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The judging system does not arrange team websites in order by team number. It seems to be more or less random as far as team number goes; it is possible that it is ordered by the date at which the team websites were entered on firstawards.org.

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Well, i sure hope our website has not already been judged. I just recently uploaded some crucial data :)

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haha. I suppose I ought to stop while I'm slightly behind before I dig a hole to china and end up banned. Sorry about that, I personaly thought it was somewhat humerous.

Something usefull (sort of) then:

Anyone know if this host has visited your site recently?
Correct me if I am wrong, but that is very close to FIRST Headquarters, and could (possibly?) be a judge? Or is it just some normal person checking out our site (visited nearly all the pages over a period of about 25 minutes). We typically don't get visitors from that area... usually just locals looking into us from our recent writing (today - heh) about in our local newspaper.

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Wow! Almost same address but this one is from Orlando . .

dialup-4.235.132.XX.dial1.orlando1.level3.net

Hmm it is really suspicious if it could be one of the judges.

-WJS

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Thanks for the conformation! Wow. If this is really what I am seeing it as, I have become sad, and happy at the same time. Our site finally got judged (not like I was looking forward to it or anything :p) but I was just about to introduce a really cool competition to our site (I'll post a topic when its running).

Can anyone else confirm that you have been visited by this host?

The thing that really strikes me as odd though, is that its a dial up account (apparently). Browsing our photo gallery on a 56k line is absoluteley horrible (which they did do, somehow) so perhaps that is just an error in the lookup.

For any webmasters wanting to know how to lookup the IP addresses to see where any visitor is from, I reccomend the AntiOnline IP locator. It is reliable, and has a map to plot where the user is most likeley browsing from. Rather creepy actually, it can see where you are too (unless you are using a proxy server or just live a distance from your ISP).

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I think it is a bit off..

(You) at xxx) are located in Chantilly, Virginia, United States.

Umm.. no. Weird.

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How many hits are we supposed to get? By the way, check out our web site www.railerobotics.com

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Hah... Ironically I live next to Chantilly, VA, but it gives my location as Atlanta, Georgia.


Anyway, missed the deadline :(. I was trying to share the duties of programmer/webmaster- doesn't work too well when one spends 2 hours in transportation daily, plus had to wait awhile for SSH access.

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well, unfortunately i dont think our team's website will get good marks at all. I Updated it far too late for them to not have already judged it. Makes me sad really... :(

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You might also want to check the referer information. For instance, I saw the following on our site logs tonight:

The same IP hit pretty much every part of our site.

There were a few other hits coming from a "firstawards.org" referer. I'm guessing that those are the judges. All of the IPs that came from that referer were in the vicinity of Annapolis and Washington, DC, so your judge hits will probably come from IPs near where your competition is. Which makes sense, because that's where the judges live.

(And if any judge is reading this, they might be interested to know that I just updated the Game and Robot pages. :))

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I think they are on purposely using dial-up, to see how your website will apear for the majority of the users (including me). One key point in website design is to make sure everyone can see it and enjoy it.

BTW, it seems that I have been visited twice: