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View Poll Results: Did Aim High make the grade for Prime Time TV?
Yep! It is definately a winner. 62 50.82%
Not sure. The public might not be ready. 43 35.25%
Nope! It has a way to go yet. 17 13.93%
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Re: Ready For TV Yet?

A&E HAS followed 2 teams for the full season in the past. In 2001, the A&E series, "The Competition" did a 1 hour show on teams 116 and 388 and how they faired at the NASA Langley/VCU Regional.

FIRST competitions do not suit themselves to be live tv compatable. There is simply no time to put commercials. Especially at the regional level you also get several "dud" matches, with multiple lower level teams, which are not entertaining to watch. The 10-8 matches are simply boring, no other way to put it.
I can tell you from expierience that an action-packed matches will draw substantially more attention from a non-FIRSTer. During an outreach event this year, we had a DVD running with several of our matches on it, our AVA entry, the game animation, and the GTR Semi-final highlight real (to show what CAN be done in FIRST, not just what 116 did). Many more people watched and commented on the GTR highlight reel than any of our matches. Seeing teams like the triplets, and Thunder Chickens unloaded is far more interesting than any average match.
If you were to edit the competition and basically make a highlight reel of the better matches, elimination rounds, and the big awards, then it might be entertaining television. But then again, that was what ESPN did, and it was still pretty boring to watch.
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