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[SuburBot]

Hello TBA Crew,

Thank you for fixing the compatibility issue with Internet Explorer. It gets a lot of hate, but it is a major browser, so I appreciate it.

I wanted to comment that since there are a few discrepancies in team info from the dotorg and the new dotcom site, could you please include a new badge-creation system based on new site date on the dotcom site? It's a very helpful feature.

Also, other people are mentioning the lack of certain events, but I'm not sure if anyone else is missing their team's first year. My team first participated in 2007, but 2007 isn't a year listed under it. Is there maybe a problem with posting rookie years? It is listed, with match results and videos, on the old site.

Thanks again for the fix.

[Nathan Streeter]

Would it be possible to have the opportunity for viewers/users to link to a youtube file or upload a video for matches? It seems like a growing number of teams are taking their own video of competition matches... rather than having these videos scattered across youtube, it'd be really nice to have them linked from The Blue Alliance! :-)

I have video of the elimination matches from the Nashua Week Zero scrimmage from last weekend... could there be a tournament page for it? I don't have a qualification match schedule or results; however, I do have the results from the elimination matches! Would it be possible to put this info up on The Blue Alliance?

[BJT]

I noticed that when an alliance wins an elimination in two matches, the third unplayed match is showing up as a tie.

[Eagleeyedan]

It works for me but I can't find any videos. I wanted to watch our matches because I didn't get to see any but there are none that I can find. I just says "no video availible"

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

It works for me but I can't find any videos. I wanted to watch our matches because I didn't get to see any but there are none that I can find. I just says "no video availible"

What regional? The videos are recorded by members/mentors of FIRST, not FIRST directly nor TheBlueAlliance. We rely on the people who take their time to sit and parse the video then upload online. If someone did not record the video unfortunately there will not be video available. There are a few regionals that should be showing up in the next few days as people have gotten time to parse them, but we are talking about potentially HOURS of time to do so.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

What regional? The videos are recorded by members/mentors of FIRST, not FIRST directly nor TheBlueAlliance. We rely on the people who take their time to sit and parse the video then upload online. If someone did not record the video unfortunately there will not be video available. There are a few regionals that should be showing up in the next few days as people have gotten time to parse them, but we are talking about potentially HOURS of time to do so.

Milwaukee. I thought they used their own camera because the videos I've seen before are all from the same angle but I am probably wrong.

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

Milwaukee. I thought they used their own camera because the videos I've seen before are all from the same angle but I am probably wrong.

I'm fairly certain that the video on The Blue Alliance from the Wisconsin regional for the past few years has been recorded by Kevin Kolodziej of team 1675.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

I'm fairly certain that the video on The Blue Alliance from the Wisconsin regional for the past few years has been recorded by Kevin Kolodziej of team 1675.

Yeah, he does do a lot.

[Alex2614]

I really miss the direct search to a team's TBA page. Now when one searches a number, they have a bunch of choices to pick from, none of them are from 2011. So, for example, to find my team's records from last week, I have to:

a) search "2614"
b) click on "2614 2010" (or something of the like)
c) once I'm there, click on "2011."


-Point is, I'd really like to go back to where we can search directly for a team number. While the embedded Google search is nice, there needs to be another search bar that links directly to the teams' pages. The list of teams on the homepage is not a replacement. It is kind of a pain to scroll all the way down every time one wants to search for a team.

Just some suggestions. Other than those, the site is great! I don't mean to complain, just a little constructive criticism

[Vikesrock]

Alex, you can browse directly to a teams 2011 page using the following url structure:

http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/XXXX

Where the X's are the team number. No leading 0's should be used.

Examples:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/16
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/111
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1114

[demosthenes2k8]

I agree, I use that url structure with Chrome's search thingy, so I can just type "tba 2614" to find your team.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Alex, you can browse directly to a teams 2011 page using the following url structure:

http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/XXXX

Where the X's are the team number. No leading 0's should be used.

Examples:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/16
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/111
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1114

Yeah, I've been doing that. I just figured it might be a bit more intuitive to have a search bar...

[Eagleeyedan]

How do you link your signature to TBA? I've seen lots of people who do but how?

[demosthenes2k8]

Those are on the old thebluealliance.net...someone should make a page for making them on the new site

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

Yeah, he does do a lot.

A little less (well, maybe just different) this year. Dave G. from 269 recorded and uploaded the video from 2010. I know he recorded and parsed for this year as well...not sure why its not up on the site yet. I'll check with him on that.