Ok. Rant on.

wtf. Why is wwt media coverage so ****! Like how hard is it to focus energy on stuff that counts rather than stuff that is just fluff..

for example. I have pages and pages of feeds of competitor interviews but nowhere can i find whats actually going on with the event… is it on hold? Waiting for better conditions, is it finished.

seems every event wwt run it’s the same. I gotta go through multiple pages from wwt or pwa to actually find out whats going on. What is the point to spending all that time on media fluff when viewers just tune out because they can’t find where the event is at.

Don’t get me started on results. Usually i find out thd results by looking at the competitors personal facebook page. Are we that woke that it’s impossible to actually wrap up events or celebrate events with the posting of results on the wwt facebook page as soon as they are known.

so wissant event, i’m done. Sick and tired of making time to tune in to nothing. It takes infinitely less time to post an update on where the event is at then hours of ****ing interviews.

fwiw, i’m a hardcore consumer of this stuff. And you’ve lost me. Hope someone associated with these events reads this and pauses for thought.

rant off.

I dunno, feels like it’s by design. Been the case for multiple seasons now. I don’t think they are trying to cater for the spectators but more for the competitors based on the publicity.

it takes time to shoot competitor vids and edit then post. Takes less time and cost make a post on facebook and pin it to the top. So not sure it’s s cost thing.

philn said..
Specific to the Wissant event I looked on Facebook and every day there is an update saying “no wind, doing other stuff”.

Which Facebook….wwt, wissant, pwa?
today there are posts saying waiting for wind but it’s 4 days since they had heats...
what about results. Where are the results?

Ok so i found the updates. There are videos on the wissant facebook page. Interestingly i had no idea there was even a wissant page. But there you go.
do i really need to watch a bunch of Facebook videos to get an update? That aside, the video is posted after the day has occurred. That’s right you are watching wrap ups not event info. Am i going to stare at a screen for 8 hours waiting to find out nothing happened. Where is the running description on whether things are on hold or when is the event postponed to. As an aside i don’t have this issue watching wsl events. Their communication is excellent.

facebook has limitations. For starters posts disappear from the front page and this gets worse the more fluff posts that get made. There are so many simple, cheap ways they can address these things. But they don’t. it’s been a complaint for years now.

Anyways i’m done. I’m tapping out of wissant. Time go windsurfing.

Gestalt said..
Am i going to stare at a screen for 8 hours waiting to find out nothing happened.

That's why I mostly stopped watching these events live and just skip through the highlights video after the event is over.

worldwindsurftour.com/events/wissant-wave-classic-france