team’s assigned regional qualifier may not be the event nearest you.