Time to get this out to the masses!

[Garrick Daft]

Okay we need to get high tech here and get this event and all the events streamed real time or something. Not everyone can go to these events, but with the internet and technology today we should be able to all view it together. How can we make this happen?
Do we need to pool money together for equipment, coordinate with the producers... we can make it happen if we do think together! Screw this waiting around for ESPN to air shows crap. Eric Johnson, you seem to have a good grasp on the tech, and love for the sport.. any ideas? BTW beloow is the scoop on the SS, swiped right from the Ironmind.


World Class Events, which produced the Arnold Strongman Classic earlier this month, has announced that the next World's Strongest Man Super Series contest will be held at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort on June 1st and just as last year, this will serve as a qualifier for the upcoming MET-Rx World's Strongest Man contest.

Ulf Bengtsson, of World Class Events, said that "Two additional venues will soon be announced for this year's calendar. Through the outstanding relation with TWI, the world's largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming, the WSM Super Series will continue to grow in stature, award its own WSM Super Series Champion Title and ultimately deliver the best athletes in the world to the ultimate event: TWI's MET-Rx World's Strongest Man."

All but one World's Strongest Man winner since 1997 will be at the Mohegan Sun, so if you want to see anyone from Jouko Aholo to Mariusz Pudzianowski, you know where to be.

Everyone in the line up at WSMSS strongman event set for June 1 at the Mohegan Sun has competed in the World's Strongest Man contest and every winner since 1997 other than Vasyl Virastyuk is scheduled to be there. Here’s the line-up of competitors:

1. Svend Karlsen
2. Magnus Samuelsson
3. Mariusz Pudzianowski
4. Janne Virtanen
5. Hugo Girard
6. Karl Gillingham
7. Odd Haugen
8. Dave Ostlund
9. Kevin Nee
10. Josh Thigpen
11. Dominic Filiou
12. Terry Holland
13. Jesse Marunde
14. Mark Philippi

referee: Jouko Aholo

[amy kelly]

with that line-up, i better be able to get the day off.
as far as streaming, it depends on the cost vs. potential. there is more potential for ppv since more people have cable/satelite with this service than computers with the proper processing power and broadband.

[Garrick Daft]

But PPV has the associated cost of paying the Cable companies right? I don't know much about how this entertainment business works, but I think we can figure out a cost effective way (even if it isn't lucrative to some 3-piece) to get all these contests out as they happen or soon after. What is required for streaming? Maybe we could even digitally record the shows and post them immediately afterwards or something. We could send trusted people in the forum to go and do this, or ask for volunteers. There has got to be a way though, just gotta figure out how this business and system works. Thanks for helping clear the path for more discussion. :YR:

[Eric Johnson]

Technologically speaking, streaming video on the internet is not rocket science, it just takes some software and a server with a large pipe going out. The part that is missng is the video to stream. These are sponsored contests recorded by ESPN, filming them by a private individual and then distributing over the net would be at the least copyright infringement. I don't know if you have ever been sued by a large corporation in Civil court, but it is not fun, they have deep pockets and @$$H013 laywers.

I like the idea though ;).

[Chris McNatt]

Ill be at the one in venice... hopefully they come out again