[FRCGameSense] Friday Finale with Frank and EJ!
 

What. A. Ride.
Just like Aerial Assist saved the best matches for last, GameSense is stepping it up to close out the season. Our season recap episode airs this Friday (5/2) at 8pm ET/5pm PT and features a full hour and a half of awesome guests and discussion.
We’ll kick things off with the Director of FRC himself, Mr. Frank Merrick, who is joining us for a discussion of the high and lows of Aerial Assist, how we felt the changes this season went and some of the new things we should expect to see in 2015 and beyond.

For the second half of the show, EJ Sabathia, mentor extraordinaire from the 2014 World Champion Cheesy Poofs will give his input on the strategy aspects of Aerial Assist, some of the late innovations we saw at Champs and on Einstein.
Of course, don't forget to send in your questions for the Q&A portion!

Our final live episode of the 2014 season promises to be packed from start to finish with insights and the reveal of the EWCP Fantasy Draft winners, so don’t miss it! (But if you do, you can always watch it later on YouTube)

See you Friday at www.twitch.tv/FRCGameSense and www.youtube.com/FRCGameSense!

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This is amazing.

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Awesome.

Also Awesome.


I hope they can be on the air at the same time to argue about corndogs.

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This will be epic. Can't wait.

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You guys got Frank to actually come on and do a show. That is absolutely epic. As long as we ask about the free corn dogs :D.

EJ's cool too. Always enjoy the 254 guys.

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This is pretty groundbreaking.

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This is great!! Fantastic bookings. Can't wait to see the show. :D

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We're just as excited as you guys! Frank's openness with the FIRST community is really top notch and I personally can't wait to talk FRC with him!

Don't forget to spread the word all of your teammates, parents, mentors, and friends!

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Amazing! Have to watch it on Friday!

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Raising the bar once again! Go GameSense crew, can't wait for the show!

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I know you have put a lot of focus on keeping the show around an hour (which is appreciated for most episodes), but I know I would be perfectly ok with a longer show (especially Frank's portion).

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Holy god Frank and EJ in the same episode? THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING

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OK, time to cancel all my other plans for Friday evening. Absolutely awesome - as "I am in awe of your ability to line up guests - especially THOSE two - for the show".

Wow.

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Frank and Mister Edge in one show? Nice.

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I've been watching these after the fact for the most part, but I'll have to catch this one live.

On a broader scale, GameSense has been a fantastic show with great guests and good organization all season long. Thank you to everyone involved for making such a great program and adding to the growing "off the field" FIRST community. I hope the show continues until the Water Game apocalypse.

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I've anticipated a lot of things about FRC in the recent past.
But this? EJ and Frank on the same show?

I dont usually watch this stuff live, but this time I will!

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Be sure to ask him about the 2015 game. 8 month build season!!

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Does this mean Frank is going to do the EJ shuffle for a live audience?

Nice work, guys. Gamesense is the best produced and orchestrated "unofficial" FRC media I've seen yet.

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Can we start a collection so mentors on Gamesense can eat corn dogs throughout the show to hopefully get the message across to Frank?

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Where can I find the archive for this episode if per chance I miss it live?

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We archive all of our videos on our Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/FRCGameSense/

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What's the best way to send questions for Frank live? Or do you prefer having questions ahead of time?

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If anyone has questions for Frank or EJ, send us a tweet at @FRCGameSense, or send a question to frcgamesense+question@gmail.com.

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Who needs a Friday night social life when we've got Frank AND E.J?!!! Plans canceled.

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Frank and EJ are in the house, we're going live in 20 minutes!

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Hey everyone, we're live now with Frank and EJ! Check it out at www.twitch.tv/FRCGameSense and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qCyw5TDxDU

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I was very interested in what Frank had to say about autonomous mode, but couldn't concentrate due to the 2012 hybrid video.

;)

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Frank just confirmed that there will be more divisions next year and that they may be named after women and minorities. Can't wait!

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Thanks for joining us Frank!

We are now live on Part 2 with EJ

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awesome show. loved it.

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Nice show tonight, really enjoyed watching it.
Also this:

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Has the YouTube video made it up yet?

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Sorry for the delay, we had a little too much fun in our 3-hour live AMA/hangout time and had a bit more post processing to do on the videos than normal due to some minor technical difficulties. On that note, if there's any problems with the youtube recording, like a part missing or something seeming out of order let us know and we'll get it fixed ASAP.

Check out our fun #SELFIE parody called #OMGRobots from tonight's show, here.

Part 1 of the show with Frank is here.

Part 2 of the show with EJ is here.

We'll post some chat logs and the recording of the live AMA session later tonight or tomorrow, so those of you who missed it can check out the awesome time we all had hanging out with Frank Merrick in the chat for 3 hours! Be careful, it ends with a rickroll courtesy of Frank. #FrankRolled

Don't forget to fill out our end of the season survey, we hope to make some big improvements before next year.

Thanks everyone for a great first season, we had a blast! Stay tuned for some fun off season content in the near future.

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And to think you guys "went to bed."

Seriously though that video was great. Loved having Frank in the chat afterwards answering all those questions. Cool to hear from EJ about the Poofs season.

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In all my years in FIRST, I have never seen such openness and detail from the GDC process.
"Strategic Depth"
"Interpretive Dance"
What is autonomous? RUR
Quality streaming, standardized formats. Fandom.

Thank you Frank.
I don't envy what is on your plate.
I'd rather build a Robot.
Lifting the black curtain to reveal glass doors.

GameSense is one of those wonderful things that arises out of FIRST
Thank you for your work.

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If you're interested in checking out what went down during our live Ask Me Anything (AMA) event after the show, the recording has been uploaded here. WARNING: It really is 3 hours long, that's what happens when you get so many FIRST fanatics together in an informal setting. :)

To follow along with what the chat said, and the questions we were answering (many of them were from Frank, himself!) check out the chat log, here.

If you're interested in the chat log from Part 1 or Part 2 you can check those out as well.

We do have chat logs from most of our episodes throughout the season, and are working to integrate those into our website to bring you a recorded viewing experience as close to the live event as possible! We are also looking into providing audio only recordings on the website in the future.

Please stay in touch throughout the off season, even if we're not live, we never stop talking robots! We have a lot of great plans in the works to bring you an even better show in 2015 season, and your comments and suggestions can only improve it!

Thanks again to everyone for all of the support and feedback!

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The aftershow was really entertaining, and I'm glad to see it posted. I missed your reaction to the #Frankrolled, so thats the part I'm going to first.

And sorry about the tetrix joke :D

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Getting #Frankrolled was definitely a highlight of my evening. Forgot to mention -- I had to remove the song from the recording because youtube immediately flagged it, but the youtube edit interface was somehow able to remove the song but leave our talking/reaction that happened at the same time. Pretty cool technology that I had no idea youtube could do.

For everyone that doesn't want to watch all 3 hours (That's a lot of time :eek: ) it is worth skipping to the end to watch the Director of FRC rick roll 70 live GameSense viewers at 1am EST. Only in FIRST...

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I've gotta say, that made my day. (Night?) I realize that it's a pretty big time commitment, but I think having something like that for the special event shows would be cool.

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Well done!

On the other hand it reminds me how far internet video has some since watching postage-stamp sized laggy video of kickoff a decade ago.

The discussion of the GDC and game design process was really interesting.

Thanks!

Jason