[FRC Blog] Championship Badging and Housing Registration Opening

[Mike Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I hope they drop the whole team ID badge thing. It caused so much trouble for us volunteers down on the field as so many spectators assumed they had the right to come down to the field. All it did was make our jobs that much harder for what was already a monumental task. FIRST please do you hardworking, dedicated volunteering staff a favor and dump the team ID badges.

I was very frustrated when a friend living in the greater St Louis area came to the championships last year to see everything, but couldn't make it until Saturday afternoon due to a somewhat long drive and a work during the week. The badge desk had just closed and I was not able to show them the pits because the event staff would not let us through. Needless to say, not so inspirational. What is the purpose of this?

[JB987]

Can someone clarify if registration on the 15th involves just setting up for a later specific request period or if a team must register every team member, parents, etc likely to need rooms and then immediately proceed to hotel selection priorities? If so, how fair is the process for a huge team needing to type in all the relevant data before hotel selection process occurs?

So instead of fasted mouse wins, the fasted typist wins?

Edit: contacted Experient and found out that block request with hotel priority list occurs first and you wait to hear back from them before you have to fill in all of the names of team members, etc...so fastest mouse wins again in some cases.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

I was very frustrated when a friend living in the greater St Louis area came to the championships last year to see everything, but couldn't make it until Saturday afternoon due to a somewhat long drive and a work during the week. The badge desk had just closed and I was not able to show them the pits because the event staff would not let us through. Needless to say, not so inspirational. What is the purpose of this?

No inside information but I can't imagine it's anything other than a CYA to satisfy FIRST's lawyers/insurance policy.

[tim-tim]

Originally Posted by Cory

No inside information but I can't imagine it's anything other than a CYA to satisfy FIRST's lawyers/insurance policy.

Understood, but why close the badging desk before / during the biggest part of the show?

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by Cory

No inside information but I can't imagine it's anything other than a CYA to satisfy FIRST's lawyers/insurance policy.

Because of spectators walking through the pits?

Nobody seems to have a problem with this at a normal regional...

[Cory]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Because of spectators walking through the pits?

Nobody seems to have a problem with this at a normal regional...

Off the top of my head I could see a lawyer thinking this would help reduce the odds of a kid getting abducted/assaulted at the event, if they have to sign everyone in first.

[JB987]

I see that the 30 teams prequalified for Champs managed to take up all of the prime hotels in Experient's block of hotels nearest the venue again...talk about incentive to qualify early for Champs Hopefully we have luck with our number one priority...

[sanddrag]

Thanks for posting Joe. I totally forgot this opened at 9AM Eastern unlike everything else for FIRST that opened at 9AM Pacific. I logged in at 45 minutes after opening, and there were still a number of hotels within walking distance available for selection. It took me about a half an hour to put my list of 8 together and submit.

[Rick]

So this is frustrating. We are registered and paid with FIRST. We are on the championship waitlist, yet we do not show. However, seeing 696 and 987 able to register had me check other numbers around them. It appears that all teams from ~558 through ~1002 show up in the system.

#thisreallygrindsmygears

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

What is the purpose of this?

Its also gives FIRST more exact numbers on how many individuals attended the Championship and their involvement: students, mentors, sponsors, spectators, etc.

I can only imagine the reason they closed up shop early was to begin the process of getting the venue packed up and didn't think there would be much of a need for registration.

[Rick]

Is anyone else unable to find their FRC team in the system? Am I doing something wrong?

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Rick

Is anyone else unable to find their FRC team in the system? Am I doing something wrong?

2052 shows up as being the "Lil' Peeps," an FLL Jr. team. Even if you search for "KnightKrawler."

[Troy.C.Nelson]

It has now been approximately 4 to 5 hours and still cannot find our team.

[Troy.C.Nelson]

I read a post that all downtown hotels were taken? I was able to getthrough on the telephone and experient states no teams have been entered today into the website. "Sorry for the delay"

[Mark McLeod]

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