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Re: [FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday View Post
If I may make a few suggestions for next year, I would like to suggest:

-Allow all submissions as you did this year; it's great for lesser known teams to be able to be shown to the whole community like this was.

-Keep random order with a couple superpowers at the end. The format was great for letting us see robots of teams we wouldn't have normally recognized by dangling the really good ones randomly. It was also pretty exciting wondering when our video would get pulled.

-Cap video length at 2 minutes. As amazing as the robots were, it gets rather fatiguing to watch video after video. The long videos got, honestly, boring and weren't fair to those who ended up being pushed back to very late at night.

-Define exactly what you want in a reveal video; keep build season footage to a minimum.

-Start earlier. We had a viewing party for it and had to miss the best of them because everyone's parents wanted them home by midnight.

Overall an excellent event and one you guys should absolutely do next year. FIRST should make a Release Video competition judged on videography and actually give a legitimate award for it.
Had a great time watching while staying at work late. Thanks for doing this, certainly think its a cool thing for some teams to participate in, while other teams choose to release video throughout build season, which I also think is important.

I would like to offer a few suggestions

I would cap video length at 1:45 seconds, and specify that a maximum of 15 seconds are allowed to be pictures of video of something other than video of a moving robot. This can be epic introduction, pictures/video of the robot being built, credits, or thanking sponsors.

Randomize the the play list before the production begins, and keep the order secret. This will allow you to queue the next video without having to spend time to search for it.

Having a set play list and knowing whats coming up will also allow you to prepare what to say next, so you have a little time to prepare while the videos are playing.

Overrall great work, thanks for the entertainment
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