[Wetzel]

I would like to make a comment on this based on my experiance as a ref. With 6 robots out there, there is the potential for action at 6 separate places on the field at the same time. It happens all the time, for two robots to be in a monumental struggle to score/prevent the score and all of a sudden a robot is on its back on the other side of the field. It is very hard, and I say impossible, for one person to be able to watch an active match and tell you what happened for each robot during the match. You get attracted to one action scene and miss another. (If you ever wondered why there were 8+ referees, you now know.) With selective shots of action and only one view available at a time, no group of people is going to be happy with all the choices of action made.

As for a static wide field view, thats most of what I saw on Thursdays webcast from Hotlanta. Some robots I just recognized, but otherwise I had a hard time just reading the team numbers on the scorecard, let alone on the robots themselves. I could see them pick of ringers fine, but couldn't tell who was doing it.

Wetzel