Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Newton wasn't doing that when I was watching it earlier, but Archemedes does seem to have commercials in between each match. Admittedly, they're much better than the commercials on TV, but I'd also like to watch teams setting up. It's a good way to pick out what robot belongs with what team when you're watching the webcast.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Galileo hasn't had any commercials yet (except at Lunch). Although I have heard from several people about Archmedies and the commercials. I know that it isn't the same but they have the standings and results posted here:http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=432&menu_id=80&terms=championship& rawsearchtype=1&fragment=false&SearchType=AndWords.

Also Try refreshing the webcast every once in a while. That has worked for me in the past.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I'm pretty tired of it too... I want to see my team setup...

Curie is being horrible with commercials.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

On Curie, if there is not a match or the score posted there are commercials, the same ones played over and over. I would rather see my kids setting up the robot or there team in the stands cheering for them. Most of the time they don't make it back to the match before announcing the teams and you miss seeing the kids all together.

jw

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Well all the stats have been updated except for Gal!

man, i want to see how far SparX fell from 1st since they lost the very last match.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I was watching the Archemedes webcast while doing physics with my friend this morning. When Buzz's match, match 22 started playing I stopped to watch. About half way through the match I realized that my friend was watching really intently. After the match ended she said "Wow! That was awesome!" I though that was pretty neat, because she had never seen a FIRST match before.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Trust me, I'm just as tired of seeing them as you are (even in person).

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Well, after the first day of the 2007 FIRST Championship, my alma mater team, 34 The Rockets, is ranked... 34 :cool: out of 86 robots in Curie.

Also, there's nothing coincidental about 1511 Rolling Thunder being 19 ;) out of 86 robots in Newton. Glad to see them on the rise.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I found the commercials to be rather silly. They cut in and out of them randomly, sometimes not showing the start of the match or the announcing of the teams. The commercials should be taken off.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Most of the time the sound was still comming through from the match, I didnt understand half of them. I hope they don't fix the sound, it might interupt my dancing! Afterall, got to keep in spirt even if your not there in the flesh. =D

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

i dont know why but i cant watch the real player version and the wmp version.
anybody have any idea how to watch it. it just says connecting.. and it just gives me this error:

Windows Media Player cannot play any items in the playlist. To find information about the problem, click the Now Playing tab, and then click the icon next to each file in the List pane.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I had something similar happen with a few of my classmates when I was watching the webcast with a teammate this morning in precalc. A few of them came over to watch, but none really stayed that long. The lack of sound probably didn't help much, the computer had no speakers.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

The public agenda says opening ceremonies were supposed to start at 8:30, but they're still playing the commercials over and over again. :( I wonder what's up?

EDIT: Nevermind, the matches are up now. :)

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Well, at least they came over to see what was going on =D That's pretty cool.

The only ones here that are watching it are me, my grandma (She's VERY impressed by what we build in 6 weeks, and how we act and all that), and my mom (Who is equally impressed).

Last year, when I was on drive team and we were in the finals at the midwest, my grandpa had a chance to watch the webcast. According to my mom, he was getting into it, thought it was amazing, and extremely proud of his granddaughter for being involved in something THIS cool =D (Unfortunatly, he passed away a week after he got to see me at the Midwest).

But I think it's pretty cool that so many other people think this is amazing. Webcasts are awesome because they can provide something of this experience to those who cannot be at the events.

Thank god for the webcast of the championships =D

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Where is the SOUND! We need sound on Curie!