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2023 Team Avatars

Jan 18, 2023 Written by Jason Proulx, FIRST Robotics Competition Software Engineer

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The Team Avatar Submission Portal is NOW OPEN!

For the 2023 FIRST® Robotics Competition season, teams will once again be able to submit a Team Avatar to represent them on the CHARGED UPSM presented by Haas Audience Displays and their frc-events.firstinspires.org team pages. The Avatar will be displayed alongside other team identifying information on the Audience Display to represent them in the Alliance (alongside the team’s number and nickname).

The Team Avatar is completely optional. There is no element of CHARGED UP you won’t be able to play if you don’t create a Team Avatar. Avatars submitted and used during the 2022 season have been migrated to this upcoming season; there is no need to resubmit or choose new Team Avatars for the 2023 season unless your team wishes to change your avatar. Team Avatars submitted and approved will be used consistently throughout the event. Teams who do not create and submit a Team Avatar will be assigned an avatar of the FIRST® logo.

Full 2023 Team Avatar specs are provided here, and for further inspiration, here’s a great list of Avatars submitted for the 2022 season provided by The Blue Alliance. It’s important to note that unlike your team’s nickname, teams are not allowed unlimited changes to their Team Avatar. Each time a Team Avatar is submitted, it is reviewed by a staff member – because of this, teams are only allowed one (1) submission plus one (1) update. Design a Team Avatar that you will be proud of for the entire season!

Teams can submit new Team Avatars for consideration, view or delete existing Team Avatars, or review the status of a pending Team Avatar through the submission system. Team Avatars will be accepted through March 30, 2023.

It's important to note that the Team Avatar submission system is not managed through the Team Dashboard. Because of this, for privacy reasons, the Team Avatar submission system does not have the capability of emailing teams to notify them of status changes to their Team Avatars. The Team Avatar submitters need to check back on the status of their Team Avatar. This it typically done within 24-48 hours, though it may take up to five (5) days to review a Team Avatar.

To successfully submit a Team Avatar, follow these steps:

  1. Visit the Avatar page
  2. Enter your team number and Avatar Key Access Code (lead mentors 1 or 2 retrieve the code from the Dashboard - go to the `Team Options' section, click on `Payment & Product,' click on `Passwords/Voucher Codes,' and you will find the 10-character code under “FIRST/Avatar Key.”)
  3. Click the box to agree to the terms
  4. Click Continue.
  5. Upload the Avatar you want to submit (make sure it’s compliant with the specifications).
  6. Check back to see the status of your submission.


Once a Team Avatar is accepted, the pending status will be updated within the Team Avatar submission system, and the Team Avatar will appear on the team's 2023 team page.

If a Team Avatar is rejected for any reason, the system will be updated, and a message will indicate why it was rejected and what steps need to be taken to resolve the issues. Please remember, Team Avatars can be rejected for a number of reasons – if you need to contact FIRST to provide documentation or have issues with submitting your Team Avatar, please contact us at firstroboticscompetition@firstinspires.org and provide your team number and a brief description of the issue.

We can’t wait to see your Team Avatars! Have a GREAT season!

 

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Comments

The avatar submission page is not working once you login. You just get a blank page.

 

Thank you for letting us know! The issue has been resolved and you should now be able to access the system.

The avatar page does not appear to be working. When I go to the website (https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/services/avatar) and enter my team information, it takes me to https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/services/avatar/team, which is just a blank page. I have tried it on different apps from different devices. Is the page not actually ready?

Thank you for letting us know! The issue has been resolved and you should now be able to access the system.

This is sort of a big deal for 2023 rookie teams!

Hi Michael, the submission portal has been updated to allow team numbers greater than 9000 to submit. 

Hi, Once we try to log in with our with our access code the page says "There was an error in your request.
The following details were provided: Missing Access Credentials", we made sure that we typed the right password. 

Please let us know what we should do forward in order to resolve this problem. 

Thank you for your comment. We are aware of this issue and are actively working to correct it. We hope to have it resolved by the end of this week. 

This isnt working, i just get sent to a blank page after entering my details

Apologies for the error! We believe the issue has been corrected. Please try submitting again, and if you continue to experience any problems please email frcteams@firstinspires.org. 

We have 2 approved avatars. How do we pick the one that we prefer to be used?

Hi Tommy, we use the most recently approved avatar. 

I see so many teams on the scoring where there's no icon this year and they had one last year.  This blog post said they were automatically migrated, but I spot checked a bunch of lower number teams that didn't have an icon for 2023, and they do have 2022 icons.  (Examples, Team 201, 7174)

Thank you for letting us know, we'll look into this!

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