Multiple things go into streaming. Can’t say it was more knowledgeable people running it, as the same 4 people that ran the SSs were at BLF. You could say better equipment, but it was the New Castle streaming kits that ran the finals.
All-in-all it was probably a combination of all 4 of us in attendance that 1 of us could worry about different TW duties instead of dealing with all of the issues.
ECC SS I was running around with my head cut off trying to put out the fires with streaming. Mat 3 had an older computer on it, which is what was causing the issues. I then tried to switch Mat 3 to Mat 4 as Mat 3 was running a virtual scoreboard that was causing strain on the internal processor. That was the problem with 3 & 4. Then during the finals, I was watching the finals stream and dealing with a camera guy that wasn’t following the action that I didn’t notice the 3rd place stream. I apologize for it, was just trying to get AS MANY matches as I could done right.
Jasper SS I heard of no real problems. Mark Durham does a great job!!! He is also the TW Supervisor for the State Finals.
New Castle the steam keys got screwed up on the machines so they were streaming backwards. However, as soon as it was found out, Jon worked to take care of the issue.
Fort Wayne the stream keys were not setup on the TW servers so the first hour wasn’t streamed. It takes some time for the streams to be added to the server.
Also for the finals, Mark Durham hit it out of the park with Mat 2. The video switcher was pretty awesome. Go ahead with any other critiques. SWINfan, your thoughts on the Dashboard was pushed to the developers at TW and FloSports.