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Post by vb on Dec 17, 2017 12:56:09 GMT -5
So who won?
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Post by panicvb on Dec 17, 2017 13:05:40 GMT -5
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Post by wolleyball on Dec 20, 2017 13:24:56 GMT -5
So all this buzz about this new "League" and they can't even update the website with results/stats/anything from their big coming out party?
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Post by moderndaycoach on Dec 21, 2017 9:09:22 GMT -5
My takeaway from the event was that it was better than my expectations, while some things went exactly as I thought they would- some other aspects of the weekend actually were done well and some just fell flat on their face.
The feeds were great, I thought the broadcast was awesome and better than you usually see for normal streams as USAV (yes I know they are just an eye in the sky) in regards to coverage and different angles. I did enjoy having the commentary however just like it got annoying when certain NVL stream announcers would do it, it started to happen here. What I am referring to is the announcers who without doubt know a good handful of these guys would start to use nicknames and reference a bunch of inside jokes that people who aren't in that circle or outside that region where the joke may otherwise be known would get lost. It just became tacky in certain situations where it was all very repetitive or the "slang" of volleyball was flowing freely where again the casual fan may not get the reference. Now I am not asking for a Beth Mowins hack job here where you assume every single person watching is a child or adult who has never seen the game, but just broaden it up a little bit and lose the bias or relation to otherwise personal friendships or volleyball lifer verbiage and stick to a standard stereotypical broadcast coverage at least for the first couple big events until an audience is developed.
The website is just a complete and total joke(and still is-just updated event head-shots with no numbers and half of an old schedule is still up), it literally was not even active during the entire event. You would think if you want to grow the game for the casual fan you would have the rosters provided and available for those people to check a name of someone who they thought was having a great game or had a spectacular play but did not recognize the name as the announcer called out the play/stat. Not only that but the social media aspect in general, initially your social feeds were flooded for a few days a couple weeks out, but they would come in huge bursts in the middle of the day when people are working and obvious the league or team captains would send out a message saying to promote the league via social but then after that one initial post it was like they stopped with little to no updates. Once the event started where were the updates? If you are going to start a new league and make this your premier showcase event the social media handles should have been non stop, all the content you could have possibly provided just flooding peoples timelines ALL WEEKEND LONG. Even if you decided to shut down the website while the event was going on so people didn't see such a poorly thrown together webpage, at least tweet/insta/facebook out the rosters for each team - give a little introduction into the next match or push out the box scores and highlights after. Even if they just would have put up rosters with numbers on the front page of the NVA website with some under construction notice or something it would have been better that what was not.
Within the last few days you have seen spikenet put out videos of the accolades that have started to be handed out, again this is just out of the blue - did the casual fan know that there would be these certain awards or have an idea of when to look for when they would be announced? The videos are cool for the accolades or awards for "best whatever" but don't fail on the video if you are going to do it, the best server video you can barley see his serves because halfway through majority of the services they threw in some crappy annoying shake feature that I am guessing was to infer it was a monster serve or something but it made me stop watching a shaky volleyball video and seeing what garnered top server honors.
Not too sure what you could have done about the attendance and how that was perceived via the live stream, I do not know how far away it was from the strip or how easy it would have been to pick up the casual tourist that was walking by and wanted to watch a match....or if there was even food/beverage for them to have if they casually stopped by. I would imagine a lot of the rest of the events will have some adults who are friends or fans but will ultimately be packed with kids wanting to watch which is awesome to get them more interested and it will be happening where they practice/play close to home.
Sponsors are going to be huge for this if it wants to keep growing because we all know nothing happens without money. I saw some domestic/foreign sponsors running ads by the score tracker on the live feed and some ball barricades set up but that just is not enough if it wants to keep growing. I wonder if any of the big names that get involved with he AVP, or even the AVP itself, would be interested if this continues to grow as cross market advertising for the same crowd could be beneficial to both organizations.
Overall I thought it was a good first attempt, however I can't wash the stink off of something that went well but seemed like it was thrown together in like 2 weeks where I am positive it took longer than 2 weeks to secure everything. I know there are probably next to no one who works full time on this but this is one of those situations where time does not exist in the weeks/months leading up to "GO LIVE DAY" if you are going to be involved in any logistical or executing capacity.
I am excited to see this grow and how it may materialize but the NVA is a lonnngggggggggg way from having this be anything other than a collection of ultra glorified adult tournaments for the first couple *seasons.
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