The Blue Alliance

One of the things I have personally wanted for a while was a way to look up match listings and team information easily during events. A laptop is kind of a clunky solution, and viewing full size pages on my phone is awful.

You can look up past events, find teams’ records, and even see photos of their robots on your mobile phone. If your phone supports video playback, you can download previous videos too! (This looks absolutely gorgeous on iPhones with wifi connections).

Hopefully people are able to make use of this to do in-the-stands scouting during the World Championship!

Check it out, and let us know if you like it!

http://www.thebluealliance.net/m

Our webcast and video archiving for the 2008 Boston Regional was a tremendous success! To view video of special guest speakers, including Steve Wozniak, Helen Greiner, The Blue Man Group, and more, click here!. Match results and video can be found here.

Thanks to the Boston Regional Planning Committee for putting on such a great show, the volunteers for helping it run smoothly, and all the students and mentors for bringing the energy to shake the roof of Agganis Arena! We hope to see you all there again next year!

Divergentdave wrote a Greasemonkey script to auto convert when someone writes “Team ####” in a Chief Delphi post to be a link to the corresponding team page on The Blue Alliance.

Installation

1. Get or use Mozilla Firefox.
2. Install Greasemonkey. It will make you restart Firefox.
3. Click the link to divergentdave’s Chief Delphi TBA Autolinker script.
4. Greasemonkey will ask you if you want to install the script. Say yes to the default options.
5. You’re done! Any time someone says “team ####” on Chief Delphi, it will link to the corresponding team page on The Blue Alliance! See it in action on this thread.

Thanks divergentdave!

Here are some exports from our Google Analytics account showing traffic as Competition Season ramps up!

We’ve pushed over 150,000 page views to just under 10,000 users! Our traffic this year is already higher than it was for Nationals last year. I wonder what the Wednesday-before-Nats traffic surge will look like this year!

Main Report
Top Content
Search Keywords Report
Referring Sites

At the end of the first week of competition, the combined efforts of the community have resulted in 294 videos of matches on The Blue Alliance, including the entirety of the Midwest Regional, the New Jersey Regional, and the St. Louis Regional. Special thanks to those who recorded and helped cut up these events, including Kyle Fenton, DeAnnaC, Jonathon Norris, SOAP 108, and more! Your efforts have been invaluable and we wouldn’t have this great scouting resource without you!

Next week there are another 5 regionals: Arizona, Finger Lakes, Kansas City, NASA / VCU, and San Diego. We have people who have said they will be recording four of these five events. Hopefully we’ll be able to recruit the help of the community in parsing any video that needs parsing like we did this week, and get as many of these videos online as soon as possible!

Also, check out Week 1’s highest scoring match - 146 points by 2041, 1114, and 1024

We can’t wait to see what happens in Week Two!