rojo wrote:
stadium in NYC is tiny compared to Kingston. If Athlos was held in Jamaica, the crowd would also have looked tiny but there is no denying one couldn't but laugh when John Anderson said, "The fans are starting to pour in" and the stadium was totally empty.
Icahn Stadium - 5,000
National Stadium - 35,000
Centro looks weird without the swoosh
Moment of silence seems like a little bit of a formality when there's a total of seventeen people in the stadium anyways but hey it is what it is.
Might have to audible to smaller venues for the other GSTS, because ghis looks awful
So, he was wanted for battery and robbery.
You'd think that he'd avoid the police, not instigate a confrontation.
The vocalists were COMPLETELY off key. Holy crap! What the heck was that?!
The stream has been good but the crowd is a disaster
The Diamond League production is much better than this; just get to the sport!
We might need a moment of silence for GST at the end of this broadcast…
OMG this is bad. Everything is bad. The singing is bad. The crowd is absent.
Hope you enjoy this season of Grand Slam Track. No way investors will keep pouring in millions when they can't even get 100 fans to show up to the meet.
Awful wrote:
The vocalists were COMPLETELY off key. Holy crap! What the heck was that?!
Fits the sad atmosphere here in the stands. Embarrassing
blahblahblah3 wrote:
Moment of silence seems like a little bit of a formality when there's a total of seventeen people in the stadium anyways but hey it is what it is.
Might have to audible to smaller venues for the other GSTS, because ghis looks awful
how many small stadiums are there in large metropolitan areas. Icahn, and then...? Maybe some college stadiums?
Something about the broad daylight for a professional track meet seems very small, and exemplifies the high school crowd size
WHERE ARE THE FANS? There is nobody there
where da fuq is the crowd? stands are empty
Maybe it’s a quirk of it being the first meet, but I don’t think there should be so much space before the first race.
I can’t tell if this it trying to emulate the plague that is NFL pregame shows, I hope not. That only works for the NFL because football games are just social events for drinking and they need something on in the background
5:29pm, 10 minutes prior to the first race
blahblahblah3 wrote:
Something about the broad daylight for a professional track meet seems very small, and exemplifies the high school crowd size
Not even high school. Maybe a dual meet
Vancouver correspondent wrote:
The stadium looks quite empty. :(
About 2100 people in the YouTube seems pretty good given that there are also TV viewing options?
They really dropped the ball in not getting a meet in Europe nailed down. I get all the talk about building an audience, untapped markets, etc. But you need the product to look good. People watching on TV need to feel like they're missing out by not being there. Holding a meet in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, or any of the Nordic countries almost guarantees you a 75% full stadium that looks good on TV. That attracts other spectators for future meets, it attracts advertisers. It makes the whole thing a bit more financially viable in the long-term.
I hope the racing is good, but they need to make this look like a spectacle. People need the FOMO if this is to survive
