2009 Season Looking Forward

[Richard McClellan]

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. What do you guys think?

Sounds like a great idea to me. What are the chances of getting higher quality video for something like this?

[Akash Rastogi]

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 good we can get someone (PBS etc) to air it. What do you guys think?

I totally love that idea. Maybe the reporting desk can be made by someone out of some extrusions and lots and lots of 80/20. Don't forget the diamond plate and lexan you could include in all that.

...and speakers
...and and neon lights

This is beginning to sound like a robot cart.

[Joe Matt]

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 think a 10 minute highlight reel produced and hosted by TBA of each week's events, both of webcast and non-webcast video, including scores, updates, and maybe a top 10 plays of the week, alliance of the week, etc.

Get a spiffy background, put them in suits, have fancy side graphics, and this could very well be a huge thing.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by commodoredl

Next year, it would be great if you could cover every regional; I know you missed a few this year.

Perhaps you could do the whole dark horse and sleeper thing for each week, not just the championship?

Yeah, I agree with this. Also, will you be predicting for some of the off seasons? I'd love to read yours about IRI and also some of the NJ off seasons. And perhaps Beantown Blitz.

Ditto on the email blasts.

All in all, it was awesome to be able to read these each week. Keep up the good work!

(oh, and if you ever have an opening for a West Coaster, I'm always available...)

[EricH]

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

(oh, and if you ever have an opening for a West Coaster, I'm always available...)

As am I.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by EricH

As am I.

me too

[Nawaid Ladak]

LF, you have done a great job in analyzing regional and championship events in FRC events. it would be nice to do the same for those FTC people, um i mean training another looking forward"...

i second the dark horse, sleeper, and lock theory for EACH regional, i know it would be a stretch, but i know you can do it.

I would also suggest one more thing, im not sure if it has been mentioned, but i would LOVE to see a top 25 list for every weeks events. sort of like a AP poll and to see teams rise and fall.

overall, you have done a great job, keep it up!

[SU 39]

Originally Posted by Molten

One thing that I might change, would be to put a follow-up on the predictions stating where you were right and where you were wrong. Condensed of course. But I would find it interesting to see how accurate they are.

Actually "Looking Forward" already does that. It's called the "Looking Back" threads...

I thought the whole idea was great. It was helpful in that I got a list of teams to look out for beforehand with the extremely credible information you have rather than the hearsay I had. I don't think there's anything that really can be changed to make it much better besides getting better information. But that's a little harder to control...or is it?