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W00T! 1675 and the new Thomas More Robotics team (not sure of the number yet!) are both in for Milwaukee....and it only took 3 hours or so =)

Good luck to the rest of you...happy registering!

Kev

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Everyone needs to go through pre-registration before signing up for a regional. I am posting this message that I sent out to all "my" teams and was in another thread from yesterday.

Once again, thanks to so many of you who have logged on to the TIMS (Team Information Management System) and pre-registered or tried to pre-register. As many of you have experienced, there are some growing pains with the transition to the new TIMS and translating some of the data.
When you are on the TIMS home page, read the "click here for a description of the registration process". The worksheets will help you collect all the information needed to get through the process.

There are some common issues that are occurring.

Do not press the "Back" button! This may corrupt your data. Instead use the "Back to Team Summary Page" link on the page.
If you are an existing team, do not log on as a new team and enter the information. If you have done this, you need to contact FIRST.
If you are an existing team, but a new main team contact and you do not access to the email of the previous main contact for the team, you need to contact FIRST.
If you have entered a phone number or email correctly, and you continue to receive a red error message at the top of the screen, you need to contact FIRST.
frcteams@usfirst.org or 1-800-871-8326 for team support

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As of right now i see 114 teams registered for an event, showing 4 regionals + the israel regional having no teams registered.

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It's up to 133 teams registered (including 10 rookies) and still climbing.

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I apparently have the magic touch. After trying for some time to register, my mom finally handed registration duties over to me. I promptly got the "Service unavailable" error, then registered a few minutes later after the server came back up. Presumably with everyone booted off. Perhaps the solution is a timer that resets the FIRST server every 15-20 minutes to clear out all the users. Or maybe just some code to limit the number of users allowed to connect at any particular time.

EDIT: We're in at GLR, by the by. Lone Star fills up much slower than other regionals, so we register for our out of state regional first.

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Rookie team 1712 aka Dawgma in Ardmore, PA will be attending Philly.
There are six teachers, a handful of administrators, and a bunch of excited students in the Lower Merion School District this evening.

Wow. Thanks to all of my FIRST friends who helped make this happen. You know who you are :)

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1390 and 1604 are now both in the Florida regional! No waiting lists this year!

Man, 4.5 hours just whizzes by when you're havin' fun. ;)

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Anyone else see team 2006175, from Moore, SC USA registered for VCU? :ahh:

Wetzel

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Started at 11:55, finally registered at 6:10 for Hartford. What a day........

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No, but there's a similarly numbered team registered for GLR. I suspect these are temporary team numbers assigned until a team has paid and stuff. So standard team numbers aren't wasted if a team registers but can't pay.

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Glad to see you have a Team number.

I am sure we will be hearing about great things from 1712 in the very near future!!

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As always, Team 341 has registered for Philly as our first event. This will be followed by Chesapeake and Nationals. We can't wait to PLAY!!!

Al Ostrow
Team 341

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First hasn't post this information yet but if you want to see what other teams are attending your regional

Copy this URL
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...t=MA&year=2006

And where it says "event=" put the state abbreviation where the regional is located.

For example

This is for Boston Regional
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...t=MA&year=2006

This is for the CT regional
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...t=CT&year=2006

This is for the NH regional
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...t=NH&year=2006

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Rookie #1720 is excitedly attending Boilermaker this year!

#1720 is Ball State University and Muncie/Delaware County schools from here in east central Indiana. Targeted high schools are Burris, Muncie Central, Muncie Southside, Muncie Career Center, Delta, Cowan, Daleville, Wapahani, Wes-Del, The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, and local homeschooled students.

You can check out our website at http://www.muncierobotics.org. We are excited to be competing in FIRST!

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Or just go to http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/res_art2.htm and click on "View the list of 2006 competitions here" link at the bottom right. It brings up the standard list of regionals showing the number of teams signed up as well as team lists for each event.

BTW, 111 is signed up for Milwaukee... looking forward to seeing some of you there!