Opening ceremonies not sent to divisions

[Mike Martus]

What are opinions about the opening ceremonies feed not being sent to divisions. The divisions are full of paying customers that cannot see it.

I think it is a big blunder on the part of FIRST.

Other opinions?

[connor.worley]

I doubt anyone's going to move. Definitely a blunder.

[arizonafoxx]

Did the opening ceremonies get sent to the webcasts? I have never missed an opening ceremony for Worlds yet but it looks like this will be the first year. Can't find any of the webcasts showing them. I also think its sad that they do not broadcast the ceremonies to all the field. I mean come on how hard is that to do.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by arizonafoxx

Did the opening ceremonies get sent to the webcasts? I have never missed an opening ceremony for Worlds yet but it looks like this will be the first year. Can't find any of the webcasts showing them. I also think its sad that they do not broadcast the ceremonies to all the field. I mean come on how hard is that to do.

It will be webcast on the Einstein stream

[Akash Rastogi]

Einstein is streaming on Gameday

http://www.thebluealliance.com/gameday#view_0=2013cmp-1

[FIRST_Parent]

Does anyone have a link to the fields that is iPad or iPhone compatible? None of the First or Blue Alliance links work for me.
Thanks in advance

First_Parent

[Jimmy Nichols]

The Einstein feed just went down. Showing a splash screen that opening ceremonies will be held on Einstein and that the screen won't be displaying opening ceremonies.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

The Einstein feed just went down. Showing a splash screen that opening ceremonies will be held on Einstein and that the screen won't be displaying opening ceremonies.

Closed and reloaded and back up!

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

What are opinions about the opening ceremonies feed not being sent to divisions. The divisions are full of paying customers that cannot see it.

I think it is a big blunder on the part of FIRST.

Other opinions?

This is how I remember it being done since forever. I understand the logic - they want everyone to watch at Einstein - and the logistics - they are really not set up to feed one field's feed to another (although not a difficult problem to solve) - but this isn't something new.

Originally Posted by FIRST_Parent

Does anyone have a link to the fields that is iPad or iPhone compatible?

I do not believe that any mobile-device-compatible feed is available. Sorry.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

This is how I remember it being done since forever.

I recall last year that they were fed to the other fields screens.

I was sitting on the floor at Galileo for opening. For closing I was sitting along the side of the chairs on the floor and could see the feed on Galileo's screen.

[Michael Hill]

Ya, this was a terrible idea.

[JohnBoucher]

They should of been on every video feed available, webcast, divisions and the pits. I hope it was a misunderstanding and not a deliberate decision.

[Daniel Brim]

Since this thread has been pretty one-sided, I'll offer the devil's advocate position. If you donated thousands/millions of dollars to FIRST, would you want to be giving a speech to a mostly empty crowd?

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brim

Since this thread has been pretty one-sided, I'll offer the devil's advocate position. If you donated thousands/millions of dollars to FIRST, would you want to be giving a speech to a mostly empty crowd?

They didn't have enough seats to fit everyone within the viewing angle of the Einstein area. They could have at least had audio through the whole stadium.

[JohnBoucher]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brim

Since this thread has been pretty one-sided, I'll offer the devil's advocate position. If you donated thousands/millions of dollars to FIRST, would you want to be giving a speech to a mostly empty crowd?

You would be reaching all those that could not make it to Einstein. The inspectors, the volunteers and the teams needing to be in the pits. If I were donating money, I certainty would expect to be webcast.