Old School FRC Match Videos - Who Has Them?

[KrazyCarl92]

They are mostly linked off youtube for the earlier ones, but the 2008 and later ones are from us.

Actually, we have Andy Baker to thank for all of the 2001 and earlier videos. Thanks Andy!

[OZ_341]

Here is a link for the "2009 Ramp Riot 10 Year Anniversary" video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJMtfNHPO0

This is a single 8 minute video that has clips of every game from 2000 - 2008.
I don't think this is exactly what Ryan is looking for, but it does show all (9) games in a fun and compact format.

I know I have digital files of full matches from 2000 through present as well. I will search.

[Ryan Dognaux]

While all of the existing stuff on YouTube is great, I'm really hoping to find a few people who know people that have, for example, the entire 2003 Arizona regional on VHS, or all of a specific field from Championships in 2005, etc. I hope that someone is just sitting on a gold mine of old match footage that we could help get uploaded.

[coalhot]

This has to be my favorite channel on Youtube: Andy Baker's channel

I'd love to see some old school match videos. However, I have a feeling that video from many events will be difficult to obtain, being on VHS and from so long ago.

The only team I can think of from the MAR area that would have such match footage would be (I think) MOE, I remember they always had a VCR recording matches. I don't know how far back though...

[magnets]

A huge number of videos were archived at soap108.com, but that site seems to be gone. It eventually went to soap.circuitrunners.com, but that doesn't work either. In the past weeks, our team has gotten a couple of videos from the wayback archive, but I'm having trouble finding and getting videos. Somebody with more skill could probably figure out how to grab those videos, or maybe somebody from team 108 still has them. BTW, what happened to SOAP?

[KrazyCarl92]

I know a couple of people on our team have VHS tapes we've watched from time to time of seasons past, I can try to get in touch we people who might be aware of any video we would have.

[magnets]

Some (I'm not sure how many) of the videos from soap108.com can be found here.

[Travis Hoffman]

1999 Championship Finals (behind the scenes, feat. famous people and such): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC10EDA122AFA63BE

Random Team 48 match videos from 2000-2007:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL451A5331A7D37056

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

1999 Championship Finals (behind the scenes, feat. famous people and such): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC10EDA122AFA63BE

Random Team 48 match videos from 2000-2007:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL451A5331A7D37056

Travis, do you have the 2003 Canada SF1-2 match?

1075 would have been playing in it.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

I have a pile of VHS tapes sitting on my shelf at home, collecting dust!

Mostly they are from 1999, 2000, and 2001 - I"m not sure if they are full events (Chicago, Great Lakes, etc.) or just our matches, but I'll try to look. I also have VHS feeds from WI in 06 and 07 I believe, as well as some SOAP discs (as others have mentioned).

I'll try to compile a list of what I have and compare to what's out there already. Parsing the video will take a while though..

Kevin

[plnyyanks]

Once digitized, splitting up the matches can be made much simpler with these python scripts intended to help with just that

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92

I know a couple of people on our team have VHS tapes we've watched from time to time of seasons past, I can try to get in touch we people who might be aware of any video we would have.

If you find out someone that has some let me know, I'd be happy to borrow them & capture the footage from them.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by magnets

A huge number of videos were archived at soap108.com, but that site seems to be gone. It eventually went to soap.circuitrunners.com, but that doesn't work either. In the past weeks, our team has gotten a couple of videos from the wayback archive, but I'm having trouble finding and getting videos. Somebody with more skill could probably figure out how to grab those videos, or maybe somebody from team 108 still has them. BTW, what happened to SOAP?

Soap and the people of soap slowly dissolved. A couple years back I was asked to allow them to point the soap url through my server but shortly there after the url expired.

[magnets]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

Soap and the people of soap slowly dissolved. A couple years back I was asked to allow them to point the soap url through my server but shortly there after the url expired.

Do you know if the videos hosted on soap were lost, because some could probably be hosted on TBA. Also, some of the videos from soap can be found on the internet archive here if you search .asf, .wmv, or .mov in the links.

[Joe G.]

Does anyone have video of Chief Delphi's famous 2000 robot? I've been hearing my entire career about how this robot was years ahead of it's time, and won competitions in dominating fashion. But the only video I've been able to find of it is a single match posted by Andy Baker, the one match in which it broke down and was upset at the championship event.