Athlos versus Grand Slam: Which one did it better?

Grand Slam. Athlos had too many distractions focusing on the "celebrities" in the crowd and talked even more about the $$.

Tha announcers, analysts, and other on-screen people were better for GST too.

Athlos was so much better in terms of sports presentation, excitement, stats and splits. If you want to save track you need to think of it as a product. Athlos did so much better on that regard.

Production wise GST looked like a Diamond League division 2.

The races in GST were better but just because of the fast W 400m and the M 1500m.

There is a lot for MJ to improve.

GST, no question

GST. They had a men’s division.

GST cos i get to see men in spandex.

I think GST smushed into 1 day and then awarding the big money every other meet would work better. You need time to build story lines. Imagine making the distance guys run a 800/1500/3000/5000 for the big cash

you can even run sub races to generate qualifiers. Have some borderline pro be super excited by qualifying for the big race and making 5k.

the tough part though is it is hard to get tension when it isn’t first across the line wins.

Neither. Little 1/2 meets. Both failed.

Athlos had a terrible hostess who knows nothing about sports and was more of a prop than anything else.

Grand Slam wins on that alone.

But I expected considerably more fan engagement and creativity from Grand Slam track. That was the biggest surprise. They aren't going to win many style points from pundits with an empty 40 minutes before and after.

My favorite part of Athlos was how one of the races (the first one?) had an obvious false start that they completely ignored

They did different things. Grand Slam is the meet I'd rather go to, even for just one day of the events.

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Athlos in person was extremely underwhelming as a product. Like yeah the stands were full, but the meet had crazy downtime and we didn't get any of the announcing or broadcast in the stadium. Without those the off-peak races were just extra weak sauce unfortunately

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