ESPN coverage???

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Posted by Andy Baker.

Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 7/15/99 10:43 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: No ESPN ??? posted by Kyle Huang on 7/15/99 5:29 PM MST:



I was wondering this same thing about this time last year...

Remember the fiasco in 1998 that occurred when ESPN didn't want to show any team's corporate sponsors? They went 'round and 'round with FIRST after initially showing them a version of the 1998 competition that actually had all of the companies logos edited out (at least, that was the RUMOR).

FIRST finally won out and the TV show was aired without the editing.

With this in mind, I kept my eyes open this year to see if ESPN was filming any of the competition. Since we won in '98 (and they interviewed us a couple of times then), I thought that they would at least catch one of our matches in '99. BUT, I did not see, talk to, or hear of any ESPN crew in attendance.

The only crews I noticed were the corporate crews (GM had one, Delphi had one, etc.) and the independent crew who is making the documentary.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing to think that FIRST --> Epcot --> Disney --> ESPN could work this out, but it looks like they didn't.

This is all just my opinion from passive observation, though, and it may be WRONG. As my team knows... I can make a wrong decision once in a while. ;-)

Andy B.