Field Match Lists and Webcast

[Mr. Lim]

Hey everyone! My company is holding a webcast party to watch the Championships. This will be the first time I've watched the Champsionships via Webcast and I have a few quick questions about them:

1) Does anyone know if Match Lists will be posted on the FIRST website for all the fields? Would an extremely generous set of volunteers in Atlanta be willing to post all the matchs on each field in a thread on CD if FIRST isn't able to do so?

2) Will all four field be webcast during the qualification rounds? If so, how do we switch between the different fields? Are there 4 seperate webcast feeds?Is there a URL which will show all the seperate feeds to each field?

Thanks in advance!!!

-SlimBoJones...

[Cory]

Originally Posted by SlimBoJones

Hey everyone! My company is holding a webcast party to watch the Championships. This will be the first time I've watched the Champsionships via Webcast and I have a few quick questions about them:

1) Does anyone know if Match Lists will be posted on the FIRST website for all the fields? Would an extremely generous set of volunteers in Atlanta be willing to post all the matchs on each field in a thread on CD if FIRST isn't able to do so?

2) Will all four field be webcast during the qualification rounds? If so, how do we switch between the different fields? Are there 4 seperate webcast feeds?Is there a URL which will show all the seperate feeds to each field?

Thanks in advance!!!

-SlimBoJones...

In response to your second question, in the past all four have been webcast separately. There should be 4 links off this page.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Cory

In response to your second question, in the past all four have been webcast separately. There should be 4 links off this page.

What about on NASA Tv?

Is it one feed for all 4 fields?? All at the same time, or switching back and forth between the 4 fields?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

What about on NASA Tv?

Is it one feed for all 4 fields?? All at the same time, or switching back and forth between the 4 fields?

No clue about NASA TV. I would assume that they rotate fields or something.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

What about on NASA Tv?

Is it one feed for all 4 fields?? All at the same time, or switching back and forth between the 4 fields?

They switch back and forth among the fields, and it's seemingly at random. In the past they haven't even shown full matches.

[Goobergunch]

Originally Posted by Cory

In response to your second question, in the past all four have been webcast separately. There should be 4 links off this page.

Um.

Originally Posted by The webpage in question

See the FIRST Championship LIVE on NASA TV:

Friday, April 22, 2005 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST

Saturday, April 23, 2005 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST

NASA TV
Click here for the NASA TV webcast

No links to any field webcasts at all. Based on previous years, will they be appearing tomorrow (or early Friday morning) or will we just have to depend on NASA-TV? Given the one regional that had its finals truncated, I really don't want to have to do the latter....

[Mr. Lim]

Yeah, I'm a little worried. I don't see links for individual webcasts for each field.

It almost sounds like it will be just one webcast of only the NASA TV feed.

Hopefully we'll see those links soon enough. There are a ton of teams I want to follow, and it would be a shame if we couldn't pick and choose which fields to watch.

-SlimBoJones...

[Rich Wong]

In previous years, like 2003, I was able to watch all four championship field webcast at the same time. I hope it will be the same this year.
(see attached from 2003)

[Goobergunch]

W00t, was poking around a little and found that http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/ will once again be serving our Championship needs. This time, it not only has Archimedes, Curie, Galileo, and Newton, but it also has the Lego League and Vex fields as well.

So it seems that we won't be stuck with the NASA-TV webcast after all. /me breathes a sigh of relief.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Goobergunch

W00t, was poking around a little and found that http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/ will once again be serving our Championship needs. This time, it not only has Archimedes, Curie, Galileo, and Newton, but it also has the Lego League and Vex fields as well.

So it seems that we won't be stuck with the NASA-TV webcast after all. /me breathes a sigh of relief.

Still wondering over here what is gonna be on NASA Tv.. are they gonna split the screen in 6 parts?? Or keep randomly moving to fields..

Meh.. Only time, and a VHS tape will tell me Friday when I get home from werk..

I'll make my lil' sister watch it too, so she can tell me what is going on.. They have this week off from school.

[Ken Delaney 357]

Is there a way to capture the webcast video? I am thinking of starting a Vex team and it would be great to show footage of the Championships

[Josh Hambright]

I'm pretty sure you can download software that will capture streaming feeds that you can later transfer to tape or whatever you need.

But if not the SOAP guys from SigmaCats might be capturing everything including vex and FLL and have those on their site, like they usualy do with the regular webcast.

And to answer the origional question about match lists, who knows this year, FIRST might have the stuff on their website they might not, i'm hoping by now those issues with posting match results should be figured out and they should have quality internet connections for the scoring tables at this event so they should in theory have them online as soon as they are generated and their server script update them. IF not, someone at the scoring table might be able to post them or some team might be able to post them.

[sanddrag]

Are there any windows media webcasts today?

[Elgin Clock]

I'm going to attempt to use my S-Video to my Vcr cable and tape the webcast of Galileo directly, as a back-up for my NASA Tv channel recording ventures...

I'll let you all know how it works tomorrow night.. If I remember.

[tkwetzel]

The archimedes webcast seems to break up every now and then for a while. Does this happen for anyone else?