This year, The Blue Alliance is providing LIVE coverage of the Kickoff Event from Manchester. Tune into this thread before, during, and following the webcast to find up-to-the-minute information about what is going on in Manchester. We'll be posting photos, videos, and descriptions of what's going on at Kickoff. Be sure to check it out for high resolution photos of the game elements and field, as well as video showing how the game elements behave and our other coverage of the event!
Our LIVE Kickoff Dashboard features the NASA TV Webcast, our LIVE Flickr Photos, our LIVE video clips we'll be uploading from the event, and our LIVE Twitter commentary feed. Check out the
Kickoff LIVE Dashboard for your one-stop site for Kickoff coverage. Everything on the page AJAX refreshes, so you never need to refresh the page, it auto-reloads!
Kickoff LIVE Dashboard
The LIVE Dashboard features the webcase, LIVE photos, LIVE video clips, and LIVE commentary that also will appear in this thread.
Note: All times are EDT (GMT -5)
The Live Coverage Starts Here:
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12:21 PM - Posted the game logo to flickr feed. Interviewing Woodie soon.
12:07 PM - Just interviewd Paul Gudonis; Waiting for Woody before posting photos
12:05 PM - The decryption key is: Drive!Straight?turn!LEFT!?
11:41 AM - We're going to interview Paul and Woodie now. Stay tuned for those videos.
11:33 AM - We want onboard Metallica!
11:29 AM - We're totally digging the use of video during Kickoff. Everything looks really great.
11:29 AM - What a crazy game! We're going to have to see the rules documents to totally understand it.
11:23 AM - It's a race! This game is shaping up to be quite unlike anything FIRST has seen before!
11:19 AM - The game! The game!
11:17 AM - Woodie speaks words of wisdom.
11:09 AM - Driving and turning left?! Overdrive? Copley Square? How does it all fit together?
11:00 AM - Dave we're loving the photos of you! And congrats on the Mars Rovers!
10:47 AM - Dave's demo looks really cool, we think he's up next!
10:36 AM - Dean Game Hint #4?
10:35 AM - Dean is talking now, and the fixed videos are up. We're excited to see the game soon!
09:27 AM - We're uploading our first video! See game predictions from people here at Kickoff.
08:24 AM - We're live on scene! Stay tuned to the Flickr Photo Feed for pictures from inside Kickoff!
07:04 AM - We're just getting up and getting ready for Kickoff. It is COLD in Manchester!
11:56 PM - We found a potential problem where we might have gotten overloaded tomorrow. We changed the twitter feed to cache on our site, and anticipate no problems!
03:14 PM - Testing out our updating scripts and getting ready to drive up to Manchester!