Flo Sports

[Kuiper]

Westminster at Marietta also had technical issues at the start.

In soccer, we've seen technical issues in lots of games, especially early in the season, even when Flo isn't involved.  It may be the host school and its operators since they are the ones who supply Flo with the feed.

[WUPHF]

Westminster at Marietta also had technical issues at the start.

In soccer, we've seen technical issues in lots of games, especially early in the season, even when Flo isn't involved.  It may be the host school and its operators since they are the ones who supply Flo with the feed.

The UChicago feed has had the weird audio problems that I would have assumed were host issues, but have heard it on multiple UAA broadcasts last season.

[Ralph Turner]

Flo completely missed a 45 yd TD pass by McMurry at Southwestern.

[jekelish]

If you want to see what Flo streaming could be, log in and check out a Carson-Newman game.  They're a D2 school about an hour north of Maryville.  Whatever they are doing, they should write the recipe and sell it.

I am very impressed with their production.

It's likely they were competent before the advent of Flo.  Until the schools step up their own games (which has been very slow to happen in the years since this rolled out) overall production quality will continue to be inconsistent.

I don't believe that to be the case. There were reports of Flo streams all over the country dealing with technical difficulties. Without pulling back the curtain too much, I know - with absolute certainty - that most of it was on Flo's end. I fear that Flo has been so focused on scaling up the number of schools and conferences that they have under their header that they forgot to actually scale up the infrastructure/servers to match the client growth, and this opening weekend was proof they weren't ready for all of the additional schools and sports all playing at once.

[WUPHF]

I fear that Flo has been so focused on scaling up the number of schools and conferences that they have under their header that they forgot to actually scale up the infrastructure/servers to match the client growth, and this opening weekend was proof they weren't ready for all of the additional schools and sports all playing at once.

I remain convinced that the economics are such that they cannot scale up adequately, but what do I know?  Otherwise, it is pretty obvious to those who follow games from more than one school that the technical problems are on Flo Sports.

[y_jack_lok]

^^^ That makes me wonder about the relationship between Flo's infrastructure and the schools" infrastructure, recalling this from last week: "The investment in production and deployment at the member institution level includes a hardware and software package that has greatly advanced streaming quality leading to 100% delivery of 60 FPS video feeds (an increase of 45% ) and a dramatic rise in uptime delivery."

[NEPAFAN]

Flo completely missed a 45 yd TD pass by McMurry at Southwestern.

FLO or the camera operator?

[Ralph Turner]

Flo completely missed a 45 yd TD pass by McMurry at Southwestern.

FLO or the camera operator?

The camera operator, I presume.
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