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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
It's good you got it in when you did Madison... it was a 9:00 am deadline. 
(for us west coast types at least)
I did write to FIRST and ask them to consider an extension for teams on the west coast that tried for a long time last night to get in and could not...
I had already gotten ours in this morning...so this was not for our team...
Here was the response from them:
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We understand that last night’s technical issue negatively impacted teams, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience. We thank you for sharing your feedback about this, but we will not be considering a deadline extension as the Dean’s List Award was open for submissions from November 14th-February 20th.
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interesting and not what I expected... but I understand their point....
If I did not extend a deadline in my classroom after I was the one that had problems accepting an assignment on the last day that the assignment was due...... I would have major problems.... |
I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation that FIRST's systems would function as intended -- particularly near the deadline. It's a little silly for them to pass the blame onto others (You could've done this when it wasn't broken!) rather than admit culpability and atone for it.
I knew it was a 9AM deadline; I usually don't get up until after 9 because I'm both lazy and lucky that my employer is awesome. Expecting me to function before 10 is a bad idea.
I happened to wake up earlier today because build season wiped me out and I fell asleep at 7 last night.