Has anyone been able to obtain the qualification round team pairings before their regional? We would like to be able to pair people with a specific bot during a round and wanted to take care of it before the regional started.
For further clarification: For our scouting app, user will enter their name and match number, it will come back with which team they should be scouting for the match (that way you don’t have two people accidentally scouting the same bot). Currently, I’m going to have to manually enter in the alliance pairings the day of the event and hope everyone got that update before the matches start. The goal is to have the table of what teams are playing during what match so people can download that information onto the app before we go.
Match schedules are generated at the event, so you won’t be able to get your schedule before that. To work around that, you might consider assigning people red 1/red 2/red 3/blue 1/blue 2/blue 3 instead of specific team numbers. That way you don’t have to worry about entering in all the matches.
Match lists aren’t released until event organizers are sure everybody’s checked in*. It would kinda suck to have a team shown as playing and have them not there. Typically they’ll release the practice list pretty quickly–if someone hasn’t checked in as “we’re here”, no big deal due to the filler line–but qual matches have to wait until everybody’s showed up (and the field has some time to think about it).
*Champs is the exception to the rule, but those are released as TENTATIVE and therefore subject to change.
You can copy the match schedule from tba the morning of. Then you just assign people to colors and positions. Red1 2 3, blue 1 2 3 (this was already suggested, but it’s probably the best way to handle this.)
You may be dissapointed now, but when you write a few lines of code to replace the hour or so of work you were planning, you’ll probably feel pretty good about yourself
To solve this problem I wrote a little Perl program to pull the schedule from the FIRST APIs (http://docs.frcevents2.apiary.io/#) and generate a CSV that our scouting app can use. In order to do that you’d need to register as a developer (instructions on their documentation web page) to get an authorization code. You could probably also get the schedule from TBA’s APIs as well.
We’ll wait for the schedule to be released Thursday night, generate the schedule CSV, and load it into the scouting tablets. And then hope they don’t decide to change the schedule on Friday morning.
