Using a past event as a training scenario

It can be handy to show videos of matches of an event which has already occurred and simulate the process of attending that event - generate match assignments, watch & scout matches, results “come in”, etc.

The basic gist will be:

1. Set your team’s “current event” to a past event
2. Reset the match data in the Scoutradioz DB for that event
3. Set your members’ attendance; set up scouting pairs; add any additional scouting IDs, and generate a match schedule
4. Have folks scout match #1; then manually update the FRC data for match #1; then have folks scout match #2; rinse, repeat
5. While the rankings won’t reflect ‘mid-event’ status, all the analytics and such will reflect the data that has been put into the scouting forms
6. When you’re done testing, please “Update all matches for current event” so the FIRST data in the DB is all there (in case anyone goes to look at that event later on)

• Choose an event that you want to simulate attending
  • Don’t use an event your team actually attended in the past! Part of this process can destroy data your team previously submitted (but you can’t affect another team’s data)
  • Browse https://www.thebluealliance.com/events and locate some events where the qualifying matches have associated videos
    • Verify that the video links actually work, that the stream camera doesn't change to other angles, that it's not too zoomed out, etc.
  • Post in the #onboarded-general channel (on the Scoutradioz Discord server) about which event[s] you’re thinking of using, just in case another team happens to be thinking of using the same event[s] at the same time. We try to avoid two teams changing the state of the same events simultaneously!
  • Use the Management page to set the “current event” to the chosen event

• Go into “See matches for current event” and reset the match data
  • You might see a ton of match data, or there might be zero
  • Click “Update all matches” - this will query TBA and (re)load the FIRST data for all the matches
  • At the bottom of the page is a “Reset all matches” - this leaves the schedule but eliminates the results

• Now follow the Scouting Lead steps as if it was the morning of the event
  • Before the date of the next competition,
  • Setting up on the day of competition, and
  • Scheduling match scouting assignments after the qualifier matches schedule has been released
    • If you want the assignments to rotate every match, use a block size of '1'

• Scouts should be able to log in & see their match scouting assignments on their Scouting Dashboards (and/or see all matches and assignments on the One-Off Scouting page)
  • See the info under Assigned Scouts
  • Scouts can now watch video, scout their matches, and submit!
  • The scouting lead can refresh the ‘one-off match scouting’ dashboard; as scouts submit their reports the buttons will grey out

• When that match is done, update the data for that one match
  • Go into the Matches (FIRST data) page
  • Click the ‘Update’ button to the right of that one match
  • Now in the match scouting dashboards that match will “fall off” and the next match will be there
  • If you need to undo and re-erase the FIRST data, click ‘Reset’ for that one