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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
Close but not quite. It is my understanding that George Marchant writes the custom application for the FTC scoring software. His application does make use the match scheduling algorithm of Idle Loop Software Design but nothing else.
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Thank you for the clarification. I just assumed that the FTC scoring software was made by Idle Loop Software Design because I see the copyright
notice anywhere (look all the way at the bottom) I see a score result webpage for both FTC and FRC.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
I believe that some event organizers piloted a new feature of this FTC scoring software that made the match results or rolling rankings available as an RSS type feed. Teams could 'tap' into the feed via their laptop or Smartphone and get real-time results at the event.
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You are right. In the qualifiers and championship tournament I have been, there was a Wi-Fi network that mobile devices in the venue could connect to access scores real-time. A good step in making scoring data more accessible to people in an event.