2009 Season Looking Forward

[sgreco]

I liked how Looking Forward didn't jinx 1114 by selecting them to win it all. Great move.

Looking Forward was soooo close to picking the entire winning alliance. 968's alliance definitely could have won that semis match on Einstein(nothing against 1114, 217 and 148). If they did win they most likely would have won the championships.

Great job with the picks!!!

[Qbranch]

Thanks for all the great work this season, Looking Forward team. It made the season a whole lot more exciting with your expert analysis.

Will you be doing looking backs for Atlanta?

I'd be interested in an IRI prediction too... though our team uses IRI to figure out new drive teams... so... we usually don't do so hot at IRI.

Thanks again,

-q

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

This ESPN mention kinda gave me an idea that I'll throw out there. What if the community (LF, CD, TBA, SOAP) produced a 5 min Sportscenter like highlight video of each week to compliment Look Back. Of course for this to work the Coordinated Regional Archiving needs to get a little better, but it grew by leaps and bounds this year along with more webcasts, SOAP Gameday and TBA. I think this would be great for the causal FIRST Fan (who doest necessarily watch webcasts or archived match vids). I was surprised how many people on my team hadn't seen Simbots run before Championship. If it was condensed to the just the exciting stuff (w/commentary) fans expect people may take more of an interest in robots other than their own. Maybe if it is really good we can get someone (PBS etc) to air it. What do you guys think?

I like that whole idea. If you take it further, I'd like to help coordinate it in my spare time.

Originally Posted by richardmcc2

Sounds like a great idea to me. What are the chances of getting higher quality video for something like this?

Well I know some teams/services already use nice quality cameras (MorqTV, TBATV, etc) but if we could get some local PBS' involved throughout the country, it'd help. Also, you really don't have to spend too much these days to get really good quality equipment. One last thing is a universal file-format would make it a heck of a lot easier to keep track of.

[Gene F]

How about taking one more step (look) forward and turning it into a web page with photos and team spotlights. the insights and research that go into the predictions are awesome and could really benefit from some added color (literally and figuratively) to the presentation.

I was an avid reader and will continue to do so! Thank you for sharing with the community!

This could develop into a FIRST magazine!

[Greg Peshek]

Originally Posted by Gene F

How about taking one more step (look) forward and turning it into a web page with photos and team spotlights. the insights and research that go into the predictions are awesome and could really benefit from some added color (literally and figuratively) to the presentation.

I was an avid reader and will continue to do so! Thank you for sharing with the community!

This could develop into a FIRST magazine!

Developing on that idea,

Why not just make the Looking Forward franchise into an addendum of The Blue Alliance website? It already has pictures of robots, the match results from previous regionals, and all the name recognition. I don't know if it could be worked out with the admin's of TBA and the person/ squad behind LF, but I would think it could boost both TBA and LF.

-Greg

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Greg Peshek

I don't know if it could be worked out with the admin's of TBA and the person/ squad behind LF

I feel like that wouldn't be an issue.

[T3_1565]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I feel like that wouldn't be an issue.

Are you trying to say the admins on TBA and the LF squad are one in the same!?!?!?! (that took me a really long time to find some underlying meaning to that sentence lol.)

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Greg Peshek

Developing on that idea,

Why not just make the Looking Forward franchise into an addendum of The Blue Alliance website? It already has pictures of robots, the match results from previous regionals, and all the name recognition. I don't know if it could be worked out with the admin's of TBA and the person/ squad behind LF, but I would think it could boost both TBA and LF.

-Greg

That would make it easier for sure. If the servers could keep up, we can have the "correspondents" all over (including Israel, Brazil, and our other international friends) shoot and upload content, have editors make up the segment, then put it on the webpage. Make sure it's good quality, though, if we want it to be [somewhat] on the same level as SportsCenter.

[Joe J.]

I would like to see Looking Forward have its own forum (like carnack does.)

[Dancin103]

I think that the looking forward posts were great. They were interesting and entertaining to read. Thank you very much for taking the time to study, watch, and follow every team and their progress and posting it here on delphi. I am looking forward to what next year may bring, and I can't wait. As always, I am ready for more FIRST.

P.S. Thanks for mentioning our team several times!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Joe J.

I would like to see Looking Forward have its own forum (like carnack does.)

Second the motion!

[Nawaid Ladak]

on the ESPN idea, i would rather see a Discovery Canada type setting, but with a panel of respected people giving "honest analysis" as it says in LF"s user title. i wouldn't be surprised is SOAP or someone else (111 with Midwest...) could pull something like this off

but thats for another thread in my opinion...

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

on the ESPN idea, i would rather see a Discovery Canada type setting, but with a panel of respected people giving "honest analysis" as it says in LF"s user title. i wouldn't be surprised is SOAP or someone else (111 with Midwest...) could pull something like this off

but thats for another thread in my opinion...

Not familiar with the Canadian Discovery thing, for somewhat obvious reasons. Videos, plz?

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by blakcheez

Not familiar with the Canadian Discovery thing, for somewhat obvious reasons. Videos, plz?

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/web...robotics-2008/

[T3_1565]

I agree! Some sort of video review of each week would be awesome! I would be willing to help with the editing process as well! I would love to have the video resources to put together a top 10 plays of the week!

If many people were willing to help out, Looking Foreward could become not only a very popular read, but a very popular watch as well!