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Re: 2015 Lessons Learned: The Negative
I'll add quickly that while the championship in person is a great experience, I feel like those unable to attend and have to watch through the webcasts were treated somewhat poorly.
I understand some technical faults and whatnot through webcasts (dropped webcasts, cameras failing, etc.). I want to make clear that I am okay with the parts we can't fix, but rather what we can actually fix itself.
There's already been complaints of poor quality of the webcast. When I can say I prefer the Chezy Champs and PNW among others over how the championships were streamed, something isn't right about how FIRST streams. FIRST has to set a standard for streaming (and I mean in the sense that they have to be far more distinguished, not regulation)- it just looks so odd when another robotics team/organization is performing far more vastly than FIRST itself.
Also, there was just poor scheduling on the behalf of award announcements. Not once throughout the entire Einstein broadcast was it mentioned that Chairman's would be presented at the concert, and that concert in turn is streamed on the exact same stream. At the very least, it could be mentioned in the passing when the awards will be announced, instead of leaving all of us viewers confused about when it will happened.
There were also divisions being streamed through other division webcasts. I don't know if this was to entertain the crowd while the matches were starting since this was on Thursday, but that just seemed like a silly mistake to make.
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FRC 1529: 2010-2011
FRC 1501: 2012-2013, 2012 BMR winners (thank you 1756 & 4028)
FRC 461: 2015
2014 FF Elgin Clock Award Winner(Automated Scoring)
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