I enjoyed watching the coverage this weekend as I have of the other DGPT events I've been able to catch this season. For the finals, I was at my friend's garage bar for Sunday football. He has 4 TV's with individual receivers for the Sunday Ticket and then two more for the locally broadcast games. There are usually between 7 and 15 of us watching football at his place.
Yesterday, the DGPT finals were played on his Apple TV as opposed to an NFL game. Not a single person there griped. In fact is was the opposite. At one point or another, over half the bar gravitated to the Disc Golf and continued to watch off and on until it was over. It was fun to have a bunch of guys that we're mildly aware of the "sport" start asking questions on the game, the tournament, the players, the rules, ect. The only comments regarding the quality of broadcast were positive and that was before they new it was streamed through YouTube. Really, they asked, "what channel is this on?"
It definitly wasn't my intention when I went over to share the broadcast, I was happy watching on my phone. Another buddy of mine who throws, and had been impressed by a previous DGPT broadcast that he watched at my house, asked that it be played. This particular friend is not the type to give anything praise easily. Rather, he's generally sour, about most things, DG included.
What this said to me was 1. Somebody who is active disc golf player who if asked 3 months ago if he wanted to watch a DG tourney on TV, would have laughed his a** off at you and 2. A group of random guys, of varying socioeconomic backgrounds, who all came to a bar to watch football, were interested, engaged and impressed with the product that was put out.
All said, it's a small sample, isolated incident, ect. but the results were positive. I can understand not wanting to watch if it's nice out and you're going to play frisbee. But that's the same reason not to watch the NFL, PBR, Olympics, do anything inside on the weekend, ect. There are surely parts of these broadcasts can be improved and developed. For me though, this is the first year that I've really enjoyed watching live DG.
Yesterday, the DGPT finals were played on his Apple TV as opposed to an NFL game. Not a single person there griped. In fact is was the opposite. At one point or another, over half the bar gravitated to the Disc Golf and continued to watch off and on until it was over. It was fun to have a bunch of guys that we're mildly aware of the "sport" start asking questions on the game, the tournament, the players, the rules, ect. The only comments regarding the quality of broadcast were positive and that was before they new it was streamed through YouTube. Really, they asked, "what channel is this on?"
It definitly wasn't my intention when I went over to share the broadcast, I was happy watching on my phone. Another buddy of mine who throws, and had been impressed by a previous DGPT broadcast that he watched at my house, asked that it be played. This particular friend is not the type to give anything praise easily. Rather, he's generally sour, about most things, DG included.
What this said to me was 1. Somebody who is active disc golf player who if asked 3 months ago if he wanted to watch a DG tourney on TV, would have laughed his a** off at you and 2. A group of random guys, of varying socioeconomic backgrounds, who all came to a bar to watch football, were interested, engaged and impressed with the product that was put out.
All said, it's a small sample, isolated incident, ect. but the results were positive. I can understand not wanting to watch if it's nice out and you're going to play frisbee. But that's the same reason not to watch the NFL, PBR, Olympics, do anything inside on the weekend, ect. There are surely parts of these broadcasts can be improved and developed. For me though, this is the first year that I've really enjoyed watching live DG.