Hi!
Huston we have a problem!
I just checked one of the recent match video uploads to the USBGF youtube channel and saw a comment:
"I understand your want / need to advertise for funding, however to do it in such a in your face fashion is quite tacky, further more quite frustrating for people who transcribe matches and can not see all the moves."
That got me curious so I played through the video and came to:
At 1.38 Rick is aobut to play 5-1:
Then there is 38 seconds of advertisement:
At 2.16 we're back and Mochy has played some moves and so has Rick:
Holy C! This is bad! And come to think of it the match score starts at 5-0 in the video. What happened to the first games? I suspect Mochy transcribed the match from a video he recorded himself.
I haven't seen other examples of this so hopefully this was just a one time accident that won't happen again.
Perhaps "State-of-the-art live streaming" is pushing it a bit. State-of-the-art is found elsewhere:
I wish I could say "Look to Norway!" but unfortunately I can't but I can say "Look to Denmark!" which is close enough! :-)
They have been experimenting a bit with the layout but this is still vastly superior streaming to anything else out there to my knowledge.
How about live streaming with commentaries? I think Denmark has beaten everybody else with their streaming from the last Nordic Open:
Audio and video is awesome! Great insightful comments about difficult plays!
Nordic Open 2017 - XG Masters Nordic, Semi-final: Thomas Kristensen (DK) - Michihito Kageyama (Jp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUjmHbDREo
Nordic Open 2017 - Championship, Final: Henrik Bang (DK) - Elias Kritikos (No): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPJNa7LZCIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpKo6AZWHg
You can find others on the Danish backgamon federation youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHwa16H8IutExiH8P30FWQ/videos
I am so looking forward to the next Nordic Open! :-)
In other news:
There are now 7 matches from NY Metro in the database. There are 4 matches Bill Patterson has transcribed. Which matches? I have no clue. When will they be released? I have no clue either. Bill?
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Best regards,
TP