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Re: championship divisions?

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Originally Posted by Jaxom (Post 1264262)

This has probably been discussed several times in the history of CD, but I'm a relative newcomer. <type=rhetorical>Isn't there something wrong that CD can stay up under a load that brings down the FIRST servers?</type>

CD isn't under the same load as the FIRST servers. The FIRST servers are getting hit by everyone here on CD and by all the people that are not.

Wetzel

Re: championship divisions?

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Originally Posted by Wetzel (Post 1264265)

CD isn't under the same load as the FIRST servers. The FIRST servers are getting hit by everyone here on CD and by all the people that are not.

Wetzel

<type=rhetorical>You do understand what a rhetorical question is, right?</type> :D

I understand that the FIRST site has more people trying to access it than CD. Adding in the various scrapers that people write, it must have a lot more traffic. Here's the real point: FIRST should know that, and have the appropriate capacity. There was an implied sarcasm tag on my post....

Re: championship divisions?

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Originally Posted by MooreteP (Post 1264124)

Has anyone been able to figure out an algorithm for the division assignments?

There seems to be a pattern in that international teams are grouped in specific divisions.

Israel: 2 each in Galileo, Newton, and Curie.
Mexico: 3 Archimedes, 2 Curie, but 1 Newton.
Australia: Archimedes, Galileo
Netherlands: Galileo
Turkey: Newton.
Brazil: Galileo

By Team Number:
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Any guesses?

On the first divisions that broke from the ordered numbering of the past, I did a simple analysis. I looked at the teams in sequential order and the streaks of same division. It was very similar to what one would expect in a pseudorandom pick 1 of 4 divisions for each team. If you are curious, I posted my spreadsheet on CD, it would be easy to run again for this year. I figure it is pseudorandom, so I have lost interest.

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Originally Posted by Jaxom (Post 1264298)

The whole FIRST site didn't crash, just some parts. The FMS pages never went down, which is important.

Re: championship divisions?

So time for more useless data:

The combined team numbers for each division is:

Archimedes: 207649
Curie: 242674
Galileo: 232662
Newton: 211761

Meaning if you average the team numbers you get the following:

Archimedes: 2076 (2007 Team)
Curie: 2427 (2008 Team)
Galileo: 2327 (2008 Team)
Newton: 2117 (2007 Team)

Which implies that Archimedes and Newton average 7 years experience per team while Curie and Galileo average 6 years based on team numbers (I am going through to get the actual years of experience per team to see what the actual result is since numbers don't equal years of experience when you are talking about less than 500)