Kick-off Web Link?

[Jimmy Nichols]

Folks looking to stream the kickoff at school. Make sure you test it ahead of time. We don't work in the school, but host a local Kickoff at the school auditorium and twitch.tv is a blocked website by the district. Fortunately the district's IT person is a former FRC team member and is going to unblock it for kickoff day. But the process to get it the approval to unblock, for a 24 hour period only, took a couple weeks.

Not sure if The Blue Alliance feed will work as I haven't tried.

[MrRoboSteve]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Folks looking to stream the kickoff at school. Make sure you test it ahead of time.

+1 on this. There's nothing more frustrating than having a large group together for kickoff and not being able to watch it.

Regarding timing, the kickoff show starts at 10:30 EST. Based on previous years, here's what you can expect. It begins with a general welcome from FIRST leaders, welcome videos from sponsors, and then moves on to the game reveal. This is the point when the password for the encrypted game manual is shown. IIRC this was just before 11AM EST last year. The show wrapped with a series of detailed field walkthroughs. They're worth watching.

Pro tip: have your smartphone out and ready when the password is revealed.

[ollien]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Folks looking to stream the kickoff at school. Make sure you test it ahead of time. We don't work in the school, but host a local Kickoff at the school auditorium and twitch.tv is a blocked website by the district. Fortunately the district's IT person is a former FRC team member and is going to unblock it for kickoff day. But the process to get it the approval to unblock, for a 24 hour period only, took a couple weeks.

Not sure if The Blue Alliance feed will work as I haven't tried.

If it's anything like champs, it will just be a twitch embed.

[bobbysq]

Does anyone know if chat will be enabled for the stream? I'd love to pull chat up on my phone during Kickoff to see the reactions.