[FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!
 

Hello everyone!
Justin and I would like to present our newest idea! We are planning that on Friday, February 22, at 9PM Eastern, Mike and Justin in the Morning will be hosting our first annual black tie affair, "Premiere Night"!

Our goal for Premiere Night is to have teams send us their "2013 Robot Release Videos", and we'll have an all night party of watching team's 2013 robots and then talking about them, all live on the air!

For your team's video to be eligible to be shown on Premiere Night:

• Your team's robot release video must not have been released in any other fashion yet (YouTube, Chief Delphi, etc). We want everyone to be seeing your team's robot for the first time

• If your team has released small teasers on the web, that's ok, your release video can still be shown on Premiere Night.

We will show any, and all team's videos! If your team is interested in participating in Premiere Night, please send us an email at mikeandjustinitm@gmail.com! You will need to send us the file directly, so we can upload it to our livestream account and have it ready for the show.

We can't tell you how excited we are about this, and we hope you guys get behind this as much as we are! This has potential to be one of the funnest nights of the season so far!

As always, we will be live at www.livestream.com/mikeandjustinitm on the 22nd.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Mike and Justin

Teams that have confirmed a video for Premiere Night:
16
20
195
217
340
639
772
2791
4183

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Such a good idea, I just hope teams can pump out there videos in time, they won't have a weekend to do it.

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A question, can the video be shown on the school's closed circuit broadcast channel first but not to any other FIRSTers?

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Sure! As long as it's not released publicly it's fine!

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i showed you guys a picture of our robot so far the other night, sure hope that doesn't count cause I REALLY want to do this with our teams video :D

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Yeah, that could be an issue.

Just curious, why not on the Wednesday before week 1?

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Yeah we thought about doing that, but a lot of teams release their videos pretty soon after build season ends. So we didn't want to make teams wait that long. Hopefully teams can crank their videos out by Friday. I've already started working on our teams...

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This seems like a really interesting idea.

I'll ask my team what they think about it and get back to you. You really need to get 118/148/16 on board for it though. Hopefully, one of them will pop into this thread.

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This is an amazing idea, we are definitely on board.

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is it bad that I'm almost as excited for 118's reveal video as i am for my team's competitions this year?

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Not at all. It's always something I look forward too.

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Let me know if you want 25 and I am sure I can twist 103's
arm.

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Absolutely we do! We want as many teams that want to participate.

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I've edited the original post to include teams that have confirmed their involvement! Let us know if your team wants to participate!

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I'll ask my team today...

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I'll tentatively confirm our team. There is always the possibility that we don't finish in time to get video.

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Tentative yes, assuming we get our video done in time.

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If we have the time, I'd love to contribute to this! I was considering making an unveil video anyway.

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1986 Team Titanium has confirmed a video for premiere night.

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This, this, and this. While their is a slight chance we won't be able to make one, if we do we'll happily air it on Premire Night.

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Add 1772 on your list!;)

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Ok, for some reason I can't edit my original post, so here's an updated list of teams that will be releasing a video at Premiere Night!!

Teams that have confirmed a video for Premiere Night:
16
20
33
174
195
217
229
340
639
772
907
1099
1165
1305
1716
1730
1772
1986
2408
2640
2791
3481
3528
3885
3929
4183

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We are also planning on participating. We shouldn't have any issues doing a video.

How are teams getting the videos to you? Most of them will be way too large to email. Maybe if teams post the video to their YouTube channels and email you the links, you can make a playlist of all the videos.

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Put us down for a video. I think right now the plan is for the video to just feature 229, but it might end up having 4124 in it too.

Also, in regards to the email/upload problem, could the teams upload the videos to youtube ahead of time and just make them private/unlisted, and just give you guys the link? Either way, I'm extremely excited about this.

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Livestream used to have this awesome interface with YouTube, where we could upload videos based on their URL, but they got rid of it :(. I suggest using Dropbox, or another sort of file hosting website to email it to us. Thanks!

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My suggestion for teams to get the videos over to Mike and Justin would be to upload them to Google drive. Anyone with a Google account can do this and you'll have 5GB of storage.
You then will have to chose to share the video with mikeandjustinitm[at]gmail[dot]com.
They will then have access to the video. After the show on Friday you can delete if from your account and upload it to your team or personal YouTube account.
If anyone needs help doing this let me know.

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I'll ask my team tomorrow.

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Team 2408 plans on participating, provided we get our robot finished of course. I'll send/e-mail the video when it's ready.

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174 would be honored to participate with the Premiere Night!

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3481 gives a tentative yarr.

-Parker

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All I can say is nothing! I'm speechless about this line up. There are alot of great teams

THIS. WILL. BE. AN. EXCITING. NIGHT.

IF Team 1099, The Disco Techs, finish in time, we will send one.

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If I can get it finished, sign us up.

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3885 is Looking Forward to producing our First robot release video fthis year and we would love to share it on MikeandJustin in the morning. Is there going to be a time limit on the videos?

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There is no strict time limits, but generally videos seem to fall into the 2-4 minute range. Please no 10 minute videos :)

As far as getting us the videos, Google Drive will be the preferred method. This allows us to upload your video prior to the broadcast. Note there is a 1GB limit on our side for uploads so please keep that in mind. You will have to 'share' your video with mikeandjustinitm@gmail.com

We are really happy with the amount of interest expressed so far and we can't wait to see what teams have come up with for Ultimate Ascent!

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Clearly, the videos will be shown at 9 PM Eastern time on the 22nd, but how much before then do you need them?

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ASAP. It will take a while to upload/organize 20-30 videos. So the sooner the better. We wouldn't want a team to not get their video on the show cause they sent it to us last minute.

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Hotbotz 2640 would love to participate - again, provided we can get it done on time. Really looking forward to the show!

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I'll ask our media team... I'd like to see a few more west coast teams on that list!

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We will be sending in a video.

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I know that our team won't be participating for this reason. We plan on waiting until KC to release our robot out to the public, but might have considered Wednesday before week 1... Secrecy is the biggest teaser of all :D

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Team 1716 will submit our unveiling video.

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ill ask today

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Team RUSH is a HESITANT yes. I have no idea if we will get one up or not (It would be up to a few students if they felt up to it) and if we get done in time. Plus we have never made a reveal video before....

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I'd love to participate, but I really doubt that we'll have the video ready in time. We'll probably be doing it on the weekend...

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It's tentative, but I know 422 is pushing like they want the video done the day after Stop Build so I expect it will be in this.

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Put down 1523, the media team will give me the video by the 20th to give to you

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Here is the newest updated list. I'm changing the name of our list since so many teams are tentative.

Teams who have expressed interest in showing a video on Premiere Night:
16
20
33
174
195
217
229
340
422
639
703
772
907
1099
1165
1305
1523
1716
1730
1772
1986
2408
2471
2495
2637
2640
2791
2984
3481
3528
3885
3929
4183

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That's a great list of great teams. I can't wait to see the show.

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2984 is in if I can get the video done in time. we're always short on that.

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We (2495) are in if we can get a video done in time.

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Is there a deadline to submit videos?

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Not a set deadline, but keep in mind we may have 20-30 videos to get uploaded. The sooner the better. Thursday night would be great. But early Friday afternoon would be acceptable. If it's submitted anytime after that there may be a risk we can't get it uploaded by show time.

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If we have a running robot before bag day I'll see if I can put something together for this. Sounds like a great idea.

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Add 2471 to that list, Mike!! :)

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I can talk to my team. The bigger issue is filming it... We are really behind and may or may not have time to film our 'bot.

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I'm making a video of the robot shooting (there's video of the robot on our photobucket album) but I'm more likely to put up the robot card here than I have the video ready in time.

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The Daredevils will have a video ready in time for Premiere Night. Consider us in...

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I am not sure we will have enough time to make a video, but if we do I will try to submit it.

Cant wait to see what 340 will be doing.

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You can count 2054 for a video, We were even planning an end of build potluck dinner and watch the videos together as team.

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It will be a tentative yes for 868. Hopefully I have enough time after work to edit it all!

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Consider 4320 - The Joker in that list!

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Here's the newest updated list!

Teams who have expressed interest in showing a video on Premiere Night:
16
20
25
33
103
174
179
195
217
229
319
340
422
578
639
703
772
868
907
1099
1165
1305
1523
1640
1716
1730
1772
1986
2054
2408
2471
2495
2512
2637
2640
2791
2984
3481
3528
3885
3929
4183
4320

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Pending our ability to learn how to edit video, 319 would like to express interest in joining the festivities.

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If every team limits their video to 3 minutes, thats still almost 2 hours worth of release videos. Dont you guys think thats a bit much?

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Yeah, we have. Most of the teams on the list are "maybes". So we should be fine.

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1640 would like to be added to the "maybe" column. Let's hope we get done in time! (The video and the robot :yikes:)

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We've done 2 hour shows in the past without a problem and didn't lose a noticeable amount of viewers at all. If it gets to be to long, then you can simply close your browser :-)

It's going to be a really fun night and I hope everyone can stay the whole time to celebrate the accomplishments of all the participating teams.

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IMO you should watch the videos and have a small panel rank the robots and make a top 25 previews.

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Yes but I doubt you'd just have a stream of just straight videos; you will have to have cutaways to you guys and intros and talking, which could turn nito a 3 or 4 hour stream.

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This was also brought up in an e-mail but it's not something we want to do. For the rest of the season we will be ranking teams. Like I mentioned above, we want premier night to be a celebration of all teams.

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If it turns out that long, I'd be okay with it lol

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Not if they start at 9pm EST, which I think they usually did.

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With a show like this, the longer the better.

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As someone who watched an impromptu M&J show at 2am a couple weeks ago, I couldn't care less when it starts or how long it goes. It's a celebration of all teams; it wouldn't be right to deny any team.

I do have one suggestion: go in order of descending team number.

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gregor i was looking for the like button on here i am to pumped for this show to start

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This is very smart.

I'm new to the Top25 casts; are they archived? (Certainly everyone's reveal videos will be available permanently, but as far as the commentary, etc.)

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179 is definitely a possible "maybe so", but we'll see. Could go either way...

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I'd take it one step further and save the top 5 most impressive videos for last and do a count down. (My initial thought was to go in order of least to most impressive videos, but I'm not sure I'd want my team to have the least imperssive robot video...).

I cannot wait for the show!

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I wouldn't put them from worst to best. [Some] people may lose interest and stop watching. Also, no one wants to be shown as the worst.
Instead, I'd start with a good one to grab the attention of everyone who normally doesn't watch/rookies. Then I'd proceed with semi-random making sure to scatter one's of well-known/good teams throughout to keep the attention of those watching. I'd also save the best few for the end.

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We TRY to archive. When we first started we were bad a remembering but we've gotten better. You can watch some of our archived shows on the link below. We hope you enjoy it!

http://www.livestream.com/mikeandjustinitm

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...what Dan said... goes for 180, too. I shopped the idea around and need to get one of our NEMs/students to make this happen .

Thanks,
Eric

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I guess I'll be the first to suggest that they draw from a hat. :)

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Justin and I aren't sure what we're gonna do yet, guess you'll have to wait and see! ;)

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Here's the newest updated list!

Teams who have expressed interest in showing a video on Premiere Night:
16
20
25
33
103
174
179
180
195
217
229
319
340
422
578
639
703
772
868
907
1099
1165
1305
1523
1640
1716
1730
1772
1986
2054
2408
2471
2495
2512
2637
2640
2791
2984
3337
3481
3528
3885
3929
4183
4320

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Have any teams delivered on this yet? Would be cool to get an update.

Mike and Justin - plans for length of the show/format?

As stated before, I think there are plenty of us robot crazed people who wouldn't mind being up for a while with this one. Those who can't can watch the recording or youtube videos anyway. No?

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Sorry, 578 wont be able to make a video this year.

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Not yet, we're assuming everyone is finishing up there robots, we expect to get some starting Wednesday/Thursday.

Not yet, everytime we guess how long a show is gonna be, we're wayyyy off. So I guess it'll be a surprise to everyone!

Weren't not crazyyyyyyy. ;)

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Justin/Mike,

We won't be producing a video, but would you be interested in a reveal picture during transitions between other videos? We will more than likely have 'glamour' shots.

-Parker

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I know this is your show you're running here, but seeing as you have all three world champs committing to this, I think grouping them together at the beginning or end may be in order.

Also would it be ok if:
a)a teaser that wasn't the official video was released publicly
b)the video would be sent out to sponsors and supporters, but not available publicly until Saturday?

The second one sounds ok, but I dunno about the first one.

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We did notice they all were interested! We'll have to see!

Perfectly fine :)

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Sure man, we'd be happy to show some pictures!

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Just a reminder, before you put your robot in the bag, shoot some video for Premier Night!

It's only 3 days away!!

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Will the webcast be recorded somewhere for those of us who may not be able to make the live showing?

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Do we really have to keep it secret until the video comes out? I'd like to post a picture or something to Facebook... :/

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Team 103 would like to send you a video, can I email the video as a private youtube link?? The file is too large to email. Please let me know! Thanks!

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The videos have started to come in!

We have received videos for:


25
103
2054
3266

Keep em coming!

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Its okay, I want to post mine too, so i just sent videos to some people on messenger lol

Im gonna try to not see our reveal video until premiere night, though i was driving when we were filming...

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So was it decided that teams are using Google Drive and sharing the video with you?

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Google Drive or directly emailing them the video would be the best way. If your not able to do this let me know and we can work out another set up to get the video to Mike and Justin.

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we were finally able to get some awesome footage tonight and we are hoping to be able to get a video edited together in time. ...after some much needed sleep, of course.

put 2481 down and hopefully we can get the video to you in time.

also, this is a pretty awesome idea, guys!