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  10. Posted · Edited by ballinger

    About 10,000 and I think around £70 a ticket

     

    EDIT : from eliteleague.co.uk

    Ticket prices Early bird (from Monday 14th January to Thursday 28th February 2013)

    Weekend: Adult £74 - Concession/student £54 - Family [2+2] £224

    Saturday or Sunday only: Adult £40 - Concession/student £32

    General sale (from Friday 1st March 2013 onwards)

    Weekend: Adult £85 - Concession/student £60 - Family [2+2] £250

    Saturday or Sunday only: Adult £47 - Concession/students £38

  11. Posted · Edited by ballinger

    I dont think 8 teams from 10 matters given that it doesn't determine the league champions.

     

    The Quarter Final ties are played at each teams venues, the 4 quarter final winners playing in 2 semis and the Final at the NIC in Nottingham on Play Off Finals weekend.

     

    Ofcourse, with tickets sold well in advance for the weekend, fans from 8 teams (plus no doubt some from the other two) will have purchased them. Its sold as the 'big weekend'of the season.

  12. Posted · Edited by ballinger

    Braehead finished 8th in the 2012/13 EIHL, yet got second choice in the PO because they topped their conference.

     

    The 10 team EIHL is split into 2 conferences, each team playing the others in their conference 4 times home and away, and they also play teams in the other conference twice home and away.

     

    Nottingham topped the league and were therefore Champions, and had first pick in the play offs, choosing Fife.

     

    Braehead topped their conference, and had second pick, choosing Cardiff

     

    Second in the league Belfast had third pick, and chose Edinburgh

     

    That left Third in the league Sheffield to play fourth placed in the league Coventry.

     

    Nottingham defeated Belfast in the Play Off Final to be crowned Play Off Winners, having already won the league and the Challenge Cup

  14. Posted

    Are you easily able to break down the geographical spread of your live stream viewers into maybe 3 categories - for example, a local category within 20 miles of Coventry, then the rest of the UK in a 2nd category and then overseas viewers in a 3rd category (especially USA/Canada who'll be watching Coventry's games around lunchtime their time when there won't be so much of their own domestic action in progress).

     

    The reason I ask is to wonder if you've been able to gain enough useful revenue from overseas viewers to wipe out any lost revenue from local supporters paying for just the live stream instead of coming through the turnstiles ... if that overseas angle is working for Coventry's ice hockey, then live streaming UK speedway meetings with plenty of foreign riders taking part for our clubs could pick up useful revenie from Polish, Swedish or Danish subscribers wanting to watch speedway on nights which don't normally have any of their respective domestic meetings.

     

    Absolutely - we can see the connections to our streams broken down even by individual town locations. When we first started streaming the hockey it was a natural concern that locals would stay at home and watch the stream rather than attend the game - the stats clearly show this not to be the case.

  15. Posted

    And half the crowd as well. Bye Bye speedway then.

     

    Having just begun our fourth successive season of live streaming Coventry Blaze Ice Hockey games, it is our experience that in fact the opposite is true.

     

    What fee would a Rerun film/production company expect? :unsure:

     

    There is simply not the money within UK Speedway to fund this, many clubs are already hand to mouth as it is.

  16. Posted

    Motors have not 'done' any meetings - when it comes to Speedway they just take what they are given. The Garry Stead benefit was provided to Motors TV by Real to Reel (and was excellently done IMO), the Ermolenko farewell by ReRun.

     

    The Ice Racing coverage is produced by Interzona (based in Spain) and fails principally IMO by being a magazine style, showing just a lap of a race, and with a poor voice over.

     

    The GP Challenge that goes out next week on Motors appears also to have been done by Interzona, a trailer is already available to view from their website www.interzona.tv

  18. Posted

    Line up as drawn and announced last Saturday :

     

    1. Thomas Jorgensen

    2. Henning Bager

    3. Sergei Darkin

    4. Kevin Doolan

    5. Nicolai Klindt

    6. Adam Roynon

    7. Simon Nielsen

    8. Jari Makinen

    9. Ashley Birks

    10. Joe Haines

    11. Lasse Bjerre

    12. Kauko Nieminen

    13. Jan Graversen

    14. Patrick Hougaard

     

    With 2 more to be confirmed. Obviously Makinen and Birks will be replaced in the line up, and Simon Nielsen is also subject to fitness.

  19. Posted

    Instead we seem to meet them mid conversation, almost.

    As if the feed has been running already.

     

    I watched the world feed via the SGP website last weekend whilst on holiday, and NP and KT talk for the entire duration of the broadcast. They even analysed the previous 4 heats of the replay sequences that Eurosport show but have their guy talk over.

     

    As Eurosport have ad breaks they choose to link with their continuity announcer who no doubt can hear NP & KT in his headphones and they then cut back to the world feed when they decide to do so. Usually it would appear when the Eurosport guy has run out of things to say.

     

    Unfortunately IMO it makes these links appear very 'messy' and unfortunately it's made much worse by the Eurosport guys lack of knowledge.

  24. Posted · Edited by ballinger

    Having just watched this have to agree on the camerawork. It was the same last year from NZ and unfortunately lessons appeared not to have been learnt. Far too often the camera on bend 4 lingered on the tail ender, direction then sluggish to cut to lead of the race, direction all through was average, apparently Bunyan vs Vaculik was a battle raging but close up of Emil preferred? Again the semi final draws were poorly done, with a cut away from AJs pick, and then cameramen not knowing to go tight on the listed line up.

     

    The KK vs Bunyan clash was typical, not 1 camera getting it clearly ? No doubt it'll be a whole lot better from here on in when using crews that have much more experience, but on certain shots, such as the bend 2 replay camera, an experienced operative should have been used.

     

    That said, refreshing to see the VT at the start of the show, and the Hancock feature during the interval. Not sure about the talking head graphics for every heat line up - was bored by that by the end - and despite the 'all bets on red' meeting, the wrapped production felt much more up to date than Sky's 'guys in London - lets get back to the racing' set up (although it felt weird not seeing Keith after 18 years as host)

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