FRC Blog - Get Ready to Make FIRST Choices

[Nemo]

FIRST Choice is awesome. That plus the product donation vouchers means teams have flexibility. The generous AndyMark PDV vs kitbot option is especially helpful. This type of system is a lot more efficient at getting the donated resources to teams that will use them than a one-size-fits-all KOP.

[Team3844]

I let the opt out period get past us this year.
We really need the Andymark voucher for parts shopping after kickoff.
One of the teams we work with locally has offered to buy the KOP chassis to use in a summer camp program. I hope it works out or we will be stripping our 14 and 15 bots.

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Team3844

I let the opt out period get past us this year.
We really need the Andymark voucher for parts shopping after kickoff.
One of the teams we work with locally has offered to buy the KOP chassis to use in a summer camp program. I hope it works out or we will be stripping our 14 and 15 bots.

Wait, what? I've been on TIMS several times a week to make sure we are up to date, but I never saw anything about opting out yet. I thought that was the November 19th thing. Am I wrong? That would stink.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Wait, what? I've been on TIMS several times a week to make sure we are up to date, but I never saw anything about opting out yet. I thought that was the November 19th thing. Am I wrong? That would stink.

The AndyMark PDV opt-in was back in October:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...System-Opt-Out

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Wait, what? I've been on TIMS several times a week to make sure we are up to date, but I never saw anything about opting out yet. I thought that was the November 19th thing. Am I wrong? That would stink.

Opt out was 10/1 to 10/16. It got past us too.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...System-Opt-Out

[GeeTwo]

Nov 19 is when FIRST Choice priority-ranked selections begin, which is a different thing than the KoP opt-out. KoP opt-out for a product voucher has already passed.
It was open noon 1 Oct to noon 16 Oct.

[ghesla]

So, it's today. Waiting!

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

Opt out was 10/1 to 10/16. It got past us too.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...System-Opt-Out

It got past us as well... Surprised so many people missed it.

[rcoren22]

So now that USFIRST has changed to USInspires, it seems that the back end / TIMS has changed as well.
I just logged in to check on the password for FIRSTChoice Credits and the new dashboard does not have any team information for me.

Am I missing something, or do other people have this situation?

[Mark McLeod]

The old TIMS link is still active.
https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso

[rcoren22]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The old TIMS link is still active.
https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso

Thanks Mark!

Exactly what I needed.

[ghesla]

FC is open!

http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/everything/

[seg9585]

Is anyone else having trouble logging in? I get a "Bad Request HTTP Error 400" when I attempt to login. I'm just trying to figure out how many credits we get (I can still "window-shop" before logging in to submit the list)

[Bruceb]

ok I am missing something
How many points do we get?

[mastachyra]

600 points. This is better than Christmas!