[Drivencrazy]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Not only this, but also webcast quality. All of the webcasts for the PNW events this year were extraordinarily better than the NASA streams at WCMP, and from what I heard, the PNW webcasts were all student-ran. FIRST should take a look at what PNW is doing and make that the standard for their streams, especially those at the prestigious World Championship. PNW camera operators also were familiar with the game and were able to focus in on the actual action, rather than simply zooming in to the part of the field where the most robots were, which is what FIRST told the WCMP operators to do. The WCMP also had a lot of weird camera angles, especially on Einstein.

For comparison, here is a PNW match, and here is an Einstein match.

I heard several complaints about the quality of the stream from people that weren't at champs. This seems to be working against FIRST's goal of "making it loud." If they are going to direct people who can't attend the event to the webcast, you would hope they would make every effort to have a quality stream. Maybe I have too high of expectations but I would think having 4 fields streamed at a decent (maybe not HD) quality without looping or skipping isn't too much to ask. Hope it's fixed for next year.