[FRC Blog] Kickoff!

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by tjf

My only point of contention is that quite a few schools block TwitchTV. Simulcasting to YouTube and Twitch may have been a better way to go.

At least the game reveal video is on YouTube regardless

This is my concern as well. I'm an avid Twitch user, but most web services will label it as "video games" and thus block it.

Originally Posted by Billfred

ChiefDelphi was blocked when I started with 1618 back in 2006. The teacher went to the district IT people, stated the case, and it was unblocked.

The last two years when I was the Kickoff coordinator for South Carolina, we got streaming information well in advance with opportunities to test it with a dummy video and make any needed adjustments with the IT staff (if only for the weekend).

I'm not a Kickoff coordinator this year, so I don't know when the email went out to coordinators. But this isn't their first time at the rodeo.

Not every team send their students to a kickoff location. Some just send a few representatives to pick up their kit of parts. While I was with 116, we always watched the kickoff together from our build site. Those teams now only have a few days to get Twitch unblocked by their school IT.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Not every team send their students to a kickoff location. Some just send a few representatives to pick up their kit of parts. While I was with 116, we always watched the kickoff together from our build site. Those teams now only have a few days to get Twitch unblocked by their school IT.

Same situation for us... I think I can bypass our filter with my one teacher computer, but we were planning on streaming it to three rooms at our school, since we will have 3 teams coming over to watch it with us. With school out until Monday, chances are small I can get our IT folks to fix it by Sat. Gee thanks for the heads up FIRST... Argghhh... I don't mind the change, but seriously, why do you wait until the last second to announce these changes!!

[Thayer McCollum]

Please tell me that I'm not the only one disappointed by the fact that they didn't release the encrypted game manual in this post. I saw that Frank made a post about kickoff and I was sure it would have the manual in it. But alas, no. Having it would give me some piece of mind. But oh well I suppose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Thayer McCollum

Please tell me that I'm not the only one disappointed by the fact that they didn't release the encrypted game manual in this post. I saw that Frank made a post about kickoff and I was sure it would have the manual in it. But alas, no. Having it would give me some piece of mind. But oh well I suppose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I agree.
It would be nice to put it all on our laptops/desktops while we are trying to prep for build season which is just several days from now.