Comments on: EOC Middle 2016: Maps and Results http://news.worldofo.com/2016/05/28/eoc-middle-2016-maps-and-results/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Dilbert http://news.worldofo.com/2016/05/28/eoc-middle-2016-maps-and-results/#comment-124908 Sat, 28 May 2016 06:58:51 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=11227#comment-124908 First of all congratulations to the winners, and thank you for an exciting WEB TV production. I could really enjoy the competition from home and follow and all the runners from control-to-control on GPS.

However, again I must say that timing has to be improved. Many times I observed the following scenario:
1. Runner approaches finish line. We see running time and time-to-beat on the graphics.
2. Time-to-beat expires and the runner passes the finish line – just a second or two too late (it looks like)
3. The clock jumps back, and the runner is now one second ahead!
4. The TV commentator: “The times on TV graphics and my computer screen are different”
5. TV commentator: “… eh, we have to wait for the official times….”

In which other timed sport do we see/hear this on TV?

It looks like the solution developed to support TV graphics is using another device to show the running time, and the time we see is NOT coming from the official clock. Such a solution is an absolutely NO-NO solution for a timing provider. I have seen a few solutions where a separate PC has been used to generate the running time for TV, and every time you end up with the problem described above.
I hope this can be fixed for the future.

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