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Thanks!

I noticed 2 motor-transmission combinations with a 775 motor.

I'm wondering if they were included by mistake.
(see the details on PG71 gear-motor)

Dave

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If you are referring to the fact that it has a RS-775 motor on it, then no it was not a mistake. It was only the banebot motors that were disallowed for the 2016 season. Andymark sells their own RS-775 which is perfectly legal.

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It says for round two more credits will be issued. I wonder how many and will there be a new stock of parts to choose from? If we get another 600 credits that's gonna blow my mind. The second round will be interesting because we'll have an idea of what our robots will need.

While I like trying to predict what items will sell out first, It'd be really cool if we could do a live draft. I know its a ridiculous thought considering there's 3000 teams, but I think it would be so much fun.

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For those interested, our team has created a Google Sheet allowing teams to organize what their students want for parts.

To get started with the sheet:

1. Be sure you are logged in with a Google Account
2. On the sheet (accessible here), click File>Make a copy. Your new copy of the sheet will save to your main Google Drive folder.
3. By default, we have set the sheet to not allow editing in the grayed columns by protecting them from edits (by default the main owner can edit those columns). In order to allow others to edit these columns (although it is not needed for normal use) select Data>Protected sheets and ranges and add or remove collaborators.
4. Share the sheet with your team members via the blue "Share" button - make sure to give them edit permissions. They should receive an email containing a link to the sheet.
5. Once requesters have opened the sheet, simply have them type their name, part number, quantity, and item priority for each part they want to order.
6. You (the sheet owner) can set whether or not you receive notifications when the sheet is changed. To do this, go to Tools>Notifcation rules.

Hope this helps. For any questions feel free to PM me. Kudos to Mark McLeod for the Inventory sheet.

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For reference, we received an additional 300 credits for round 2 last year. No guarantee it'll be the same this year, but it seems to be a fairly safe bet.

In regards to item stock, while I don't recall any items from round 1 being restocked, there will be additional items to purchase. Game pieces went up during round 2 last year (and are usually available on FIRST Choice after kickoff, even before the draft system), and it was confirmed earlier in this thread that the SPARK motor controllers will be available then as well.

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To follow up, when I emailed AndyMark they fixed this right away and we now have access. Thanks, AndyMark! :)

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I just noticed a mistake I made in my earlier spreadsheets.
I listed the iglide® PRT slewing ring (fc16-056) as being in the Kit totes, but it is NOT in the totes.

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In case this might be of interest to anyone, here is a spreadsheet showing what was most popular in last season's round 1 of FIRST Choice.
I did separately calculate odds of getting individual items last season, but I don't remember how they fared compared to what actually was taken.
Odds on the quantity limited items is pretty easy and large supply quantity items are also easy, but the in between items are difficult.

It shows the initial lottery results and then columns detailing what was taken during the followup Open Ordering.

Past results may not reflect future results...

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Whilst they said the deadline was 1200, it appears they removed the passwords from TIMS at 0600, for anyone that tried to do this today.

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Received confirmation of my Priority List at 1:50pm EST

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I received mine at 2:30PM central time.

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Interesting. Was the confirmation via email? We on 1519 haven't received any sort of email confirmation yet.

I wonder if we should be concerned?

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We got a confirmation email as well.

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I wonder if that had anything to do with maybe the IT person thinking it was after midnight and removing the TIMS FIRST Choice passwords (thinking it was the day after they were needed or something like that).
It's still odd that they were removed at all, since I can still login and I think we need to in order to view our submitted priority list. We also need to look at everything for when general ordering opens on Dec. 11th.

You know, there is a discrepancy between a couple of the dates listed in the flowchart and the dates listed in the Blog post.
e.g.,
• 01/16/16 Round 2 Team Priority Lists due
• 01/19/16 AndyMark notifies each Team of their Round 2 draft results

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It was by email.
I seem to remember it taking a long time last year for everyone to get their confirmations, but probably not this long.