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Easton Cup info. for those who aren’t aware of it:
This seems to have generated some interest within the WordPress community (the software which powers the site).
One of the owners of Automattic, the company which owns the WordPress.com service asked one of his employees to write the following blog post about the site:
http://publisherblog.automattic.com/201 … full-site/If you ate out at those sorts of places often that would definitely pay itself off pretty quick. There isn’t enough Asian foods on there for my liking though (I’m really an Asian at heart).
"Active":e4i30etd wrote:Its kinda hard when you have to groom between sessions and then people jump on from the previous session and you cant recognise whos paid and who hasnt and the game has started by the time I get on
[/quote:e4i30etd]Oh yeah, lol. That would make things a little tricky
” title=”Smiley” />I’ve always just kicked players off when they don’t pay. Works pretty well. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would do otherwise. It is a bit of a hassle doing a check, but I always figured that’s part of running the session.
Awesome! I’ve had a vague idea of shooting 3D photos of hockey games at some point, but haven’t gotten around to splurging on a 3D lens for action 3D. Doing it in video is 100x better
” title=”Cheesy” />Hockey would be one of the best sports for 3D since the action is held on a relatively small area. Very close-range sports like Tennis would be even better I imagine.
I wonder if this will be the standard way to watch sport in the future?
I tried to find the intended attendances for the London games they had a year or two ago, but failed.
10,000 still seems mighty steep, particularly since they’d presumably be charging the hilt for it.
Would it be feasible for someone to bankroll a team “like” the Moose to travel and here and play a series of demonstration games? If attendances were high enough then it could make a hefty profit I imagine. It wouldn’t work for an organisation like the NZIHF as they don’t have the marketing skills/cashflow to pull it off, but a private company with experience in such things might be able to.
Preferably a company like that would not go around telling us all they’re bringing Team USA and Team Canada to NZ before revealing at the last minute that they’re just random foreign teams …
Wouldn’t Auckland or Christchurch be better places to hold such an event?
Or worse, Sydney or Melbourne?
I assume they’d be looking for 20,000+ spectators, and they wouldn’t get that here in Dunedin simply because we don’t have the population base to handle it.
"Azzy77":jktohee0 wrote:Anyway given Bettmans reluctance to release NHL players to Olympics I would find it highly irregular that he would release them for some game in NZ.[/quote:jktohee0]I don’t think they claimed that they would be the Olympic squads, just that Team Canada and Team USA would be coming (who don’t usually have the top NHL players on their teams).
"Kyle":1lxbkw9a wrote:What is it about Anna and getting injured on the ice? Is she OK?
[/quote:1lxbkw9a]Subluxed shoulder (partial dislocation) according to Sarah Ward (who was on our gate at the time). I didn’t see what happened and neither did anyone else I talked to about it. What Graham just said was the first I knew of her sliding into the boards.
She was waiting for an X-Ray in ED last I saw her last night. There didn’t appear to be any complications, just a lot of pain.
Thankfully we have a physician and a final year physio student on our team, so she got immediate attention/relocation in a hurry.
8 – 3 to the Richard Cranium team in the first game.
Anna Craw had a nasty injury part way through the game and the Keas let in a bunch of goals after that. I’m not sure about the rest of the team, but that sort of thing really throws me off my game so I’m assuming that’s what caused the lapse of concentration and subsequent flurry of goals that got in.
Up till the injury it was a really good game though and was awesome to be a part of. I think we were tied at 3 – 3 at that stage, so hopefully the rest of the season will see a nice string of similarly tight games (without the injuries).
Turn the volume down first
” title=”Cheesy” />The problem though, is that I doubt CNN is about to send their own cameras out there, I’m guessing they’d be reliant on TVNZ or TV3 footage being onsold to them. But they probably wouldn’t agree to screen it until after they’d seen the footage I’d guess, so you wouldn’t know before hand who was or wasn’t going to cover it, and ipso facto neither would the sponsors.
I suspect the only advertising it would create is to outline that we do indeed play hockey in this part of the world, and that some of us are crazy enough to try it on an ice berg.
