2006 Monty Madness NASA Webcast

[slickguy2007]

The biggest surprise of all, Monty Madness will have a NASA webcast!! Thanks to the guys over at NASA and some of the students/parents on our team, we were able to get a webcast for the May 20th competition over here in good ol' Montgomery,New Jersey. So if you can't make the event, be sure to tune in and check out the competition. NASA will have a page up soon about the webcast, watch here for the link:
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/first.php

*Special thanks to the hard working guys over at NASA who made this possible. Also thanks to the hard working guys over on our end that made this webcast possible*

GO NASA!!!!!

[Alex Cormier]

:ahh: :ahh: :ahh:

[anna~marie]

awesome! I'll try and tune in for a bit (unfortunately I have to work that night...)

[Freddy Schurr]

SHUT UP!!!! REALLY!!! Awesome, I will get to see myself on NASA Emceeing, SWEET!

[kazand]

Here's where NASA will post the link: http://robots.nasa.gov/

[SwitchBlade430]

We have Monty Madness candy bars, Polos for volunteers and to top it all off, we have a webcast!!! Can Monty get any madder??!! Yes it can! All you have to do is register, I believe we have one more open slot!! 35 teams is no fun without the 36th!

[anna~marie]

We have Monty Madness candy bars, Polos for volunteers and to top it all off, we have a webcast!!!
POLOS?! oh what do they look like!

[rdkbob]

Here's the link for the webcast:
http://sargasso-3.arc.nasa.gov:10005/live

It should start by 8:30.

[dez250]

direct link to open in a media player


mms://sargasso-3.arc.nasa.gov:10005/live

The web cast should be up momentarily.

[Koko Ed]

Aren't the lights above the goal supposed to be on during Autonomous mode?

[Tytus Gerrish]

im watching from home unfortnately instead of being there. I Can't say that im thrilled about the quality of the webcast but you cant beat free huh?

[Koko Ed]

Someone should inform the cameraman to stop focusing so much on the backbot. THe action is usally happening on the other side of the field.

[Tytus Gerrish]

All the Music Rocks!

[Tytus Gerrish]

All the Music Rocks!
Nevermind, they just played Who let the dosg out

[anna~marie]

AHH IT STOPPED

btw I agree with you tytus

[anna~marie]

AHH IT STOPPED


never mind it's back again
*big sigh of relief*

[rdkbob]

I just improved the quality of the picture, that is why it stopped. Any other suggestions you have would be great.

[anna~marie]

oo thanks!!
how about not keeping the score up forever? it's a stupid request... but still...

[Koko Ed]

f-bomb alert!
Tell the dj to use the radio edit of Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Not the album cut!

[Lil' Lavery]

Gah, it's so low quality for me :(
I just turned it on, but I can't make out any of the alliance pairings. I'll assume the 2-digit team in alliance 1 is 25 though. :p

[anna~marie]

cute video

[Lil' Lavery]

woah, 25 lost!?!

[petek]

QF Winners so far:
1089 25 371
1923 303 528
both went to three rounds.
Playing QF 4-1 now. We're gonna be here till midnight at this rate.

[petek]

271 237 1302
11 1676 1048
Advance to semi-finals

Whew!

[Mike Schroeder]

271 237 1302
11 1676 1048
Advance to semi-finals

Whew!

Finals (finally)

Team 1089,25,371 Vs. Team 271,237,1302

[Koko Ed]

I have never seen a FIRST event with on and off commentary.
Wierd.

[Kim Masi]

theres nothing i like to do better on my saturday night then to sit here and watch my friends at robot comps!

[Wayne C.]

woah, 25 lost!?!


my thought too.... ??

[Morgan Gillespie]

my thought too.... ??
By the time of his posts he was just refering to our first 2 losses. If you couldn't tell by the quality of the webcast (I didn't see the quality level) or by the driving style it wasn't Corey, in fact Corey didn't drive at all today until eliminations. Sort of like PARC.

[Kristian Calhoun]

By the time of his posts he was just refering to our first 2 losses. If you couldn't tell by the quality of the webcast (I didn't see the quality level) or by the driving style it wasn't Corey, in fact Corey didn't drive at all today until eliminations. Like PARC, (except Corey drove our first match at PARC)

Actually, I drove in the first qualification match at PARC :) . The qualification round that Corey drove in at PARC was one of the rounds against 522.

But Monty was a fun time, and if anyone has any archive of the webcast, I'd like to see it too...

[Morgan Gillespie]

Actually, I drove in the first qualification match at PARC :) . The qualification round that Corey drove in at PARC was one of the rounds against 522.
We had a q-match at PARC not with or against team 522?
I knew we atleast had one, I just couldn't recall what round it was.

[George A.]

I have never seen a FIRST event with on and off commentary.
Wierd.


I'm assuming Ed is referring to the sporadic play by play commentary towards the end of the day. I had to work a 14 hour shift on Friday, got home at 2, left my house for MM at 6, worked there until 6, then worked at my normal job from 7-1....so needless to say I was spent, and all my energy was poured onto the field. That combined with the fact that we were running close to 2.5 hours behind schedule, and the A/V guys turning off my mic, towards the end of the day there was no commentary. In fact Big Mike (aka Primetime) had to shout "the red allaince won the competition" at the end otherwise we had no way of telling the crowd.

[Libby K]

haha, big mike's "the red alliance won" was somewhat better than....

THAT DANG RUBBER CHICKEN.

[btw, i was told i had to mention the rubber chicken on CD. i did it, mike.]

[BandChick]

haha, big mike's "the red alliance won" was somewhat better than....

THAT DANG RUBBER CHICKEN.

[btw, i was told i had to mention the rubber chicken on CD. i did it, mike.]

For those of you wondering what exactly Libby is referring to...
OMG that chicken freaks me out..

[George A.]

I had nightmares about that chicken...when I woke up i could've sworn that my alarm was the chicken noise...

What those people must've been thinking when they heard that noise on the webcast.