[Andrew Schreiber]

Here is the python script for the ranking of the teams. It SHOULD work for all of the regionals for which the event page has data.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
#The above MUST be the first line in order to be able to execute on *nix systems. 
#To exec this you must have permission to do so
#chmod +x [name]

import re
import urllib2
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
	sys.exit("Must provide event code")

event_code = sys.argv[1]

def removeHTML(string):
	string = re.sub("<.*?>","",string)
	string = re.sub("</.*>\\n","",string)
	string = re.sub("\\n","",string)
	return string
try:
	url_buffer = urllib2.urlopen('http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/events/'+event_code+'/rankings.html')
	page_data = url_buffer.read()


	#	sys.exit("This is not a valid event code. If you believe this to be invalid please report a bug.")

	page_list = list(re.findall("(<TD .*?>[0-9].*</TD>\\n)",page_data))

	if len(page_list) == 0: #This is the case with the oddly formatted pages
		#We strip out the stuff that is mucking us up
		page_data = re.sub("<p.*\\n.*style.*?>","",page_data);
		page_data = re.sub("<o:p.*/p>","",page_data);
		#and parse again
		page_list = list(re.findall("<td .*?>\\n.*\\n.*</td>",page_data))
		if len(page_list) == 0:#if it is still 0 there is something else wrong and we need to report a bug
			sys.exit("This is not a valid event code. If you believe this to be invalid please report a bug.")

	print "<Event>"
	for i in range(0,len(page_list)/9):
		print "\t<Ranking>"
		print "\t\t<Rank>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i])+"</Rank>"
		print "\t\t<Team_Number>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+1])+"</Team_Number>"
		print "\t\t<Wins>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+2])+"</Wins>"
		print "\t\t<Losses>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+3])+"</Losses>"
		print "\t\t<Ties>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+4])+"</Ties>"
		print "\t\t<Plays>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+5])+"</Plays>"
		print "\t\t<QS>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+6])+"</QS>"
		print "\t\t<RS>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+7])+"</RS>"
		print "\t\t<MP>"+removeHTML(page_list[9*i+8])+"</MP>"
		print "\t</Ranking>"
	print "</Event>"
except:
	sys.exit("This is not a valid event code. If you believe this to be invalid please report a bug.")

Attached is the output of this script when run with glr as an option. (Really Brandon, no XML format allowed?)

I make no claims as to the efficiency, this is my first foray into Python.