**FIRST EMAIL**/Initial Event Registration Opens Today/Season Calendar/2012 Registrat

[Mark McLeod]

**FIRST EMAIL**/Initial Event Registration Opens Today/Season Calendar/2012 Registration Pricing/Bag & Tag Events/MAR/Senior Mentor Call


Greetings Teams:

Note: As we are gearing up for the 2012 season, it is very important to read each email blast carefully as they cover important reminders, updates, news, etc. Email blasts are sent to each team’s Main and Alternate Contact and to mentors who opted into email blasts while registering in TIMS. It is very likely no one else on your team is receiving these messages. Please share this and future email blasts with your teams accordingly. Thank you!

Initial Event Registration Opens today, September 29th @ 12 noon EST: Register for your initial Competition Event in TIMS beginning 9/29 @ 12 noon EST: https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso.

**Your team will be unable to register for an event until you complete the entire pre-registration process which includes updating and/or verifying all information in the Team Profile section of your Team Summary page in TIMS.

Season Calendar and Important Deadlines for 2011-2012: http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/...nt.aspx?id=454.

2012 Registration Pricing Structure and Payment Terms: http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/...nt.aspx?id=460.

2012 Regional Events: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events.

Bag & Tag Events: This year ALL FRC Qualifying and Regional Events will be Bag & Tag. For more information, please visit Bill’s Blog: http://tinyurl.com/6lxmbud.

Mid-Atlantic Robotics Region: New Jersey, Delaware and the eastern half of Pennsylvania have joined forces to create the Mid-Atlantic Robotics Region (MAR) and will be holding Qualifying Events leading up to a Region Championship, similar to the Michigan district pilot. You may find more information on (MAR) here: http://tinyurl.com/6lxmbud.

Senior Mentor Call: Join Senior Mentor; Fredi Lajvardi for the Senior Mentor call "Tips and Best Practices from Teams, for Teams". The call will be taking place on Wednesday, October 5th at 7 pm EST. You may find details and an outline of the call here: http://tinyurl.com/3h94c24.

Go Teams!

[Jimmy Nichols]

Of course TIMS is down now!

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Of course TIMS is down now!

Seems like it's going in and out for people. I'm chatting with ~4 people trying to register right now and some are in TIMS while others can't even get the FIRST site to load. Weird.

[Stillen]

not down.... most likley being abused, possibly even crashed....... Oh well..... everyone is pressing "f5" which is making it worse. .... Im just sitting here patiently sipping a coffee until all the excitement wears off...... This is like waiting in line for a cabbage patch kid back in 1981....

[Mr. Van]

Don't panic. The site is just slow, and "not responding" periodically.

Have patience.

I did manage to register for our first regional - looking forward to seeing everyone in San Diego once again!

- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

[Mark McLeod]

FIRST always reaches the maximum connections during the first half hour to an hour after an opening.

There really isn't that much of a rush for this initial registration except for a couple of oversubscribed events.

[Trying to Help]

I just chatted with FIRST and they said that the site is up and IT is working on it. While on the phone I was able to register for GSR so at least a minute or two, there were spots available.

Trying to Help

[Karthik]

1114 is registered for GTR East. Looking forward to an amazing regional in a brand new venue!

[Michael Blake]

Yee-ha... 3481 got our ticket to Alamo Regional... come on down... you hear?! ;-)

[Ken Streeter]

Team 1519, Mechanical Mayhem, will be attending the Week 1 Granite State Regional again.

Registration stats for the Granite State Regional (which has a 40 team pre-registration capacity and is perennially oversubscribed) are below:

• 12:20 EST: 16 teams are registered, 24 spots still available
• 12:25 EST: 19 teams are registered, 21 spots still available
• 12:30 EST: 22 teams are registered, 18 spots still available
• 12:35 EST: 27 teams are registered, 13 spots still available
• 12:40 EST: 30 teams are registered, 10 spots still available
• 12:45 EST: 34 teams are registered, 6 spots still available
• 12:50 EST: 39 teams are registered, 1 spot still available
• 12:53 EST: 40 teams are registered, now waitlist only (looks like 157 was the last team to get in before the wait list!)

I should note that typically about 8 spots are held for rookies and waitlist teams. Generally only a few rookies attend GSR, so quite a few teams will be let in from the wait list. In 2010, we registered too late for the initial pre-registration, but did get entered into the tournament when the wait list was processed in December.

[becki1111]

Originally Posted by Karthik

1114 is registered for GTR East. Looking forward to an amazing regional in a brand new venue!

Contact Us page is down, too. Can you please post the FIRST phone number?

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

FIRST always reaches the maximum connections during the first half hour to an hour after an opening.

There really isn't that much of a rush for this initial registration except for a couple of oversubscribed events.

Some of us want to go to BAE

[Mark McLeod]

I just wanted to go to a baby shower, but that's not happening now

P.S.
Congrats on getting into BAE

[jwfoss]

With 3 mentors trying FRC2168 is officially registered for NYC.