I can speak to this a little bit. A big goal of ours for the NT this year on the MPO1 and FPO1 side was consistency. With Terry having Smashboxx, that necessarily took him out of the mix for FPO1 coverage for the whole season. We hope to have live coverage at the GBO and MCO at least, but cell...
I think you hit the nail on the head here: It's have to versus want to. The freedom to choose drives a lot of viewers it seems. At the same time, the freedom to choose between paid live and free post is there.
This is a pretty salient point, imo. I've talked to a couple of the players the last couple weeks, and the vibe on the ground isn't demonstrably different from the past. The tournaments are running, the payouts are still coming in, and the schedule works. I don't know if players will be able to...
The decorum point I'll grant you. But to say Dodge doesn't give a rip about women's players completely overlooks the fact that they have made a ton of effort to feature the FPO division on their media coverage.
This is if you sort by ratings. If you go by the current PDGA World Rankings, Prodigy does indeed have 8 players in the top 25. Innova has 6 (7 if you wanna count Ricky) and Discraft 5.
Graphics and filming were on point, and I'm glad he was properly mic'd up (was surprised he wasn't in the little teaser video). But I'd like to see the next one assembled diifferently. They almost lost me after 4 minutes of just taking the discs out and saying what they were before throwing...