The Future of FIRST Competition Video Streaming

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by coalhot

I doubt the stream quality has to do with the service you're using. I've watched plenty of Starcraft 2 tournaments on Twitch at full HD. I have a feeling it's just that the Canadian webcasters have better hardware and better internet connections at the events.

The Canadian webcasters (WatchFIRSTNow, @bochek on here), have some seriously nice hardware. They also have a Premium UStream account paid for by FIRST Robotics Canada. That's why none of the Canadian Regionals had ads on their webcasts at all.

At the events? I can tell you for sure at ONTO (Oshawa) that they were using the University's network, which runs at about 35Mbps up/down. They were streaming 720p.

ONTO2 is the worst of the bunch. For some reason, they've had real trouble getting a functional internet connection at the Hershey Centre for years.