FRC Blog - 2014 Championship Pros & Cons

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by ElvisMom

I used https://frcmega.com/ to accomplish most of this and recommend to our friends and families who aren't able to visit for real-time text reminders of upcoming matches and results. For our team we used frcmega to hook into our twitter and facebook to post real-time results. (And awesome customer service even for little things that were of my own doing!)

Taking some of these home-grown services- frcmega, at the control, tba gameday -- to the next level would have impact!

Adam says that "only FIRST could do this" because whether or not something like this is first party and/or directly accessible through usfirst.org (which it probably should be) FIRST's inability (at least I hope it's an inability and not willful hostage taking of a valuable resource) to release stable tables to scrape the data from, much less a stable API for this kind of information.

No discredit to services like TBA or Mega, but in an ideal world these basic notification and archiving services should not have to exist on the fringe of the organization, but should instead be a basic service accessed through or actively partnering with usfirst.org.