[FRC Blog] Event Results and API Data

[AdamStockton]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

New software this year, though. If we were running last year's software and API, we wouldn't be having these problems.

Yes, it is a different FMS software this year. However, each version of FMS seems to be based off of the previous season's version (with improvements and game specific updates). I don't think they would have eliminated the backup system, since that is a pretty important feature.

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Also, even if the data is stored locally, that's no guarantee it's going to be pushed out and made available via the API after these events are over.

It is true that there is no guarantee that the data will become publicly available, but at the very least the district results need to be available. This data is vital to calculating the district rankings for each district team that competed this year.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by AdamStockton

Yes, it is a different FMS software this year. However, each version of FMS seems to be based off of the previous season's version (with improvements and game specific updates). I don't think they would have eliminated the backup system, since that is a pretty important feature.

To my knowledge, FMS has been completely rewritten since last year.



I'd be surprised if there were any FTA across the country that wasn't aware that these problems were occurring. I would hope that they'd have the presence of mind to throw the data on a flash drive and/or send it manually to FIRST for reporting/archival.