Concerned about participating in a tournament, read this blog post on norcalfll.ning.com (registration required)
Tournament registration is live.
UPDATE 10/16 9:30pm: Graph of Teams’ Selection per Tournament
UPDATE 10/11 7pm: Five Tournaments are full plus Dublin
UPDATED: 10/16 10pm Teams’ Tournament Registration status.
Teams will be accepted into events once we have all teams through the application process
Detailed Instructions on how to apply for Nor Cal FLL Tournaments:
When you login to the gofll.usfirst.org site, click on the tab for “Events”. You should see a map. In the search, under Classification, select “Qualifying Event” There are actually 2 sections to this page. The top most is the list of qualifiers and the second part is a list of Event Groups.
In this lower section with the Event Groups, you should see a link called “Nor Cal FLL Qualifying Tournaments”. When you click on that link, it should take you to a page where there is a green button labeled, “Apply for this event group”. The word, “group” is important – if that is missing, you are not in the right place.
Once you click on the green button, again, you will see all of the qualifying tournaments listed. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. This is where you should see the form that has the “drop down” menus to see first, second and third choice. If at any time you see a green button that says “Apply for this Event” (without the word “group”), you are in the wrong place – you can not apply to individual events.
We are seeking Screen Shots of the tournament registration process for each step as you go through it – trying to help those having issues. We started a ning discussion topic where you can add suggestions on helpful wording. If you send me the screen shots, I can add “red circles” around the relevant section of the page.
The single most common issue is that you are not selecting choices via an Event GROUP and instead are clicking into individual tournaments and seeing the green button that says “Apply to this Event” – this will not work.
UPDATE 3: If you get this message: “The team [Team Name] is not eligible to apply to this event group, either because they have already applied to it or because they lack additional information needed to apply to an event. You have no teams eligible to apply to this event group.” The most likely reason is that you have an incomplete profile – ie there are missing answers that you skipped over since they are marked optional. None of the questions are optional at this stage (ie to apply for a tournament) – they were optional earlier (for ordering field setup kit, etc). Yes, we know that this is confusing.
UPDATE 2: There is no RESTRICTED TEAM LIST – all teams can apply for all tournaments. If you get a system message that the team is not eligible, it means that you are not using the DROP DOWN menu to select your 3 choices and instead are inside a specific tournament site and clicking on a “Apply for this Event” – this will not work. You have to select your tournament choices via a DROP DOWN menu selection – scroll down below the listing of the 15 events in the group to see this selection form. If you applied for Girls Scouts, Google or Los Altos, we will send you a separate email asking questions to help with their team selection.
UPDATE 1: After clicking through on the green link “Apply for this Event Group”, it shows a list of individual tournaments (with links for each) – do not click into any of the links! Scroll down to the bottom of the page to use the drop down menu to make your selections. We know that this is confusing.
If you try to click in at any point into an individual tournament, this will NOT work and you will get a message saying that your team is not eligible for this restricted event (or similar messaging).
Also, if you don’t see any Events – you are missing information (even fields marked optional) about the team or are not paid.
Finally for teams that are only selecting one tournament – what you are telling us through that choice is that if you do not get into that one event, you are not going to compete at all. In particular it will be important to consider this carefully for those selecting tournaments such as the Girl Scout event, Google and Los Altos that there may be priority given to specific teams.
There are 3 steps to complete your team’s registration:
a) Apply for tournament(s) via the gofll.usfirst.org site
b) Pay $50 tournament fee – paypal (preferred method) will be online shortly – or check payable to Playing At Learning. You can mail check at any time – all tournaments will have the same fee.
c) Mail via regular postal mail signed consent waiver forms for all team members and all coaches/mentors – You can do this now as well – there is no need to identify the specific first level event -the waiver can be used for the entire system of tournaments here in Nor Cal.
There was an email sent out on the norcalfll-announce googlegroup with more details. We will post a webpage showing current registration status of all teams also starting in a few days.