I know FIRST has released a preliminary schedule for divisions early in the past, and I know it was Friday last year. Does anyone know if FIRST plans on releasing it again this year sometime this weekend? I’m just excited to see who we might play with if the division remains stable. 
I was just on the phone with FIRST. They’ll release them soon (probably by the end of the day/early tomorrow).
Alright. Heard about what happened, hope you guys can come to Houston!
For all of us refreshing the preliminary page to see if they posted schedules yet… http://imgur.com/gallery/jNxmr
In the past, how often have the prelim schedules changed? If the schedule does change, does it drastically alter all matches or is it done with minimal disruption?
I could be wrong, but I believe going back all the way to 2013 they only changed once… 2016 carson.
So that’s 1 of 24 divisions.
They also redid 2015 Carson, I think.
Well don’t be surprised if one of the divisions gets reworked. We’re trying our hardest to get to the Championship but I expect they’ll release the preliminary schedules before we are entirely positive if we are attending or not. So if we drop out one of the divisions could change.
They’re out, and will be on TBA soon.
Edit: We won’t post them on TBA at the request of FIRST due to them being subject to change.
We are in this preliminary schedule. So if we don’t show up… the entire Newton division will have a fun time (as if that division wasn’t crazy enough already). So if we can’t come I would like to apologize to everyone in the Newton division for screwing you over even for than you already were.
Having just looked at the match schedule; if that thing get re-rolled, I would be ecstatic. So no worries :).
EDIT: Actually, it doesn’t look bad at a second glance, so… DON’T YOU DO IT 159! DON’T YOU DARE!
Be careful what you wish for, you might be the unlucky team to end up against 79/118/180 in the next schedule… (Newton match 28)
I’ve added some rough match and ranking predictions on my site based on the preliminary schedules:
Looking at the predictions, it doesn’t show which alliances the teams are on. Is there a way you can make it so they show on that page?
Thanks!
Unfortunately, you’d need to cross reference my data with the official PDF schedule from FIRST.
Houston’s are out. You just have to select which division you want.
St. Louis they updated the PDFs to have pictures of chocolate chip cookies and cherry covered cheesecake.