Editing 1996 National Championship

{{Infobox EventNoAlliance
| name                  = 1996 National Championship
| image                 = [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/19 https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=thumb/19/thumb.jpg]
| tag                   = [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/list/1996cmp/1 1996cmp]
| number_teams          = 74
| location              = Orlando, Florida
| venue                 = EPCOT Center
| date                  = April 18-20, 1996
| chairman_winner       = [[frc144|144]]
| impact_winner         =
| champions             = [[frc73|73]]
| finalists             = [[frc-114|-114]]
| altlogo               =
| altlogocaption        =
| below                 =
| prevevent             =[[1995cmp]]
| nextevent             =[[1997cmp]]
}}

The 1996 National Championship was the second and final official competition of the [[1996]] FIRST Robotics Competition season. The championship took place at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Adventure_(Epcot)#America_Gardens_Theatre American Gardens Theatre] at the [[disney|EPCOT Center]] at Walt Disney World from April 18th to 20th, 1996. The pit area was in a large tent. Two fields were set up on the stage of the American Gardens Theatre and matches would be played back and forth between the two fields to cut down on match turnaround time. A large screen showed live match video and scores as well as team animations between matches. More than 3,500 people attended the championship.

Driver stations at the championship were large color-coded platforms with the period U.S. FIRST logo on the front. Similar driver stations would be used up through [[1999]], being replaced by a full driver station wall in [[2000]]. The blue position's driver station and goal triangle were painted in a very light shade of almost off-white with a little bit of bluish-purple instead of the deeper blue of the balls as was used at the [[1996nh|1996 New Hampshire Tournament]].

==Team list and seedings<ref name="bracket">[https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/42751 1996 National Championship Playoff Bracket]</ref>==
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|31||{{1996frc-65}}
|44|{{1996frc-116}}
|73||{{1996frc98}}
|41||{{1996frc83}}
|61||{{1996frc6}}
|71||{{1996frc8}}
|11||{{1996frc13}}
|3||{{1996frc16}}
|1||{{1996frc71}}
|65||{{1996frc-54}}
|60||{{1996frc-108}}
|5||{{1996frc23}}
|50||{{1996frc37}}
|28||{{1996frc33}}
|27||{{1996frc36}}
|53||{{1996frc42}}
|2||{{1996frc43}}
|7||{{1996frc45}}
|51||{{1996frc-14}}
|18||{{1996frc47}}
|56||{{1996frc85}}
|13||{{1996frc-114}}
|33||{{1996frc148}}
|66||{{1996frc28}}
|42||{{1996frc-96}}
|35||{{1996frc-71}}
|45||{{1996frc75}}
|16||{{1996frc166}}
|68||{{1996frc86}}
|6||{{1996frc176}}
|30||{{1996frc175}}
|22||{{1996frc73}}
|17||{{1996frc74}}
|59||{{1996frc80}}
|48|{{1996frc-110}}
|55||{{1996frc81}}
|14||{{1996frc177}}
|29||{{1996frc90}}
|38||{{1996frc99}}
|70||{{1996frc-43}}
|57||{{1996frc-68}}
|63||{{1996frc-97}}
|74||{{1996frc97}}
|40||{{1996frc-83}}
|49||{{1996frc110}}
|58||{{1996frc111}}
|10||{{1996frc108}}
|67||{{1996frc116}}
|26||{{1996frc120}}
|46||{{1996frc121}}
|25||{{1996frc69}}
|12||{{1996frc126}}
|47||{{1996frc129}}
|23||{{1996frc131}}
|32||{{1996frc138}}
|24||{{1996frc141}}
|4||{{1996frc144}}
|43||{{1996frc146}}
|34||{{1996frc100}}
|62||{{1996frc-70}}
|39||{{1996frc20}}
|8||{{1996frc151}}
|54||{{1996frc72}}
|64||{{1996frc155}}
|9||{{1996frc157}}
|52||{{1996frc158}}
|21||{{1996frc55}}
|20||{{1996frc-112}}
|37||{{1996frc161}}
|69||{{1996frc-30}}
|36||{{1996frc171}}
|72||{{1996frc-76}}
|15||{{1996frc190}}
|19||{{1996frc191}}
{{TeamListFooter}}

==Award list<ref name="96cmp">[https://web.archive.org/web/20000919171406/http://www.usfirst.org/1996comp/natl_winners.html Results from 1996 FIRST National Championship]</ref>==
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|lowerCaption=}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Chairman's Award]]}}
{{1996frc144}}
{{AwardListSubheader|Chairman's Award Finalists}}
{{1996frc16}}
{{1996frc23}}
{{1996frc148}}
{{1996frc-112}}
{{1996frc191}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Championship Winner]]}}
{{1996frc73}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Championship Finalist]]}}
{{1996frc-114}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Founder's Award]]}}
|colspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |City of Manchester, New Hampshire
|-
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Best Offensive Round]]}}
{{1996frc175}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Outstanding Defense]]}}
{{1996frc69}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Best Play of the Day]]}}
{{1996frc20}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Most Photogenic]]}}
{{1996frc157}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Best Sportsmanship]]}}
{{1996frc146}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Best Team Spirit]]}}
{{1996frc161}}
{{1996frc151}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Number One Seed]]}}
{{1996frc71}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Rookie All-Star]]}}
{{1996frc47}}
{{1996frc111}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Procter & Gamble Creativity Award]]}}
{{1996frc16}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Motorola Quality Award]]}}
{{1996frc-114}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Honeywell Leadership in Control Award]]}}
{{1996frc126}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Autodesk Animation Competition Award]]}}
{{1996frc144}}
{{AwardListSubheader|[[Woodie Flowers Award]] presented by Small Parts, Inc}}
|colspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |Dr. Woodie Flowers
|-
{{TeamListFooter}}

==Playoff bracket<ref name=bracket /> and top ten<ref name=96cmp />==
[[File:42751 - 1996 1996cmp ranking.jpg|1000px]]
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|1||{{1996frc73}}
|2||{{1996frc-114}}
|3||{{1996frc144}}
|4||{{1996frc69}}
|5||{{1996frc175}}
|6||{{1996frc131}}
|7||{{1996frc191}}
|8||{{1996frc141}}
|9||{{1996frc157}}
|10||{{1996frc71}}
{{TeamListFooter}}

==Partial event program{{TKHref}}==
<pdf>https://www.frcarchive.com/frcwiki/images/a/a9/1996_National_Championship_Event_Program_%28partial%29.PDF</pdf>

==Gallery==
<gallery caption="Additional photos on the [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/list/1996cmp/1 FRC Archive]" perrow=3 heights=250px widths=300px>
File:4584 - 1996 1996cmp frc146 match placebo robot.jpg|[[frc146|Team 146]] going to score against the [[Placebo]] [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/4584]
File:3750 - 1996 1996cmp crowd frc6 score.jpg|The crowd, multi-segment match display, and one of the fields[https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/3750]
File:3785 - 1996 1996cmp pit robot.jpg|The pit tent [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/3785]
</gallery>

==Notes==
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