Facebook Events for Competitions

[Greg Marra]

2011 Competition Season is almost upon us! While everyone has been working on their robots, The Blue Alliance team has been working on the new The Blue Alliance "dot com". We are beta testing the site (give it a spin!), and will soon be redirecting traffic to the "dot net" version of the site over. Please try the site out, and let us know if you find any problems.

One of the new features of the site is Facebook Events for each FIRST Competition. We think this will help folks going to competitions discuss and coordinate before the events actually happen. If you know what competitions you're going to, RSVP below!

• Finger Lakes Regional
• BAE Systems/Granite State Regional
• New Jersey Regional
• Alamo Regional
• Kettering University FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Traverse City FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Florida Regional
• Pittsburgh Regional
• Lake Superior Regional
• San Diego Regional
• Wisconsin Regional
• WPI Regional
• Greater Kansas City Regional
• New York City Regional
• Waterford FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Israel Regional
• Seattle Cascade Regional
• Bayou Regional
• Seattle Olympic Regional
• Peachtree Regional
• St. Louis Regional
• Lone Star Regional
• Boilermaker Regional
• Chesapeake Regional
• Arizona Regional
• Sacramento Regional
• Oklahoma Regional
• Detroit FIRST Robotics District Competition
• West Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Washington DC Regional
• SBPLI Long Island Regional
• Hawaii Regional sponsored by BAE Systems
• Palmetto Regional
• Waterloo Regional
• Los Angeles Regional
• Autodesk Oregon Regional
• Midwest Regional
• Niles FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Ann Arbor FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Greater Toronto West Regional
• Las Vegas Regional
• Silicon Valley Regional
• Northeast Utilities FIRST Connecticut Regional
• Minnesota North Star Regional
• Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
• Smoky Mountain Regional
• Greater Toronto East Regional
• Livonia FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Troy FIRST Robotics District Competition
• Dallas Regional sponsored by JCPenney
• Philadelphia Regional
• Utah Regional
• North Carolina Regional
• Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition State Championship
• Colorado Regional
• Boston Regional
• Buckeye Regional
• Virginia Regional
• Curie Division
• Galileo Division
• Newton Division
• Archimedes Division
• Championship Event

Go Teams!

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Special thanks to Chris Jelly and Tom Bottiglieri for helping make all these events.

[lynca]

Facebook Events for the Regionals is a great idea!

Has anyone talked to FIRST about asking the regional directors to post a facebook link on their Regional websites ?

This would be a great way to increase team to team communication. I know Texas could definitely benefit from more team networking.

Website First Glance :
Clean simple interface and very easy to navigate. All the pages load very quickly but the handful of videos I tested did not seem to work well.

New Website Suggestions :
1. Possibly add back the win-loss record on team pages ...
2. Can you add the awards statistics for each team ?
3. A icon to indicate which matches have videos
4. Search bar is not working (embedded google search would be ideal)

Keep up the great work Greg !