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Originally Posted by Siri

Just throwing it out there -
As much as I appreciate everyone's efforts to document the history of FIRST, is this maybe something FIRST itself should be doing? They're always about PR and Making it Loud, but they have all of us struggling to record and archive matches independently. Any thoughts on directing some of the effort in these struggles towards procuring an official solution?

If we just waited for FIRST to do things, they'd never get done. That said, webcasting (and archiving) is the next thing FIRST needs to standardise. Ideally, they'd work out a deal to get a 4G Mobile Hotspot for each event, set up a single space for all webcasts and archives. HD would be great, but they haven't even gotten there for Championship yet, so I'm not holding my breath.

Given how bad FIRST has been for so long at similar things (FMS problems, match results/rankings/etc page inconsistency, @FRCFMS inconsistency), they would probably need to hire some good people or contract a legit company to get a system like this working well. I just can't see it happening in the next couple seasons (prove me wrong, please!).