Championship 2011 - St Louis - Your Thoughts Please?

[pathew100]

Originally Posted by Richard

As has already been pointed out, an unleashed Dave Verbrugge can and will pump the finals to a fever pitch.

Both at MSC and on Einstein this year, Dave was not completely free to work his magic. That's because both were being filmed for TV productions, to be seen later. I think in each case the eventual show would have been better with full-throttle Dave on the field.

This is an issue that they should be able to address if they make the production companies filming do it in a "Live" style instead of "Taped for editing later". For lack of better terms.

There were huge delays at MSC because of the TV production. The idea of teams needing timeouts/backup robots was out the window because teams had quite a while between matches in the semis and finals.

In other sports, yes, they stop the action occasionally to take a "TV timeout" that lasts 3-4 minutes. This is no longer than the setup time between matches typically.

I think in the future if events are to be filmed they shouldn't hold up the show. Shoot what you need to shoot, get more cameras, whatever. But as you said Richard, it does detract from the "live show" aspect of the event greatly.