2009 Season Looking Forward

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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.