400 people watching Foot Locker champs online?

It's not the most exciting event.

I think I remember seeing 5100 viewers when I first started watching the feed (~5 minutes before the boys' start).

it was 4000...

There were 4400 when I was watching the girls' race.

What was there to watch? Announcers talking?

Weary wrote:

There were 4400 when I was watching the girls' race.

Wow, so 88 per state, really popular, RIP Footlocker.

Footlocker back in the day before the interent was the most nationally covered high school championship. It was the only true national championship for high school athletics. ESPN started televising it in 1985. USA Today had a full page devoted to all the qualifiers in 1984. One whole page.

I watched the race online today and was underwhelmed. But wathching it you still realize that its the only sport that can logistically get the best of the best in one spot, one competition. Watching a race with only the best of the nation racing is like watching the Olympics.

Its not what it used to be. Its not the pinnacle and high schoolers don't look at it like they did in the 80's and 90's.

Just another race. If Cheserek considered it a big deal he would have went out in 4:25 and 9:10 and blasted the 27 year old course record.

break it up wrote:

If Cheserek considered it a big deal he would have went out in 4:25 and 9:10 and blasted the 27 year old course record.

Cogent points, but I think you meant to say "he would have gone out."

break it up wrote:

Its not what it used to be. Its not the pinnacle and high schoolers don't look at it like they did in the 80's and 90's.

Translation:

"Wow, we suck compared to Footlocker Nationals!"

ummmmmmm wrote:

it was 4000...

Sorry, forgot a zero, but...

Kiolop wrote:

It's not the most exciting event.

I disagree. It wasn't a foregone conclusion Cheserek would win, and the kid from Virginia made it interesting. I enjoyed watching it and others would have too had they known.

I watched it, but I have honestly never seen such amateurish coverage of anything. Guys hitting themselves in the nuts with nunchucks on youtube do better than footlocker did.

Showing the announcers for 5 minutes at a time while not showing the race, having the camera in the lead cart giving us a birds-eye view of some guy's neck fold for a minute, showing a 5 minute shot of the empty course after they'd all gone past.

It was as if they were TRYING to make it as bad as they could.

insanely bad coverage wrote:

I watched it, but I have honestly never seen such amateurish coverage of anything.

Showing the announcers for 5 minutes at a time while not showing the race, having the camera in the lead cart giving us a birds-eye view of some guy's neck fold for a minute, showing a 5 minute shot of the empty course after they'd all gone past.

It was as if they were TRYING to make it as bad as they could.

I totally agree. Very correct synopsis of the coverage.

However, I know for a fact there were almost 5300 viewers. I saw the total go over 5280, the number of feet in mile.