World Games 2025

[heywoodu 16,434]

I like when commentators make a mistake, acknowledge their mistake, and correct it. No problem at all, it happens.

 

Watching yesterday's fin swimming, 50m apnoea....the lady said the winner broke the world record (with a time of 13.74 despite the WR, shown on-screen, being 13.70), when in fact it clearly said 'WG' - World Games record. Her co-commentator, I believe a guy from CMAS, mentioned that not once, but twice ("it's a World Games record"), but even after that, said lady just kept going on about it being a WR, talking about when the 'old' WR was said, and so on  

 

She's not just unprepared and not at all paying attention, she's not even listening to her co-commentator. I wonder if she's the same generic commentator who did dragon boat racing and made a mess of that.

 

Edit: at least after that she was correct in announcing the world record for the German Nandor Kiss.

Edited August 12, 2025 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,434]

 won the korfball final  

[heywoodu 16,434]

Well, that inline skating points race is just utterly unwatchable unless you're keeping your own count of the points...not even some basic graphics with the standings..

[De_Gambassi 1,368]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Well, that inline skating points race is just utterly unwatchable unless you're keeping your own count of the points...not even some basic graphics with the standings..

 

The World Games are a bit weird, aren't they ? The budget to host the event must be quite high (30 sports and venues, 4,000 athletes...) with the video platform to boradcast everything. But it looks like they cheap out on every other metrics that could enhance the spectator experience by a lot and without costing a ton (graphics, a few more presentators that have a somewhat knowledge of the sports they're commentating, a website not stucked in 1999, etc.)

Edited August 12, 2025 by De_Gambassi

[hckošice 16,572]

8 hours ago, Griff88 said:

@hckošiceI hope your fellow Kosice citizen doesn't beat our kickboxer too bad tomorrow so that she will still have chance in the bronze medal match 

I see what you did here 

[heywoodu 16,434]

1 hour ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

The World Games are a bit weird, aren't they ? The budget to host the event must be quite high (30 sports and venues, 4,000 athletes...) with the video platform to boradcast everything. But it looks like they cheap out on every other metrics that could enhance the spectator experience by a lot and without costing a ton (graphics, a few more presentators that have a somewhat knowledge of the sports they're commentating, a website not stucked in 1999, etc.)

It is so odd indeed. Also very different between sports, something like swimming had excellent graphics for example (they're not complicated, sure, but neither should those for inline skating be).

 

Tug of war is also still just beyond me: every single pool match one by one, and then the two semis exactly together so one of them is simply ignored entirely. 

[De_Gambassi 1,368]

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/karlsruhe/world-games-karlsruhe-finanzierung-weiter-unklar-100.html

 

I haven't found any figures on the budget of Chengdu (the surprise ), but the one for 2029 sits for now at 120 M€ (and is not secured yet btw).

 

Obv, a fraction of the OGs, but I wonder how it compares to stuff like the PanAm games or the CWGs who look like two tiers above.

Edited August 12, 2025 by De_Gambassi

[Gianlu33 5,920]

Apparently we don't have any athletes of the day today? 

[Olympian1010 8,284]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

It is so odd indeed. Also very different between sports, something like swimming had excellent graphics for example (they're not complicated, sure, but neither should those for inline skating be).

 

Tug of war is also still just beyond me: every single pool match one by one, and then the two semis exactly together so one of them is simply ignored entirely. 

I think that's so one team in each medal match doesn't have more time to rest, or so that one of the semifinal pairings doesn't "take it easy," making both teams better positioned for the finals.

Edited August 12, 2025 by Olympian1010

[Olympian1010 8,284]

4 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

The World Games are a bit weird, aren't they ? The budget to host the event must be quite high (30 sports and venues, 4,000 athletes...) with the video platform to boradcast everything. But it looks like they cheap out on every other metrics that could enhance the spectator experience by a lot and without costing a ton (graphics, a few more presentators that have a somewhat knowledge of the sports they're commentating, a website not stucked in 1999, etc.)

Multi-sport games require a ridiculous ammount of logistics, and each sport has some differences to the next. I mean, it's essentially an handful of on-going productions that are related, but also very different. And that's something the organizers, broadcasters and data providers have to juggle together.