FrankAnswersFridays: October 25, 2013: Safety at Championships

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by Cory

Given the option I don't think there's a single team that would rather watch the match on a screen rather than live when it comes to scouting.

There are tables to setup servers and printers, power outlets run to every few block of seats, stadium seating in comfortable chairs, and guest Wi-Fi internet access.

The premise is to provide scouts with all the things we wish our own scouts had at the events we've completed at. Of course the video/audio feed has to be good enough at the end of the day, but it needs to be good enough to identify the robots, and what they're doing. Having watched the streams from MI champs, and the HD WatchFIRSTnow streams, they were good enough for this, when they stuck to a fixed, full field view. With those streams and fixed views, I'm pretty sure our scouts could've tracked all the info we had asked them to record on our match scoring sheets.

We're even going to share our own team's live scouting data on secondary a screen off to the side for teams to cross reference their own, and live rankings on a third screen, all right beside the large HD video feed, so you don't need to run to the pits just to see the rankings.

I don't think any other event has tried this before, but I know our scouts will be lining up to set up in the ScoutCentre at the GTRW.