2008 Championship Division Predictions

[Tom Bottiglieri]

As of 1:30PM on 3/25/08, 274 teams are registered for the event an in the TBA system.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

Could you toss a temporary link to the division page up here? I had a terrible time trying to dig up the page again.

I put a link in the sidebar of Match Archives pages. Hope that helps

[MikeT]

279 teams now... looks like 118 just got on the list. It's going to be fun checking up on these from time to time. At the start we were on Curie. Now we're on Newton. I'm sure we'll jump around again, but you can't help but speculate the possibilities. Anyone know how many total teams will likely to be in attendance this year? Last year there were 344.

[BornaE]

Something just happened. Some teams are in blue or red filled boxes now

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by 0705920

Something just happened. Some teams are in blue or red filled boxes now

I added highlighting to show which teams have won how many regionals. There is a key on the top of the page.

[Joe Ross]

It says there are 274 teams, but only lists 273.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

If you guys are on Newton, I will be cheering for 1114, 1124, and 27 all the way

Unfortunately, I think 1114 and 1124 are too close in number for us to end up on the same field, no matter which one it is. It's too bad, because it would be awesome to play with (or even against) them.

[Uberbots]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

Unfortunately, I think 1114 and 1124 are too close in number for us to end up on the same field, no matter which one it is. It's too bad, because it would be awesome to play with (or even against) them.

With the serpentine algorithm, 1114 and 1124 were actually in the same division earlier.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

It says there are 274 teams, but only lists 273.

I forgot arrays index to 0, and accounted for a ghost team. Fixed it.

The TBA API is set up to refresh its data from FIRST every 10 hours. This is why you've been seeing some lag between this page and the FIRST site.

The old way wasn't fast enough so I set this script to manually invoke an update every hour. But that can change to smaller number if needed.

(The problem is that scraping for data takes a bit of execution time, as well as putting a load on the FIRST server. We don't want to swamp it with requests every 10 seconds)

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Looks like 330 has registered!

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Looks like 330 has registered!

Another Einstein appearance?

[ks_mumupsi]

We just got moved to newton... would be fun to be with 11 again

[bbr4d3r]

When does FIRST announce the official division list? Is it a specific date or time period? Ive looked around but couldnt find the answer sorry if I missed it somewhere.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

So when will the real divisions be announced? Pardon my ignorance.

[Danny McC]

Sometime next week proboably =). Still one more regional.