Six Degrees of FIRST is a tool to find the shortest path between two FIRST teams. Two teams are considered linked together if they have shared an alliance in a past match. Then, the number of links between the two teams are calculated are the final list is output.
Six Degrees of FIRST is based on the websites The Oracle of Bacon and Six Degrees of Wikipedia, which are based upon the the idea of Six Degrees of Seperation, created by Frigyes Karinthy. Six Degrees of FIRST uses a breadth-first search to explore all possible paths, one step at a time, until a shortest one is found. We search our database (derived from The Blue Alliance's) for past alliances to find the shortest path possible between the two teams. Much thanks to The Blue Alliance for use of their match database.
Just a reminder: Six Degrees of FIRST is still in beta and will be constantly undergoing changes in the near future. Bugs should be reported to the UberBots Webmaster. Thoughts on Six Degrees of FRC should be posted on The UberBots' Forums or on Chief Delphi.