**FIRST EMAIL**/Initial Event Registration Opens Today @ 12 pm EST/ 2013 Season Calen

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FIRST EMAIL/Initial Event Registration Opens Today @ 12 pm EST/ 2013 Season Calendar & Important Updates/ 2013 Regional & Qualifying Events/ Bag & Tag Events/ KoP Drive System Options for Veteran Teams/ Ask an Expert Call

Greetings Teams:

Initial Event Registration Opens Today, 9/27/12 @ 12 pm (noon) EST: Register for your initial Competition Event in TIMS beginning 9/27/12 @ 12 pm (noon) EST: https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso.

IMPORTANT Your team will be unable to register for an event until you complete the entire pre-registration process, which includes updating and/or verifying all information in the Team Profile section of your Team Summary page in TIMS.

2013 Season Calendar and Important Deadlines: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/calendar/.

2013 Regional and Qualifying Events: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events.

Bag & Tag Events: This year ALL FRC Regional and Qualifying Events in the United States and Canada will be Bag & Tag. For more information, please visit the FRC Blog: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-09-26-12.

Kit of Parts Drive System Options for Veteran Teams: New this season, veteran teams will have an option regarding the Kit Drive System. Veteran teams must make their selection in TIMS: https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso between 10/1/12 to 10/18/12. For details, please visit: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-09-07-12.

Ask an Expert Call: Join Nancy Rosenberg, FIRST Scholarship Manager and Senior Mentors Mike Henry and Javier Saenz for the Ask an Expert call “FRC Scholarships”. The call will be taking place on Wednesday, 10/3/12 at 7 pm EST. You can find details on all of this season’s Ask an Expert calls here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/frc-senior-mentor-teleconference-recordings.

Go Teams!

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Who’s ready?

Let the games begin!

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Just to clarify…EST is Eastern Standard Time. Since we in Arizona are always on MST, and Mountain is two zones west of Eastern, does that mean registration starts at 10AM here? I thought ya’all were on Daylight Saving Time still?

It’s too confusing for a mere mortal

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Registration opens in 45 minutes if that helps.

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I wonder how fast GSR fills up this year! :rolleyes:

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Actually it’s EDT, even more confusing.

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Thanks for the clarification Sam!

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Any thoughts about jumping the gun - if I’m already logged into the TIMS FRC dashboard screen at noon, will it bring up the registration screen when I go into team summary or will I need to get all the way out?

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You should just have to refresh the screen for the link to appear.
Of course, with 2000 people pushing refresh all at the stroke of noon, our mileage may vary.
No need to exit all the way. The system will kick us out when it’s had enough.

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and down it goes!

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I confess; it was me. I must have been 2001st

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Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

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I think they need to switch to some scalable hosting :slight_smile:

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Just keep clicking refresh. Don’t think that you’ve been thrown out.
The server remenbers where you are in the menu system.

First 3 teams have been registered, and the winners are: 1662, 254, & 58

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Wow how did they do it FUUUUUU

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Yeah! I hear from across the office that we are signed up for BAE Systems Granite State Regional! We’ve pushed the “OK” button and are waiting…

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See you in San Jose, 254 :cool:

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You guys are on the event list!

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Got this error right after selecting our event:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

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And 16 minutes into the registration process, BAE is full. This is why I am so grateful that we made it in. Team 1729 is looking forward to a great competition; we’re happy you’re going to be there along with a many other terrific teams!