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Re: Television?
Posted by Chris Hibner at 04/19/2001 1:39 PM EST


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In Reply to: Television?
Posted by mTd on 04/19/2001 12:22 PM EST:



: For the most part, Battlebots contains "polished" robots. Practically all of them are excellent. FIRST on the other hand has many great robots, but the percentage is not as high. All the best robots are in the finals though.

I don't agree that the robots in Battlebots are that great. They're mostly just drivetrains with the occaisonal spinning saw blade. And the driving is terrible! Even the least capable of the robots in FIRST this year could throw a wedge around themselves and be a decent battlebot.

Besides, at nationals there were roughly 620 matches (550 qualifying and 70 finals). If you were to have a series of 1 hour shows, each show would probably contain about 10 matches along with interviews and stories. Each season of any show is 22 shows, which means 220 matches get shown. This means that 400 matches can be discarded if the action is boring or the robots aren't attractive enough or whatever. This doesn't even count the regionals, which would probably have some matches that would be broadcast.

In other words, there is more than enough matches to choose from so that the robots appear "polished" and the action is interesting.

The other thing that would be attractive to TV is that the stories behind the teams would be pretty good human-interest material.

As far as games go, I thought last year's game had good TV potential - there were no multipliers and only a few ways to score. The game was easy to learn and follow, yet the game was still interesting for the teams. It will be a good challenge for FIRST to see what they can do for next year.

I think that FIRST needs to develop the game early, and then try and market it to TV BEFORE the kickoff so that the TV crews will be at all of the events getting footage for the TV show. Having a game and expecting to get coverage after the fact usually doesn't work. The key is to market the GAME to the networks. They must feel that the game is interesting if they're going to show it.

-Chris


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