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I might of missed it when I looked around but does anyone have any footage from the finals in 2002. 180 vs 71 is something specific I'm looking for. I was actually at champs that year, but did not see the finals :-( I've always wanted to see it. From first hand recounts of those who wittnessed it, it sounds epic.

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You can download them here:
http://www.students.ccsu.edu/~rodriguezjel/2002/

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Wow, awesome thanks! Einstien Finals 2 was pretty epic.

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Hello All,

Here is another clip :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcgR2WM6qso

This is a sneak preview of the PBS 2-hour documentary regarding FIRST Robotics.

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Hey I saw my fat rear walking through one of those shots!

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In going through old team videotapes, 48 found some Beta SP recordings that we could not convert ourselves - we had no real idea what was on them. Luckily, Al Skierkiewicz of 111 was happy to convert them to DVD for us - thanks, Al!

What we appear to have is some raw, extended behind the scenes footage of the 1999 FIRST Championship elimination rounds, centering around the Technokats, Andy Baker, and their beastly-armed robot, TKO. I think this was a Delphi-commissioned camera focusing on the exploits of the Delphi teams at the event that year. We've got match footage of the brutal action. We've got students and mentors reacting to the highs and lows of winning and losing. We've got winning alliance celebration footage and interviews with 48's drive team and coach following the finals (we were part of the winning alliance with 176 and 1 even though we never got into a match - 176 and 1 had to be robust as heck for that to happen!).

We've got the star of the show - (high school student?) Andy Baker ("Andy - less talk, more work!" - Technokats student - classic!), Mark Koors, Raul Olivera, Dan Green, Woodie Flowers, Dean Kamen, and cameos from such people as Ken Patton, John Novak, Brian Beatty, and Chris Noble, among others.

We've got looks at robots from 45, 111, 84, 176, 1, 48, 131, 157, 16, 68, 27, and 71, among others.

I've got 5 of the 6 initial vids up. I'll have more of the closing ceremonies a bit later, including most of the awards (233, 254, and 291 receiving awards, among others), part of Dean's speech - the cameraman cut him off, for some reason ;) , and even the Disney-produced laser light/smoke/flame/stilt walker/scantily-clad dance team/Y2K-bug themed spectacle that wrapped up the Closing Ceremonies, just prior to the start of the wrap party within Epcot.

If you've never seen what Disney and the Einstein stage/stadium were like at Epcot Center, these videos will give you an idea. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/user/homarv13...0EDA122AFA63BE

Feel free to check out other old match videos on the same channel - I've already put up a lot of vids from 2000-2005 (sorry for the audio cuts in certain videos - I wish YouTube would just cut the portions of the audio track that have copyrighted music and not the whole dang thing).

Enjoy!

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Thanks travis!

-Brando

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No problemo. :) All the videos are up now, including a large portion of Dean's speech and the finale performance gala spectacular thingie on Einstein.

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Thanks so much for uploading these videos!

After spending the last 2 years just looking at our 1999 robot, sitting in it's case in the corner of our shop, I was dying to see some footage of it in action, but could never find any. Definitely very, very cool :D