initial regional registration

[JP_1163]

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

YIKES?!? Keep getting this from FIRST website? Anyone else?

:ahh: :yikes: :confused: :eek: :(

[Rosiebotboss]

Me too.

[Mark McLeod]

This is one of the longest days...

I got in, but the event registration wasn't enabled, so there's nothing to click on to register yet (12:30pm)


12:55 -- I'm in again but still there's no button to register for any events.

[JohnBoucher]

I got in, but the event registration wasn't enabled, so there's nothing to click on to register yet (12:30pm)

Me too. After 4 server errors.

[Rich Kressly]

Latest Message,

"This service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

Based on the recent hiccups with the new TIMS system during preregistration (as posted by Jenny - thanks) I'm sure they're still working through difficulties. Call team support at FIRST HQ if you need to, but I'm guessing we'll be back online soon and will give it a shot then.

[Ken Patton]

Server Error
The following error occurred:
[code=CANT_CONNECT] Could not connect because of networking problems. Contact your system administrator.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please contact the administrator.

[Rich Kressly]

just spoke with team support at HQ -
server is down, IT is working on it ... "just keep trying every few minutes" was the word I got.
Your error messages will vary, so don't worry about that ... now if you actually are able to get IN and then experience an error, please call team support at HQ.

[Karthik]

I finally got to the main page of TIMS, but there's no "Login" or "Go" button.

[Ken Patton]

I'm at the "Team Info Home Page" but theres nowhere to click to register for an event. Theres the "action" column which was used for prereg, but nothing to click in the action column for event registration.

Don't know what to do now...

Ken

[JohnBoucher]

Has Anybody registered?

[Rich Kressly]

Ken I have the same thing ..... I logged out and I'm trying again .... I'll prob call Team Support again if that happens again...

[Travis Hoffman]

According to this page (http://www.usfirst.org/frc/public/), no one has registered yet, so no one is missing out on anything.

I advise taking a 1-2 hour break.

With all these lockups and server overloads and what not, I don't know why they don't request and/or require a staggered registration on the first day of regional registration.

Teams 1200+ get the first two hours.
Teams 600-1199 get the next two hours.
Teams 1-599 get the next two.
Open season after that.

Or something like that.

I highly, highly doubt anyone's going to get shut out of their first event.

[Mark McLeod]

I've been in and out several times now and the event registration button still hasn't appeared.


I highly, highly doubt anyone's going to get shut out of their first event.
I agree. Our primary sponsor is on the local Regional committee and gets nervous if they don't see our Team on the local Regional list. Then again I guess we all do.

[Pat Major]

I'm also in with no "go" in the box next event. I reloaded once and had the same problem. FIRST are you monitoring this thread?

[Ken Patton]

I am taking Travis' advice and logging out too.

Plus I have a 1:00 meeting.

Ken

[Andy Baker]

Dibs on a spot at Boilermaker!

heh

I can't get in either. I got in ahead of time, waited for noon to come, refreshed my screen and was immediately booted out. I like Travis' idea of everyone taking a 1-2 hour break from TIMS. That way, the server won't be down and I can register! mwuuuhahahaha.

AB

[Dana Hobbs]

Got in but still no button to register 1:10 PM EST. I'm logging off.

[Beth Sweet]

I can't register either. One more refresh then I'm logging out. Please don't take all the Detroit spots, my kids have Spring Breaks on the other regionals!!!

From the login page:
RESPONSE TIME CURRENTLY SLOWER THAN ANTICIPATED

Due to heavy volume, our system is currently experiencing slow response times. We sincerely apologize for the delays and are currently working to improve the situation. In the meantime, if you experience delays we suggest you return in a few hours. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

[JohnBoucher]

I finally got an ADD button, then it locked up again

[Derek Bessette]

The ADD > link has just appeared beside the events section. I am currently trying to get through the registration process. It is very slow and I am getting errors.

I'll post again if I get all the way through.

[Mark McLeod]

Closer....closer...

[Jack Jones]

Dibs on a spot at Boilermaker!

heh

I can't get in either. I got in ahead of time, waited for noon to come, refreshed my screen and was immediately booted out. I like Travis' idea of everyone taking a 1-2 hour break from TIMS. That way, the server won't be down and I can register! mwuuuhahahaha.

AB
Andy's on to something here!
Let's just register on CD - we know CD works! :-/

Dibs on GLR

[dubious elise]

I am so close I can smell the Milwaukee Regional!

I'll post again if this actually goes through, I'm on the logon verification page right now.

Edit: ah, cruel irony. this is my 269th post... :)

[Madison]

One lucky team made it into the New Jersey Regional.

[Jack Jones]

One lucky team made it into the New Jersey Regional.

Should we declare them the NJ winner? Just in case no others manage to get in?

[Mark McLeod]

Should we declare them the NJ winner? Just in case no others manage to get in?

Ooo!!! A new trophy category
-- FIRST to register ---

We can have both a Regional and Championship award

[Derek Bessette]

Team 1114 is registered for the Great Lakes Regional. Team 1503 is close to being registered as well.

I think it is safe to say that the TIMS system is now working...very slowly!

Good luck!

[Derek Bessette]

A word of advice. If you get into the system and you are part way through registration and you get an error message. Try to refresh a few times before starting over. It worked for me.

[Rich Kressly]

good...it's moving... here's the official info from FIRST:
Due to heavy volume, our system is currently experiencing slow response times. We sincerely apologize for the delays and are currently working to improve the situation. In the meantime, if you experience delays we suggest you return in a few hours. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

[Kelly322]

Team 322 is registered for Great Lakes Regional as of a few minutes ago. Glad to see I'm not the only one having problems. I was starting to think it was an internal issue with the network where I work.

See everyone in 2006!! I can't wait!

[Mike Martus]

Chief Delphi has Detroit only took 47 min once I got in!

[Barry Bonzack]

I got into the TIMS and realized that we had some issue with the alternate contact information and something with our sponsor information. ::Groan:: Are both of these absolutely needed to sign up? the main contact information is fine. When I went to edit the information I then got that "This service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. (my)" error.

Fun stuff I tell ya what.

As for not being shut out of our first regional... I have yet to have a year where my team hasn't ended up on the waiting list of its first regional. It always has turned out okay in the past though... but hoping not to go through the same headache.

[Mark McLeod]

We're registered for the Long Island Regional.

I got the email confirmation from FIRST.

Barry -
The error message you got is pretty standard across the board. I think we all saw that one at one time or another. It's not specific to the Alternate Contact update. Just keep refreshing and retrying.

[Pat Major]

494 is in at Great Lakes after 2 1/4 hours

[Jack Jones]

1213 is in at GLR too - only took 50 minutes - sometimes the extra bandwidth and the .mil address comes in handy!

[Ken Loyd]

Team #1709 opted for Arizona and it took about 45 minutes.

Ken

[Beth Sweet]

I got to the 85% on confirm regional then it told me that my login info didn't exist. I'm not quite sure if we're registered or not...

[Barry Bonzack]

Yep. just tried to get into mine again and none of the information for my team is there anymore.

[JP_1163]

Bad user
Don't modify page?????

I can barely spel komputer and I sure kan't modify any page???

I'll try tomorrow.

:ahh: :eek: :(

[Manoel]

1213 is in at GLR too - only took 50 minutes - sometimes the extra bandwidth and the .mil address comes in handy!

So I guess the .br doesn't help much - 383 is registered to Boston, only took me 2 hours :p
Boston, baby! :D

[Beth Sweet]

Yay! We're (1504) in at Detroit!

[Andy Baker]

After a few hours of hit and miss, we are in for Boilermaker. Things are appearing to move quicker on the TIMS site now.

Andy

[RoboMom]

[QUOTE=Barry Bonzack]I got into the TIMS and realized that we had some issue with the alternate contact information and something with our sponsor information. ::Groan:: Are both of these absolutely needed to sign up? the QUOTE]


Barry, the short answer is yes.
It is necessary to enter your alternate and at least your school partner. Lots of help screens and many pages of instructions linked on the home page, explaining this.

FIRST only requires a School/Youth organization contact be specified as a "Partner Organizations" for pre-registration. Simply add a School/Youth organization contact on the "Partner Organizations" screen to complete this section.

You will have until December 2, 2005 to add additional partners and complete "Partner Organizations" information to be included in the program book.

If you have any questions, please read the help screens first. If you still have questions, please contact Team Support at frcteams@usfirst.org or (800)-871-8326.
Hang in there everyone.

[Pat Major]

WOW....I have been trying to register team 70 for 1 3/4 hours. Just got back into the system and completed everything in about 30 seconds. I hope everything is fixed and registration goes that quick for the rest of the teams that are not in yet. Maybe that was just 30 seconds of luck.

[Barry Bonzack]

WOW....I have been trying to register team 70 for 1 3/4 hours. Just got back into the system and completed everything in about 30 seconds. I hope everything is fixed and registration goes that quick for the rest of the teams that are not in yet. Maybe that was just 30 seconds of luck.

Yeah I had about 30 seconds where I was able to get logged on, fix the alternate contact problem (one box was unchecked), stuck enough information in about the school, hit ok, and then back to the Baduser error. I am getting closer!

[Kevin Kolodziej]

W00T! 1675 and the new Thomas More Robotics team (not sure of the number yet!) are both in for Milwaukee....and it only took 3 hours or so =)

Good luck to the rest of you...happy registering!

Kev

[RoboMom]

Everyone needs to go through pre-registration before signing up for a regional. I am posting this message that I sent out to all "my" teams and was in another thread from yesterday.

Once again, thanks to so many of you who have logged on to the TIMS (Team Information Management System) and pre-registered or tried to pre-register. As many of you have experienced, there are some growing pains with the transition to the new TIMS and translating some of the data.
When you are on the TIMS home page, read the "click here for a description of the registration process". The worksheets will help you collect all the information needed to get through the process.

There are some common issues that are occurring.

Do not press the "Back" button! This may corrupt your data. Instead use the "Back to Team Summary Page" link on the page.
If you are an existing team, do not log on as a new team and enter the information. If you have done this, you need to contact FIRST.
If you are an existing team, but a new main team contact and you do not access to the email of the previous main contact for the team, you need to contact FIRST.
If you have entered a phone number or email correctly, and you continue to receive a red error message at the top of the screen, you need to contact FIRST.
frcteams@usfirst.org or 1-800-871-8326 for team support

[dez250]

As of right now i see 114 teams registered for an event, showing 4 regionals + the israel regional having no teams registered.

[Mark McLeod]

As of right now i see 114 teams registered for an event, showing 4 regionals + the israel regional having no teams registered.
It's up to 133 teams registered (including 10 rookies) and still climbing.

[Kevin Sevcik]

I apparently have the magic touch. After trying for some time to register, my mom finally handed registration duties over to me. I promptly got the "Service unavailable" error, then registered a few minutes later after the server came back up. Presumably with everyone booted off. Perhaps the solution is a timer that resets the FIRST server every 15-20 minutes to clear out all the users. Or maybe just some code to limit the number of users allowed to connect at any particular time.

EDIT: We're in at GLR, by the by. Lone Star fills up much slower than other regionals, so we register for our out of state regional first.

[Rich Kressly]

Rookie team 1712 aka Dawgma in Ardmore, PA will be attending Philly.
There are six teachers, a handful of administrators, and a bunch of excited students in the Lower Merion School District this evening.

Wow. Thanks to all of my FIRST friends who helped make this happen. You know who you are :)

[Barry Bonzack]

1390 and 1604 are now both in the Florida regional! No waiting lists this year!

Man, 4.5 hours just whizzes by when you're havin' fun. ;)

[Wetzel]

Anyone else see team 2006175, from Moore, SC USA registered for VCU? :ahh:

Wetzel

[JohnBoucher]

Started at 11:55, finally registered at 6:10 for Hartford. What a day........

[Kevin Sevcik]

Anyone else see team 2006175, from Moore, SC USA registered for VCU? :ahh:

Wetzel

No, but there's a similarly numbered team registered for GLR. I suspect these are temporary team numbers assigned until a team has paid and stuff. So standard team numbers aren't wasted if a team registers but can't pay.

[OZ_341]

Rookie team 1712 aka Dawgma in Ardmore, PA will be attending Philly.
There are six teachers, a handful of administrators, and a bunch of excited students in the Lower Merion School District this evening.

Wow. Thanks to all of my FIRST friends who helped make this happen. You know who you are :)

Glad to see you have a Team number.

I am sure we will be hearing about great things from 1712 in the very near future!!

[OZ_341]

As always, Team 341 has registered for Philly as our first event. This will be followed by Chesapeake and Nationals. We can't wait to PLAY!!!

Al Ostrow
Team 341

[Kyle Fenton]

First hasn't post this information yet but if you want to see what other teams are attending your regional

Copy this URL
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=event_teamlist&event=MA&year=2006

And where it says "event=" put the state abbreviation where the regional is located.

For example

This is for Boston Regional
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=event_teamlist&event=MA&year=2006

This is for the CT regional
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=event_teamlist&event=CT&year=2006

This is for the NH regional
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=event_teamlist&event=NH&year=2006

[Amanda Morrison]

Rookie #1720 is excitedly attending Boilermaker this year!

#1720 is Ball State University and Muncie/Delaware County schools from here in east central Indiana. Targeted high schools are Burris, Muncie Central, Muncie Southside, Muncie Career Center, Delta, Cowan, Daleville, Wapahani, Wes-Del, The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, and local homeschooled students.

You can check out our website at http://www.muncierobotics.org. We are excited to be competing in FIRST!

[Dave Flowerday]

Copy this URL
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=event_teamlist&event=MA&year=2006

And where it says "event=" put the state aberviation where the regional is located.
Or just go to http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/res_art2.htm and click on "View the list of 2006 competitions here" link at the bottom right. It brings up the standard list of regionals showing the number of teams signed up as well as team lists for each event.

BTW, 111 is signed up for Milwaukee... looking forward to seeing some of you there!

[OZ_341]

Rookie #1720 is excitedly attending Boilermaker this year!

#1720 is Ball State University and Muncie/Delaware County schools from here in east central Indiana. Targeted high schools are Burris, Muncie Central, Muncie Southside, Muncie Career Center, Delta, Cowan, Daleville, Wapahani, Wes-Del, The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, and local homeschooled students.

You can check out our website at http://www.muncierobotics.org. We are excited to be competing in FIRST!

Amanda:

Good luck with your team.

Al Ostrow
Team 341

[Kyle Fenton]

Or just go to http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/res_art2.htm and click on "View the list of 2006 competitions here" link at the bottom right. It brings up the standard list of regionals showing the number of teams signed up as well as team lists for each event.

BTW, 111 is signed up for Milwaukee... looking forward to seeing some of you there!

Opps didn't look there. Thanks for telling me

[Raul]

Or just go to http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/res_art2.htm and click on "View the list of 2006 competitions here" link at the bottom right. It brings up the standard list of regionals showing the number of teams signed up as well as team lists for each event.

BTW, 111 is signed up for Milwaukee... looking forward to seeing some of you there!

But we will also sign up for the Midwest Regional for our next slot. Wisconsin had less spots - so we signed up there first.

[Ricky Q.]

269 is in for Milwaukee.

We also would like to call dibs on a Boilermaker spot, thanks :-p

[John Wanninger]

1732 is in for Milwaukee!

[Waynep]

I want to know how the team from Moore, SC got the team number 2006175, last team for the NASA/VCU Regional. I don't think this is possible to enter into our controls with the number of pins. But regardless that's one heck of a number to be cheering.
-wayne

[Madison]

I want to know how the team from Moore, SC got the team number 2006175, last team for the NASA/VCU Regional. I don't think this is possible to enter into our controls with the number of pins. But regardless that's one heck of a number to be cheering.
-wayne

They haven't been assigned a number yet. That simply means that there is a space reserved at that event for a rookie team. They'll be assigned a number based on when they register -- 17xx, just like the others.

[Billfred]

They haven't been assigned a number yet. That simply means that there is a space reserved at that event for a rookie team. They'll be assigned a number based on when they register -- 17xx, just like the others.
Or 18xx, if they're a little slow getting it in. ;)

[Mark McLeod]

There are 6 rookies without permanent team numbers yet, but 31 others with numbers already assigned.

2006117 CapeVincent/Clayton, NY USA
2006139 Milwaukee, WI USA
2006175 Moore, SC USA
2006190 Ashwaubenon, WI USA
2006372 Goleta, CA USA
2006375 Armada, MI USA

http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=event_teamlist&year=2006

[Swan217]

Or 18xx, if they're a little slow getting it in. ;)

W00t! Team 1744 out of Naples registered for the Florida Regional. I may have a team to mentor after all! Not the closest place in the world to Ft. Myers, but close enough to help them out! :)

[Beth Sweet]

I know that last year when we registered for our regional was when we got our 4 digit number, maybe they're going to email them out later?

[Joe Lambie]

After much pain and suffering, Team 857 has now been able to register for the Wisconsin Regional. Woohoo!!

[Matt Leese]

I was under the impression that a team didn't get a premanent team number assigned until they've put a deposit down on their registartion. I have no idea where I got that notion from however.

Matt

[Jeremy Roberts]

I was under the impression that a team didn't get a premanent team number assigned until they've put a deposit down on their registartion. I have no idea where I got that notion from however.

Matt

Deposits are not required this year. You can just sign up for your initial regional event. For second, third etc. events you will have to pay up before you are added to the event.

[RoboMom]

I know that last year when we registered for our regional was when we got our 4 digit number, maybe they're going to email them out later?

Those temporary numbers will all be changed to 4 digits shortly, if not already done. No deposits required.
If they are still temporary numbers on Monday, give a call to FIRST.

[TonzOFun]

Team 555 will see everyone, for a change, at the New Jersey Regional this year. The team decided to change from our normal appearance at New York this year. Hope to see you all there.

[Matt Leese]

Deposits are not required this year. You can just sign up for your initial regional event. For second, third etc. events you will have to pay up before you are added to the event.
Don't mind me then. I'm not sure where I got that notion from.

Matt

[David Guzman]

Well It looks like Florida is full.

I am very excited to see our friends from 845 (Cutting Edge) come down here. Also looking forward to see team 190. It definitely looks like an exciting event.

Dave

[Nitroxextreme]

good to see 555 back at NJ


anyone know how you can see if a regional is full or not

[dez250]

At the 2006 FRC Events Stats (http://www.usfirst.org/frc/public/) webpage, there is all the information on all the events listed, including event capacity statistics.