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Kickoff Video

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Game Animation: on Vimeo


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Video Coverage



Kickoff Countdown!

Kickoff was at 10:00 AM EDT on January 5th, 2008. The current time is 07:08 PM.

Chief Delphi - Post comments!

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Twitter - LIVE commentary

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Jan 15, 12:28 am

Today's XKCD is about the 2010 FIRST Game, Breakaway! http://xkcd.com/689/

Nov 23, 2:41 pm

Finally getting 2010 events into The Blue Alliance! Have to retool stuff to deal with FIRST's website changes since 2009.

Jul 19, 9:38 pm

Just added 2003, 2004 matches to TBA, bringing the total number of match results online to 24,599 matches! Thanks Nick Galotti!

Jun 25, 3:40 am

2009 Einstein matches now posted on The Blue Alliance! http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event/2009cmp

Apr 19, 9:44 pm

Video from Newton, Galileo, and Archimedes on TBA! Waiting on parsing of Curie. http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/

Apr 18, 11:03 pm

Congratulations to 111, 67, and 971! Match results are on TBA, videos should be up this week! Can't wait for 2010!

Apr 17, 10:33 am

The view from the top of the Georgia Dome. Awesome! http://short.to/4uxe

Apr 17, 10:32 am

The view from the top of the Georgia Dome. Awesome! http://short.to/4uxh

Apr 17, 12:26 am

FIRST changed the way they posted the Championship division schedules, but we've got them now! http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/

Apr 14, 1:38 pm

Even more videos from Michigan and St. Louis online! Check them out! http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/

Apr 11, 9:13 am

Less than a week until the Championship! Have you checked out the teams in your division? http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/

Apr 07, 10:02 am

And we're back online!

Apr 07, 8:47 am

We're currently experiencing some downtime. we'll be back up soon!

Apr 06, 4:11 pm

Division Predictions are up! http://tr.im/il3w

Mar 29, 11:37 pm

This Twitter account will now only be updates about TBA - no more match results. For match results, follow @tbamatchresults.

Mar 28, 9:30 pm

2813, 2090, 2504 lost to 368, 2443, 2348 [42 to 70] in Finals Match 3 at Hawaii Regional

Mar 28, 9:18 pm

2813, 2090, 2504 beat 2443, 368, 2348 [52 to 30] in Finals Match 2 at Hawaii Regional

Mar 28, 9:09 pm

2090, 2504, 2813 lost to 2348, 2443, 368 [34 to 76] in Finals Match 1 at Hawaii Regional

Mar 28, 8:45 pm

2813, 2090, 2504 tied 2443, 368, 2348 [0 to 0] in Finals Match 2 at Hawaii Regional

Mar 28, 8:45 pm

2090, 2504, 2813 tied 2348, 2443, 368 [0 to 0] in Finals Match 1 at Hawaii Regional