[Kris Verdeyen]

I think that the trouble with the video footage is that there really isn't anything like FIRST that the camera operators could have had experience with. In sports, there is one ball, and if the director keeps picking the camera with the ball in it, then he'll do fine.

I have to admit, though, it's difficult for me to know where to place my gaze when I'm watching the game up close on the field. A good match gives you several places to look, each of which will typically exclude another robot that is probably also doing something interesting. I'd like to see what someone with video editing experience could do with all the available footage if he or she wasn't constrained to have the match run in real time. A 4 or 5 minute (or even a 1 or 2 minute) after the fact reconstruction of a match could be made very interesting, and useful.

Also, whomever had the idea of spinning the camera, I'm willing to forget that it ever happened, so long as you do too. That's how you film a lame 80's music video, not a world championship.