[FRC BLOG] Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual

[jajabinx124]

FRC blog post 1/4/2017.

Festival of Champions and Encrypted Game Manual
Written by Frank Merrick.


Festival of Champions

By now, many of you have probably seen the announcement by FIRST Senior Management about the Festival of Champions to take place in New Hampshire on July 28th and 29th, 2017. We’re very excited to be hosting the Chairman’s Award winning team and the teams on the Winning Alliance from each FIRST Championship location for a two-day celebration. We’ve got several activities for the teams planned, including a special dinner with Dean at his home (so cool!), along with a competition between the winning alliances, to be webcast to the world. See the link above for more info. We still have many details to finalize, including all those pesky rules that will need to go along with this, but we wanted to pass along this news as soon as we could!



Encrypted FIRST® STEAMWORKS™ Documents

You want your encrypted game manual? You got your encrypted game manual. Download it now here. The paint may still be a little wet, so be careful.

For folks new to this, here’s the deal: Download the encrypted manual now to your iPhone/Android/PalmPilot/whatever (pdf apps like Foxit PDF or Adobe Acrobat are helpful). At the end of the Kickoff broadcast, we’ll reveal the code that will unlock the file so you can immediately start devouring all that FIRST STEAMWORKS goodness.

The Kit of Parts checklists, which will let you inventory your Kit of Parts, have also been encrypted and posted. You can find them here.

We’re still working on finalizing the drawing package that goes with the game. That likely won’t be ready for download before Friday, but we’ll let you know. It, too, will be encrypted.

All files encrypted prior to Kickoff use the same password, again to be revealed at the end of the Kickoff broadcast.

More news soon!

Frank

[MARS_James]

We’re still working on finalizing the drawing package that goes with the game. That likely won’t be ready for download before Friday, but we’ll let you know

As a member of a team who is hosting a kickoff I am patiently waiting till post kickoff to vent about something related to this.

[bdaroz]

Originally Posted by AlexanderLuke

For those of you who are going to look at this thing (the manual) and want compare how many pages it has to last year's manual or manuals from other years, here is the rundown of more recent years:

2017 - 126 pages
2016 - 111 pages
2015 - 65 pages

Just to point out, it's not a 1:1 comparison... Supposedly some parts of the former (/mourn) admin manual are now in the game manual.

[Hallry]

Here's a direct link to the 2017 FRC Game and Season Manual (Encrypted): https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...asonManual.pdf

Here's where to find the encrypted KoP checklist: http://www.firstinspires.org/resourc...7-kit-of-parts

With a direct link to them here: https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n..._encrypted.zip

And here's the page where all 2017 FRC Game and Season Materials will be posted: http://www.firstinspires.org/resourc...nual-qa-system

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by AlexanderLuke

For those of you who are going to look at this thing (the manual) and want compare how many pages it has to last year's manual or manuals from other years, here is the rundown of more recent years:

2017 - 126 pages
2016 - 111 pages
2015 - 65 pages

Where did you get your numbers? I just downloaded the old manuals from http://www.firstinspires.org/resourc...-documentation and I get:

2016 - 114 (game) + 126 (admin) = 240 pages
2015 - 65 (game) + 59 (admin) = 124 pages
2014 - 111 (combined)
2013 - 94 (game) + 67 (admin) = 161 pages
2012 - 91 (game) + 73 (admin) = 164 pages

[jlindquist74]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

As a member of a team who is hosting a kickoff I am patiently waiting till post kickoff to vent about something related to this.

Why not encrypt your rant and post it now, then release the password during kickoff?

[Bmarshall645]

How are people downloading these files to their computer? I click the link but can't download it?

https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...asonManual.pdf

[AlexanderLuke]

I deleted my posts. I thought that what I had posted were the page numbers of what the page counts were in the encrypted manuals.

I seem to have been causing more confusion than good, so the posts have been removed. Sorry for the trouble.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Bmarshall645

How are people downloading these files to their computer? I click the link but can't download it?

https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...asonManual.pdf

Try right-click and choose Save Link As...

[ABreyen]

Just got Rick Rolled by FIRST... Won't say where... but its there xD xD xD

[Bmarshall645]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Try right-click and choose Save Link As...

I did. No matter what I save it as it gives me an error when I try to open it in adobe. The error says there was a problem reading the document.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Bmarshall645

I did. No matter what I save it as it gives me an error when I try to open it in adobe. The error says there was a problem reading the document.

Is it the same for the KOP zip file?
Try a different computer.

I get the password popup for both.

[Mattb706]

Wait so I can download the link but it still is telling me I need the code?

[Bmarshall645]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Is it the same for the KOP zip file?
Try a different computer.

I get the password popup for both.

KOP zip works fine and asks for the password when I open it.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Mattb706

Wait so I can download the link but it still is telling me I need the code?

The password is released at the end of the Kickoff broadcast.