Lesson Learned 2016 - The Negative

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Audio/video production quality, specifically during Einstein. I can't understand how they keep screwing this up. Last year was worse for sure with its constant feedback squeals, but they didn't do too much better this time around. How do you have a soundcheck for 15 minutes then still screw up the levels? For somebody who's in the same spot the entire time?!?! You hit the mute button, you unmute the mute button.

And don't get me started on the issues with keying and cropping. Yeah, let's not test this beforehand? Go ahead and resize everything live. Cool.

I'd give way more slack here if this were a regional/district, but we're talking about the final matches of the event of the season! And you've been at this for the last 3 days already!!! If you can't run this properly, it's time to find another company. Mistakes happen even with the best of 'em, sure. But not this many, this often.

EDIT: Also, and I hate complaining about this because I know they tried and mean well, I just wasn't feeling the commentators in between matches during Einstein. I liked that they did stats and facts, but the flow of conversation seemed forced and unnatural, and there were a lot of awkward pauses, especially after attempts at humor. I hope they either train them a bit more next year on this style of commentating, or bring in a more seasoned crew to do this job (maybe some of the GameSense/FUN people).