2009 Regional Webcasts

[Jonathan Norris]

I guess its the time of year to start organizing who will be web casting and recording regionals this year. Last year you can see this thread that we used to organize who will record regionals. We should use a similar format this year to keep track of who will be recording what, but I ask anyone willing to help me keep track of this list just update it by copying the last one, adding the new names, and pasting it into your post surrounded by "["CODE"]" text... "["/CODE"]" without the quotes.

As for how to webcast a regional check out this thread about streaming a regional using one of the free online flash streaming websites. This year I highly recomend anyone wanting to webcast a regional to use ustream.tv or justin.tv. These free services have improved a lot in the last year and are able to handle the hundreds of viewers a regional webcast will receive. All you need is a video input to your computer, an internet connection, and a web browser. Last year I ran the Waterloo webcast using ustream.tv with great success, sure we ran into a couple problems but at the time it was one of the most watched webcasts ustream.tv had seen, we even got featured on their front page on Saturday. Alot of the popularity probably had to do with Karthik and Paul communicating with the webcast audience and taking 'suggestions' .

As for this year I am hoping to run the webcast at Waterloo again this year, as long as I can find someone to watch it for me at Waterloo.

Regional                                          Volunteer
Week 1
BAE Systems Granite State Regional 
Buckeye Regional     
Greater Kansas City Regional
Midwest Regional 
New Jersey Regional 
Oklahoma City Regional                        Steven Bell (1519, 2359)
Washington DC Regional

Week 2
Boston Regional 
Finger Lakes Regional                           
Oregon Regional 
San Diego Regional   
New York City Regional

Week 3
Dallas Regional
Florida Regional 
Los Angeles Regional      
Peachtree Regional 
Pittsburgh Regional 
Silicon Valley Regional     
Wisconsin Regional 

Week 4
Israel Regional   
Arizona Regional
Bayou Regional 
Boilermaker Regional    
Chesapeake Regional 
NASA / VCU Regional 
Philadelphia Regional
St. Louis Regional 
Waterloo Regional                            Jonathan Norris (2809)                       

Week 5
Colorado Regional 
Connecticut Regional 
Greater Toronto Regional                     Discovery Channel Canada??
Hawaii Regional 
Las Vegas Regional 
Lone Star Regional    
Microsoft Seattle Regional 
Palmetto Regional 
Sacramento Regional
SBPLI Long Island Regional 

Week 6
Michigan State Championship
Minnesota 10000 Regional 
Minnesota North Star Regional

[ATannahill]

Would It be possible for someone that is not broadcasting a webcast (home at their computer) to record a webcast? Also if anyone wants me to parse up matches send them to me.

[Vikesrock]

It is possible to record a webcast depending on how it is streamed. Any stream that can be opened in VLC can be recorded as it is being viewed. Typically it is much easier to archive the matches on-site however, and the archived footage is usually higher resolution than what is streamed.

I will also tentatively volunteer to parse matches depending on my schedule. The time to parse should not be an obstacle to people recording regionals, if you could record the whole regional but are hung up on separating the matches, somebody else with the time can probably do it.

My team is most likely going to be streaming and archiving the Minnesota North Star Regional and we are trying to figure out if we have the equipment/manpower to get something running for 10,000 Lakes as well. I'll post back and add myself to the list when things are certain.

[Jonathan Norris]

I'll start another thread about archiving matches and parsing through them, it should be a separate topic.

edit:
The archiving discussion can be continued over here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=70614

[Vikesrock]

2175 will be taking care of both of the Minnesota events.

Regional                                          Volunteer
Week 1
BAE Systems Granite State Regional 
Buckeye Regional     
Greater Kansas City Regional
Midwest Regional 
New Jersey Regional 
Oklahoma City Regional                      Steven Bell (1519, 2359)
Washington DC Regional

Week 2
Boston Regional 
Finger Lakes Regional                           
Oregon Regional                             James Byrne (360) 
San Diego Regional   
New York City Regional

Week 3
Dallas Regional
Florida Regional 
Los Angeles Regional      
Peachtree Regional 
Pittsburgh Regional 
Silicon Valley Regional     
Wisconsin Regional 

Week 4
Israel Regional   
Arizona Regional
Bayou Regional 
Boilermaker Regional    
Chesapeake Regional 
NASA / VCU Regional 
Philadelphia Regional
St. Louis Regional 
Waterloo Regional                            Jonathan Norris (2809)                       

Week 5
Colorado Regional 
Connecticut Regional 
Greater Toronto Regional                     Discovery Channel Canada??
Hawaii Regional 
Las Vegas Regional 
Lone Star Regional    
Microsoft Seattle Regional                   James Byrne (360)
Palmetto Regional 
Sacramento Regional
SBPLI Long Island Regional 

Week 6
Michigan State Championship
Minnesota 10000 Regional                     Kevin O'Connor (2175)
Minnesota North Star Regional                Kevin O'Connor (2175)

[Justin Montois]

Possible Webcasted Regionals
-Oklahoma City Regional
-Portland Regional
-Microsoft Seattle Regional
-Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
-Minnesota North Star Regional

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by dcbrown

Updated list...

Use the wiki, please!

[LightWaves1636]

Well Colorado Regional will be recorded by FRC Team 2859 and CSM Robotics.

[Tetraman]

Remember you can watch all the webcasts and get regional information with SOAP Gameday.

[Grant Cox]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

Remember you can watch all the webcasts and get regional information with SOAP Gameday.

Are they planning on having that whole chat/multicast/etc system set up again? That is a dream for those of us unable to attend regionals..

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by GeeForce

Are they planning on having that whole chat/multicast/etc system set up again? That is a dream for those of us unable to attend regionals..

It appears so: http://gameday.soap108.com/

[Cory]

If any team(s)/individuals are interested in webcasting an event, please send me a private message and I can get you in touch with the people at NASA Ames that are facilitating this process.

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

It appears so: http://gameday.soap108.com/

is somebody going to put up a new thread with this link so we wont have to hunt for it next weekend

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by cziggy343

is somebody going to put up a new thread with this link so we wont have to hunt for it next weekend

I'm sure there will be, or you could just bookmark it now

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

It is also very possible NASA could Webcast both the VCU and/or DC regionals.