Ready For TV Yet?

[Cory]

This is harsh, but for FIRST to work on a major network television channel, it has to be showing good teams. Nobody wants to see matches where the score is 30-0. They want to see matches like Finals match 2 on Einstein, where it's action packed, and high scoring.

This pretty much precludes any chance of broadcasting an entire regional, or even nationals. There's too many mundane matches mixed in with the exciting ones.

The best way I can think of for this to happen is American Chopper style, as suggested before. They'd need to follow a team like Beatty, Wildstang, etc. A proven powerhouse, that will make a good robot and have exciting matches.

They could show the design and build process, and then an overview of the highlights from each team's regionals, and matches from nationals. Full matches might prove to be too long for a TV audience, unless they're extremely exciting.