[FRCTop25.com]- Premiere Night!

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Drivencrazy

Don't forget to record it for us poor souls missing the excitement live.

You're not missing much so far. They're having some technical difficulties.

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

You're not missing much so far. They're having some technical difficulties.

So far, no worse than a week 1 regional....

[engunneer]

The chat was going crazy. I'd like to propose that the livestream chat be used for student chatter, and http://webchat.freenode.net/ (channel #FRC) for more serious analysis and discussion.

Takers?

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by Jaxom

So far, no worse than a week 1 regional....

Well, maybe this is because GKC last year to me was a haze of standing on the edge of our pit programming, and running back and forth to the practice field, but I don't remember it having quite this much technical difficulty.

[MOOcow]

Sorry guys, I was the one responsible for 1986's video. I must have uploaded the wrong version. Here's it on YouTube WITH audio: http://youtu.be/uKy-IKDq_6o

[CalTran]

Anyone know if 16 has uploaded?

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Anyone know if 16 has uploaded?

Going on YouTube now. Probably be an hour or so. Don't wait up.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

Going on YouTube now. Probably be an hour or so. Don't wait up.

Thanks. We're attending both GKC and Razorback, so I gotta study your video as much as possible to figure out a way to beat it.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

Going on YouTube now. Probably be an hour or so. Don't wait up.

We were relieved to finally see a belly climber.

Hopefully we can see it in Lubbock...if the dust isn't blowing in our eyes.

[JTN]

16's video will be uploaded in just over 30 minutes. I will post it here, on the FRC-Designs.com thread, and in a new thread if you want to see a second encore!

-JTN

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

We were relieved to finally see a belly climber.

Hopefully we can see it in Lubbock...if the dust isn't blowing in our eyes.

We wanted to climb on the corner to leave the middle open for others, but it is very difficult. The video footage is not a good climb, obviously. We were missing some surgical tubing and had no automation - working on the controls. But we blew a gearbox right before bagging and didn't take time for more video.

And, yes, I have only been to Lubbock once and dust is what I recall.

[Grim Tuesday]

If I may make a few suggestions for next year, I would like to suggest:

-Allow all submissions as you did this year; it's great for lesser known teams to be able to be shown to the whole community like this was.

-Keep random order with a couple superpowers at the end. The format was great for letting us see robots of teams we wouldn't have normally recognized by dangling the really good ones randomly. It was also pretty exciting wondering when our video would get pulled.

-Cap video length at 2 minutes. As amazing as the robots were, it gets rather fatiguing to watch video after video. The long videos got, honestly, boring and weren't fair to those who ended up being pushed back to very late at night.

-Define exactly what you want in a reveal video; keep build season footage to a minimum.

-Start earlier. We had a viewing party for it and had to miss the best of them because everyone's parents wanted them home by midnight.

Overall an excellent event and one you guys should absolutely do next year. FIRST should make a Release Video competition judged on videography and actually give a legitimate award for it.

[Gregor]

Thanks for a fantastic evening. I think you peaked at around 750 viewers.

[Calvin Hartley]

Thanks for the show, Mike and Justin!! It was great, looking forward to a lot of great bots this year.

[Mike Starke]

Thank you to everyone who tuned in! We had a blast. Don't forget to tune into our show this coming Wednesday before Week One Regionals!

The archive for this episode will be available on our livestream page at www.livestream.com/mikeandjustinitm momentarily.

Thanks again!