Teams

The teams panel provides a means of managing the teams. Teams can be added, edited, deleted, and added to the current event.

Adding a Team

A team can be added to the system by clicking on the button in the lower right of the panel, or by pressing Ctrl-A. The add team dialog is displayed:

The team details include:

Division

The team’s division. This detail only exists when division support is enabled; otherwise, it is not present here.

Team #

The team’s number, as assigned by FIRST. If the event is a scrimmage with unregistered teams, unofficial teams, new teams, and so on, make up a number for the team.

Name

The team’s name, as dreamed up by the team! Some of them are more fun than others, but they are all meaningful to the team.

Bulk Adding Teams

Many times, there is a list of teams in a spreadsheet of some kind that is used to track who is attending an event, who has competed any number of pre-event requirements, and so on. By exporting that spreadsheet (or a subset of it) to a CSV, the teams can be bulk-imported into the system.

The CSV must contain two (or three) columns:

number

The team’s number, usually as assigned by FIRST.

name

The team’s name.

division

(Optional) The team’s division. This column does not need to appear if division support is not enabled.

The order of these columns it not important, and neither is the capitalization. Other columns can be present as well; they will be ignored. The following is an example CSV file:

number,name
37350,"Bricks r' Us"
43157,"Motors of Mayhem"
47654,"LEGO Legion"
52528,"Friends of LEGO"
53342,"We V3"
55578,"Crazy Gyros"
55699,"Block Stars"
57773,"Blockenspiel"
57873,"Beams & Axles"
58405,"Snapped Together"
63979,"Spike Storms"
64057,"Gearheads"

Once the CSV file is ready, click on the button in the lower right of the panel to open a file dialog; select the CSV file to import it. If there are no errors, the teams are imported into the system and added to the current event.

If a team is in the CSV file but already exists in the system (as determined by the team number), it is instead edited (changing the team name and/or division, if required). In this way, if the teams have already been setup for the event and then there is a late addition, the main spreadsheet can be updated, a new CSV created, and the CSV re-imported into the system.

Adding a Team to the Event

When viewing the list of teams, there is an At Event column with a set of check boxes; if the check box next to a team is checked, that team is “at” the event (and shows up on the referee’s scoring, the scorboard, and so on). Unchecking the check box next to a team removes that team from the event; when a team is removed from an event, all of the team’s score are removed as well.

Danger

Since removing a team from an event also deletes all their scores at that event, removing a team from the current event is a very dangerous thing to do.

This is no undo for the deletion of all the team’s scores!

Searching for a Team

The search at the bottom of the panel provides a way to search for a team (in case there are a large number of teams, which is typically the case). Either click on the search box, or press Ctrl-S to go to the search box, and start typing. The list of teams is dynamically updated for every key press.

Pressing Escape while the search box has the keyboard focus clears the search box, showing the entire list of teams.

Editing a Team

Clicking on the button in the Actions column opens the edit team dialog for the team in question. The dialog looks the same as the add team dialog, and has the same set of fields.

It is safe to edit a team in the middle of that event.

Deleting a Team

Clicking on the button in the Actions column deletes a team (along with all the scores and rubrics for that team; from any events that team is a part of). A confirmation dialog confirms the action to delete the team; if confirmed, the team and any associated data is deleted.

Danger

There is no undo for this operation!