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I paid for it and watched. Shit show. Video and audio unsynced, clipping, full last part of event including last lap they had issues with video freezing all the way to podium. Still do if you login and try to watch it.
That's beside the 30sec arenacross track with no passing on. Dual starting lines?
For a supercross world championship? If you made this international rounds for the arenacross series, they might be ok. Right now it is freaking annoying them trying to crown themselves as top line SX series.
Well Abu Dhabi's track already was.
Dude, the WSX was being put together long before the FIM was involved.
Bad decisions...thats kind of like saying nothing to see here...They should be getting better at their organization not worse...maybe it's time to admit that Adam Bailey is the problem (every partner/investor he's had has run from him)...if the organizers of the Paris SX were running this do you think it would still be the same shit show? And are you just going to ignore what the riders opinions are? They are about to lose teams and riders for next year because of expectations vs reality....They all got into it for the money but if there aren't any races then nobody gets paid....There is no way that they can keep the current team and pay structure moving forward as a 3-5 race off season series...
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I agree. Comparing Eric Peronnard and Paris SX (and the dozens of other successful events he has promoted) to this joke of a series is ridiculous. Eric has been attracting the best riders going back to before McGrath and he is well respected across the industry. If anyone could pull off a World Supercross series it would be him and there is a reason he hasn't.
That only makes things worse if it’s true.
On a related note, anyone know the backstory on Jeff Emig not announcing? I saw his IG post and I guess it was implicit he was fired/cancelled from WSX announcing but it was unclear. I really like Fro as an color commentator through his US SX years.
Yes, he was let go as well as Ralph and Malin/Langston are now announcing.
But yet they still used Ralph's voiceover on a segment...after firing him!
Noticed that as well but he got paid for the voiceovers as they were made when he was working for them. Maybe they will re-record with Malin to make the broadcast more cohesive.
They have more urgent problems.
How’s that?
How long can you pay the teams when you lose money every time you actually put a race together?
How can you expect making money when, according to Malin, you have 6500 persons in that arena in Abu Dhabi?
Nope. I would rather not dedicated every singe weekend to watching races. The offseason is appreciated by racers and fans.
Adam talked about this a bit on the podcast. He said part of the model is the same as mxgp, where they make deals with the governments of these countries to put on a show and the governments pay a lot of money. Kind of like Saudi Arabia with LIV golf, the govt is not getting into this to make money, its a way for them to try to clean up their image so they can start to attract tourists. These gulf countries are super rich with oil money, but not a lot of ppl wanted to visit because it didnt look fun to go to a super strict country. So theyre paying a lot of money to bring in people/events that will start to overtime make it seem like these are nice places to go on vacation.
The tourist industry is a many billion dollar industry that holds up entire economies. The events are one part of softening their image, but abu dhabi/dubai (both part of the same country the UAE) have been going on massive building sprees to create all kinds of resorts and tourist destinations on the gulf for people to go to and have a good time. Lots of the surrounding countries are investing massively in tourist destinations to try to bring in that money.
As an American some ppl may think why on earth would I want to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar..etc for vacation, but theres an entire world out there. Theyre not only competing for American tourists, but European, Chinese, Indian. Indonesia is a muslim country with 273 million ppl. Malaysia is muslim as well. Youve got rich russian oligarchs they want to attract. They want other middle easterners to vacation there plus turks, balkan countries… etc. Paying to get races, concerts, events…etc to come to their countries helps them create that image in peoples heads that these would be fun places to visit, and they are.
World Arenacross not Supercross
What a joke
The WSX Abu Dhabi round is alot like all the stuff Arab oil money buys, all glitz, glamor and hype, no soul and substance.
Could you tell me where the glitz and glamour were?
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