You know whats kinda funny about all this, FTA and the Scoring table can talk live w/ other fields operating that week to ask for help in general. While the FTA don't touch the score table during competition, I'm fairly certain they are trained how to operate the software since they have to sit and make sure the matches generated are correct.
I know our FTA guy sat there w/ a book, laptop and something to pull his hair out. Although unlike my many other FTA friends he actually was running numbers down to the decimal to make sure all was right
. They were working real hard on thursday to get er done and even help up a match or 2 in the process. I don't see why they can't just calculate the schedule and have it run in the back round that way it doesn't delay the match.... anyways
LI's pairing algorithm wasn't too bad... may have a couple of repeats but wasn't noticeable at all. Seemed fairly random in LI.
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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.