Noosa Festival Of Surfing - Live Webcast
The Cricks Noosa Festival of Surfing is back at First Point from March 7th to 14th. We'll be streaming every heat live, every day of the competition.
Saturday 14th March program: Competition is on at First Point for finals day. First in the water, the Pacific Longboarder Magazine Under 18 Boys reperchage - kicking off at 6:30am.
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The waves are only small but it's ideal for the loggers today - and we've got the live webcast up and running. Check it out!
Good Luck to John Stephens and Reshma Kalotiti - DO Vanuatu proud guys!
Good to see swellnet sponsors the elderly loggers division. Make sure they wear a leash though ;)
Noosa is doing pretty well considering the regionally small weak swells on offer (better than Snapper anyway!) Here's a frame grab from a few minutes ago.
I so enjoyed my heat this morning great to be surfing The Point love the commentary JC Phil Reid
go the Phantom
Just a quick heads up: Derek Rabelo and Harley Ingleby are about to paddle out for an expression at First Point Noosa after this last heat (about 5:30pm).
For those who aren't aware, Derek is the blind Brazilian surfer from the film Beyond Sight - The Derek Rabelo Story.
We're up bright and early this morning, starting with the Beachbeat Surf Shop Logger Pro at 6am.
Great camerawork and cool contest but the internet transmission looks like something from the Moon in 1969.
I'm watching this at home on a Mac and the image is such low quality, it's barely watchable.
Huh? Looks fine here (unless you're watching full screen, which it's not intended for). Unfortunately we don't have a WSL-sized budget so we can't uplink via Satellite - we're streaming across the 3G network. Looks fine on web browsers and mobile devices (we've had it streaming in the office all day, every day).
Ben,
I'm a subscriber to Swellnet and I live about 3ks from the Noosa contest site.
On one Mac 13" screen I have the Quik contest live and on an identical 13' Mac I have the Noosa contest live. Maybe there's a difference in bandwidth or other technical reason but Noosa feed looks soft and Quik looks sharp and crisp.
Yeah, the Quiksilver Pro are spending about $5 million on their event (for six days of competition), whilst the Noosa event is probably about $50,000 (for eight days of competition)
Our webcast team consists of 2 guys in a canvas tent (one of whom scored a plastic chair to sit on, the other is standing), whilst the Quik Pro webcast team is around 45 people all up, most of 'em in airconditioned comfort.
So yeah, there'll be a slight difference in quality between the two webcasts.
Nice one Ben, that paints quite the picture :-)
The vision is fine at my end same as it was yesterday. I havent watched the Quicksilver Pro but cant find reason to complain with Noosa webcast. Except for the small waves, can you do something about that? ;-)
Yew!!!! Jared Mell,
The Norwoods wish you the best of luck and hope you have a blast. Especially Hadyn and Lenox send there love to you brother.
You are a styl master for sure and most people don't even get what your putting down, even me.
Plenty of fun peelers this morning.. some really good heats coming up so should be a great day's viewing. First Heat already in the water! Gotta be a world record for the earliest running of a heat ever.
What a freaking day!....Snapper and Noosa, two full events streaming at once?.... So sic. Cheers, Stu. Thanks Swellnet!!!!.... Yew!
someone take the nachos away from him!
Nice tonal quality to the commentators voices but that's all. Obviously the organizers have chosen either volunteer commentators that are shortboarders or, if they are getting paid, they need to be educated on how to comment on a longboard ride let alone what to comment on and when to comment. The commentator is responsible for sparking up the interest of the audience in the competitors challenge and performance but these guys sound and act like the most uninterested commentators and so the event has no excitement. Wow, what a tear down of the sport.
Joel Tudor and Devon Howard were guest commentators for the Vans Duct Tape Invitational.. I reckon they know what they're doing.
@therm…regardless of the sport its interesting that even the best are not that proficient at commentating. Its not an easy job (if you have ever done it). Its an art really. As an example have a look at Medina's chat re his interference - hummm, ahhh, yehhhh
Oh yeah, commentating is bloody hard work. Certainly not the kind of thing I could do at all.
The Semi Finals of the Vans Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational is about to hit in the water... should be good viewing.
Trying to watch a friend surf at 4:40PST (California).
I am getting intermittent audio. Seem to be able to hear a beach announcer fairly well.
Also hearing intermittent audio at a whisper that is so low that one cannot tell what they are saying. Is that the technical difficulty you ran the banner to announce?
Not sure mate - audio seems to be working fine at our end. We only have beach commentators for the webcast (ie no dedicated webcast team).
Lots of chatter above about the commentators. I can't heat them/him. Any suggestions regarding how I might pick up the chatter?
A little home sick!! haha
Providing commentary all day long for a surf connie is yeoman's work. Never pleasing everyone. The boys in the box did a fine job.
And those fins free heats? Sic magic!
Thanks to everyone involved.
How's this vid of Harley Ingleby, so sick!
And now this very near miss during the same session. Old mate looks like he was trying to get a photo but didn't care what his board was doing :o