[Amo10]

Just some background since I worked with Annika at three events this year, Georgia Southern Classic Regional, Peachtree, and a bit on the floor of Einstein. At both GSCR and Peachtree Annika was one of the two commentators of GameTime who preformed interviews with teams about different things they do and provided after match commentary after 3 or 4 matches during the eliminations. There was a team of people behind GameTime constantly watching matches throughout the event and keeping facts on teams. At Championship there wasn't a team of these people behind Annika although there was a team for the match break desk. She would catch someone from one of the teams, the camera guy would do white balance, and within 10 seconds she would be live in front of thousands of people interviewing someone. It was a constant rush and because of the way FRC is it is hard to fix the issue of the speed and depth of the field interviews with the window of time between matches. Luckily she is awesome so she isn't mad about all of the comments. I definitely think that there need to be some improvements to the commentary during Einstein but having worked behind the scenes of 3 commentary shows during this season I can tell you there is a lot more work and logistics than you expect with even simple interviews.
- Andrew