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Originally Posted by swwrobotics
Is there a registration process for going to the live broadcast? I come up to Manchester every year but I have no idea if you have to get some special invitation or what.
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There is no "live" broadcast anymore. Manchester watches the same webcast as everyone else. The only reason to come to Manchester is to meet old friends, go to the training sessions on Friday, go to the Founder's Reception Friday night, and get a brief chance to touch a competition field after the webcast.
Most (if not all) remote Kickoff sites have the low cost version of the playing field, hence the requests for field interaction videos. Rebound Rumble was a good case. The low cost bridge as built in the drawings was too easy to tip, and many teams didn't watch the FIRST field interaction video on how to weight the bridge to calibrate it to behave similar to the actual field element. This caused a fair number of teams to build bridge tipping mechanisms that weren't strong enough to deflect the bridge at competitions, but I'm sure it worked in their shops.
Sometimes, but not necessarily every year, one of our field interaction videos captures a piece of information that helps teams understand how the field and/or game pieces react or interact that isn't apparent from the rules, game animation, kickoff webcast, or other official FIRST resources. I think FIRST saw that there was a lot of interest in our field interaction videos and that is what prompted them to begin producing their own. They have been quite good, too, but we'll continue filming our own videos just in case we capture that "Ah ha" moment.