SOAP: Gameday 2009

[Greg Marra]

Where are you scraping match results from? BAE match results aren't on FIRST's site yet (http://www2.usfirst.org/2009comp/events/NH/), but you have two of them. Is the Twitter updating in more-real-time than the HTML match results?

[edit] Yup, the Twitter appears to be faster. http://twitter.com/frcfms [/edit]

[Matt Keller]

The twitter feed is faster, but I am not convinced it has been 100% accurate yet. There were some issues with missing teams yesterday, and what seems like a match that was added prematurely today. I am about to start my new daemon that will update the match list and check against the twitter data.

[ebarker]

dumb question from the old guy !!

How do I get the chit chat off the screen so that there is only video and audio ?

There are applications where the video is useful but don't want the chat !

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by ebarker

dumb question from the old guy !!

How do I get the chit chat off the screen so that there is only video and audio ?

There are applications where the video is useful but don't want the chat !

If you click the dark space on the bar above the chat, it will disappear. That space will be taken by the stats. If you want the video full screen you can click the option in the video player.

[pitzoid]

Originally Posted by Matt Keller

convinced it has been 100% accurate yet.

Well the twitter data is the same thing that is at commit score on the match, so it'll be the same as the web posted match results, and whatever is in the official database of the event. The missing team numbers yesterday appear to be people familiarizing themselves with the new system taking teams out of practice. We all know your team number stays for qual.

Posting this morning started out slow because some of the scorekeepers forgot to uncheck "test mode" which changed the event code to test (some may have seen this on the webcast scoreboards and the on the twitter hash tags) but they all got straightened out by lunch.

Should all be good tomorrow, I'll change defaults for next week so it doesn't happen again.

[Matt Keller]

Originally Posted by pitzoid

Well the twitter data is the same thing that is at commit score on the match, so it'll be the same as the web posted match results, and whatever is in the official database of the event. The missing team numbers yesterday appear to be people familiarizing themselves with the new system taking teams out of practice. We all know your team number stays for qual.

Posting this morning started out slow because some of the scorekeepers forgot to uncheck "test mode" which changed the event code to test (some may have seen this on the webcast scoreboards and the on the twitter hash tags) but they all got straightened out by lunch.

Should all be good tomorrow, I'll change defaults for next week so it doesn't happen again.

The only thing that really threw me off today was NH's first tweet this morning.

It came waaaay early and never had a follow up tweet to replace it, which I found a bit odd. This is when I started to use the match results pages on first to determine the final say in any conflicts.

Other than that I didn't have any other issues. Everything worked well.

[pitzoid]

Originally Posted by Matt Keller

Everything worked well.

It'll get better, brand new complex system put together with another complex system for the first time run by volunteers at 8 events, still being tweak, I suspect around the 3rd or 4th week of regionals this year we'll have it well characterized. I feel this will be better than the years it took to tweak out the IFI systems. We know much more now through the years of experience of doing this, trying to apply that the best we can.

And I'd really appreciate it if any of you meet my programmer Mike Linnen at the Championship that you thank him for putting 140K lines of code together in just over 200 days to build the new FMS software. The FIRST community owes him much, he busted his butt to make sure this would all happen, he's a coding machine....

[Matt Keller]

Originally Posted by pitzoid

And I'd really appreciate it if any of you meet my programmer Mike Linnen at the Championship that you thank him for putting 140K lines of code together in just over 200 days to build the new FMS software. The FIRST community owes him much, he busted his butt to make sure this would all happen, he's a coding machine....

Take me to him when you find me again

[Nawaid Ladak]

i opened up gameday on IE today, i didn't see much issue with it. acutally it was easier to toggle the size of the chat/video/stats than it was on chrome

Thanks for all the hard work Matt. hope to see you at Florida.

[Cynette]

One of our students had Gameday up on his computer, and I have to say that I was impressed! It is definitely a FIRSTaholics dream come true!

[ATannahill]

Will Gameday be returning?