Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

Those must be the teams with bots! :ahh:

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

Interestingly, there's a few more that aren't rookies:

Week 1:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/4075/2017 - Palmetto
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/558/2017 - NE District - Waterbury
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/2363/2017 - CHS District - Northern Virginia

Week 2:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/648/2017 - St. Louis Regional
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1288/2017 - St. Louis Regional

Week 3:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1743/2017 - Greater Pittsburgh Regional
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/3492/2017 - Greater Pittsburgh Regional

>a few rookie team numbers have been handed out

I'm intrigued by the 4 rookies in the same town in Guam.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

If you go to the actual event pages on the FIRST website, you'll see nobody is registered for these events anymore.

My understanding is that there was a brief glitch where registration was open at the end of last week, a few curious people poked around the system, and FIRST re-closed registration and deleted all of their signups.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

Great job once again GuamFIRST!

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

~I already signed up for Crowd Control~

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

You mean like 233 did in 2015


There is more to it then just being geographically close, for example Florida has two regionals this year Week 1 and Week 2, unfortunately as of this moment we may not be able to attend either due to scheduling conflicts with our school(s), so creating a home event system would mean we would either
A) Be forced to sign up for an event and have no students at it till midday Friday
or
B) Have to hope that in a weighted lottery system we get lucky.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

In such a system, I would hope you would be able to chose a "replacement" regional for your first choice before anyone else gets to choose a second regional. I would hope that leaves enough room open for teams in such a situation to pick a different regional. It may not be the second or third closest regional, though, depending on team density in your area.

Even with these issues, I still think a system that focuses on minimizing travel for all teams would come up with the "least objectionable" first event picks overall, allowing those with issues to then address them within the remaining capacity.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
 

Just like now, I would not be surprised if several slots from each event were 'held back' to handle unexpected or unfair situations, where the event organizers then can manually rectify things.

FIRST Choice uses a system that might be scalable to registration.

No matter what, the answer isn't simple. If WE can't come up with a fair system, nobody can. There will be randomness....