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Re: The FIRST Alliance - A whole new way to play

I like the "API first" objective. Having a standard API for all this data is a plus, and the website looks really clean. At the risk of making a judgment before you've laid out your vision and roadmap, I'm unsure what this brings to the table. TBA already has an API, and the results web pages on the FIRST site, while ugly, are stable and easy to scrape data from.

What we need is not more APIs or more apps, but more data.

If someone can come up with a stable API for the twitter data that works from year to year, or a means for teams to collaboratively upload their scouting data, then we'd have something exciting, perhaps even game-changing. But right now, it's just the same data over and over again.
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