Originally Posted by Donut (Post 1260864)

In the case of FiM and the Kansas City Regional, were these production efforts done by FIRST volunteers or by the broadcasting station (mainly talking about the video editing)?

Originally Posted by z_beeblebrox (Post 1261267)

MSC, right now!
http://www.dptv.org/programs/robotic...cmpgn=shorturl

Originally Posted by Donut (Post 1261279)

I've been watching this all morning, this is one of the best feeds I've ever seen. Lots of camera angles, instant replay with drawing on the screen, announcer commentary, nice overlays for final scores and which teams are competing in a match. There's even an occasional interview. I feel like their camera crew is a little better at focusing on the most exciting action on the field than the typical FIRST webcast also (thanks for not zooming in on robots just sitting there!).

Originally Posted by J_Miles (Post 1261316)

... Dave Verbrugge, probably the most FRC-knowledgable man in FIRST in Michigan and possibly the world, is doing color commentary.

Originally Posted by Donut (Post 1260864)

In the case of FiM and the Kansas City Regional, were these production efforts done by FIRST volunteers or by the broadcasting station (mainly talking about the video editing)?

As more regions move to the District system it would be cool to see more of the District Championships along with the World Championships get productions done like this, even if it's an after-the-fact thing that gets rebroadcasted a month later. Given the number of Regionals and varying quality of play at them it wouldn't make sense to try to do this at every event, but being able to highlight the best of the best with elimination matches from these Championship events would make for good TV. It's not really any different than ESPN highlighting significant high school football games periodically.

Even if you can't get live coverage on ESPN, maybe something like PBS affiliates would do it.

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace (Post 1261317)

Probably, possibly? Make that definitely. Dave is the man. :cool:

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis (Post 1261330)

Dave's strategic insight is priceless. It is a huge asset to the viewer, it makes the whole game make so much more sense.

I also love that they are explaining what is going wrong with the robots when people are frantically fixing them. Breaking is big drama for the teams, but it often doesn't really get out to the audience as they are busy doing the Cotton Eyed Joe or Cha-Cha slide.

Originally Posted by GeorgeM (Post 1261490)

I couldn't agree more!

The only thing that I found surprising was how fast the teams were willing to give up their strategies to the LIVE viewers :ahh: !

A quick text to the opposing alliance and the strategy that was supposed to win could easily turn into the factor that makes them lose! :yikes:

Teams may "trick" the viewers as well, anticipating this. (Creating a whole new meta-game within strategy).

Originally Posted by PVCpirate (Post 1261497)

I mentioned it in the MSC thread, but I wanted to do it here too. This broadcast from Detroit Public TV was definitely the best live feed of an event I've ever seen. I'm gonna make a list because I feel like it deserves it:

• Great quality video stream with no ads
• Great commentary and analysis, educated me about the Michigan teams and filled in the time between matches
• Instant replay
• Split-Screen Autonomous view
• Interviews with team members gave better insight into what was going on than actually being at the event

Originally Posted by PVCpirate (Post 1261497)

Great quality video stream with no ads