Chairman's Award ambiguity

[Jonathan Norris]

My guess is they meant to say 50 mb, which is far more reasonable. you can get a 3 minute video to look really good at 50mb. At 5mb it would look like a youtube video... and a bad one at that.

[JYang]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

My guess is they meant to say 50 mb, which is far more reasonable. you can get a 3 minute video to look really good at 50mb. At 5mb it would look like a youtube video... and a bad one at that.

I agree with Jonathan Norris.
I think that FIRST will clarify this soon

[synth3tk]

5-minute MP3s are usually double that size (10-megs), so you really can't fit a *good* video into only five.

It can't be referring to minutes, as the requirements in that document state 3-minutes. So possibly they could've meant 50-megs, as suggested above. Hopefully FIRST will clear that up soon!

[Tetraman]

FIRST will at times make typos. They are just as human as we are. (except now in game hint season when they are big meanies)

If there is a mistake and they notice they will fix it - and if they don't see it, posting the quetion to FIRST is the way to go.

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

FIRST (... is) just as human as we are.

There are zillions more volunteers than paid staff. We are FIRST.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

There are zillions more volunteers than paid staff. We are FIRST.

FIRST IS AWESOME, a program this big is unbelievable. The second I tell people about this, they are like "Such a thing exists or WOW!"

[feliks_rosenber]

So basically everyone agrees that this rule is far from being reasonable.
I'll ask on q&a then...

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

There are zillions more volunteers than paid staff. We are FIRST.

The issue of the 5 meg is on the radar screen of FRCteams and they will issue an update if needed.

Close to a zillion....

FIRST does publish statistics that can be used by teams for promotional brochures for their team and presentations.
http://www.usfirst.org/who/content.aspx?id=160

2008/09 season
over 195,000 students
53,000 mentors
32,000 event volunteers

Not published, but about 70 staff at HQ and in the field.