Registration 2015

[Kingland093]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

There are teams that just shoot themselves in the foot, you mean. For example, 2169 registered for Northern Lights today... that gives them a very low chance of getting into one of the Minneapolis events for second event registration, as Minneapolis fills (final capacity) before Duluth! If a veteran team from the cities waits until second event registration to register for the local regional, all bets are off.

Some teams (like 4215) are forbidden by their schools from attending regionals over Easter weekend so Duluth is our closest option. As for second regionals, probably Milwaukee would be the next closest

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Andromeda One

We are registered for Granite State for our first competition.

Great! We hope to get in to GSE for our 2nd choice -- it would be great to play with Andromeda One again -- it was a blast to get to know your team on last year's bus ride to/from St. Louis!

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Looking forward to Greater Pittsburgh. Looks like a very strong mix of teams.

I see Stellar Robotics signed up too! 9848 at the MVRC is now officially FRC 5413.

I'm really excited to see how these guys do after seeing them at MVRC. Definitely on our radar.

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by Karthik

All you web ninjas out there, does anyone want to whip up a quick reference page that pulls in the following data in a pretty table:

1. Regional Name {And link to registered teams}
2. Regional Location
3. Regional Dates
4. Number of Registered Teams
5. Number of Spots Available

FIRST used to have a page like this that made for a great quick reference for those of us who like to follow registration season. It hasn't been around for a while, but it seems like this would be easy enough to create by someone who has a little bit of time.

This looks like it would be an easy addition to the existing frclinks interface. Right now you can enter queries to frclinks that are shortcuts to certain pages on usfirst.org. For example (see URLs below), entering 1 will redirect to 2, which redirects to 3. Or you can enter 2, which redirects to 3. 3 is the team list for MNDU2 (Northern Lights Regional).

1. http://frclinks.frclinks.com/e/mndu2

2. http://frclinks.frclinks.com/usfirst.org?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.usfirst.org%2Fmyarea%2Findex.lasso%3Fpage%3Dteamlist%26event_type%3DFRC%26sort_teams%3Dnumber%26year%3D2015%26event%3Dmndu2

3. https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort_teams=number&year=2015&event=mndu2

For some reason, loading 3 directly always returns a blank page (literally a single newline). This has something to do with usfirst.org manages its sessions, but the frclinks redirect somehow takes care of this.

So we should be able to put any valid usfirst.org/.../index.lasso query in the url field of frclinks above. Right now frclinks has the shortcuts for team lists (/e/), awards (/e/a/), schedules (/e/s/), rankings (/e/r/), etc. but not for the details page (not sure why).

EDIT: So apparently what I did the first time worked because of the session I already had active... I still don't fully understand how usfirst.org sends data, but it appears that what I posted doesn't work. The event details query does not respond to event code, but rather to event id (eid) which I had to scrape from the event listing HTML. Also, you have to have an active session before making the request, or it says the event id is invalid. Anyone have a better idea how this all works?

But we can get this ourselves by using the stub

http://frclinks.frclinks.com/usfirst.org?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.usfirst.org%2Fmyarea%2Findex.lasso%3Fpage%3Devent_details%26event%3D

and putting our desired event code at the end (for example MNDU2) which will give the event details page for that event (including working links to the team list, awards, etc. pages).

So if you're curious about a particular events capacity, you can run that single http request instead of navigating through usfirst.org. Perhaps frclinks can add this as a shortcut option (such as /e/d/).

Perhaps I will build a site that queries all events and shows all the capacities in one table.

[Mark McLeod]

As of 8:30am ET
Teams Registered:

MI = 158
MAR = 97
PNW = 110
NE = 138
IN = 46
Regionals = 1203

1748 teams total

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

772 teams registered within the first 3 minutes (4.3 teams per second)
838 at 4 minutes (66 teams per minute-just for this time period)
887 at 5 minutes (49 teams per minute)
926 at 6 minutes (39 teams/min)
946 at 7 minutes (20 teams/min)
972 at 8 minutes (26 teams/min)
1007 at 10 minutes (17.5 teams/min)
1067 at 15 minutes (12 teams/min)
1109 at 20 minutes (8.4 teams/min)
1180 at 30 minutes (7.1 teams/min)
1300 at 60 minutes (4 teams/min)
1397 at 90 minutes (3.2 teams/min)
1443 at 2 hours (1.5 teams/min)
1482 at 2.5 hours (1.3 teams/min)
1513 at 3 hours (1 team/min)
1563 at 4 hours (<1 team/min)
1604 at 5 hours
1700 at 9 hours 42 minutes

It must be so slow because people are actually reading the legal pages...

P.S. 1st Rookie number is 5400

Forgive my ignorance on this, but how are you pulling all this data?
Do you have the ability to see who the very first team to register was?

[Lil' Lavery]

Kudos to 4573 for being the lone team registered for the North Brunswick district event.

[Mark McLeod]

There is one District event in each of the district systems, except for Indiana, that has only a single team registered so far.

• FiM Lansing
• MAR North Brunswick
• NE UMass-Dartmouth
• PNW Philomath Peak

For total teams I'm just using the old team list page that gives the total teams assigned to an event, rather than the newer page that lists all the team hopefuls.

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

For total teams I'm just using the old team list page that gives the total teams assigned to an event, rather than the newer page that lists all the team hopefuls.

Can you provide the link to this page? Thanks.

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

There is one District event in each of the district systems that has only a single team registered so far.

• FiM Lansing
• MAR North Brunswick
• NE UMass-Dartmouth
• PNW Philomath Peak

For total teams I'm just using the old team list page that gives the total teams assigned to an event, rather than the newer page that lists all the team hopefuls.

Don't forget about us in Indiana! We're at 24, 11, and 12 for our district events.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

Can you provide the link to this page? Thanks.

Yes and no.

The link doesn't work directly unless you've established a session with the FIRST server. The session actually lasts forever after you've established it.
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso probably returns a blank screen for you.

I'm trying to find an easy (though odd) way that anyone can use.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

Don't forget about us in Indiana! We're at 24, 11, and 12 for our district events.

Indiana doesn't have an event with only a single team registered.
That's why it doesn't fit that list.

I'll change the phrasing a little.

[The_ShamWOW88]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Yes and no.

The link doesn't work directly unless you've established a session with the FIRST server. The session actually lasts forever after you've established it.
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso probably returns a blank screen for you.

I'm trying to find an easy (though odd) way that anyone can use.

Yes, it occasionally pops up for me when I open the events page on usfirst.org but not always.

[Mark McLeod]

Here's one way that seems to work consistently.

1. Go to the Regional & District Events webpage: http://www3.usfirst.org/roboticsprog...egional-events
2. Leave the page alone for a good while to let the page session expire.
3. Refresh the page and you should see it switch to the old style page.
4. Optional, some browsers let you open just that part in it's own tab or window.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

As of 8:30am ET
Teams Registered:

MI = 158
MAR = 97
PNW = 110
NE = 138
IN = 46
Regionals = 1203

1748 teams total

That's only the Michigan teams that opted into their home event, correct? Because you'd have no way to tell if a team registered but opted out?