Did you miss the submission date? Then this is for you...

[Iron Lancers]

Yea sorry in order to keep our forums safe and secure and PG13 we don't open it to the general public. You will have to sign up on our forums to post on our contest. It helps to cut down on outside spam as well.

Our contest and the submissions that are submitted have nothing to do with the actual FIRST Robotics Website Award.

You should still sign up cause its going to be epic!


Alex: In order to answer your question, yes we will be taking submissions made on chiefdelphi.com. Just be sure to check back at our forums to see the other teams that have submitted and to scope out the competition. So you guys are in and great job on the site we are glad to have you all as a part of this competition!

[Iron Lancers]

Alex to answer your question, Yes we will be taking submissions made on ChiefDelphi.com. Just be sure to check back on our forums to see which other teams have submitted their sites.

[pfreivald]

Who would be dumb enough to screw up "am" and "pm" for two months straight when...

...oh, right, us.

www.team1551.org

[Iron Lancers]

Is there a theme going on here? Or am I just seeing double? Oh wait could it be 2 Bausch & Lomb teams! I told you it would be epic didn't I?! Alrighty Naples your in there, good luck!

[pfreivald]

Three B+L teams, if rumor proves true...

Not good. Not good at all!

[Iron Lancers]

We can win competitions, bring home Chairman Awards but we can get the difference between AM & PM! LOL, No worries Team 340 your exempt from that statement.

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by Iron Lancers

We can win competitions, bring home Chairman Awards but we can get the difference between AM & PM! LOL, No worries Team 340 your exempt from that statement.

I feel so bad for you guys. On a positive note (if there is one) you can still submit the same website next year?

We did manage to ge our stuff in on time. Looks like you will just have to win the regional!

[ATannahill]

I believe that the deadline was poorly announced. It was pointed out in the awards forum. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...light=deadline

I believe that waiting until the last twelve hours to submit is a bad idea. The website URL can be entered at anytime, they don't lock the website to the version that is available when you click the button.

The Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers are very important and it would be sad to miss out because of high traffic at deadline, whether noon or midnight. Those are best submitted at least a day before.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I believe that the deadline was poorly announced. It was pointed out in the awards forum. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...light=deadline

I think the deadline was sufficiently announced, and just to be sure FIRST sent an e-mail blast to Teams and registered mentors on Feb 15th highlighting the new times in yellow. We are just so used to things not changing from year to year, that we have a tendency to overlook the details when changes are made.

That said - Hey Iron Lancers! I think this is a great idea and I love your award banner! We got our website submitted on time, but I look forward to hearing the announcement of your website winner (is that then the biggest loser?)!

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Cynette

I think the deadline was sufficiently announced, and just to be sure FIRST sent an e-mail blast to Teams and registered mentors on Feb 15th highlighting the new times in yellow.

It was indeed sufficiently announced -- this was a mistake on the part of teams, not at all on the part of FIRST.

Indeed, the word NOON shows up in bold at least once, and everything is clearly and consistently marked AM.

We're just dumber than we think we are sometimes.

[Iron Lancers]

Thank you all for your support and your comments regarding this issue. FIRST in no way was getting blamed for this mistake. I think every one just got caught up in the actual building of the robot, the creating of the website and all the work and effort that it takes to participate in these major awards that minor details such as the time was over looked. Not so minor of a mistake however! LOL

Hope to see more great websites coming through to this competition. So if you missed the deadline don't miss out on your chance to shine. There are still a great deal of people that would still very much like to see your sites and all the hard work you all put into them. So keep submitting!

And yes some times the biggest losers make the biggest winners!!!

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

The Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers are very important and it would be sad to miss out because of high traffic at deadline, whether noon or midnight. Those are best submitted at least a day before.

We'll do that the same day we ship our robot a day early.

(actually, we're shipping the robot today...)

[BrendanB]

If students were supposed to submit stuff, how are the going to do it at school? I understand getting it in early but we all aren't perfect.

Thankfully one of our students was able to get it in.

[Iron Lancers]

I questioned that as well. I guess the idea was to get it in at least the night before and if possible days before. But like you said not every is perfect...

[pfreivald]

We should have been done a week previous... A learning experience, to be sure!