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Roy Race 
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Oh, wrong person. I thought you were meaning Damien, who presented the Eurosport coverage alongside Paul Cayard.
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asterix
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I think Seb's accent is great, and his weekly "Des-Top News" articles are good too-----------------Résumé de Sebastien DestremauSebastien Destremau is a French / Australian citizen. He has organized, managed and competed in major yachting events for over 25 years, assisting clubs, sponsors, race organizers and competitors to gain maximum exposure for their campaigns and events. Compétences de Sebastien DestremauEVENTS MANAGER & PROMOTER, GUEST SPEAKER & PRESENTER, FREELANCE JOURNALIST and TV HOST PRODUCER, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER |
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Roy Race
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Damien?? He was truly awful. I actually googled him and he seems to be mainly a producer at Eurosport, with little presenting experience and no sailing background to speak of at all. It felt like they spent all of their budget on Paul Cayard and had to get Damien to fill in as a presenter. There was no need at all to have those two in Valencia. They didn't add anything to the overall experience. Back in the studio, Dee Cafari was only marginally better. On day 1, she commented that she wasn't an expert on this sort of racing. I forget her exact words, but it was along those lines. She continued to miss things or just get stuff wrong throughout the commentary. For example, on the last leg of the last race, BMWO were struggling to get down to the line in dropping pressure. They were obviously going to have to do a gybe for the line. A5 had seen this and had been working low for a while. It was as plain as day that A5 were going to make a big gain, but she got it the wrong way round and said that they were going too low. The ES commentators sounded all confused and surprised when BMWO's lead suddenly halved. I actually turned the ES commentary right down and listened to Andy Green's commentary on the host feed and the pictures on the TV, along with commenting on the SA thread. I tried the OTWA page for a bit, but it just seemed to be some guy in a bar not really adding anything useful to the proceedings, so I gave up on it pretty quickly. I thought AG was very good. He picked up on things quickly, knew the ins and outs and came across as a fan too. I thought Sailing Anarchy could have done better. They seemed to struggle at first to find a format which worked, but at least they got people on the ground and had a go, and they did do some good interviews. |
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MikeBz
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Posted: 15 Feb 10 at 2:30pm |
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Sailing Anarchy's "Cocktail Hour" 'broadcasts' were very good. Mike |
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ellistine
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Posted: 15 Feb 10 at 2:13pm |
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And my god that Sebastien fella had a very confused Franco-Aussie accent. |
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Oli
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So what did you think of the coverage and interactivity of AC33? What do you think could be done to improve it for the next edition? Personally I think Valencia daily episodes were complete tripe! especially on the non sailing days. we all knew that postponements and abandonments were going to be common place but to fill these episodes with utter nonsense was idiotic! The live coverage when it got going was ok, but with just a video of a flag flying for hours on end, come on! The commentators where as you'd expect from sailing, good, well qualified sailors who know their stuff but don't have the experience to form a cohesive program like say rugby or football, which can make you feel part of the action. This is common place in sailing media though, because as a sport we cant seem to get airtime and thus start to improve our sport in this area. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the coverage, but could we not expect more these days? I would of also liked a bit more interactivity, I know certain forums etc were going on during the races, but I talking about virtual spectator on your phone for example, or for the people who watched online to have the ability to choose between the different video feeds and VS from the official source, in effect becoming your own director, on which for me had the worst transmission in terms of coherent feed. I know this is mostly ranting, but I genuinely interested in what people think could change to improve our sports AV media presence. |
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