Real American Freestyle

[Fletcher]

4 hours ago, WrestlingRasta said:

Ryne Sandburg

NO! But I will pour out some Colt 45 on the curb for my homie. RIP Ryno.

[WrestlingRasta]

30 minutes ago, Fletcher said:

NO! But I will pour out some Colt 45 on the curb for my homie. RIP Ryno.

Yeah.  Was only 65.   Prostate…

[GrandOlm]

I did here a comment about how wrestling fans need to get over being interested in more than #1 v #2. That's a problem almost every individual sport has. Team sports in theory represent more than the individual, as in a school, neighborhood, village/town/city, region, or nation (yes that's a farce a lot of the time with these differently colored logos pulling and trading among the same pool of vagrant athletes, but the pretense is still there).

So yeah people will watch even if it's not the best of the best, because they gave the something else in common. 

A big part of college wrestling's appeal, over generic senior level freestyle, is the shared identify of going to the same school.

Edited 17 hours ago by GrandOlm

[Yellow_Medal]

Couldn’t find the start time anywhere on their website. Had to click on buy a ticket to have Ticketmaster inform me that it starts 7PM ET. Wrestling websites suck, Flo included, and I’ve earned the right to complain as a decade-plus Flo subscriber. For example, trying to just watch the finals of some major freestyle tournaments without knowing which mat they were broadcast on is near impossible. I mean really RAF? You have the date at the top of the page but no time? Do you want me to watch this or not?

[Winners Circle]

4 minutes ago, Yellow_Medal said:

Couldn’t find the start time anywhere on their website. Had to click on buy a ticket to have Ticketmaster inform me that it starts 7PM ET. Wrestling websites suck, Flo included, and I’ve earned the right to complain as a decade-plus Flo subscriber. For example, trying to just watch the finals of some major freestyle tournaments without knowing which mat they were broadcast on is near impossible. I mean really RAF? You have the date at the top of the page but no time? Do you want me to watch this or not?

Bear with me here. But if you go to FloArena (or USA Bracketing/TrackWrestling), and go to the dashboard, it has a list of every match that's going on on every mat at that given time. This is not a hard problem to solve brother. 

[Yellow_Medal]

Bear with me here. But if you go to FloArena (or USA Bracketing/TrackWrestling), and go to the dashboard, it has a list of every match that's going on on every mat at that given time. This is not a hard problem to solve brother. 

I was referring to rewatching the finals that have already occurred. I have zero problem doing what you described while watching a live event. The point is, why don’t they just post a video labeled “Ranking series mens freestyle finals”? That sounds logical to me. I’m pretty tech savvy, I edit my own videos, make websites, edit audio in DAW, etc. I always end up finding how to watch what I’m looking for on Flo, but they often make it unnecessarily complicated.

[alex1fly]

25 minutes ago, Yellow_Medal said:

I was referring to rewatching the finals that have already occurred. I have zero problem doing what you described while watching a live event. The point is, why don’t they just post a video labeled “Ranking series mens freestyle finals”? That sounds logical to me. I’m pretty tech savvy, I edit my own videos, make websites, edit audio in DAW, etc. I always end up finding how to watch what I’m looking for on Flo, but they often make it unnecessarily complicated.

+1

An ounce of effort would yield a pound of results. or something else wise like that. 

You edit audio? I was just helping my wife do a voiceover in Ableton Live last night. Couldn't resist the urge to pitch shift her voice and loop it.

[Yellow_Medal]

+1
An ounce of effort would yield a pound of results. or something else wise like that. 
You edit audio? I was just helping my wife do a voiceover in Ableton Live last night. Couldn't resist the urge to pitch shift her voice and loop it.

Nice. Once you start audio production, you can’t you won’t and you don’t stop! Yeah, I sympathize with what Spey said on FRL about them working constantly to both cover an event while simultaneously having to upload film, etc. The thing they could improve drastically upon with little effort, however, is standardization. Seems like it varies wildly from employee to employee how they tag, label, and organize their videos. Just standardizing that to be user friendly would go a long way.

[Yellow_Medal]

But…back to RAF. I couldn’t even find the start time on their X feed! If they don’t know the time, then put TBD. Come on Brain, do you want people to sign up and watch or not?