Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Radical Pi

I would like to see the posibility of having 2 videos per match. One would be the "official" video that's taken from the field feed, and another "stands" video, uploaded by teams that recorded every single match with a full view of the field, without the scores feed.

How about a one-to-many relationship between matches and videos, where each match could have a variety of admin or user added videos. These could be housed on TBA's servers (the situation today) or linked to from an external source like YouTube or Vimeo. The user experience should be seamless no matter the source.

[BrendanB]

One thing that I miss from the older site is that when I search for a team number I get a list of team pages not a direct search to a team number like an older version. In some ways it is nice as a regional or alliance partner comes up, but if you search for my team 1519 the number 1 result is team 1058 and alliance partners from this year and I have to go through another teams page to get to ours. I have searched other team numbers and have found the same problem but for most searches the team you want is the first on the list. Additionally a few months ago searching for 1519 showed our 2009 year and not our 2010 year.

I like the idea of having search results, but when it doesn't bring up the team number or current year it kinda annoys me.

But thank you so much for all your hard work put into the site! I have enjoyed watching matches all year round and learning past histories of a team. I don't think you guys get enough credit!

Thank you thebluealliance.net!

[NickE]

I think it'd be nice to have higher quality streaming video. I think the easiest solution is to host videos on an external site such as Youtube or Vimeo and embed them (both have support for HD streaming). This could eliminate the issues TBA has been having with lack of server space and make the match watching experience more enjoyable.