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Originally Posted by Taylor
What FIRST is missing is exposure. The type of exposure that creates top-of-mind awareness. The exposure that is enjoyed by major sports, created by massive marketing campaigns.
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Here's some of the stuff I want to see some day:
- Really high quality video feeds of every event, including organized archived matches, dual camera views (full field + one that tracks the action), and high resolution.
- A medium for viewing the video feeds that makes it really easy and fast to access info on the teams that are playing in each match to get some of the context and history that most viewers aren't aware of.
- Official stats kept for every robot in every match, and the availability of real time stats just like you get in a pro sporting event, like in MLB GameCast
- Nationally televised reality TV show that tracks the progress of several teams each year during the offseason, build, and competition seasons
- More exciting Einstein finals (no energy killing extras) that are ready for prime time
- Elimination rounds that are broadcast like a big pro game, with announcers who have access to a lot of info on the teams, replays shown of key plays, interesting statistics shown during down time, and bits of rules shown frequently (with diagrams and bits of animation)
- Automated Fantasy FIRST leagues that are easy to setup on Yahoo like other fantasy sports.
That would create something that people can follow in the way that people currently follow sports. The webcasts that we currently get are making some progress, but they still suffer from some issues that make them hard to follow unless you already have a decent idea of what's going on.
I'm not saying all of that is going to happen tomorrow, but if it did, I bet a bunch more people would get hooked on FIRST. They'd start out being hooked on the competition aspect, and some of those people would probably end up getting involved as volunteers or mentors or students.