The problem you guys may not seem to realize is doing all of these things take up a lot of resources. Sargent productions has a crew at every regional, for them to add more camera operators and or a video mixer is a lot of money. During weeks with a lot of regional's and a champs Sargents crew is already pretty spread thin, running 4 fields plus Einstein plus vex and FLL adds up to a lot of video people and equipment, adding another video mixer and video feed to each field doubles the amount of video mixers that are hired and doubles the amount of video equipment needed.
while a fair amount of people watch the webcasts i am not sure if it enough to justify the extra cost to FIRST, when running the NJ webcast the guy from NASA was very impressed we had over 100 people witch really isn't that much.
For all the people bashing Sargent productions cameramen should stop they are very well educated and every dedicated to first, many I have met have taken the time to remember me and ask about me and my team at other events when i see them.
P.S: If Steve is reading this I would love a job
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