[FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Posted on the FRC Blog, 12/08/16: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...-1-delay-tweak
Not sure if this was appropriate for the other FIRST Choice thread, but made a separate thread anyway, if not just to alert people.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

I'm curious if the delay was caused by teams trying to max out credits or items in their list because that would be really funny.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

No.

(PS: You missed the Jerry Budd Prize by two items.)

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Man ........ I was pumped coming into work today and expecting good news on our FC wish list. Now I have that same feeling I had as a kid when I realized that Santa wasn't coming again this year.

I'll get over it tomorrow I'm sure ......

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

UGH... I wish you hadn't told me that. I knew it was going to be close...

Also, I won't confess to having used a script to do it! NEVER! I'm guessing I missed something in the manual portion that I did. :(

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Well, we've established that it's not at least one thing. Care to share any more info on what went wrong. Did the registration server crash FIRST Choice this time?

Jerry Budd Prize?

(If this is a joke from FUN, I missed most of that episode)

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

It was also on the Behind the Lines epsiode. Jerry Budd (from AndyMark) offered to pay $20 of the shipping charges for the team that submitted the priority list with the most items on it.

I believe Kate Pilotte offered to match him on the FUN episode, but I can't confirm.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Jerry put up $20 towards shipping to the team that put the most items on their list. Kate Pilotte then put up $20 for the team with the most line items on their list. Marshall missed out on both by thaaaaaaaaaaat much.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Jeez! Rub it in! I came up a couple items short on purpose just to prove I could do it. I just didn't want to deprive Jerry of $20. ;)

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Now I wish I had watched that episode. I would have gone in and spent more than $20 worth of my manhours to get $20 off shipping by adding every item I could. :rolleyes:

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

There was a problem with Israel teams

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Hmm, Interesting. What specifically was the issue with paying?

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Usually Israel teams pays to FIRST Israel and then FIRST Israel pays to USFIRST for registration. Probably there was a delay in the transaction between FIRST Israel and USFIRST or another problem in changing the status of the teams from unpaid to paid...

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Well since we are apparently plugging: Here's where Jerry talks about the $20 and Kate adds on.

https://youtu.be/yO1CN3VZoyI?t=1786

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Somehow I missed notification about FIRST Choice this year, but from what I'm seeing on the list of things available, I don't think I missed much. Although Green Shaft collars are kind of cool. :-)

Hopefully I won't miss Round 2 and I'll see something worth getting.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

We missed round 1 last year. Round 2 turned out to be excellent for us. We ended up receiving our top pick, 2 ADIS16448 IMU's. Now I am not saying you get a boost by missing round 1, it just worked that way for us.

Missing round 1 is not a big issue.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

I am pleasantly surprised that we got all of our top priority items.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Hey, you can't get much worse than us last year - we didn't even know priority lists were a thing so we didn't do either round!

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

So...... How do I find out what we got?

I have not received an email and a check of our AndyMark account shows that all of our credits were used.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Go to my account, click on orders, and details for the latest order.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Thank you.

I saw the order, but it was dated 11/15/16.

All better now.

Every item we requested in order.

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

Got 5 of our top 6. We only missed on CIM motors. Totally happy with that!

Re: [FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
 

We made out with all our top choices. Talon SRX, Power Distribution Board, Voltage Regulator Module, NavX Micro, and NVidia Jetson TX1. Pretty pleased with our haul.