Run your FTC events, from the first queue call to the recap

The lead queuer moves each match a step: queuing soon, now queuing, on deck, on field. Teams in that match get an alert on their phones or in their Discord, every pit TV updates, and queuers check teams in by tapping their numbers. A second press inside four minutes is refused, so a double tap does not skip a match. Replays and breaks go into the schedule where they happen. If FIRST has not published the schedule yet, import the FTC Live export.

Teams tap "ready for inspection" on their pit page and join the line themselves. Take next hands an inspector the team that has waited longest, and two inspectors pressing at once get different teams. A team that has not passed shows struck through at the queue until it does.

The FTA keeps field notes per team, so a connection problem in Q12 is on the card when that team plays Q30. A request for a CSA or a reinspection reaches the people who handle it. Both exports are ready for the event report.

Print one QR sign per team. Scanning it opens that team’s page for the event: queue alerts on the phone, your announcements and approved parts requests, its place on the pit map and its spot in the practice field line. Teams on Robolyst get the same alerts through their team, with no sign needed.

The pit admin posts up to four announcements at once, each with its own expiry. Parts requests wait for approval before every team sees them. The practice line puts a team that lost a match to a field fault at the front.

A pit display is a link you open in the browser of any TV. Left on its default it follows the event by itself: the queue and rankings during quals, the full table before alliance selection, each alliance’s next match in the playoffs. Or choose its panels: rankings, the schedule with the latest results, event photos with an upload QR, the pit scouting QR with coverage, and an announcements ticker. Two panels sit side by side and the rest rotate on a timer you set. The screen refreshes every 25 seconds, and the dashboard shows which screens are online.

To post to the ticker, type up to 140 characters on your phone. Tag it as info, heads up or good news, and keep it up for 15 minutes, an hour or the rest of the day.

The TV never signs in, and nothing private is on the screen.

Per event, you see how many teams on the roster have a sheet, which event links are live, and when the last sheet came in. The usage log splits sheets by source, a team’s own pit code against another team or a volunteer, and counts them per day in the event’s timezone. If the count is still low on Friday night, you know which pits to visit before quals.

Photos uploaded from a public event page wait in your queue. Approve them, fix the credit or caption, or reject with a reason that stays on the record. A rejected file is deleted. Reviewers get an email when something is waiting.

Photos you upload yourself go live straight away. So do photos sent through an upload link, which is how a venue photographer adds photos without an account. Give the link a label, a credit, a photo limit and a last day, then print its QR code. Location data is stripped from every file before it is stored.

After the event, write a short intro and pick up to four photos. Publishing gives the event a public recap page with the winners, the teams advancing, the awards and the numbers.

The same tab draws social images, square or story sized, as PNGs or one zip. It also writes the newsletter email in plain text or HTML. A draft stays private until you publish it.

Partners get three lists for any of the last five seasons. Lapsed teams competed the season before and have not registered. Registered, no event yet lists teams that signed up but are on no event roster. Rookies are in their first season. Retention is shown as a share of last season’s teams.

Each list exports as a CSV with the team’s city, last event, seasons competed and website.