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So is the assertion that expecting a professional to function before 10a is preposterous.
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These teams were ready to submit... it was not a matter of needing extra time to finish the submissions.... this ball was dropped by FIRST.... |
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IF the system had STAYED crashed through Noon Eastern time and never came back up before the deadline passed, THEN I would call foul by FIRST. |
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I asked another of our mentors to set aside more of her time to check on the system and submit it the following morning after I spent more than an hour trying to do the same the evening before. It's not unreasonable to ask that the system work reliably, especially near the end of submission window and the fact remains that FIRST (yet again) doesn't seem to value the time I spend trying to work around and accommodate their failures. |
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I believe this was the case for our team. We attempted to submit with 20 minutes remaining and the website wasn't accepting it. We e-mailed FIRST the entry and hope to hear a reply soon. Technically we were done prior to the deadline and the website didn't accept our entry.
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According to this thread, the site was back up as of 8:36 AM Eastern time. |
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Is that reasonable? |
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We tried around 10:40 AM CST. I just found out that FIRST also did not accept our appeal. It would be one thing if we were past the deadline to submit the entry, but technically it was before noon EST and the failure was on their end. I guess next year we'll make sure not to include some of the build season successes of our students and submit much earlier. Thanks FIRST!
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The problem is that FIRST should have explained that, OR if they did, I didnt see it. Perhaps teams would have planned to have submitted early for the just in case scenarios. When we submitted early, we thought it was final. Instead, the system actually allowed us to make changes even after clicking the submit button. |
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We'd just like FIRST to do as your Custom User Title suggests: Build bridges not walls.
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I cant believe its not being rectified. |
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