Comments on: Ski WOC Long Mass start: Live from 12:00 CET http://news.worldofo.com/2011/03/26/ski-woc-long-mass-start-live-from-1200-cet/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Jan Kocbach http://news.worldofo.com/2011/03/26/ski-woc-long-mass-start-live-from-1200-cet/#comment-73554 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:22:30 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=3015#comment-73554 After watching the mass start from the Ski WOC today, I must say I am VERY happy that the WIF project group decided to not have mass start on their suggested WOC program. This was MUCH to complicated to follow, even for an orienteer. One should never have a mass start with this type of forking system if the goal is that to show the sport to the spectators (for the skiers I guess it is fine). The forking system made it very difficult to understand who was in the lead, what was the next control, etc. Even the speaker had no idea what was happening – and it was difficult to see where the decisive moments where. The key to a good TV production is that the viewer know more than the athlete – here it was definitely the other way around.

However: The last 15-20 minutes of the race it was possible to know what happened – and the last 15 minutes of the mens race was a real thriller – very good TV! In this part of the race, the head-cam video worked extremely well – one could really see what was happening there. Unfortunately there was no GPS-tracking for Staffan Tunis – one of the athletes fighting for gold, but still it was great to watch. Unfortunately I think quite a few lost interest a long time before that – it was afterall 1 hour 40 minutes of racing.

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