A few improvements needed (A1 thoughts)

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Love A1 it's the best race of the season to attend. Here are a few positives and negative's. 

Neg: Lose the horrible in stadium leader graphics and use the NBC version where you can see all the riders at a glance and know their position, unlike the current top scroll that takes forever to cycle through. 

Pro: Leader lights are great in the stadium, if I'm following a battle for 6th I can quickly look back and see the leader. 

Neg: In stadium announcer audio. Sounded like one of the team strapped there mic to BamBams 450....when that wasn't happening it must have been close to another mic as there was a ton of feedback.

Pro/Neg: Pits are great at A1, all the cool new bikes tons of excitement...but just let everyone in, waiting to get a stamp and pouring out Monster at the entrance is pointless. Also all the security checking stamps is another wast of time.

A few other quick ones.

$17 large beers

Tendies sucked 

Jets was the only one with an original intro at opening ceremony

 

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ThatOneMXGuy
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1/9/2024 3:35pm

I personally am not a fan of the green leader lights. The pole flashing as the leader went by was perfectly fine. 

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I agree with having the running order posted on one side and not the scroll. I find myself staring at it from time to time late in the moto to see the order. Feel like I’m at a tennis match, track, screen, track, screen etc etc. that is all.  

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brocster wrote:
I agree with having the running order posted on one side and not the scroll. I find myself staring at it from time to time late...

I agree with having the running order posted on one side and not the scroll. I find myself staring at it from time to time late in the moto to see the order. Feel like I’m at a tennis match, track, screen, track, screen etc etc. that is all.  

I love it across the top, takes up so much less of the screen.

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1/9/2024 5:14pm

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

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1/9/2024 5:25pm
SEE ARE125 wrote:

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

People that don’t math well. 

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brocster
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1/9/2024 5:29pm
brocster wrote:
I agree with having the running order posted on one side and not the scroll. I find myself staring at it from time to time late...

I agree with having the running order posted on one side and not the scroll. I find myself staring at it from time to time late in the moto to see the order. Feel like I’m at a tennis match, track, screen, track, screen etc etc. that is all.  

yz133rider wrote:

I love it across the top, takes up so much less of the screen.

I thought we were talking about at the stadium…

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SEE ARE125 wrote:

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

AJ565 wrote:

People that don’t math well. 

If it’s like any like any other time you can only get two drinks per person. Dumb math but it adds up that way. 

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1/9/2024 5:47pm

Wow, seeing those prices makes me glad I don’t drink 😳

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uncledaddy69
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1/9/2024 6:39pm

How long did it take to get in the pits? 

It only took us 10 minutes.

1/10/2024 5:13am

Keep the camera on the battle !!  show you a great battle then pan away to the leader and you miss the pass ????

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1/10/2024 6:43am
SEE ARE125 wrote:

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

AJ565 wrote:

People that don’t math well. 

Seriously, WTF?

$4.50 is actually reasonable for a stadium pint. They're $8.00 at ATT.

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Wow, seeing those prices makes me glad I don’t drink 😳

4.50 for a 16oz is not bad at all, in-line if not less than most restaurants. the 24oz is absolutely idiotic.

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1/10/2024 6:52am

Well a 16oz at Jerry World is $11 or $12. So I'm pretty jealous of those prices..

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enketchum
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1/10/2024 11:54am

Hamburgers and hot dogs in the parking lot cost almost nothing... 

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1/10/2024 12:45pm

Wow, seeing those prices makes me glad I don’t drink 😳

Except that what is probably a half liter dassini water is a dollar more than the same size beer

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1/10/2024 12:47pm

I personally am not a fan of the green leader lights. The pole flashing as the leader went by was perfectly fine. 

despite the downvotes you are correct and they are not.

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ThatOneMXGuy
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1/10/2024 1:14pm

I personally am not a fan of the green leader lights. The pole flashing as the leader went by was perfectly fine. 

despite the downvotes you are correct and they are not.

Must have really triggered some folks. Wow.

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1/10/2024 1:18pm

So the casual fan should stare at the leader pole till the leader gets back there, instead of a glance over the track to spot the leader?

It actually helps the casual fan and it doesn't detract from the race or the die-hard fan experience?

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1/10/2024 1:19pm

I personally am not a fan of the green leader lights. The pole flashing as the leader went by was perfectly fine. 

despite the downvotes you are correct and they are not.

Must have really triggered some folks. Wow.

so they're "triggered" because they didn't agree with you?

instead of downvotes would it make more sense for all 11 or however many there are downvoters to quote you and say "I don't agree"

 

1/10/2024 2:51pm
SEE ARE125 wrote:

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

What does ‘Domestic can’ & ‘premium can’ actually mean? 
 

we don’t see that in the UK. 

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1/10/2024 2:57pm Edited Date/Time 1/10/2024 2:57pm
SEE ARE125 wrote:

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

What does ‘Domestic can’ & ‘premium can’ actually mean? 
 

we don’t see that in the UK. 

Domestic = bud light, coors light, Miller light, etc

premium = does Equis, corona, anything not necessarily from the US, and usually includes the seltzer beers like white claw

 

its interesting in tx you will frequently see shiner on the import/premium category even though it’s the most domestic beer we have

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1/10/2024 2:59pm
SEE ARE125 wrote:

Who would buy the Domestic 24oz for $15.50 when you can get 3 16oz beers(48oz, twice the beer) for $13.50?

What does ‘Domestic can’ & ‘premium can’ actually mean? 
 

we don’t see that in the UK. 

Domestic = bud light, coors light, Miller light, etc premium = does Equis, corona, anything not necessarily from the US, and usually includes the seltzer beers...

Domestic = bud light, coors light, Miller light, etc

premium = does Equis, corona, anything not necessarily from the US, and usually includes the seltzer beers like white claw

 

its interesting in tx you will frequently see shiner on the import/premium category even though it’s the most domestic beer we have

Every beer you listed is made domestically. Laughing

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