Making FIRST Viral

[JohnFogarty]

Where's that GIF of that team that fell off the pyramid and someone made a reversal of it where they flew back up onto the pyramid?

[magnets]

I found some pretty cool season highlight videos from a while ago (05/06), where there was a compilation of all the best moments like incredible scoring, weird and cool robot designs, the most exciting/high scoring matches, robots falling and breaking, and other really cool stuff edited together with awesome music. Through resources like TBA and soap, we have so much awesome video (254's climb, 71 in 2001, 111 in 2004 with their neat drive, 1114 in 2008 with their awesome accuracy/consistency, 469 in 2010, and the best FIRST Robotics video of all time 190's epic move in 04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nnGGRi-94). These videos would make a really really cool commercial for FIRST if it was put together nicely.

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by magnets

I found some pretty cool season highlight videos from a while ago (05/06), where there was a compilation of all the best moments like incredible scoring, weird and cool robot designs, the most exciting/high scoring matches, robots falling and breaking, and other really cool stuff edited together with awesome music. Through resources like TBA and soap, we have so much awesome video (254's climb, 71 in 2001, 111 in 2004 with their neat drive, 1114 in 2008 with their awesome accuracy/consistency, 469 in 2010, and the best FIRST Robotics video of all time 190's epic move in 04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nnGGRi-94). These videos would make a really really cool commercial for FIRST if it was put together nicely.

I honestly never saw that video before today. That is the greatest thing I have ever witnessed.

Besides last season in FTC when a robot accidentally deployed it's ramp in auton and a robot from the other alliance drop up onto it without falling off.

[NaomiCS]

here's a gif from wildstang 2004

possibly captioned: "when i try to do something cool"

[JohnFogarty]

See my problem with creating season/Championship highlight videos is when you have so many competitions and so many different fields it's almost impossible to catch all of the really excellent moments that happen at an FRC competition. Granted this won't stop me from trying to do so when I have the proper equipment at my disposal, but still. With a lack of HIGH DEFINITION quality video from competitions at field level....creating highlights videos is somewhat difficult.

[Anthony Galea]

I have heard that Intuit is sponsoring a contest for a 30 second commercial in the Super Bowl. If FIRST was to win that, I think it would be pretty good for introducing FIRST to most of the world.

[JohnFogarty]

Small businesses only with less than 50 employees.
I don't know of FIRST fits in that category. I would assume it could.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/31/wi...mate-ad-prize/

[mwmac]

Youtube Geek Week is Aug 4-10. http://www.eweek.com/cloud/googles-y...eek-week-event
Could be a chance to make it loud...

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by mwmac

Youtube Geek Week is Aug 4-10. http://www.eweek.com/cloud/googles-y...eek-week-event
Could be a chance to make it loud...

Brainiac Tuesday looks like the perfect day. Science and Education are synonymous with FIRST.

And for the record, I got 174 on the Geek IQ thing.

[Chadfrom308]

Well this sounds stupid, but what if we made the game like a zombie or end of the world game... like try to reach a goal before the world ends? It's something that is kind of trending now so it could be something that would help...

And I think we need a viral video or something so funny that it ends up on Tosh.0 as a web redemption

[JohnFogarty]

Looking through today's Geek Week videos I really think we missed out on an opportunity here...there were tons of robot videos that were getting high view counts today.

[Gigakaiser]

Regarding Youtube, it seems that if videos were named "team xxx's basketball-playing robot" or "High shcooler's frisbee throwing robot" rather than "team xx 2013 reveal", they would pull in more views. Darpa's video titles are very generic, leaving the potential audience wide open. A title change alone could have made 118's video viral I think - especially if the change mentioned the fact that their robot was built by high school students.

[Camilo86]

How about we spam everyone on facebook about FRC