Mistagear
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Today I watched 201 minutes of BOWLING (Tournament of Champions) and
240 minutes of TENNIS (Aust Open).
This got me to thinking of comparisons between the two.
First of all, if you are going to have a modern successful sport, it's essential to attract spectators.
Both B & T are similarly repetitive actions when viewed on a screen, both played as a sport and recreation, both have wide age range but B is wider
B had about 1 dozen instances in the 3hrs (1 interesting happening every 16.6 min) where a viewer could get excited about the action and if a person were present at the event (virtually nobody was there) could find a reason to clap the participants, empathize with them and feel part of the action.
T, on the other hand had over 300 points contested (1 interesting happening every 40 seconds)and at almost every single occasion,spectators found a reason to express some excitement over the action, along with a couple of million viewers watching.
Commentary for B spent most of the time talking about things other than the vision at the time. Commentary for T found almost non stop opportunity to talk about the action at the time.
B has had a Pro Tour for a decade longer than the T Pro Tour has existed.
B is going broke in Aus and even the Pro tour is struggling to survive. T is rolling in cash and expanding further.
Current prize fund for T Aust Open is $30 million and provided by sponsors due to the ability of T to pull spectators, Prize fund for B's Aust Open is...almost zip and provided by only the competitors due to lack of ability to attract spectators.
In 2006-2007 T's junior program had 6000 participants, B probably had many more.
2009-2010 T's grew to 193,795, B had Hmmmm
2010-2011 T had 248,480, B had embarrassing.
2011-2012 T had 348,480, B has not even a clue, but hopes to continue milking their ever declining participant base.
T is focused and has matches based on winning (like other real sports) and B is a game (like other recreational activities, not sport) based on achieving an average score.
I could continue but to summarize,
Do whatever it takes to turn B into a spectator sport and treat the fans as the most important asset the sport can posses. Then copy what other fan based sports do.
240 minutes of TENNIS (Aust Open).
This got me to thinking of comparisons between the two.
First of all, if you are going to have a modern successful sport, it's essential to attract spectators.
Both B & T are similarly repetitive actions when viewed on a screen, both played as a sport and recreation, both have wide age range but B is wider
B had about 1 dozen instances in the 3hrs (1 interesting happening every 16.6 min) where a viewer could get excited about the action and if a person were present at the event (virtually nobody was there) could find a reason to clap the participants, empathize with them and feel part of the action.
T, on the other hand had over 300 points contested (1 interesting happening every 40 seconds)and at almost every single occasion,spectators found a reason to express some excitement over the action, along with a couple of million viewers watching.
Commentary for B spent most of the time talking about things other than the vision at the time. Commentary for T found almost non stop opportunity to talk about the action at the time.
B has had a Pro Tour for a decade longer than the T Pro Tour has existed.
B is going broke in Aus and even the Pro tour is struggling to survive. T is rolling in cash and expanding further.
Current prize fund for T Aust Open is $30 million and provided by sponsors due to the ability of T to pull spectators, Prize fund for B's Aust Open is...almost zip and provided by only the competitors due to lack of ability to attract spectators.
In 2006-2007 T's junior program had 6000 participants, B probably had many more.
2009-2010 T's grew to 193,795, B had Hmmmm
2010-2011 T had 248,480, B had embarrassing.
2011-2012 T had 348,480, B has not even a clue, but hopes to continue milking their ever declining participant base.
T is focused and has matches based on winning (like other real sports) and B is a game (like other recreational activities, not sport) based on achieving an average score.
I could continue but to summarize,
Do whatever it takes to turn B into a spectator sport and treat the fans as the most important asset the sport can posses. Then copy what other fan based sports do.
