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jajabinx124 04-01-2017 17:12
[FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
 
FRC blog post 1/4/2017.

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Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
Written by Frank Merrick.


Festival of Champions

By now, many of you have probably seen the announcement by FIRST Senior Management about the Festival of Champions to take place in New Hampshire on July 28th and 29th, 2017. We’re very excited to be hosting the Chairman’s Award winning team and the teams on the Winning Alliance from each FIRST Championship location for a two-day celebration. We’ve got several activities for the teams planned, including a special dinner with Dean at his home (so cool!), along with a competition between the winning alliances, to be webcast to the world. See the link above for more info. We still have many details to finalize, including all those pesky rules that will need to go along with this, but we wanted to pass along this news as soon as we could!



Encrypted FIRST® STEAMWORKS™ Documents

You want your encrypted game manual? You got your encrypted game manual. Download it now here. The paint may still be a little wet, so be careful.

For folks new to this, here’s the deal: Download the encrypted manual now to your iPhone/Android/PalmPilot/whatever (pdf apps like Foxit PDF or Adobe Acrobat are helpful). At the end of the Kickoff broadcast, we’ll reveal the code that will unlock the file so you can immediately start devouring all that FIRST STEAMWORKS goodness.

The Kit of Parts checklists, which will let you inventory your Kit of Parts, have also been encrypted and posted. You can find them here.

We’re still working on finalizing the drawing package that goes with the game. That likely won’t be ready for download before Friday, but we’ll let you know. It, too, will be encrypted.

All files encrypted prior to Kickoff use the same password, again to be revealed at the end of the Kickoff broadcast.

More news soon!

Frank

MARS_James 04-01-2017 17:20
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We’re still working on finalizing the drawing package that goes with the game. That likely won’t be ready for download before Friday, but we’ll let you know
As a member of a team who is hosting a kickoff I am patiently waiting till post kickoff to vent about something related to this.

bdaroz 04-01-2017 17:27
Re: [FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
 
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Originally Posted by AlexanderLuke (Post 1625129)
For those of you who are going to look at this thing (the manual) and want compare how many pages it has to last year's manual or manuals from other years, here is the rundown of more recent years:

2017 - 126 pages
2016 - 111 pages
2015 - 65 pages
Just to point out, it's not a 1:1 comparison... Supposedly some parts of the former (/mourn) admin manual are now in the game manual.

Hallry 04-01-2017 17:31
Re: [FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
 
Here's a direct link to the 2017 FRC Game and Season Manual (Encrypted): https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...asonManual.pdf

Here's where to find the encrypted KoP checklist: http://www.firstinspires.org/resourc...7-kit-of-parts

With a direct link to them here: https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n..._encrypted.zip

And here's the page where all 2017 FRC Game and Season Materials will be posted: http://www.firstinspires.org/resourc...nual-qa-system

Jon Stratis 04-01-2017 17:39
Re: [FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
 
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Originally Posted by AlexanderLuke (Post 1625129)
For those of you who are going to look at this thing (the manual) and want compare how many pages it has to last year's manual or manuals from other years, here is the rundown of more recent years:

2017 - 126 pages
2016 - 111 pages
2015 - 65 pages
Where did you get your numbers? I just downloaded the old manuals from http://www.firstinspires.org/resourc...-documentation and I get:

2016 - 114 (game) + 126 (admin) = 240 pages
2015 - 65 (game) + 59 (admin) = 124 pages
2014 - 111 (combined)
2013 - 94 (game) + 67 (admin) = 161 pages
2012 - 91 (game) + 73 (admin) = 164 pages

jlindquist74 04-01-2017 17:40
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Originally Posted by MARS_James (Post 1625127)
As a member of a team who is hosting a kickoff I am patiently waiting till post kickoff to vent about something related to this.
Why not encrypt your rant and post it now, then release the password during kickoff?

Bmarshall645 04-01-2017 17:49
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How are people downloading these files to their computer? I click the link but can't download it?

https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...asonManual.pdf

AlexanderLuke 04-01-2017 17:52
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I deleted my posts. I thought that what I had posted were the page numbers of what the page counts were in the encrypted manuals.

I seem to have been causing more confusion than good, so the posts have been removed. Sorry for the trouble.

Mark McLeod 04-01-2017 17:52
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Originally Posted by Bmarshall645 (Post 1625146)
How are people downloading these files to their computer? I click the link but can't download it?

https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...asonManual.pdf
Try right-click and choose Save Link As...

ABreyen 04-01-2017 17:55
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Just got Rick Rolled by FIRST... Won't say where... but its there xD xD xD

Bmarshall645 04-01-2017 17:56
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod (Post 1625148)
Try right-click and choose Save Link As...
I did. No matter what I save it as it gives me an error when I try to open it in adobe. The error says there was a problem reading the document.

Mark McLeod 04-01-2017 18:00
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I did. No matter what I save it as it gives me an error when I try to open it in adobe. The error says there was a problem reading the document.
Is it the same for the KOP zip file?
Try a different computer.

I get the password popup for both.

Mattb706 04-01-2017 18:03
Re: [FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
 
Wait so I can download the link but it still is telling me I need the code?

Bmarshall645 04-01-2017 18:05
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod (Post 1625156)
Is it the same for the KOP zip file?
Try a different computer.

I get the password popup for both.
KOP zip works fine and asks for the password when I open it.

Mark McLeod 04-01-2017 18:05
Re: [FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
 
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Originally Posted by Mattb706 (Post 1625158)
Wait so I can download the link but it still is telling me I need the code?
The password is released at the end of the Kickoff broadcast.


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