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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
In the recent vids I've watched the suits seemed design to CAMOFLAGE
the racers. I never really did know who Newell was while I watched his race! The amount of major color in the suits plus the stripes make several of them just blur together. I wonder if distinctive suits---and attractive ones---would help in PR. I suppose it's a common refrain. We all know how in the most popular sports one often can't tell who your heroes are... And it's common for the color schemes of their outfits to have little/no meaning. (NOT!) Then there are those BIBS. They're huge---they also cover up A LOT of the torso, the main part of the suit, giving all the racers this dominant theme of a white chest. The bibs do NOT make the skiers or their suits look good. But does that matter? I think the attractiveness of the skiers would stand out more with smaller bibs or a really downplayed number set-up. They should pick ONE attractive way to ID players then let the other stuff fall away. (Ah, but there has to be a BIG AD on the bibs, too... Just like in the NBA?) NASCAR seems to be able to integrate hot graphic design in with easy car ID. In this age of high-tech it's only natural for a glamor sport to have its players in skintight suits all wearing SMOCKS for bibs...yeah, right. |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
Picture the poor timekeeper standing knee deep in trailside snow at a forest trail
crossroad somewhere at the back of beyond. He needs to record bib numbers. His 'site' is just at the point where the racer now has a long straight reasonably downhill run and is in a skating tuck with hands obscuring the front number and the back number facing the sky on his rounded back. I've been there. You can only shout for 'Bib number' and hope for an answer. Those dreadful handkerchief panels and thin tape ties were the worst. Invariably the racer passed me with one side undone or the whole thing wrapped round his neck. Watching the new fuller bibs on TV the bib number is a lot easier to pick out on the TV screen, it tends to stay put around the racers waist and it can be pulled down with one hand after a fall. |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:23:33 +0000, dardruba
wrote: Picture the poor timekeeper standing knee deep in trailside snow at a forest trail crossroad somewhere at the back of beyond. He needs to record bib numbers. His 'site' is just at the point where the racer now has a long straight reasonably downhill run and is in a skating tuck with hands obscuring the front number and the back number facing the sky on his rounded back. I've been there. You can only shout for 'Bib number' and hope for an answer. Those dreadful handkerchief panels and thin tape ties were the worst. Invariably the racer passed me with one side undone or the whole thing wrapped round his neck. Watching the new fuller bibs on TV the bib number is a lot easier to pick out on the TV screen, it tends to stay put around the racers waist and it can be pulled down with one hand after a fall. Our local skiing assocation got some nice full bibs used at local events this year. They are not televised... http://www.jt10000.com/galleries/sac...anga084327.htm |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
On Mar 17, 7:43 pm, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:23:33 +0000, dardruba wrote: Picture the poor timekeeper standing knee deep in trailside snow at a forest trail crossroad somewhere at the back of beyond. He needs to record bib numbers. NASCAR keeps track pretty easily. But then I meant WC events. Are they designed for the timers or for public appeal? Chips could replace bibs. Then we could see the skiers and the suits...and if they were nicely designed we'd want to see them and could easily distinguish our heroes in them. --JP |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
Jeff, you should be in sports marketing or running some high-level
sporting events. |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
Chips could replace bibs.
This past Friday, I volunteered for the first time to work at a ski race. My assignment was to record bib numbers at the finish line. We had a total of 6 people working at the finish line (2 teams of 3 people), but we were told that our work was essentially redundant, just as a backup in case of a failure of the electronic timing system (being provided by the same outfit as was used at the 2002 Olympic Games). So, no, chips will not replace bibs. Moreover, the announcer used bib numbers for his non-stop commentary. Lew Lasher Cambridge, Massachusetts and Stowe, Vermont |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
On Mar 18, 2:15 am, "Jeff Potter (of OutYourBackdoor.com)"
wrote: But then I meant WC events. Are they designed for the timers or for public appeal? Chips could replace bibs. On World Cup events bibs have nothing to do with timing for long long time. They are using chips for quite some time now, so bib plays no role in that. But they still play huge role in other things. Commentators (including those on TV) rely on bibs to comment what's happening on track, spectators can recognize skiers this way (not everyone recognize all skiers just by their technique of skiing), and if nothing else, I can caption photos easier, if I see their start number So even if they look bad, I'm still happy they are keeping them Take care, Primoz http://www.photo.si |
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Whining about WC team suit design and big "smock" bibs...
So even if they look bad, I'm still happy they are keeping them
Maybe there's a way they could put numbers on uniforms, or wear numbers, that wasn't so ugly. (Assign a number to the skier at start of season?) To go along with any of this, as I said before, having uniforms that could be distinguished or which had some meaning, might also help. Take care, Primozhttp://www.photo.si |
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