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The 1st FIRST Boston Regional is webcast at:
http://mfile.akamai.com/18569/live/reflector:57196.asx
Thanks NASA - KSC!
The SOAP Movie Archive will be real-time at:
http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2006/movies/boston/
Enjoy!!!
KA-108 :cool:
See also:
http://www.BostonFIRST.org
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/regionals_2006.php
Greg Needel
24-03-2006, 09:15
I am watching right now and i can say this is probably the best webcast so far. Good sound-picture snyc and a few good camera angles. Besides that there are a few good bots there ;)
DjAlamose
24-03-2006, 09:19
I’m not so sure that the roller blades are all that safe :rolleyes:
But the video quality is excellent, I don’t have sound (no speakers) but I am very happy with the video.
OMG! They have the match number and what teams are playing up at the top of the screen. So helpful, now if the realtime scores could be put up :p
Ask and I shall receive! wow this makes it one of the better webcasts now!
OMG! They have the match number and what teams are playing up at the top of the screen.
It's awesome. It's like watching CNN with the ticker. I also think it's really awesome that The Waz is there judging. So many important people in Boston... Waz, Blair, Woodie, Benji...
WOW! This is the best FIRST webcast I've seen, bar none. Love the quality and the ticker. Great gobs of kudos to whoever is responsible!
(watch my productivity tank...)
Cool! They put trivia questions up between matches!
Greg Marra
24-03-2006, 10:10
Wow, nice webcast!
The team information and the ticker make it a lot easier to know what's going on. I wish every webcast was this awesome.
Video quality isn't amazing, but it's pretty darn good.
DjAlamose
24-03-2006, 10:43
Video quality isn't amazing, but it's pretty darn good.
Agreed
Also, there are the random questions and answers up there between matches and my favorite question was:
Q: During the build season when do FIRST teams sleep? (paraphrase)
A: Sleep, what’s sleep? We don't have time to sleep!
And as we all know this is oh so true.
Roombas! I love it! No more field reset guy with a vacuum cleaner at lunch - they got Roombas!
So how come it took how many years for this to happen?
Elgin Clock
24-03-2006, 12:22
Roombas! I love it! No more field reset guy with a vacuum cleaner at lunch - they got Roombas!
So how come it took how many years for this to happen?
Battlecry had them one of the years I went when they first came out on the market.
But, as for the Boston Regional, it probably doesn't hurt that one of the Judges, Helen Greiner, is one of the co-founders of iRobot who makes the Roomba, and now the Scooba.
http://www.bostonfirst.org/greiner.html
Peter Matteson
24-03-2006, 13:03
Finally back from lunch!
nuggetsyl
24-03-2006, 13:14
i think you guys are doing a great job we are going to record las. If you want to post it just pm me.
shaun
Wow, nice webcast!
The team information and the ticker make it a lot easier to know what's going on. I wish every webcast was this awesome.
Video quality isn't amazing, but it's pretty darn good.
Thanks. After spending a year away from FIRST and relagated to only watching webcasts, it became apparent that its impossible for any viewer to know who's playing and who's winning. Any other ideas for an overlay? Send 'em in!
p.s. We upped the bandwidth from 280 to 340 kbps so the video quality should have gotten better.
KA-108 :cool:
Greg Marra
24-03-2006, 13:20
Thanks. After spending a year away from FIRST and relagated to only watching webcasts, it became apparent that its impossible for any viewer to know who's playing and who's winning. Any other ideas for an overlay? Send 'em in!
p.s. We upped the bandwidth from 280 to 340 kbps so the video quality should have gotten better.
KA-108 :cool:
I don't know if it would be possible to get the feed from the rankings monitor. The sponsors are coming up a lot to fill in between matches, and seeing who's in which position would be cool too. I don't know how much control you have over the video feed though.
Nice work guys!
DjAlamose
24-03-2006, 13:28
That last match with 233 and 213 was a good one. 132 pts! what a match!
nuggetsyl
24-03-2006, 13:59
That last match with 233 and 213 was a good one. 132 pts! what a match!
i think there was a computer glitch you see the score go from 90 to 132 out of nowhere
shaun
Greg Needel
24-03-2006, 14:18
i think there was a computer glitch you see the score go from 90 to 132 out of nowhere
shaun
nope there were alot of balls stuck in the center goal the cleared all at once
I don't know if it would be possible to get the feed from the rankings monitor. The sponsors are coming up a lot to fill in between matches, and seeing who's in which position would be cool too. I don't know how much control you have over the video feed though.
Nice work guys!
I asked the scoring table. Yes it's possible, but since it takes so loooong to scroll through..... maybe after the qual's are over and before the awards.
At least the Top 8 scroll on the overlay. I'll increase it to Top 15...
KA-108 :cool:
Greg Needel
24-03-2006, 14:37
I don't know if it would be possible to get the feed from the rankings monitor. The sponsors are coming up a lot to fill in between matches, and seeing who's in which position would be cool too. I don't know how much control you have over the video feed though.
Nice work guys!
the ranks online appear to be updating real time and seem to be correct http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/MA/rankings.html
Trivia question...wrong answer. There was a question on the web cast that asked what games had mobile goals. They did not include Hexagon Havoc which did have a movable goal teams could put the goal around and if you were to tip the goal (allowed) then the scoring plane would extend to infinity regardless of field borders/etc.
Justin
Kris Verdeyen
24-03-2006, 14:58
Did anyone see match 43? 233 is looking tough! 116 points!
Yea, they are one fast unloader. And it seems those pneumatic tires make them unmovable. I'm impressed!
BTW, their average: 50, 90, 72, 132, 22, 116 = 80.33
Is anyone else unable to get the webcast to work? Windows Media Player is giving me a file not found error.
Tomasz Bania
25-03-2006, 13:05
What's going on down there??? (3 constant beeps)
Tomasz Bania
Yea, and I heard an announcement that everyone had to exit the building.. something fire related. hrm..
Tomasz Bania
25-03-2006, 13:15
Yea, and I heard an announcement that everyone had to exit the building.. something fire related. hrm..
Yeah, It's fine now. Someone pulled the alarm.
Jay Trzaskos
25-03-2006, 13:15
I spoke briefly with 1511's driver and apparently a fire alarm has pulled/set off. Everything is fine and people are now re-entering the Venue.
I spoke briefly with 1511's driver and apparently a fire alarm has pulled/set off. Everything is fine and people are now re-entering the Venue.
an employee poured water onto a hot grill
colman77
26-03-2006, 00:50
Holy crap... this was one awesome regional. That match with us and 233, wow!! They were going to pick us as their third alliance partner for the finals, but that didn't work out. Oh well, our alliance was great too!
The fire alarm was an inconvenience, and we were perpetually unable to navigate Boston streets in a bus... besides those two things, it was a simply amazing event for us!
I knew Kamen said that! I thought I had misheard him. He actually did say: "Since your homework involves politicians, and there's nothing I wouldn't say about those terrible people to you if they weren't here, or that I wouldn't say if they are." You can hear (and see) it http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2006/movies/boston/ma_opening_remarks_sat_elimround.wmv
Dean, if you want to get politicians to promote FIRST, maybe you shouldn't insult them! Of course, this doesn't mean I think any differently than him (many politicians are terrible).
Great job with the webcast!
I noticed that the archive page does not have finals match 2 on it...does this video exist anywhere? We would love to have it.
Thanks!
Rob
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