How will they top WILL I AM?
 

Any thoughts how they will try to top what they did for kick off last year? I am sure that Dean and friends have some tricks up their sleeves. My guess and this is just a guess is that it may be Barack Obama. That would explain the pre recording kickoff...

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

There is a presidential primary going on in New Hampshire the same weekend as the kickoff. There isn't a hotel in a couple of hundred miles available and the rates are ridiculous. You couldn't do a live kickoff there because no one could show up.

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

I'd be willing to bet there would be no live kickoff regardless of what events are occurring in the area.

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

They will have a robot Will.i.am. And they will announce many desirable rule changes.

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I'll just be happy if they give us a great game.

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Why?

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

As soon as it starts, Dean and Woodie walk on stage, and say just one thing:

"Minibot scores will be lowered"!

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The pre-recording announcement was issued before the primary date was set.

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Because learning the new FIRST game is more important than picking a new presidential candidate, duh! :D

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

I'm interested in why Cory is willing to make that bet.

Edit: It's easy to figure out the impact of the primary and what the safe action would be regarding that - before the date is established but having a pretty good idea...

Jane

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

Amen. I've been counting down the days until FIRSTmas....January 7th

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You celebrate that holiday too?! Every year my team has their annual FIRSTmas party! It involves endless speeches from Dean, waking up at 4 in the morning, watching the new game video, and spending more time in the robotics room than we do at our houses!

For those who don't celebrate FIRSTmas, it's closely related to your holiday of "kick-off", but a lot more fun, and you loose a lot more sleep. :p

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?
 

As for how they will top it. They will give us a game with logical bumper rules (none?), clear rules that don't need to be radically changed on update 1, suppliers that can actually supply parts in a timely fashion... and finally, by putting 5 fields on the floor of the dome again.


Live events cost money (yes prerecording costs money too) and limit what you are capable of doing. As I mentioned in the thread discussing the announcement this will allow FIRST to do some more interesting things such as having guests speak who would otherwise be unavailable for 2+ days to fly to frigid NH.

This just opens up new options for them.

This isn't based on conjecture, it comes from a conversation I had with John Dudas a couple weeks back at a STEM conference.

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^That, over and over again that

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^This. Plus it just doesn't feel like a decision that was made based on circumstance specific to this year.