[BB] San Diego Disruption

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Mr. Van

While Jon may have received an email, I DID NOT until just a few minutes ago.

I agree with Ricksta - Bill's Blog is NOT an appropriate way to communicate official information to teams. Bill's Blog should be fine for passing on general insights into the "behind the scenes" in New Hampshire, but using it for official announcements is completely frustrating. Any official FIRST communication should come in the form of an email blast.

As for the San Diego Regional, as a registered team, I find the fact that the days of the week have changed to Friday through Sunday to be a bit more problematic than the change of the week.

- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

You still got the e-mail, and that less than an hour after Bill posted on the blog, didn't you? Complaining that it didn't arrive the second it was posted on Bill's Blog isn't going to get you anywhere... I've seen e-mails I've sent to people take well over an hour to arrive before, due to circumstances completely out of my control.

I think people need to chill a little here... FIRST is trying to use multiple avenues to communicate with teams - they aren't just throwing everything up on Bill's Blog. Something like this doesn't really deserve an e-mail blast to all FRC teams - there are around 2k teams, and this change affects what, maybe 50 of them? By posting about it on Bill's Blog AND e-mailing those teams directly affected, FIRST knows those teams signed up for the event are aware of the issue, and they get a broader audience to be aware of it in case other teams want to change their plans. It wouldn't surprise me if there were e-mail blasts sent out by state/region coordinators to all those in driving distance as well.

Thus far, I haven't seen anything important/directly relevant to my team posted in Bill's Blog that wasn't also included in an e-mail blast.