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So, the first Drone Nationals came and went this past Aug 6th and 7th. Anyone watch the coverage on ESPN? Catch youtube or other coverage?

I'll admit, I totally forgot about it happening. I saw it mentioned in one of my AMA emails and it went in one eye and out the other. Didn't even register that it was the event I had been waiting for.

Links:
http://dronenationals.com/
http://es.pn/2ac8X7a
http://es.pn/2apWuvf

I completely missed it, too.

Saw a bit of it. There were loads of interviews and for me that was the best bit about it. Only watched a couple of hours then got bored:)

I was having a hard time watching the online feed. The audio kept breaking up for me, for some reason. I may try again tomorrow. Computer may have needed a reboot.

Anyway, of what I did see, yes there were a lot of interviews. Too many for my tastes. Seemed like too much fluff and not enough racing action. On the racing, they had a couple of good camera angles, but it seemed like they were trying to cover it with only two cameras and they were having a tough time tracking things around the course. They did start to switch over to live FPV feeds after a couple hours, but very few seemed to be getting around the course, making for very short runs of live FPV feeds. When they were able to get a shot of a couple of quads in the same frame the commentators got *way* excited. In the early heats that I was watching each heat was starting with 7 or 8 quads and by the end it was only 1 or 2 making it around. That might be fine, except they had no shots of the quads crashing (except the occasional live FPV feed). If you can't get them in frame together very often, and you can't get but a couple to get around the course to complete the laps for the heat, then by god you have to at least have good coverage of the crashes!

Hopefully they'll do some more of this and the crews involved in capturing it all can work out the kinks and find ways to make it visually compelling for the tv audience.