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Re: Making FIRST Viral

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Originally Posted by apples000 View Post
What FIRST needs the most is more recognition. The problem is that nobody will go on youtube and search "high school robot competition". In order to have people searching for FIRST, they need to have heard of it. In my opinion, the championship needs to end up on TV again, like on ESPN like it used to be. Then, people would get interested in it, and look it up on the internet.
Just tossing this out there, but how hard would it be to get it on ESPN3? I would think they would be more prone to put it online on there, than they would on say ESPN. I know that TWC in Kansas City broadcasted elims this year on their MetroSports Net, which was pretty cool I thought!
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