I just heard there many different monofins down there in one spot and everyone is really enjoying the atmosphere, tomorrow is opening ceremony today was the checkin.
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Live from Egypt 2006
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Well, there were some reports on the Czech TV, but unfortunately they did not put it online because of limited broadcasting rights. I have also access to some Egyptian and many Arabian channels on my cable network, but since I do not understand anything and do not know at what time to expect a sport report, I am not sure if I manage to catch it. I can try keeping an Egyptian channel open on my screen though, and will record it, if I see something interesting, but am not sure how long I'll stand it 
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there is lots of talk about looks and style...
1. well - im not there (unfortunately) but still look good...
2. style: anyone interrested in uw fashion may check on this uk company making stylish suits:
http://www.scapascuba.co.uk/drysuits.htm (scroll down the page) /
http://www.scapascuba.co.uk/hoods.htm
(dont know if domagoj frm croatia is there, but he dives in white...)
1. well - im not there (unfortunately) but still look good...
2. style: anyone interrested in uw fashion may check on this uk company making stylish suits:
http://www.scapascuba.co.uk/drysuits.htm (scroll down the page) /
http://www.scapascuba.co.uk/hoods.htm
(dont know if domagoj frm croatia is there, but he dives in white...)
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due to the wonderfully promoted champs by the egyptians (last update 2006/09/22).
For updated informations I found this link only:
http://www.aida-czech.cz/info
(with fotos and text in czech only:head )
For updated informations I found this link only:
http://www.aida-czech.cz/info
(with fotos and text in czech only:head )
There are these blogs from the Finnish and Swedish teams:
http://vapaasukellusmmkisat.blogspot.com/
http://davidliljefors.blogspot.com/
Not much use if you don't speak swedish or finnish, but at least some photos
http://vapaasukellusmmkisat.blogspot.com/
http://davidliljefors.blogspot.com/
Not much use if you don't speak swedish or finnish, but at least some photos
The Danish girls -Eva, Maria and Britt- have a blog with pics as well:
http://www.havfruerne.dk/
Hopefully the official site will at least be updated with the daily results.
http://www.havfruerne.dk/
Hopefully the official site will at least be updated with the daily results.
I find the official website until now at least totally useless for people like me looking for the latest news and stories about preparations and training results etc.
I had hoped and expected much more. Also on deeperblue I find all the news rather tame for a world Championship. It feels like it is much less alive compared to the last one, where weeks before stories and picftures and updates where everywhere. Unfortunately my scandinavian and east european language skills are a bit rusty because they are a pleasant exception.
Hope things will change for the better for the unfortunate homestayers when the stuff starts going. ;-)
I had hoped and expected much more. Also on deeperblue I find all the news rather tame for a world Championship. It feels like it is much less alive compared to the last one, where weeks before stories and picftures and updates where everywhere. Unfortunately my scandinavian and east european language skills are a bit rusty because they are a pleasant exception.
Hope things will change for the better for the unfortunate homestayers when the stuff starts going. ;-)
If they'd at least post the announced preformances and actual results within, say, a day of being realized, I would be satisfied.
But I'm not holding my breath...
Probably the biggest audience for this type of thing is in the Internet. Sure, it is unfortunate, but that's just how things currently are So that's what I'd put my money on in terms of PR...
Now when is someone going to launch a youtube-type of service, but which works with real time (or semi real time at least) broad casts. So that the event organizer only need worry about having enough capacity to upload a single video stream, but some faceless monstrosity of a company hosts the actual servers and bandwith for distributing it world wide? Wouldn't that just about revolutionize the way these kind of marginal events get publicity?
Someone with some programming skills looking to score a couple of billion should take note No point making zillions of youtube-clones, that's already done and done well...Why not kick it up a notch?
But I'm not holding my breath...
Probably the biggest audience for this type of thing is in the Internet. Sure, it is unfortunate, but that's just how things currently are
So that's what I'd put my money on in terms of PR...Now when is someone going to launch a youtube-type of service, but which works with real time (or semi real time at least) broad casts. So that the event organizer only need worry about having enough capacity to upload a single video stream, but some faceless monstrosity of a company hosts the actual servers and bandwith for distributing it world wide? Wouldn't that just about revolutionize the way these kind of marginal events get publicity?
Someone with some programming skills looking to score a couple of billion should take note
No point making zillions of youtube-clones, that's already done and done well...Why not kick it up a notch?
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Doesnt even have to be that big. Some guy with a webcam pointing over the pool and some decent bandwith would be enough. Or a couple of el cheapo webams over the same pool to share bandwith between them.
But then again , broadband internet in egypt may be not that easy as it is in some other areas.
But then again , broadband internet in egypt may be not that easy as it is in some other areas.
glennv said:
guys cool down, i dont recall seeing any training video clips of the soccer world cup do you? i mean all the games were on coded channels for crying out loud where you would have to subscribe to watch... so maybe take it a tad easier on the guys here...
best of luck to your teams...
and by the way there is internet connection in broad band here, and we all moved out of the pyramids years ago :head rofl
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The teams have time until 5th to announce their final starting list (most teams came with a reserve competitor) and to announce the performances. And I guess you won't hear from anyone before that, since keeping it under cover is quite strategic now. Same goes for current performances realized in trainings - it is not too likely someone will publish them, and if he/she does, there is the big question if it is the truth or just a strategic maneuverer to push the concurrents to either too low or too high bid.jome said:
The competition starts with 3 days of CWT on Wednesday, so we won't have any results until then. Well, seeing how abandoned the official site is, I doubt too whether there will be anything posted there at all, but I am sure, there will be enough information coming from different people there. And, you can bet that they will not place any web-cam or stream any video on the Internet - finally they sell the TV broadcasting rights, so they would really piss off all those channels who bought them for big money.
My point was merely that tv-broadcasts are so last century...
This is a sport that has a hand full of spectators here and another there...Literally on different corners of the globe. The only reasonable way to reach any kind of coherent audience would be broadcasting in the net...But that's yet to happen and I'm glad to see that there are at least cameras rolling(and at least by the schematic, pretty impressive set up too) and we may at least get a climpse of the goodies at some point. Just wish it was now And as a general comment, for any marginal sport, such a service where one could easily stream up live video and have it accessible to anyone in the world cheap - I would think it would be revolutinary. Just add a few ads here and there and you're set reaching thousands or millions instead of group of hc-enthusiasts and friends who actually show up on location. The technology is there, the event is there, the audience is there...But the service is missing. Simply the fact that we sit here wishing it to happen is telling that there is an imbalance of supply and demand. And where such an imbalance exists, especially when the demand is higher than the supply, there is usually money to be made...I'm not saying the WC is the right target group for this, but certainly national level competitions etc. Hmm...To think about it, I guess p2p live video streaming would work too. Will have to try and set something like that up for fun...
Regarding results and such - I'm aware that the competition hasn't started yet. It's just that it is very, very rare for any freedive competition to have the results up in any reasonable time - and that's really the only thing that the "spectators" want. So I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprsied, but remain sceptical. The nice exception was Nice last year, when you could follow those green/red flags being updated almost in real time. True, that is facinating only to the freediving geeks, but then again - who else is even watching?
This is a sport that has a hand full of spectators here and another there...Literally on different corners of the globe. The only reasonable way to reach any kind of coherent audience would be broadcasting in the net...But that's yet to happen and I'm glad to see that there are at least cameras rolling(and at least by the schematic, pretty impressive set up too) and we may at least get a climpse of the goodies at some point. Just wish it was now
And as a general comment, for any marginal sport, such a service where one could easily stream up live video and have it accessible to anyone in the world cheap - I would think it would be revolutinary. Just add a few ads here and there and you're set reaching thousands or millions instead of group of hc-enthusiasts and friends who actually show up on location. The technology is there, the event is there, the audience is there...But the service is missing. Simply the fact that we sit here wishing it to happen is telling that there is an imbalance of supply and demand. And where such an imbalance exists, especially when the demand is higher than the supply, there is usually money to be made...I'm not saying the WC is the right target group for this, but certainly national level competitions etc. Hmm...To think about it, I guess p2p live video streaming would work too. Will have to try and set something like that up for fun...Regarding results and such - I'm aware that the competition hasn't started yet. It's just that it is very, very rare for any freedive competition to have the results up in any reasonable time - and that's really the only thing that the "spectators" want. So I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprsied, but remain sceptical. The nice exception was Nice last year, when you could follow those green/red flags being updated almost in real time. True, that is facinating only to the freediving geeks, but then again - who else is even watching?
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That may be true (at least for me anyway - I do not watch TV since years), but it is the TV broadcasters who pay the bills. I am afraid that without selling the broadcasting rights, the competition could not take place at all, or just in very limited version and rudimentary conditions. Today, aside from some porn websites, and pay-per-view services, you still won't find any Internet broadcaster that would be able of such investments. They usually cannot even afford buying broadcasting rights for much more popular sports than freediving, so there is very little chance they could afford investing into an event with such small audience.jome said:
Well thank god then that we all can get Nile TV so we can follow the event broadcasts rofl
And the official site to me officialy suck since it does not even show the teams competing. Couple of names and pictures of the teams would be a bare minimum.
Marwan,
Pity you moved out of the pyramids, since that would be realy cool a webcam in a pyramid :t
And the official site to me officialy suck since it does not even show the teams competing. Couple of names and pictures of the teams would be a bare minimum.
Marwan,
Pity you moved out of the pyramids, since that would be realy cool a webcam in a pyramid :t
I don't think the official website is being touched, or will be.
Lets just say that it's a bit crazy here in the desert, hopefully the comp will proceed as planned, there are a lot of people holding their breaths on it (quite literally).
That said, everyone's having a ball and there's plenty of PB stories going around. In fact one guy here not even competing just along for the ride did a 6:48 static today, about 2 minutes better than his previous, he said that the warm water agrees with him.
Constant Weight on track for wed-fri, dynamic sunday (pool is 21 degrees!!!) and static on monday (warmer pool).
Like I said - it's a bit crazy, we're not sure whether the plug will get pulled at any point but damn we're having fun and having some great dives!
Cheers,
Ben
Lets just say that it's a bit crazy here in the desert, hopefully the comp will proceed as planned, there are a lot of people holding their breaths on it (quite literally).
That said, everyone's having a ball and there's plenty of PB stories going around. In fact one guy here not even competing just along for the ride did a 6:48 static today, about 2 minutes better than his previous, he said that the warm water agrees with him.
Constant Weight on track for wed-fri, dynamic sunday (pool is 21 degrees!!!) and static on monday (warmer pool).
Like I said - it's a bit crazy, we're not sure whether the plug will get pulled at any point but damn we're having fun and having some great dives!
Cheers,
Ben