Our squadron wasn't allowed to pick a side, as the FSO admins put us on the side that would best keep the numbers balanced.
I was hoping we'd be participating by frame 1, but due to my error we were unable to. I forgot to change the setting from "no" to "yes" in the active part on ahevents.org. I didn't realize my mistake until frame day. By then it was too late to fix it in time for frame 1.