blonde Live Updates - your opinions needed please.

[tikay]

I'm loving this thread, keep it coming. And Phil, you don't need to say "sorry", it's a good, constructive view, & to see you & Tom debate it from opposite views, but like grown ups, is great stuff.

I set out to bounce some ideas off you guys, & I'm well happy, because the debate is widening - like "friends/faces & blondes" v "Mateyboys, comment & pics" v chip counts. It's amazing what we can learn simply by asking!

[kinboshi]

Just make sure Floppy doesn't delete it....

[Ironside]

what does this button with the letters delete do?

[NoflopsHomer]

Dunno.

[kinboshi]

Dunno.

Nice one Snoops!!

[DaveShoelace]

Oh yeah, I love it when you get a lookalikee thread going. The McLovin thread cheered me up when I busted out in Waterford last month

[SuffolkPunch]

This won't be popular with the updaters, and I apologise to them, but you could always cut your EPT costs in half by only sending one of them to each event instead of two?

[kinboshi]

This won't be popular with the updaters, and I apologise to them, but you could always cut your EPT costs in half by only sending one of them to each event instead of two?

Don't really know how the updates work, but I don't think having just one updater would work.  I think they work in tandem, with one typing their update whilst the other is gathering info.    Having one will slow the updates down.

Also, it leaves one person on their own for a weekend.  I guess it'll get a little dull with no one to work with, and this would affect the updates, and also the cost of hotels wouldn't be reduced as a room for one costs the same as a room for two.

It also means leaving a laptop, camera, etc., unguarded.  Now I know you press types are all honest  people - but anyone could swipe the equipment whilst their on the floor.

[snoopy1239]

I know this might be a little unpopular but I think the live updates are not as good as they were. The problem with them is that in a lot of places they arent really tourney updates at all, they are updates of selected mates and Blondes. I have a feeling that the updaters have got to know  % of the UK players that play most of the comps and these players seem to account for almost all the updates.There is also a big lack of current chip counts for most of the night. Without these the updates are more of a compillation of hands and quotes from the aformentioned group of players than tourney updates.

I know that getting chip counts can be very tricky in a lot of places but without constant and current chip counts it lacks a little. The best one ever was the comp that ended with a heads up between big Barry and DC in Manchester I think it was, it had player comment, hand description,chip counts galore and updater comment in bundles instead of page after page of photos and general comment.

Sorry but thats just my view.

...and two players that everyone knew.  Would it have been as good if it had been Morgen Heinrikersson against Stronson Stronsonson heads up?

Its a good point but a good tourney update early in the comp would have chip counts for a wide range of players, then when the final came around we would be far more familiar with the players and their ups and downs, not just the players that we know.

I believe this argument is flawed for two reasons:

(1) It is impossible to get everybody's chip count unless we invest more money in a larger team, which we obviously can't do.

(2) It is an interactive update, and at any time, someone can make a request for a player's chip count.

I'm not saying that the updates wouldn't be better, just that it's not feasible.

As tikay said, there is no need apologise for your views.

[SuffolkPunch]

This won't be popular with the updaters, and I apologise to them, but you could always cut your EPT costs in half by only sending one of them to each event instead of two?

It also means leaving a laptop, camera, etc., unguarded.  Now I know you press types are all honest  people - but anyone could swipe the equipment whilst their on the floor.

doesn't quite work like that. A lot of the bloggers work on their own.

[KarmaDope]

This won't be popular with the updaters, and I apologise to them, but you could always cut your EPT costs in half by only sending one of them to each event instead of two?

It also means leaving a laptop, camera, etc., unguarded.  Now I know you press types are all honest  people - but anyone could swipe the equipment whilst their on the floor.

doesn't quite work like that. A lot of the bloggers work on their own.

Not really. I do the updates for Blue Square at the GUKPT's and there are 2 of us. Every site that has media access at the GUKPT also has at least a 2 man team...I believe Blonde had a 3 man team for the grand final.

However, I have also done some APAT updates, mainly on my own, but Des takes all the pics so I don't have to worry about that. It's still a heavy job for one person though, and I'd personally hate to go to somewhere like Prague EPT on my own, where I don't know any of the players.

[SuffolkPunch]

This won't be popular with the updaters, and I apologise to them, but you could always cut your EPT costs in half by only sending one of them to each event instead of two?

It also means leaving a laptop, camera, etc., unguarded.  Now I know you press types are all honest  people - but anyone could swipe the equipment whilst their on the floor.

doesn't quite work like that. A lot of the bloggers work on their own.

Not really. I do the updates for Blue Square at the GUKPT's and there are 2 of us. Every site that has media access at the GUKPT also has at least a 2 man team...I believe Blonde had a 3 man team for the grand final.

However, I have also done some APAT updates, mainly on my own, but Des takes all the pics so I don't have to worry about that. It's still a heavy job for one person though, and I'd personally hate to go to somewhere like Prague EPT on my own, where I don't know any of the players.

Must have just been me who blogged on my own at EPTs, then

[Colchester Kev]

blogging and updating ... are they the same thing ?

[KarmaDope]

blogging and updating ... are they the same thing ?

I dunno...I would say no, personally, as in a blog you put YOUR thoughts, but in an update you tell people what is happening at the tournament.

[SuffolkPunch]

blogging and updating ... are they the same thing ?

I dunno...I would say no, personally, as in a blog you put YOUR thoughts, but in an update you tell people what is happening at the tournament.

well when I did it for Stars it was deffo tourney coverage.