FRC Blog - Change Is Here

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Frank

Also, in the images used for playoff rounds below, we display four teams per alliance to show what things will look like if alliances happen to have a fourth team. This will happen occasionally during the regular season, and always at the FIRST Championship!

When could this happen not during the FIRST Championship?

[jee7s]

Originally Posted by dellagd

When could this happen not during the FIRST Championship?

If a robot breaks and the backup team is pulled in. Previously, that wasn't indicated on FMS, it just swapped the teams. This seems to suggest that if you use a backup team, then they will display all four teams on the alliance.

[Dylan Danzeiser]

Change really is coming if 118 ends up the 4th robot at an unspecified Texas regional.

Also, 148, you are going down!

[CTbiker105]

I'd hate to see the day a competition begins its 999th qualification match.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by CTbiker105

I'd hate to see the day a competition begins its 999th qualification match.

Regionals become a week long.

"Welcome to Day 4 of Qualifications!"

[alopex_rex]

I like the displays of the rankings. It's necessary for this kind of game, but even in the past W-L-T system it would have been nice to have. Team members, and especially spectators, didn't have easy access to ranking information. After a match we'd have to run and found a screen displaying it, to know what the result actually meant for us. Looking forward to the instant feedback.

My main question is how the announcers will handle it. It'll be hard to match the punchiness of "and the blue alliance takes the match!" with a summary of ranking changes.

[Travis Schuh]

It is nice to see the graphics of what the split of the score is, but it would be really nice to have access to this data for data analysis. I wonder if it would be possible with these changes to get access to this per match score data.

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by Travis Schuh

It is nice to see the graphics of what the split of the score is, but it would be really nice to have access to this data for data analysis. I wonder if it would be possible with these changes to get access to this per match score data.

Blog introducing the FMS API

[PVCpirate]

I like the reference to Olympic sports in this blog post. I hope people realize by the time competitions start that the lack of winning and losing individual matches doesn't make something less of a sport or less competitive.

[PayneTrain]

I hope before they get to the final draft they can finally dump the pink and sky blue gradients and the middle and come up with something a lot more uniform.

[philso]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Regionals become a week long.

"Welcome to Day 4 of Qualifications!"

I am Okay with an all-Texas Finals though I am not sure I can get that much vacation time. Can you students get that much time off school? Will you students have to play in 2-3 day shifts?

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by philso

I am Okay with an all-Texas Finals though I am not sure I can get that much vacation time. Can you students get that much time off school? Will you students have to play in 2-3 day shifts?

We can make it like the Le Mans race and switch out drive teams and pit crews. Scouts can rotate to the pit, pit can drive the robot, and the drive team can sleep in the stands.

Absolutely nothing can go wrong there

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by CTbiker105

I'd hate to see the day a competition begins its 999th qualification match.

Happens at EVERY event. Match #999 is the field test match, as the highest number FMS can display, aka what happens when one uses the Blue Box to go one match prior to Match 1. Every event has a test match, even it it's before practice day... so there ya go

I was a scorekeeper offseason last year and will probably be this year at some/all IN events

[s1900ahon]

Oh Danny.. Danny.. Danny..

Not funny, man. Ok. Maybe a little.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by CTbiker105

I'd hate to see the day a competition begins its 999th qualification match.

Well when you have to host a couple of thousand teams over a week....