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Dont forget money. Likely the main driving force. My wife watched the Phil n zach show and told me it sounded like they were complaining. Simple solution, as ill always share... Replace +25 with Vet Pro. If youve ever made fast 40, thats your class. Leave pro sport for the kids too. Every other vet class should be if you've never made the fast 40. No A class crap, no pro license determination. Simply fast 40 rule. If youve made the mains, you possess a skill that only a professional has developed. These classes would explode with revenue too because...

Matty B is a treasure and I would give him $40 before I’d give it to Aunt Flo!!

What’s ironic is thinking monetizing everything and pricing everyone out of things they enjoy and support is somehow extremely American hahaha

So the coverage is the same as last year with no improvements and you are happy to pay $40 for it? I could see if they were getting actual production with real announcers but to just roll out the same thing as last year and charge for it is crazy in my eyes

FLO has taken over Pro-BMX too. We have to pay to watch the races, or wait 3 days to watch on YouTube. The live broadcast is OK 50% of the time. Lots of technical problems, microphones not working, cameras focused on the wrong things, graphics all kinds of f'd up (wrong moto, introducing the wrong rider, rider info incorrect, etc). FLO came in promising increased viewer audience, rider payouts and more sponsors. Rider payout barely increased and I'm pretty sure the only sponsor that came on was G-Shock, and that was when the FLO deal was announced...nothing since. On the...

Burkeen does a fabulous job and I'm thankful for all the content he puts out. With this new Flo arrangement, however, it makes me wonder how long that will be able to last at this event until they have a "problem" with his content being pubished on their grounds? Hopefully it won't be an issue.

thank god for Matt Burkeen.

It’s a money grab event now. Nothing to do with helping to groom the riders for future success. We need a legitimate amateur program akin to the emx series in Europe. You can’t even piss at the event without them wanting you to pay for it.

And not to mention the fact you shut down pro racing for amateur racing for 2 weekends is mind blowing, can you imagine F1 shutting down for karting because they are incapable of running both at the same time… it’s nonsense.

I've been to Lorettas every year since 98. I couldn't go this year due to work. I didn't pay to watch either. I knew from the fiasco with outdoors a few years ago the coverage would probably be garbage.

This is a big FU to the fans, riders, riders families, sponsors and event sponsors. Last year RacerTV avg 200,000 daily views. The viewers were the core fans and riders that buy and support the sponsor’s products and services. No chance Flo will have that same demographic viewer, let alone that many views. Classic case of the mouth biting the hand that feeds it.

I’m with you. I hope people refuse to pay and viewership is low. That being said Burkeen is covering a lot of motos on YouTube and uploading pretty quick

X2 on this. Flo has completely killed off snocross, it’s like it doesn’t exist anymore. Can’t find or watch a single heat race or final, full races don’t even make it to YouTube!

I liked watching it on and off all week when it was on Youtube. 0 chance I am paying $40 for it. I also am not that heavily invested in amateur mx at this point, so not all that big of deal to just not watch. Funny how Flo is $40 a month (much more than any high end streaming service that I know of and those have significantly more content and their own shows/movies) It's not even about the $40 as much as just how ridiculously greedy they continue to be.

Data point for them: I watched a significant number of races last year, I will watch zero this year. I’ll be interested in their viewership and how it translates to revenue vs. youtube and ads.

I'm not paying it. I'll watch mattyb and others videos. I hope others feel the same way so they dont make any money

Less exposure for the little guys equals less sponsorship dollars. So they're either incredibly stupid or all this talk about 'growing the sport' is BS. Looks alot more like growing personal bank accounts than growing the sport to me. How does less exposure grow anything?

Dude nobody cares about cap vs ops spending, they took something that worked for everyone and decided to monetize it for no other reason than greed. They weren't losing money on LL's week, but saw another way to increase their profit and took it at the expense of their core fans. It's a money grab, period.