http://www.techtv.com/leterrip/shownotes/story/0,24330,3659257,00.html
Set your TiVo’s, DVD Recorders, and your PC’s to record TechTV the night of May 13th at 9pm. That’s when the FIRST documentary that follows 3 teams airs.
And, according to tivo.com … these are the repeats:
Fri 5/14 2:00 PM
Sun 5/16 1:00 AM
Sun 5/16 8:00 PM
Tue 5/18 2:00 PM
Fri 5/21 9:00 PM
Sat 5/22 6:00 PMis someone ready to post this online once it has showed…i lost my tech tv when they switched to the digital signal…
I’m also hoping for someone to post it somewhere. I don’t get TechTV, but maybe since Comcast bought it I’ll be getting it soon(if they don’t get rid of it…)
The channel is merging with G4, Comcast’s gaming channel. I have no idea if this show will make it through the merger or not…we can only hope that it will.
w00h00!!! i saw our robot!!! did not think we would but i have seen it and there is still 20mins left!
Hey, I recognized Big Mike is on TV! HE’S A STAR! I mean, you couldn’t miss someone that’s like 6’10" with a bright hawaiian shirt on…
I saw Paul Copioli at the beginning, as well as Sir Charles saying “Welcome to the Georgia Dome” lol. I think the special is pretty good, however towards the end it’s starting to turn into just showing matches and sounding more like Battlebots… even though the beginning of the show was MUCH more expressive of Gracious Professionalism. I do think it’s a pretty good special though overall.
i saw our pits for less that .5 secs =P… yay 121 =P… so far i think its a little to based on these 3 teams… i think that they maybe should have had 4 people… 1 at each field looking at the “big dogs” from the regionals… it would show those teams that execeled earlier in the season… but its still pretty good =p
some guy who thinks he is madden is announcing. I am getting sick of it.
They are saying a lot of things about teams and their robots that are very maliciously amateure (as opposed to graciously professional). I’m not sure what to think of this show.
I liked the comment the announcer made about the dodgeballs. It was and Ok special.
Honestly that show was very appalling. That host was an idiot, he had no idea what he was talking about, they treated it like battlebots and even bashed that rookie team from California…honestly they could have done better… a lot better…
I agree. The “announcer” during the game segment was terrible, they highlighted the seedier aspects of FIRST, and in general I came off with a much more negative vibe than I got from the A&E special in 2k1.
I can’t agree with you more. They couldn’t even ge their facts straight. They didn’t mention how the eliminations work, or mention team 435 as part of the winning alliance. This show was absolutly dreadfull to watch.
Ok, so the show wasn’t perfect. But what’s good about these shows that if we watched them without the sound (play them silently)… it’s a nice way to remember certain years of play.
In addition, it’s these shows that tell the rest of the country what FIRST is about… so now that some people may know what we’re talking about when we mention FIRST, we’ll already know what they’ve heard, and we will be able to get the correct facts to these people (also shows that you are indeed, truely involved).
I thought the show was “cute”
(I was casted on a reality-TV show by WGBH Boston called “Lazybones.” The show is similar to Junkyard Wars except that it is geared towards middle-school kids. Basically two teams of four, engineer laziness, by making a pb&j machine, an automatic bed-maker… whatever. We had to make automatic scrambled-egg cookers, and it was a lot of fun! This pilot episode was shot in one day at Olin College (they have such sweet machine shops there, woah). Basically I learned… that reality-TV will never be “reality-TV.” I took apart a servo motor because I only needed a piece of it, the camera-man came in a half hour later and made me pretend to take it apart again so he could get the shot. :rolleyes: )
I’m sure some of the guys on our team could tell you all kinds of similar stories about the “Robot Rivals” show they were on last month. At least your machine wasn’t prebuilt for you when you showed up.
Yeah, all that you guys are saying and more. What was that?
There is a saying that says there is no such thing as bad publicity, but…this was BAD.
Other than the offensive commentary and the total omission of our alliance partner(We love you 435 RoboDawgs!!!)…
The show was BOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIING!!!
I LOVE this competition and I was falling asleep! I watched it at a friend’s house and I am sorry I inflicted that show on them. I will have to take them to a competition to make it up to them. Ugh…just awful.
Anyway, that’s all for now.
Good Points:
-Simple explination of the game
-The Lucas waving to the camera
-Focus on students - hardly an adult in sight
Bad points:
-Poor voiceover
-Making quite a few people look ameteurish and just ridiculous (segment on 395 forgetting their bib? Come on!)
-Not enough drama - they showed very poor matches when I KNOW these teams had better ones. Made it look like these teams were great failures at Ntls
-Didn’t mention anything about regional action.
-Camera adds 10 lbs, and I picked the wrong time to wear that rediculous green hat, cuz I was on camera A LOT in the background (3 teams on Curie will do that)
-Camera man kept getting in my way on the field - and all for naught! Hardly any good shots…
Sounds like my team.
“Wait. We need to take a picture. Do that again but this time do it with your safety glasses on.”
I agree pretty much on everyone elses assessment of the show. It was boring. It seemed like they just watch an episode of Robot Wars and thought they could repeat that. I would rather see a very in depth show about a few teams. Or a very widespread one about the competition. I would have liked to see some excepts from the opening and closing ceremonies. My favorite opening ceremonies part was Dave’s speech. He actually created my new personal slogan, “Step on Mars.” I would have loved to see this part in the video because it represent a lot of the 6 week build. There is a lot of improvement that would have made this show not so cringinly painful to watch. Dean and Woodie must of avoided Curie or were too busy on the segway to make a video clip.
As a note I think that any team who is in a video for TV needs to always step up the GP. Sometimes they try to throw out that it was the alliances fault after a loss and it doesn’t look great and I am sure even hurts the alliance team that much more. This just seems to happen everytime we get on TV and it disturbs me. So if you’re going to be on TV you must step up the GP to the point you let them know how alliances work.
I’ve got to go to bed that is good for now.