The Head Of The Charles Regatta was founded in 1965 and is the world’s largest rowing race, regularly fielding more than 11,000 athletes from around the world to compete in a full line-up of sculling and sweep rowing events. The ages of competitors range from 17-year-old youth rowers to athletes in their 90s, and the event is seen as a must-attend race for world class and Olympian rowers. More than 1,800 volunteers ensure that the event runs smoothly.
Its ok to see the Riverside Times for a few seconds but not ALL DAy Long. Get that off of there. They ruined great footage with this. And then Weld and then whatever. But the Timing Graphic is on tooooooooo Looooooooooonnnnnngggg. Get it?
Yes that stupid chart is ruining the great coverage. What a shame. Don't do this again next year. Plus the racing scores and times would be nice. Instead of having to look it up. Give us the results from time to time. Maybe the first three times...as they occur. And get rid of that blob from the screen.
Congratulations on a well-done broadcast all weekend long. This was very professional and well executed. Are there criticisms? Sure, but in any event such as this there will be things that could be done differently and better. Nevertheless, hats off to the producers, directors, all the camera people, and anyone else who had a hand in this production!
Commentators were too busy with their PR script to get the competitors' names correct. # 69 in Event 4 is my teammate Renata Perry of Bair Island Aquatic Center. The organizers make minimal effort to have boats of the same speed close together; witness the 20-year spread of ages jumbled into one event. And yes, the singles will pass under the BU/railroad bridges with no penalty. There were no water stations for filling water bottles this year.
it's true- there is no real effort made to group boats by speed. Most entries in any event (masters or otherwise) are randomly drawn and seeded by lottery. Typically only the fist handful (10ish-- this is based on a percentage of either the winning time or a specified finish place cutoff) of entries are seeded from the last year's event. These will be more or less speed ranked; while the rest of the event is not. In many ways this makes it more fun, as passing and trying not to be passed is part of the fun for both paticipants and spectators.
The commentator keeps commenting on the lines, and "take advantage of the view you're getting of these angles," but the screen has something pasted on top of it -- exactly on top of the bridges. Please don't do that next year.
Correction here: Diana Hanks of Vermont was number 45. She's a friend of mine . I know her number was 45. The announcers told her story correctly, (carrying some ashes from the late former owner of the King), but unfortunately they kept mistakenly identifying Rower #46 as Diana.
The announcers are using an old line up sheet and just about every rower whom I know they have misidentified! Someone needs to get them a current lineup so they don't do this for three days!! The lineups on Regatta Central were changing until the beginning of this week.
They misidentified my friend Diana Hanks of Vermont as #46 when in fact she was #45. I thought this mistake was unique to her until I read your post, Catherine. Thanks for clarifying that it occurred more than once. Ughhh.
New rower and first-time watcher! Would be super cool if next year the RU-vid video had chapters dividing the races 1, 2, 3, etc. Or timestamps in the descriptions. I'd love to go right to race of my club then watch the others. :)
Thanks all for the feedback both during and after today's broadcast. We will approach Saturday and Sunday coverage of HOCR 2021 with your comments in mind.
Colleen and David, HOC announcers on RU-vid, you are doing a good job and the coverage is great! A very minor suggestion- the term “athletes” is being used over and over and over in the coverage- suggest you consider mixing it up with “rowers” “scullers”, oarsmen, oarswomen - just mix it up a bit.
I was so happy to be in the room with these inspirations to the sport, I love. Let me know how I can be of service. Looking forward to more conversations.
