--- title: Initial Event Registration and Teaser Sharing description: Stay updated with FIRST Robotics Competition initial event registration and share the 2017 teaser to inspire new passion in robotics. --- Written by Frank Merrick. #### Initial Event Registration Just a quick reminder that initial event registration begins at Noon Eastern Time tomorrow, September 22. Need help navigating the new system? Check out this page. Lots of events fill up quickly, so don’t get caught napping! #### Teaser Sharing The response to the 2017 FRC teaser has been great! As of this writing, less than 24 hours after release, combined views between the Facebook video and the YouTube video have exceeded 94,000. Of course, many of those views are likely repeat viewings, with folks looking for any little clues they can find in the video, pausing, restarting, backing up, going full screen, etc. Still, that’s a pretty good view count, and we do seem to be getting a good number of likes/thumbs-up to go along with it. If you liked the teaser, how about sharing it? We’ve already seen many shares from the [*FIRST* Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/FIRSTOfficial/), but more would be even better! The teaser is intended to be engaging not just to folks who already know about *FIRST* and *FIRST* Robotics Competition, but to others as well, so please help spread the word! Who knows, you may be the person to start someone on a lifelong passion! BTW, rumors that *FIRST* has discovered the long-lost original black and white version of the teaser deep within the *FIRST* vaults are unfounded. While having this version, rumored to be 2 minutes longer, and sometimes referred to as the ‘Director’s Cut’, would be wonderful, all we have is a single, scratched, grainy frame from that original film, which you can see below:   ![2017-teaser-bandw](https://community.firstinspires.org/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/frc/2017-teaser-bandw.jpg?width=812&height=457&name=2017-teaser-bandw.jpg) Frank ** [FRC](https://community.firstinspires.org/topic/frc) #### Share it: [** ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://community.firstinspires.org/2016-2017-initial-event-registration-and-teaser-sharing) [** ](https://twitter.com/share?url=https://community.firstinspires.org/2016-2017-initial-event-registration-and-teaser-sharing) [** ](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://community.firstinspires.org/2016-2017-initial-event-registration-and-teaser-sharing) ![Default Author Image](https://community.firstinspires.org/hubfs/Community%20Blog%20v2/images/FIRST-author-icon.svg) Author [FIRST Robotics Competition Staff](https://community.firstinspires.org/author/first-robotics-competition-staff) ### Related Posts ** [FRC](https://community.firstinspires.org/topic/frc) Next Generation Control System -- Update September 10, 2020 ** [FRC](https://community.firstinspires.org/topic/frc) Timeout & Playoff Tournament Updates September 7, 2022 ** [FRC](https://community.firstinspires.org/topic/frc) New FIRST Robotics Competition Trainings! October 20, 2025 ![](https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1200203950045814&ev=PageView&noscript=1) ![](https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?tid=2615041699514&noscript=1) ![](https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?tid=2615041699514&event=PageVisit&noscript=1)