Registration 2015

[jwfoss]

For just the team list, going through FRClinks seems to work out, try this: Team List

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Basel A

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?

I believe you are correct. Right now only the close-to-home opt-in teams seem to be listed.

Correlating with the 1st Event Registration – How Boring Was That? FRC Blog post, it appears that at midnight ~70 to 75 teams were waitlisted.
Some of these must have been due to MI teams opting out of the home event, but there were also 10 full events that were accumulating waitlists by that time.

[PayneTrain]

I gotta say, nearly 24 hours after registration opened, FIRST really rocked it. No issues with getting registered so far. As someone who characterized HQ's web presence as something

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

probably controlled by 3 interns peddling a bicycle in the basement to generate enough electricity to run whatever toaster they put their content on

I was super impressed and I'm looking forward to second/unrestricted registration and FIRST Choice now instead of dreading it.

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I gotta say, nearly 24 hours after registration opened, FIRST really rocked it. No issues with getting registered so far. As someone who characterized HQ's web presence as something

I was super impressed and I'm looking forward to second/unrestricted registration and FIRST Choice now instead of dreading it.

I'm very pleased with how event registration went, but I'm still a tad skeptical about FIRST Choice....I'd hope HQ and AndyMark are planning on running a series of test runs before the madness ensues.

[JB987]

Now, if we could just have the same level of success with booking hotels through the as yet to be identified booking agency for FIRST this year on the first day(which also has not been identified yet)...

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

I'm very pleased with how event registration went, but I'm still a tad skeptical about FIRST Choice....I'd hope HQ and AndyMark are planning on running a series of test runs before the madness ensues.

In the end 1st choice worked pretty well. I expect issues with it helped to make this years registration better. I don't think anybody wants a repeat of last years debacle.

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

...

In case anyone's still curious about this...

The query expressions appended to index.lasso only work if you have an active session with the server and if you send the http request with the appropriate headers. These headers should include both a cookie with your session ID, as well as the headers:

host: my.usfirst.org
referer: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?event_type=FRC&year=2015

or some variation of these (I didn't rigorously test for what is required, I just mimicked the headers in Chrome's logs until it worked).

Then you can send a request to:

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=event_details&eid=[Event ID]

with your Event ID. Or you can request any other data. A list of Event IDs that I scraped from the event listing can be found at:
https://netfiles.umn.edu/users/siekm...Cdata/eids.csv

I wrote a python script that scrapes all the event details and builds a table in html. For example, this was scraped at ~11:00am EST on Friday, 9/26:
https://netfiles.umn.edu/users/siekm...ata/table.html

If I can find access to a webserver, I could put up a page that updates this table a few times every hour. However, processing 100+ separate https requests takes nearly a minute, so it's obviously a better idea for usfirst.org to aggregate this data for us and make it available with a single request...

[Pat Fairbank]

Yes, the event pages now require a Referer header that contains the string "usfirst.org", otherwise they show up blank.

FRCLinks gets around this by adding an intermediate redirect to another frclinks.com URL that happens to contain "usfirst.org".

If you're getting data programmatically instead of in the browser, it's pretty easy to get around this. E.g:

curl -H "Referer: usfirst.org" "https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort_teams=number&year=2015&event=casj"

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Yes, the event pages now require a Referer header that contains the string "usfirst.org", otherwise they show up blank.

FRCLinks gets around this by adding an intermediate redirect to another frclinks.com URL that happens to contain "usfirst.org".

If you're getting data programmatically instead of in the browser, it's pretty easy to get around this. E.g:

curl -H "Referer: usfirst.org" "https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort_teams=number&year=2015&event=casj"

It appears even with the Referer header, the event_details page always reads eid as invalid, until a different page (such as another frclinks request or a request directly to my.usfirst.org) establishes a cookie. This cookie also needs to be supplied to the event_details page, while it's not needed for other requests.

[thatprogrammer]

4592 is registered for South Florida!

[Mark McLeod]

Northern Lights has reached initial capacity.

1800 teams showing just before 1pm ET.

97 rookies have signed up for an event.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Yes, the event pages now require a Referer header that contains the string "usfirst.org", otherwise they show up blank.

FRCLinks gets around this by adding an intermediate redirect to another frclinks.com URL that happens to contain "usfirst.org".

If you're getting data programmatically instead of in the browser, it's pretty easy to get around this. E.g:

curl -H "Referer: usfirst.org" "https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort_teams=number&year=2015&event=casj"

Yes.

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

It appears even with the Referer header, the event_details page always reads eid as invalid, until a different page (such as another frclinks request or a request directly to my.usfirst.org) establishes a cookie. This cookie also needs to be supplied to the event_details page, while it's not needed for other requests.

AND YES. I have quite a sore spot on my head from figuring out why it wasn't working. Thanks a ton.

- Sunny G.

[Kevin Pardus]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Northern Lights has reached initial capacity.

1800 teams showing just before 1pm ET.

97 rookies have signed up for an event.

Last year, 1800 teams were registered by 12:55pm on 30 Sep; if my notes are correct. So it looks like registration is running 4 days ahead of last year.

[wilsonmw04]

I logged in around 11:57 eastern and was able to register. Did it open early, or are my clocks slow?

[Mark McLeod]

It opened on time according to NIST & USNO
You can check your clocks against that.