TIMS Down - 2/19/14

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Originally Posted by Bob Steele

It's good you got it in when you did Madison... it was a 9:00 am deadline.
(for us west coast types at least)

I did write to FIRST and ask them to consider an extension for teams on the west coast that tried for a long time last night to get in and could not...
I had already gotten ours in this morning...so this was not for our team...

Here was the response from them:
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We understand that last night’s technical issue negatively impacted teams, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience. We thank you for sharing your feedback about this, but we will not be considering a deadline extension as the Dean’s List Award was open for submissions from November 14th-February 20th.

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interesting and not what I expected... but I understand their point....
If I did not extend a deadline in my classroom after I was the one that had problems accepting an assignment on the last day that the assignment was due...... I would have major problems....

Sorry, but this is totally unacceptable and completely unprofessional. This sort of response makes the organization look like it is being run by a bunch of clowns. I am extremely angry about how FIRST handled this situation. Imagine if they told teams "Sorry, but only robots bagged before week six may compete, you had from the beginning of build to make robots, and those who did not submit early can't submit at all." It would not work out.

FIRST was unable to run their website, which can be an understandable problem, but was just too darn lazy to address the problem.