Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

When The Blue Alliance travels to Manchester, NH to cover the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff on January 5th, we will be providing LIVE coverage of the event. There will be photos, video, and up-to-the-minute announcements of what is going on at the Kickoff Event!

A live coverage thread will be posted the night before kickoff, and constantly updated from the event! Pull up the thread the morning of Kickoff to see The Blue Alliance's LIVE photos, video, and coverage of the event!

If you have suggestions for specific things you would like to find out about, let us know in this thread. Otherwise, just watch the LIVE Coverage thread alongside the kickoff feed as we all find out what challenge FIRST has cooked up for us in 2008!

What do you want to see on site and behind the scenes at Kickoff?

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

Are you going to be in Manchester for the workshops at FIRST HQ as well?

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

Personally I would like more coverage of the field and game piece interactions. A lot of times it is hard to determine just from the Kickoff broadcast how exactly scoring objects will behave in certain scenarios, for example in last years game how exactly the spider legs behaved when pushed from different angles. I really had no clue just how crazy the rack could get until I was at my team's first regional. I think the live coverage is a great idea and I will definitely be tuning in to blue alliance on my laptop while I watch the Kickoff on NASA TV.

Mike C.

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

Is it possible for Blue alliance to host the manuals on the alliance website for faster downloads?
Thanks

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

Unfortunately, no we will not be.

This is going to be one of our focuses of coverage. We'll have video of how the game objects behave, as well as high resolution photos of the field and game elements.

I'm not sure what FIRST would think of this, especially as they often release updated versions of the manuals through build season. I don't think it will be a problem this year, and you can always grab the encrypted copies now!

If anyone has any other specifics they'd like to see covered, let us know! We're headed up Friday evening to Manchester, and it ought to be a great kickoff!

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

The plan is to videotape the workshops and post them on the training site as done in previous years: http://first.wpi.edu/Workshops/index.html

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

Can you somehow bring a comparison object (ruler, older game object like poof ball, common object like a CD) to compare it to the game objects? I think that'd help a lot with creation of them along with planning.

Re: Announcing LIVE coverage of 2008 Kickoff!
 

My body is a pretty standard unit of measure.
"This tube is .42 Tom's wide"

Anyway.. Good idea Joe, will do.