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ttldomination 13-04-2008 22:13

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Wow. That's amazing...and great PR. What's the documentary for? Government? News? TV show?

Akash Rastogi 13-04-2008 22:19

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Originally Posted by Lavapicker (Post 736298)
One more day of school and then its on the plane for 14 hours! BTW, we are being filmed by an independent film company, Fleur De Lis films, for a documentary on the whole experience of FIRST. Its called "the superbowl of smarts". We are one of three teams they've been following this whole year. They've followed us home to interview the families and followed us in SVR with its controversial ending and in Honolulu. There's a chance that teams we partner with, and against, will end up in the final cut which they hope to release at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Its been an awesome privilege to have this past year documented by a professional crew. You can catch a preview of their video from last year at: http://www.fleurdelisfilms.com/html/Welcome.html
I can't wait to see the final cut! Archimedes teams will be part of the final story so be prepared! Aloha

That's pretty sick. Hopefully I can pop my face in there :P

Awesomely cool though and nice work.

Alex Dinsmoor 13-04-2008 22:20

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Originally Posted by ttldomination (Post 736321)
Wow. That's amazing...and great PR. What's the documentary for? Government? News? TV show?

Seeing it's going to be at sundance, I would think it's just a really cool documentary. Maybe to eventually be on TV.

Also if any teams are staying at the Sleep Inn Buckhead for Atlanta contact me via PM if you want to talk, play cards, or play ultimate Frisbee against the FEDS there.

ajisjesus 14-04-2008 04:32

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Originally Posted by ttldomination (Post 736321)
Wow. That's amazing...and great PR. What's the documentary for? Government? News? TV show?

its a indy film thats trying to highlight FIRST and the people involved... First has been around for awhile and now its time that it gets the right recognition. It is something that everyone involved should be very proud of. The film crew thats been following us around are some pretty cool people so if yo ever catch them off the record stop and say hi! show off some of that wonderful GP!:D

Uberbots 14-04-2008 07:02

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Originally Posted by ajisjesus (Post 736433)
its a indy film thats trying to highlight FIRST and the people involved... First has been around for awhile and now its time that it gets the right recognition. It is something that everyone involved should be very proud of. The film crew thats been following us around are some pretty cool people so if yo ever catch them off the record stop and say hi! show off some of that wonderful GP!:D

Ill be sure to try (=

2 days!!! the tension is building...

Danny McC 14-04-2008 07:20

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I leave tommorow and will only be able to be on CD during the night when we stop for the night. Driving there will be a perfect way for me to get my hacky sack skills back.

Qbranch 14-04-2008 07:54

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Originally Posted by Uberbots (Post 736447)
Ill be sure to try (=

2 days!!! the tension is building...

Even my laptop is gettin excited!

(and by excited I mean charged ;) )

I know we've talked about what hotels everybody is going on, but are there any IndianaFIRST teams that are flying on the same flight as us?

We have two seperate groups going down, one small group wednesday evening, one large group thursday morning... so, unfortunately I don't have the flight information for the large group... but anyhow:

> IND -> ATL: AirTran 195 (departs wednesday, 6:19pm)
> ATL -> IND: AirTran 400 (departs saturday, 10:59pm)

-q

Peter Matteson 14-04-2008 08:51

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One thing I wanted to throw out there based on the comments I've been seeing.

Remember when it comes to the Championship after alliance selection what really determines the winner in many ways is reliability.

Quick math for everyone to remind you:
7 qualifying matches
Min 6 divisional elim matches
Max 9 divisional elim matches
Min 4 Einstien matches for a Champ
Max 6 Einstien matches for a Champ

That means you have to run 17-22 matches to win the Championship.
10-15 of which are Saturday afternoon eliminations.

Just something to keep in mind when you select alliances.

Edit: IMO 2 of the Uberbots, High Rollers and Rush will be allied and win the division barring a mechanical/bad luck incident.
Uberbots were a hair away from Einstin last year so they can taste it and High Rollers and RUSh both Have Championship credentials.

DUCKIE 14-04-2008 10:25

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I may have missed it during my quick skim through the 8 pages of posts that occurred while I was a camping over the weekend if I did I am sorry but...

Do we know who our Emcee and Announcer are yet?

Peter Matteson 14-04-2008 10:50

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Originally Posted by DUCKY (Post 736520)
Do we know who our Emcee and Announcer are yet?

Not Blair.:(
He always does Galileo.

dlavery 14-04-2008 11:19

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Originally Posted by Lavapicker (Post 736298)
One more day of school and then its on the plane for 14 hours! BTW, we are being filmed by an independent film company, Fleur De Lis films, for a documentary on the whole experience of FIRST. Its called "the superbowl of smarts". We are one of three teams they've been following this whole year. They've followed us home to interview the families and followed us in SVR with its controversial ending and in Honolulu. There's a chance that teams we partner with, and against, will end up in the final cut which they hope to release at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Its been an awesome privilege to have this past year documented by a professional crew. You can catch a preview of their video from last year at: http://www.fleurdelisfilms.com/html/Welcome.html
I can't wait to see the final cut! Archimedes teams will be part of the final story so be prepared! Aloha

Kim Gibbs, the director and producer of the film, has worked at many of the regional and championship competitions over the past five years, and has seen a lot of the program from the event management side of things. Like many of us, she got bit by the "FIRST bug" at her very first FIRST event, has been working to get this film made to tell the world more about FIRST ever since. The film is a documentary of the experiences that the teams actually go through as they design and build their robots, compete, and come together as teams. To do this, the film crews are following Team 1868 (Space Cookies - Newton Division), Team 1583 (Rambotics - not attending Championship) and Team 2024 (Kekoa E Haaheo - Archimedes Division).

Most already know about the current PBS show that is also being filmed by Story House Productions this year. The "Superbowl OF Smarts" film should be a very complimentary piece that is going after a different audience. The PBS piece will be shown exclusively on PBS broadcast television, and the "Superbowl Of Smarts" film is targeted at theatrical release, to be shown at independent movie theatres and film festivals. Together they will reach a broader audience than either effort would alone, and help tell the "FIRST story" to a much larger portion of the public.

Team 116 and NASA are funding a bit chunk of the production as part of our outreach efforts. Based on some of the B-roll footage and very early cuts that I have seen so far, the film will do a lot to show off the talents and skills of all the participating teams. But more important, it should be a great tool to have when we are all trying to answer the question "so what is FIRST all about, anyway?"

-dave



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Protronie 14-04-2008 11:23

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Theres been talk of dream alliances... IMHO 1024,2024, & 2424 would be nutz!
Think I'm going to play a 2/4 daily double today :rolleyes:
(thats a horse racing bet for those that don't play the ponies ) :cool:

-p

Uberbots 14-04-2008 11:25

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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson (Post 736490)
Uberbots were a hair away from Einstin last year so they can taste it and High Rollers and RUSh both Have Championship credentials.

Man, what a hair that was. What was it (barring the DQ)... 2 points?
:(

You guys definitely deserved to get to einstein more than us though... just look what happened (=. And 1592's arm rested on our camera last year, which broke our autonomous.

ttldomination 14-04-2008 12:17

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COOL>>>>>I'm excited...only 2 more days to go not counting today. man...i wish we could stay in a hotel and do fun team stuff...but nah..we're at home...we'll be driving up every morning.

George A. 14-04-2008 13:26

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Originally Posted by DUCKY (Post 736520)
I may have missed it during my quick skim through the 8 pages of posts that occurred while I was a camping over the weekend if I did I am sorry but...

Do we know who our Emcee and Announcer are yet?


The Queen of Cool Chiniqua Gallop is the MC for Archie, and the incomparable Don Knight will be your Game Announcer.


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