To me Autonomous seems way overpowered this year compared to most. In past years when you would try to score an auto-specific gamepiece, if your autonomous failed, the gamepiece would be discarded on the field and basically considered debris. Other years without auto-specific game pieces you could score the same game pieces like any other in teleop but without the auto bonus.
This year was the first year that failure in autonomous could decide the entire match, not by being outscored by the bonus, but by the inability to score for half the match or more because you have to chase down and score the auto balls (and at lower point values, since no assists or trusses counted).
FIRST needed to implement a rule that allowed auto balls to be removed from play by simply getting them off the field, and not forcing teams to waste huge portions of their matches trying to score them.
Now, on the topic of LiveStreams...
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Originally Posted by luckof13
Maybe just the MC'c mics then? So that people watching know what is going on.
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Originally Posted by luckof13
Just stream the MC microphones.
Any decent audio mixer should have multiple outputs in addition to the main mix. Send a feed with just the MC mics to the steaming equipment, and the full audio to the main mix.
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Originally Posted by runneals
Work with youtube? They've only muted like 3-4 of my 100+ videos I uploaded from the KC regional this year.
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The issue with this is that YouTubes content detection is hyper-sensitive and zero-tolerance with livestreams (It's much more forgiving with uploaded videos). Our livestream for the GLBR District only pulled audio from the announcers mics, but small bits of ambient music would get picked up and flagged by YouTube, forcing the stream down. Furthermore, we were unable to get any feedback from FIRST HQ as to if the have any sort of licensing arrangements with music companies to even legally be able to stream the music, or for that matter, if they have ANY policy regarding streams.
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Originally Posted by Brandon_L
Its difficult to 'make it loud' with the webcasts we have running the way the are right now. If I tell some potential sponsor, friend, or even my grandma about this insane competition I'm a part of where robots shoot frisbees or pass balls and score, then I show them a webcast, its not exactly exciting. Michigan probably has the best example of what should be considered the norm. The state of the current webcasts are a turn-off for anyone other then mentors/students that already know whats going on.
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I completely agree that the Michigan State Championship has one of the best webcasts available, the problem for applying this to other events is that they bring in the local PBS station to manage the entire thing and bring about $50k+ worth of equipment to run it. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see this at other events, but it doesn't seem like something that's scalable, beyond State and World championships.