Originally posted by manike
The USA TV audience is used to being able to watch a game or sports presentation on TV that fits within a reasonably steady time frame in terms of the amount of play action they see between two teams.
So what? This is going to be on in the middle of the night on a spamwnk cable station. Do you think the kids (yep, I said 'kids') are going to go ' I can't watch this cos it don't fit into my normal tv viewing patterns?' C'mon, geezer, think it thru. Somebody needs to.
X-ball goes some way to present this with a period of play which will always be the same. A conventional 10man game could be anything from 60 seconds to 15 mins. So a set length of play is more spectator ready as compared to the hard hitting actions sports they see at the moment.
You think they'll run this unedited. see above comment.
The USA Audience is used to seeing plays and different tactics all within one game by one team played out again and again. X-ball offers this, you do get this in a tournaments worth of play in the current format, but not within one game (RL being an exception as they sometimes incorporate more plays into one game).
Fkin nora. This aint Match of the Day. Do you think this makes a hog'sgonads worth of difference? flik, flik, flik 'God damn, what's this. Hey Paintball, I've got a mate who played this. Wow.' That's the reality. Not, 'Hey, the geezer on the fifty is tight on the blah blah blah...' It's cuckoo-land, thought up by dreamers and followed by idealists and itinerant pick-pockets.
The USA Audience is used to and the advertisers demand opportunites and game breaks to sell to the consumers. X-ball would provide this with set intervals within a game format, not just in normal turnovers but also in the quarter and half time intervals. It's possible with just one game going to keep track of what is going on, while always being interrupted by adverts. People are gripped to see what will happen in the next segment and so wait while watching the adverts. If it's many games as with a normal tournament and one just finishes before the add break, there isn't the same 'grip' to keep you watching through the interval.
Give me the fkin splicer, I'll cut any tourny to any length. You're comparing it to NFL - we're talking six twenty minute shows - it's not rocket science. It don't matter if it's fkin rigged (in fact, i think it should be). You're still looking at this as a paintball player. We ain't interested in you. I want the geezer who works in your post room, yep that geezer who comes to work on a skateboard.
if you were trying to follow a whole tournament and series of games it's harder and requires more concentration (also not good for the mass USA market 
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They ain't sat there with notebooks Si. Beer in one hand, cock in the other.
A big score board/scoring system makes it easy for Americans to follow what is going on and who is winning.
It's not exactly a deal-clincher is it?
