NCWSA Championship Webcast

Kelvin

Here are the links for the Webcast

Primary - http://livestream.com/sportpixusa/2015NCWSA

Youtube Backkup - http://www.youtube.com/user/h2oski64/live

MattP

The event is streaming live!

skidawg

Web is down on my end!!! Any ideas

MattP

@skidawg The stream did go down for a min but is back up.
The site will not play an embedded live stream from youtube. https://www.youtube.com/user/h2oski64 is the host and you can see the link from there.

MattP

Big upset in Women's slalom. Manon Costard goes down early with [email protected] after opening up at -32. Playing for a good head wind at 39 I would assume.

skidawg

Very bizarre crash

sb_dc_mbs_13

Feed has been down for me for a few minutes now

EricKelley

Thanks to Kelvin, the camera people and the announcers for all their work. Watched it all day.

Chef23

I caught a little of it and really enjoyed seeing the kids ski.

ForrestGump

It's been a lot of fun on site. LONG day of skiing, though. Geez, 5 rotations of slalom takes FOREVER. lol

Chef23

Is there a scorebook somewhere?

Chef23

Just tuned in this morning and it is cool seeing kids that are obviously beginning trickers out on the water. Hopefully it results in building lifelong skiers.

ToddL

@Chef23
http://www.waterskiresults.com/WfwWeb/wfwShowTourList.php

If that link doesn't work, go here:
http://www.waterskiresults.com/
click on WSTIMS For Windows Web Scoreboard, then Live scoring, then the tournament scorebook. They have two separate scorebooks for Division 1 vs. Division 2.

Chef23

@ToddL thanks. It is cool the way they flip back and forth between lakes. I just saw Freddy Winter on a trick ski which was kind of cool.

MattP

Scorebooks can be found here
Division 1: http://www.usawaterski.org/rankings/scorebks/16U033CS.HTM
Division 2: http://www.usawaterski.org/rankings/scorebks/16U034CS.HTM

BRY

@MattP Thanks for putting up the links, particularly the score book. Score book makes it possible to figure out how all the teams are stacking up.

JohnN

Webcast and announcing are awesome. I can't believe how they've kept the energy going all day, for all the skiers.

Chef23

How do they determine college divisions? I see Grand Valley St in D1 and I think Clemson is in D2. Doesn't seem to make sense to me.

MattP

@Chef23
All teams that win their respective regionals automatically go into the D1 event at Nationals.
The second through fifth place team from each Regional Championship, plus the three wildcard teams, shall be placed into a simulated tournament based on fall season rankings to determine the rest of the Division I and Division II fields. The top eight teams from this simulated tournament will join the four Regional Champions in Division I. The bottom twelve teams from this tournament will compete in Division II.

Erik4c

It has to do with how the teams do in regionals. For the western region only first place at regionals went into nationals as d1.

Waternut

Man I started watching these this afternoon and when I got back from the lake, someone apparently tattled about some music that was in the videos so they all got muted....weak!

Kelvin

I don't believe the live webcast was ever muted. The recordings are muted right now. I'm trying to use youtube's functionality to remove the tagged songs - it sucks that youtube doesn't do this automatically. Fortunately, youtube has relaxed their policies. Previously they would shut down the entire webcast on the first tagged song. For these reasons, I don't like using Youtube, but my primary service has had some issues recently. Also, due to logistics between my webcast equipment and the sound system, I wasn't able to get a clean feed of just the announcers without the music.

It was a hectic 3 days switching from lake to lake - but ALL the kids deserve the airtime so that is what I did. Also, I want to say THANK YOU to all the skiers from Alabama, Texas A&M, Texas State and The University of Texas that manned all the cameras and a big THANK YOU to Madeline Pierce from Alabama for organizing all the camera men/women. It took a huge load off of me and allowed me to focus on the camera switching.

thompjs

Kelvin, that was some tremendous effort to do all of the camera switching and replays of the boat video, etc. Great job. BTW, he was doing this almost continuouslyfrom 7:30 to 7:30 for three days)

(He was right behind me while I was running the Jump distance computers. I think that is hard, but I'm glad it was him and not me!)

LLUSA

@Kelvin, great job as usual, it was nice to jump in ad out while at work, look forward to seeing you back at the Malibu Cup in Tuscaloosa in 2016

ToddL

That was a very exciting webcast to watch! I really enjoyed the effort of switching from Lake to Lake and the announcers trying to commentate on multiple lakes with action at the same time. Everyone did an excellent job! Very impressed!

Chef23

@kelvin thanks for setting that up it was awesome. I had it on in the background at work and got to see a few kids I know from the Eastern Region compete which was awesome. It was great seeing all the kids get to ski and having the lakes flip back and forth was great.

ForrestGump

At one point, the camera men even got me driving double knee boarders on lake 3. lol

Kelvin

Honestly, I underestimated how much concentration it was going to take to do multiple lakes for such a long period of time. I haven't worked that hard in a long time. The drivers and dock starters kept the events going non-stop. Especially with multiple trick boats and 2 jump boats. All the kids deserved the airtime regardless of D1 or D2. I did get a little behind on the name captions until I was able to figure out a better way with my software. I appreciate everyone's comments. That makes it a worthwhile endeavor.

EricKelley

Tyler did a great job. He made the kids doing side slides on the kneeboard seem like rockstars. Glad someone fed him on Saturday.