EWCP RoBroChat Pre-Championship Podcast

[Chris is me]

This evening members of the East West Collaboration Group, (or EWCP for short) recorded a podcast discussing this year's championship event over a Skype conference call. Topics touched on include dome layout, individual division predictions, Chairman's predictions and other various topics. We were as impartial as we could be when we spoke about teams that are part of our collaboration group. We were also as objective as possible when speaking of other teams in general. This was not a live broadcast, it was simply recorded from our conference call. The small but opinionated panel included;

Akash Rastogi (FRC 3553, 11 alumnus)
Andrew Schreiber (FRC 27 alumnus)
Dustin Benedict (FRC 816)
Chris Picone (FRC 2791, 1714 alumnus)
James Tonthat (FRC 1477)
Nick Lawrence (FRC 1503)

We hope you enjoy. Here is the link: http://www.schreiaj.com/Brocast/2011...Discussion.mp3

[rcmolloy]

Pretty solid guys and Dustin's "bro-ness" still ceases to amaze me though.

[Andrew Schreiber]

We decided to do this because we were having a lot of discussions about it and figured some other people might be interested in hearing them. I guess I need to give a heads up, there is a bit of coarse language and a lot of sarcasm but I think we tried to do our best to be objective and honest about the teams we mentioned.

If anyone has suggestions for software for doing this let us know. We just talked over Skype and Chris recorded it with [SOMETHING] and I think it turned out ok. I'm also looking for a better host. My webserver works ok but I know there are dedicated places for hosting mp3 files that do a lot more than just provide space.

[roboticWanderor]

haha. great discussion guys. i would have loved to listen to your design
discussions.

[Akash Rastogi]

We'll be doing these in the offseason on different topics anyway, but if you guys actually like what we discuss we'll continue to record our discussions and toss them up online. Let us know what you think. Probably a Championship reflection discussion as well.

[Aren_Hill]

Made it through, you guys talk alot. Props for giving an honest and in depth assesment of who to look out for in each division. I'd be up for hearing you debate in the offseason on robot design related stuff.

[BrendanB]

Any way to download this? I'm thinking this would be a great soundtrack for my non-stop flight tomorrow morning!

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Any way to download this? I'm thinking this would be a great soundtrack for my non-stop flight tomorrow morning!

Pretty sure you can right-click and "save as" and it should download as an MP3.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Any way to download this? I'm thinking this would be a great soundtrack for my non-stop flight tomorrow morning!

Right-click save target as.

[Nick Lawrence]

Gotta say, this was tons of fun. Look for more of these in the future.

-Nick

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Pretty sure you can right-click and "save as" and it should download as an MP3.

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

Right-click save target as.

Thanks, my computer can be a pain most of the time and it wasn't allowing me to download it or right click on the link and Norton wouldn't let me open it as it thought it was a virus.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Thanks, my computer can be a pain most of the time and it wasn't allowing me to download it or right click on the link and Norton wouldn't let me open it as it thought it was a virus.

I'm pretty sure it isn't unless Chris is playing a big prank on us all...

[Chris is me]

I recorded the call with Call Graph, a really simple piece of software that records Skype calls. It mixes half the call into the left channel and half of the call into the right channel, so that you can do some editing later on. For this cast all I did was convert it to mono and upload it, but in the future I'd be willing to do some more extensive post production.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I'm pretty sure it isn't unless Chris is playing a big prank on us all...

No I'm pretty sure it is my computer!

[Andrew Schreiber]

We are planning on recording a Day 1 recap while in St Louis sometime on Thursday night. Check here for that link.

Topics may include:

• Epic Matches
• Epic Meltdowns
• Dome Impressions

If there is interest I will attempt to put this into iTunes if that would make it easier for people.