FIRST Brand Refresh

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Taylor

For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology Inspires dot org.

Add this one to the list of RAS Syndromes like MSDS Sheets, LED Lights, PIN Number, RAGE Event, ATM Machine, AC Current, LCD Display, HIV Virus, LAN Network, RF Frequency, and BBS Systems.

Is there anything more inspiring than inspiration? The answer is no; there is not.

[bkahl]

My biggest grievance is the stress put upon moving to the new logo, all while Don Bossi is wearing the "old" logo, sitting in front of a large poster of the "old" logo.

How can we look as "One Brand" when the production of the video itself is still using both brands?

[maths222]

As a red-green color blind individual, I really dislike the color changes. At a distance, the old colors were easy to distinguish. Now, for me, FTC, FLL, and JrFLL kind of blend together if I don't look very closely.

[MattRain]

The new logo looks so cartoony. I'm glad I bought my FIRST appeal before the change!

Also, FTC is changing from Gold to Orange, interesting. Wonder if the banners will be changing colors for everyone?

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by MattRain

The new logo looks so cartoony. I'm glad I bought my FIRST appeal before the change!

Also, FTC is changing from Gold to Orange, interesting. Wonder if the banners will be changing colors for everyone?

FRC will almost certainly be getting a "jazzed up" blue banner that will be different from the old blue.

So reaction to that reveal is gonna be fun.

[MattRain]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

FRC will almost certainly be getting a "jazzed up" blue banner that will be different from the old blue.

So reaction to that reveal is gonna be fun.

"AND HERE IS THE NEW BABY BLUE BANNER!"

I still don't like the fact that FRC has banners for Chairmans, Winning, Rookie All star, And much more... While FTC only gets an Inspire banner. It would be nice to receive a banner when you WIN at WORLDS....

[tindleroot]

This is also a small change, but one I like. FIRST has altered the team info. In the awards/history section, there are no more division names for events, rather "The Championship Event", etc., which is less confusing for readers. Not only that, the layout is more readable and less data is missing (2001 and 2002 championships are now present for everyone). The new layout actually makes the FIRST webpage more useful than TBA for general awards and stuff.

[ChuckDickerson]

Anybody see where the links are to TIMS, STIMS, and VIMS on the new website?

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

Anybody see where the links are to TIMS, STIMS, and VIMS on the new website?

I found VIMS but still can't find TIMS or STIMS.

[StAxis]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

I found VIMS but still can't find TIMS or STIMS.

Go to Programs -> FIRST Robotics Competition -> FRC -> For Teams and it's there. a bit complicated but managed to find it.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by MattRain

"AND HERE IS THE NEW BABY BLUE BANNER!"

I still don't like the fact that FRC has banners for Chairmans, Winning, Rookie All star, And much more... While FTC only gets an Inspire banner. It would be nice to receive a banner when you WIN at WORLDS....

The FIRST Robotics Competition ("FRC" is no longer going to be used by FIRST ) only gives out banners for Chairman's, Woodie Flowers Finalists, and event winners. There's no official Rookie All Star banner. If you saw a RAS banner, then the team custom ordered it.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

The FIRST Robotics Competition ("FRC" is no longer going to be used by FIRST ) only gives out banners for Chairman's, Woodie Flowers Finalists, and event winners. There's no official Rookie All Star banner. If you saw a RAS banner, then the team custom ordered it.

So no more banners or is it just that the banners won't say frc anymore?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by logank013

So no more banners or is it just that the banners won't say frc anymore?

You would have to ask FIRST, but my assumption would be that the banners will spell out "FIRST Robotics Competition"

[logank013]

Any way to use the old website? The biggest thing is I don't know how to get to anything. How do I navigate from the home page to the events page with each event having a list of teams at the event? That is something i really want. Thanks.

[Billfred]

Some hot-take reactions:

1) The URL change is going to bug me, because the URL change comes with 12+ years of inertia.
2) You know how someone organizes your shop and then you can't find anything? That's the new website for me. (It also breaks frclinks.org, which is a tragedy.)
3) Even going back to the old-old logo, the triangle-circle-square logo was always as prominent or more prominent than the FIRST or program wordmark. That's no longer the case. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
4) Switching to FLLJr is fair enough, but thank you for losing that crayon bit.
5) Losing the acronyms from the program logos is good for outsiders, but man does it get clunky. (On the flip side, the logo should print better in smaller applications. It took a lot of fighting with the printer to get the old FLL logo right on our team shirts.)
6) Does anyone have links to where we can download these? My team was going to order some apparel this week, and I can't find it on the website (see point 2).

Having done this dance in the fall of 2004 (the world didn't end then), I'm going to sit back for the most part and see how it shakes out.