Message from Accu-Stats about Tunica Stream

Fast Lenny

Fast Lenny

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Just saw this posted on FB...

7/20 - It is now 7:30 and we STILL have no internet connection at Tunica. We are STILL waiting on Verizon and the Casino IT people.
My plan now is to replay all of today's matches later tonight after the Live show ends. Providing, of course, that we get this thing running.

Once again I am sorry for the hassle and inconvenience. I will NOT sell tickets to these shows until I am satisfied that all the problems have been rectified.

Jim
Accu-Stats
 
VF-31 said:
Ya gotta wonder how this kind of thing happens....what the hay!
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It usually happens like this:

Sixty days ago:

Pool streaming guy: "I need XYX level of bandwidth in order to stream. Does your location have this capability."

Hotel guy: "Absolutely no problem."

Day of final set up and test:

Pool streaming guy: "Hey...this connection is terrible and nothing like what you said it was."

Hotel guy: : "Huh...really? I'll call a guy."

Generally at this point the Pool Streaming Guy looks around for a puppy to kick.

Ask me how I know.

Pat and his crew are pro's. This isn't on them.
 
It doesn't look like they are pro's?

JCIN, Sorry but they are at fault.
They are ultimately responsible.
They should have been there last week to verify connections with ther equipment.
These things happen all the time, in business.
Is this their first Rodeo?
 
I've prob been streaming about 12 years. Believe me when I say this isn't AccuStats fault. Justin's post is spot on. You can't travel to some location with equipment to test a line.... it doesn't pay. You can't make enough money on a pool stream to justify the trip.

You also can't test the internet line with a web-based speed test. Those merely give you a snapshot at one moment in time and change depending on time of day and occupancy.

The ONLY way to do it is bring in a dedicated line and you can't make enough on a pool stream to justify it.

So, even if you test ahead of time... it means nothing at a hotel.

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BarneyCalip said:
JCIN, Sorry but they are at fault.
They are ultimately responsible.
They should have been there last week to verify connections with ther equipment.
These things happen all the time, in business.
Is this their first Rodeo?
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How do you know they didn't test previously?

My post was just a random guess as to the situation.

I have tested at places a month before hand and the numbers were fine. Come kick off something changed. It happens. At the DCC a few years ago something on the network would start eating up bandwidth for a couple hours a day and everything went to shit for that period. Is a guy supposed to go test 24 hours a day before hand?

Besides when an IT guy at a Harrah's casino tells you a connection is good are you going to shoot $500 and a day to fly down and check ? The margin in streaming isn't that high you have to take the guys word. People want professional level coverage but no one in the industry can pay professional level production costs. So we get guys doing the best they can. Sometimes things go wrong. If you hate it and paid for it Pat will refund your money I'm sure. If you didnt pay for it and are just complaining that a small company didn't send an advance team down a week ahead of time time to verify something then I suspect you have unreasonable expectations.

Edit to add: I want to add that Accu-Stats finished product and crew are as a professional as anything ESPN has ever done IMO. They do it on a shoestring budget comparatively was my point. Meaning no one is trucking out gear weeks in advance just in case. Even if they did situations could arise they would have no control over. It is what it is.
 
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Here are 2 funny situations I have had streaming in locations here in Phoenix. I tested a few days in advance to make sure the internet was solid at this room, great connection and upload speed. I get there and start streaming the tournament, no problems but about 30 minutes or so in I get booted off, it was set up to kick me every 30 minutes and I would have to reconnect, what a pain that was.

Another time I am set up to stream at another location where the internet is fine at. The juke box is unplugged to keep it quiet for the tourney. I cannot get online at all, nothing is working and I cannot figure it out, it turns out the internet does not work there unless the juke box is plugged in. It took me an hour or 2 to figure that one out.

Trust me when I say the stress of doing it sometimes makes you scratch your head and wonder how I got involved in it all in the first place. I cannot imagine traveling cross country with a ton of gear to have something like that happen, talk about stressful. I do not think people appreciate the end result or understand all it takes to do what is being done out there streaming wise when going to a location that is not your home court.
 
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Big thanks to Lenny and Justin and Spider for explaining a bit to the mere mortals !

Of course it was looked at in person by some people of the AccuStats crew months ago !
 
i did a stream once time where we had a 5mg upload rate till an hour into the show, the service provider decided to throttle back the bandwidth to 100-200k for the whole area.

live streaming is always an adventure. no matter how much prep you do.

M.C.
 
curlyscues said:
i did a stream once time where we had a 5mg upload rate till an hour into the show, the service provider decided to throttle back the bandwidth to 100-200k for the whole area.

live streaming is always an adventure. no matter how much prep you do.

M.C.
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Exactly...I'm only a viewer, but this is a technology in it's infancy. It's bound to get better. I'm grateful for what I get. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that streams didn't exist..
 
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