28-03-2006, 13:34
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FIRST's Spare, Queuer & Tech guy =)
AKA: Mike M. / Mouse =)
no team (FRC Volunteer)
Team Role: Alumni
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: Staten Island, NYC
Posts: 1,504
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Re: Teams missing matches, something must be done
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Originally Posted by GaryV1188
The suggestion to help your alliance partners is a good one - but it doesn't solve the problem of those early Friday matches. The schedules aren't distributed far enough in advance - teams come to the field for the first several rounds without even having a strategy defined, much less knowing whether or not the partner's robot is functional. If qualifying match schedules could be passed out on Thursday afternoon, teams could begin to consult their alliance partners before pits close Thursday evening, offering help where needed.
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While this is a very good idea theres an issue with this and for years has not been resolved and personally I really think that its time FIRST asked HATCH to help come up with a way so that all the matches can be scheduled before the regional (HATCH = The software they use for IFI Comms, Scoring, Awards Listing Rankings etc.) Currently the problem is that you can only have one open match schedule at a time or so I have seen. Obviously practice schedules comes first. After thursdays matches have been run through then a qualifying schedule can be created. I mean maybe you can have 2 open schedules at a time but I doubt it.
And Instead of having the schedules ready by thursday afternoon how about having schedules when the regional comes to being one week away and have it mailed to the competing teams. How well would this work instead of cutting it short by half a day.
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at: FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at: Where is Wolcott Invitational 2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at: SBPLI Reg. & Championships Volunteer Resume: Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.
Last edited by mtaman02 : 28-03-2006 at 14:08.
Reason: Fixed some of the grammer errors
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