06-09-2020, 02:32 AM
(06-08-2020, 01:47 PM)michaeltex Wrote: Re: #4 Good point. The neutral location discussion also includes not only being neutral but the whole idea of no-live-audience games. The NCAA tournament with crowds often has an advantage by proximity to certain teams, but here if they truly are without live audiences at all, it will be entirely different test.
I'm reminded of YMCA type games or playground basketball, which often (not always) is relatively without audience. Interestingly enough though, even a few people in an audience can make a difference. Lebron didn't want to play without a crowd, but that seems like an eternity ago now.Now that its a reality, players will be looking for the inspirational edge anywhere they can find it.
I can recall handfuls of people at some very intense playground games I was in or was at. The production crew will be there, but will there be authorized reporters, maybe limited family or VIP there? Family could definitely inspire some players.
It will also to be interesting to see how they use the arena scoreboard. Obviously a crowd will be online. They could do some things with that ...
I wonder if there is something you could do with like a voting button. Everytime you like the play, you could "vote" that would then trigger canned crowd noise (maybe from recordings of the teams home arena.) The more votes, the more crowd noise. You would have to have something that tallied in <0.5 sec though or it might be too delayed to be useful. Just noodling instead of working...
Why not pick up some real live crowd noise, and video as well from the respective cities represented?
