[jason_zielke]

Thanks for all the great comments about IRI. We are all honored by your compliments and are happy to be able to host so many great teams!

As for youtube streaming, I am happy to help anyone interested head down that path. I did the work to get our account setup for Live Streaming. In order to get the access, we leveraged the status of IndianaFIRST as a 501(c)(3) organization to get approved under the Google for Non-Profits program. This was a multi-step process.

Youtube offers a few advantages over others including DVR, automatic archive, HD streaming and automatic conversion to lower resolutions that allows each viewer to stream at an appropriate quality level for his/her internet connection. I believe this last benefit significant improves the viewing experience for the at home and mobile audiences.

There are a couple disadvantages as well. Youtube has a fairly strict policy around audio copyrights and the support/knowledge base for live streaming on youtube is limited. As long as everything works, you are good...if not, it is not always easy to determine why.

As many of you may have noticed, we had to switch to Ustream for the finals at IRI. For some yet to be determined reason, Youtube decided about 1 p.m. to restrict our live streaming to a single stream. So, we stuck with the HD full field view on youtube and went to Ustream with the multi-camera stream.

Additionally, a couple of the archived videos from the full field camera and the archive of the multi-camera stream are currently restricted due to copyright issues because of background music. We attempted to use a separate audio input with just the field sounds, MC mic and Game Announcer mic but some of the music come through on the Announcer's mic. We still have more work to do to figure out a solution here.

Please feel free to PM me if you want help getting setup with a youtube account.

Also, a special thanks Team 2337 EngiNERDs and especially to Colin for manning the computer for all the individual match archives and Clinton for bringing the full-field GoPro camera setup.