**FIRST EMAIL**/Match Results Posting Information

[Ricky Q.]

Greetings Teams:

We know that many of you have been looking for the match results on our website and we apologize for the unforeseen delay that is taking place.

We chose to embark on an ambitious redesign of the scoring system software and hardware this year, and hope that you enjoy the many benefits including better displays, much improved team pairings for qualification matches, more accurate timer control of robots, and now real-time scoring at some events. There are also numerous "invisible" enhancements to the system that make setup, operation, and takedown much easier for our volunteers, improve software reliability, enable remote maintenance, and more. The downside to this complexity is that we must ask for your patience as the web update functionality is finalized.

Once this feature is complete, match results and teams standings for all current and prior 2004 events will be posted to the FIRST web site. We estimate that this will be done no later than 5 PM EST on 3/22.

Regards,

FIRST