Hello teams!
We’re sorry there hasn’t been much video of Breakaway posted on The Blue Alliance. We rely entirely on volunteers sending us video, so if you’re going to a future event and want to archive the video, check out our Video Archiving Instructions.
Luckily, thanks to some awesome help, we’ve gotten videos for two events online so far!
We have some more video in our conversion-and-posting pipeline, so stay tuned for more!
-Greg Marra
Hello teams!
Competition season is here! As was announced on Bill’s Blog, some events are webcasting their competitions this weekend. If you want to tune in, here are some links:
We’ve also got The Blue Alliance automatically pulling in match scores as competitions go on. The Blue Alliance also has photos of some robots, so you can get your scouting on!
The Blue Alliance’s text message match results are back online for Breakaway! Enter an email address or phone text message address to be messaged as your favorite teams’ matches end!
Tom Saxton’s FRC Tracker gets you the latest match results on your iPod Touch or iPhone. You can also use it to check out robot photos from The Blue Alliance.
FRC Spyder offers match results on your Android phone.
Tune in and check out Breakaway! Good luck teams!
Hello Teams!
Regionals are just days away, and if you can’t wait to see how Breakaway is going to play, you’re going to want to watch webcasts of Week 1 events!
Check out the list of 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition Webcasts. More webcasts will be added as things are figured out, so check back!
Also, if you’re going to be archiving match videos at Regional competitions this year, please sign up at the list of 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition Match Archivers so that we can get complete video recordings of this year’s game!
Good luck teams!
-Greg Marra
The Blue Alliance has set up an e-mail address for teams to submit photos of their 2010 robots. By building a complete set of robot photos, The Blue Alliance hopes to make pre-scouting for regionals much easier and more efficient for teams.
To submit a photo of your team or another team’s 2010 robot, send an email to photos+2010@thebluealliance.net. Attach a horizontally oriented photo of your robot named ###.jpg where ### is your team’s number. For instance, if you are team 5462, attach “5462.jpg”, and if you are team 1, attached “1.jpg”. Automated scripts handle downloading and processing the attachments, so it is important you stick to this convention!
Send a photo of your bot to photos+2010@thebluealliance.net and help scouts see just how great of a machine you’ve built!
For example, check out the DiscoBot’s great robot! http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/team/2587
We’ve rolled out a few site improvements today that ought to help you use The Blue Alliance this season. Nothing is major, but hopefully you’ll like the changes!
Let us know if you come across any issues with these updates by emailing us at contact+problems@thebluealliance.net.
We hope your build season is going smoothly!
-Greg Marra
Breakaway is upon us! We look forward to seeing what teams come up with to play 2010’s FIRST Robotics Competition game. We’ll be making some improvements around The Blue Alliance site over the next few weeks in preparation for competition season. See you at the competitions!
The password to the encrypted FRC Breakaway manual PDFs is ‘Breakaway4FRC!’ Unencrypted ones ought to be released soon, but enjoy these for now.
Hope everyone has had happy holidays! It’s always a nice time of year to relax with the people who are special to you. Now that you’re all rested up, only a few days left until the Kickoff Event!
We just finished off importing FIRST’s 2010 team data. Now when you look up your team or another team on The Blue Alliance, you’ll see their Team Name and Nickname from this year.
We get this information from FIRST’s Team Information Management System, so if any information is inaccurate, make sure you have your Team Contact update it on FIRST’s site.
Looking forward to seeing you all in 2010!
-Greg Marra
After a bit of a delay caused by some changes FIRST made to the layout of their site, The Blue Alliance has posted all of the 2010 FRC Regional events, along with the current list of teams attending each one. The team attendance lists on TBA will update daily, but FIRST is still the definitive source for attendees.
Check them out at http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/?year=2010 .
If anyone spots any errors that were made, be sure to let us know at contact@thebluealliance.net.
Enjoy!
We just added 2003 and 2004 match results to The Blue Alliance! That brings the total number of match results online to 24,599! Thanks to Nick Galotti for his help retrieving these old results!
Check them out!
