I enjoyed this episode, I hope you keep putting out content and making it better week over week, and you’ll get more familiar with the teams over time.
I like the clear disclaimers at the beginning, please keep that.
-Mike
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I think this is mostly just CD, and is a small part of the community. Between having “Late Night” in the title and the clear disclaimer in the beginning, I think expectations are pretty clear about what you’re getting. If you don’t want that, don’t listen to it. I’m all about some good FRC content that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
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They are very clear…but there will still be people that listen to it, get offended and complain.
Never fails.
I agree that it’s all good-natured fun and that the disclaimer should be sufficient but I think the hosts could still be reasonably worried about the reaction. I don’t think they should be, but as @brandn03 pointed out there are always people looking to be offended.
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Definitely don’t change something about your own content because of what we think it should be. You do you.
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Considering that the title of this thread is “Let the Hate Flow Through You,” I think the hosts are very much intentionally courting outrage as part of their marketing strategy. They are conscious of what they are doing. How that changes your opinion of the show and the content on it is up to you.
That being said, all content producers should remember they’re talking about the efforts of high school students in both building and driving these robots. The type of reporting that happens for high school sports should provide a decent starting point for the type of content that is appropriate to produce.
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I think that just comes with part of putting your self out there. I’ve seen posts from people who I have never interacted with or haven’t for a decade say pretty terrible things about myself, other hosts or just FUN in general. I’ve learned that there are 500 positives per those few <1%ers and to just move on. Nothing you say will please them. It’s an easy concept but very hard to get past. As @Lil_Lavery said their title and intent seems to want to do this. If it isn’t then it’s time to try other content creation strategies.
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Very true, I hope the hosts do feel comfortable coming forward if they choose to
Love this, if you need an East Coast rep, let me know!
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First Updates Now was a huge inspiration for us, we watch the majority of their content and I personally have been enjoying it for years. We’ve been doing everything but scripting and recording these conversations for years and decided to record and post it to see if the community would enjoy our more blunt conversations. We knew it would rub some people the wrong way and don’t want that to effect the students on the team we mentor hence remaining anonymous. The title was to reference the sith from star wars since that was the theme of the game, it wasn’t meant to aggravate anyone, if that’s what happened that wasn’t intended and we’ll change the tone of our titles in the future.
Great episode. As a team mentioned in the episode I really like the no filter style. You guys were really spot on imo. Plz roast us. Let the hate flow.
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This is something I’ve been waiting for since FUN After Dark unfortunately stopped after only one season. I love the uncensored free discussion and I really hope you continue to produce more content.
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Great work, I love the concept of the podcast. I do think that your anonymity should be respected. Please don’t feel pressured to identify yourselves and give up what makes the podcast enjoyable, the unfiltered nature of it.
Something I’d love to see added before the top 10 is a quick overview of the criteria you guys used to rank teams. Rankings always make more sense when it’s obvious how the rankers approched them. If you’d put that teleop consistency was your top criterion right at the beginning, the lack of 3538 on your top 10 is much easier to understand. At their peak, they were easily a top 10 team, but they were definitely lacking in consistency.
Like It’s a fun like concept ummmm… but it’d be a lot better like if the hosts ummm like knew what they were ummmmm talking about.
Seemed like they like only like ummm knew a few teams, and just wildly ummmm speculated on the rest.
Concept 5/7
Execution like 2/5
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I’ll take ununiform scales for 200 Alex.
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He gave them a perfect 5/7 for concept though, what more could you want?
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These are the same scale?
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Tied to this, be careful of using team averages to compare entire events to each other. The top teams at LA north for example will pull up the averages of all other teams at the event. This is most apparent when you highlight specific events around 35:00. The ~6th highest average team at Dripping Springs appears at around the same spot as the ~6th lowest average team at LA North. But it would be absurd to say that an alliance of the 5th/6th/7th worst teams at LA North would get to the semifinals/finals at Dripping Springs, these teams’ averages are just dramatically boosted because they had matches with 973/4414/1678. Calculated contributions/OPRs can have similar problems to this, but not nearly at the ridiculous level that raw averages can have.
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