[FRC Blog] Did You Feel That?

[MikLast]

Did You Feel That?

Did You Feel That?

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Did you? That little rumble? That little shaking in your stomach? Just the slightest tremor, but enough to make the water in your glass ripple?

Oh, you know it’s coming. And getting louder every second. You’re a little anxious, a little scared. You wonder if you can handle it, wonder if you and your team are up to the task. But you need to admit to yourself, you love it. You love it! And you can’t wait!

It’s not a T-Rex thundering in your direction, but it may as well be. It’s FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff! Smashing and crunching and blasting its way into your life this Saturday, January 6th!

This year’s Kickoff will be broadcast on Twitch. Pre-broadcast will start at 10 AM Eastern Time, with the main portion of the broadcast starting at 10:30 AM Eastern Time. The pre-broadcast will give you time to get settled in and test to make sure your A/V equipment is working before the big show starts.

All this boils down to basically two options:

1. Join Us
2. Wish You Had
   I hope you choose option one!

Frank

[Michael_Hill]

Still no encrypted manual? Must be getting around to writing it and filling in the blue boxes.

[gerthworm]

I like the fact they are using Twitch.

PSA: our sponsor’s wifi has been known to block Twitch. Make sure you have access prior to next weekend!

[efoote868]

Still no encrypted manual? Must be getting around to writing it and filling in the blue boxes.

Nothing like getting it done tomorrow!

Also. Water game.

[FrankJ]

Still no encrypted manual? Must be getting around to writing it and filling in the blue boxes.

Rules? We don’t need no stinking rules! :ahh:

[Dan_Waxman]

Still no encrypted manual? Must be getting around to writing it and filling in the blue boxes.

Last year the manual was releasedWednesday before kickoff, so we still have a day or two and everything would still be roughly on the same pace.

I like the fact they are using Twitch.

PSA: our sponsor’s wifi has been known to block Twitch. Make sure you have access prior to next weekend!

This is why I’m less happy about the fact that they’re using Twitch. I know of a lot of teams that have had issues as they realized it was blocked too late. A lot of districts allow YouTube on teacher accounts since it can be an educational tool, but Twitch is marketed as a video game streaming service and as such is banned much more. I think it would help a lot of teams out if FIRST streamed on YouTube instead of Twitch.

[Jon_Stratis]

This is why I’m less happy about the fact that they’re using Twitch. I know of a lot of teams that have had issues as they realized it was blocked too late. A lot of districts allow YouTube on teacher accounts since it can be an educational tool, but Twitch is marketed as a video game streaming service and as such is banned much more. I think it would help a lot of teams out if FIRST streamed on YouTube instead of Twitch.

I agree with this 100%. Twitch is blocked by our school, but YouTube is not. We can usually get it unblocked for a day, but it doesn’t always work right.

One good workaround is a VPN. We’ve VPN’d to someone’s work network before in order to get around the school’s blocking service.

[bdaroz]

Still no encrypted manual? Must be getting around to writing it and filling in the blue boxes.

Given the efforts of some in the past to amass a massive password dictionary in an attempt to decrypt it early, I have no problem if it were held until late afternoon on Thursday.

[Caleb_Sykes]

Still no encrypted manual? Must be getting around to writing it and filling in the blue boxes.

I don’t care so much about the manual, but if they don’t post soon we might not get the usual “can we guess the encryption key before kickoff” thread.

[Lil_Lavery]

This is why I’m less happy about the fact that they’re using Twitch. I know of a lot of teams that have had issues as they realized it was blocked too late. A lot of districts allow YouTube on teacher accounts since it can be an educational tool, but Twitch is marketed as a video game streaming service and as such is banned much more. I think it would help a lot of teams out if FIRST streamed on YouTube instead of Twitch.

I agree with this 100%. Twitch is blocked by our school, but YouTube is not. We can usually get it unblocked for a day, but it doesn’t always work right.

One good workaround is a VPN. We’ve VPN’d to someone’s work network before in order to get around the school’s blocking service.

I’m sure if YouTube had FIRST alumni working there who reached out to FIRST to create the same type of beneficial relationship (including home page spotlights and providing broadcast talent) then FIRST would seriously consider broadcasting on YouTube instead of Twitch.

[MikLast]

I’m sure if YouTube had FIRST alumni working there who reached out to FIRST to create the same type of beneficial relationship (including home page spotlights and providing broadcast talent) then FIRST would seriously consider broadcasting on YouTube instead of Twitch.

Isint this the whole reason FIRST is using Twitch right now though? I know more than a few of the Twitch staff are FIRST alum and pop into streams regularly, I doubt FIRST would just jump ship for a new platform with this relationship already started…

[roboteer5291]

Isint this the whole reason FIRST is using Twitch right now though? I know more than a few of the Twitch staff are FIRST alum and pop into streams regularly, I doubt FIRST would just jump ship for a new platform with this relationship already started…

I know that at least 1 of the hosts of the FoC stream from Twitch was a FIRST Alumnus, I think the female host was the Alumnus.

[RoboTigers1796]

Besides the encrypted manual, don’t they usually tell us the dimensions of the KOP items we will be picking up on saturday by now?

[Akash_Rastogi]

I don’t care so much about the manual, but if they don’t post soon we might not get the usual “can we guess the encryption key before kickoff” thread.

Except that not downloading it prior to Saturday makes for a very busy website getting hit at the same time during kickoff.

[Tyler_Olds]

Isint this the whole reason FIRST is using Twitch right now though? I know more than a few of the Twitch staff are FIRST alum and pop into streams regularly, I doubt FIRST would just jump ship for a new platform with this relationship already started…

It’s not the whole reason, but it was a big pro-active part of the decision making. Same reason why both FUN and RSN are Twitch partners. There’s no way any of us (including FIRST) would qualify otherwise.

[Lil_Lavery]

I know that at least 1 of the hosts of the FoC stream from Twitch was a FIRST Alumnus, I think the female host was the Alumnus.

Anna Prosser-Robinson (the female host) is, unfortunately, not a FIRST alumna. The Fesitval of Champions was, I believe, her first exposure to FIRST. Her co-host at the event, Zach, is an alumni of Team Element (FRC 4).

[JesseK]

Jet turbines induce similar resonant frequencies in the free water we get on an airplane. Flying game confirmed.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/did-you-feel-that

So all the robots are going to be ‘walkers’, eh?

[marshall]

Did I miss the blog post about the size of the KOP? Normally we get one about now.

[bearbot]

Kop size and encrypt manual will be coming soon from what I was told