[FRC Blog] 2nd District Event Registration Thursday – Important New Information

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by FRC Blog 10/11/16

As these teams who opted out are actually going to be attempting to register for two events when 2nd District event registration opens, this increases the demand on the registration system.

Anyone else slightly concerned that FIRST is so worried about the demand on their site that they are going as far as to separate the 2nd district event registration of 415 FiM and PNW teams from the other 663 (+ Israel) district teams?

[FrankJ]

[bad attempt at humor]Maybe it is Michigan with all the internet robots that bogs the system down?[/bad attempt at humor]

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

[bad attempt at humor]Maybe it is Michigan with all the internet robots that bogs the system down?[/bad attempt at humor]

Michigan is one of the two places with zero incentive to do that for first event registration. It's probably California, I've heard it's almost impossible to get into districts there

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Michigan is one of the two places with zero incentive to do that for first event registration. It's probably California, I've heard it's almost impossible to get into districts there

too far

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Michigan is one of the two places with zero incentive to do that for first event registration. It's probably California, I've heard it's almost impossible to get into districts there

Originally Posted by EricH

Oh, and Basel, it's really easy to get into regionals in CA. You just need a faster Internet connection and registration clicker than the other 200+ teams in the state! (Now, getting into the regionals you want to get into might be another matter.)

I think you missed something there, Eric

[Tyler Olds]

Originally Posted by Hallry

I think you missed something there, Eric

I think you missed posting this when it came out #RIPHallry

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Tyler Olds

I think you missed posting this when it came out #RIPHallry

I got a BSOD right as I was about to start the thread (one that I'd never seen before, too)

[Bkeeneykid]

Originally Posted by Hallry

I got a BSOD right as I was about to start the thread (one that I'd never seen before, too)

We're all conspiring against you to stop getting the new threads. You'll never know what we'll do next...

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Hallry

I think you missed something there, Eric

Nope, didn't miss anything. I intentionally pointed out the regionals... Just need a few more events before we go district...

[Nate Laverdure]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Anyone else slightly concerned that FIRST is so worried about the demand on their site that they are going as far as to separate the 2nd district event registration of 415 FiM and PNW teams from the other 663 (+ Israel) district teams?

Nah, we're just doing science. After the split between district and regional teams, this was naturally the next step of the binary search pattern.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Anyone else slightly concerned that FIRST is so worried about the demand on their site that they are going as far as to separate the 2nd district event registration of 415 FiM and PNW teams from the other 663 (+ Israel) district teams?

As far as I know, PNW and FiM are the two systems that use the home event rule. Some teams will be intentionally registering for both their first and second event on Thursday.

As to why we went from ~3300 teams down to a near 60/40 split of that number, to an ADDITIONAL 60/40 split of that smaller number besides that nugget, dunno what to tell ya.

[bobbysq]

I wonder if they'll split Regional registration between North/South Championship teams too.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

I wonder if they'll split Regional registration between North/South Championship teams too.

Since any regional team can register for any regional, I would not expect them to do this.

[snoman]

No sucker watch the entire 3 hour beach video for a hint?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Since any regional team can register for any regional, I would not expect them to do this.

Seven Rivers restricts registration to North Champs teams, by having all teams go to waitlist. That's from Frank's blog about a month ago.

Not sure what Mexico City is doing about that, being Week 9.


Oh, and Basel, it's really easy to get into regionals in CA. You just need a faster Internet connection and registration clicker than the other 200+ teams in the state! (Now, getting into the regionals you want to get into might be another matter.)