Americas Cup

canefan

I think this is what ETNZ had in mind with racing these boats. It's all on

Kiwiwomble

@nzzp i think we made him mad

Kruse

loving the wind shadow grahics

I've been thinking for some time why the hell they didn't have something like that.
Also - a simple graphic showing wind direction.

All in all - the ~~WWE~~ Americas Cup organisers have listened to the criticisms about how boring it's been, and the sorely lacking coverage-graphics - and re-written the match scripts to add some excitement, as well as finally providing some of the basic graphics/info one would expect.
Well done Vince.

canefan

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

Kiwiwomble

@canefan yeah, we seem to be able to make up 150m with little trouble but kimmy has always spotted it and been on top to give us some bad air

canefan

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

@canefan yeah, we seem to be able to make up 150m with little trouble but kimmy has always spotted it and been on top to give us some bad air

Who had the starting advantage? Need one win minimum to put them to the brink

Kiwiwomble

pass and building!

canefan

Comms said LR have made that mistake of giving up the right before. Haven't learned their lesson and ETNZ know every patch of their backyard

Kiwiwomble

70m behind at the last cross before the gate and now 430m ahead

antipodean

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

Bingo!

And the result is team NZ get a 40m lead

canefan

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

Bingo!

And the result is team NZ get a 40m lead

Parlayed into a 500m lead

canefan

Give them a bit of wind and these boats are majestic

antipodean

That's some good racing.

KiwiMurph

What a race that was

JK

That was super. Jimmy sailed a pretty smart race until leg 5.

One more to go!

Kruse

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

That's some good racing.

This is what I remember the racing being like back in the "good old days".... but, probably rose-tinted glasses and a stupid kid's memory.
Constantly taking advantage of the right-of-way rules, pushing boats out way beyond the ley-line before scooting back in yourself, creating "dirty air" whenever possible, but quite often taking risks on different sides of the course.

canefan

@jk said in Americas Cup:

That was super. Jimmy sailed a pretty smart race until leg 5.

One more to go!

It's not over. But the lady is warming up

Unite

So is the wind going to drop off now?

Kruse

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

@jk said in Americas Cup:

That was super. Jimmy sailed a pretty smart race until leg 5.

One more to go!

It's not over. But the lady is warming up

Did I see something about some sort of attempt to recreate that, but with Six-fucking-60?
Jesus... the 80s could get away with it... nowadays, with shit bland music, it'll be bloody cringeworthy.

In fact - the coverage in general is super-cringey. At least with the lockdown coming back in effect for a little while - we were spared coverage of some "reporter" out in the crowd trialling different icecreams, hot-dogs, whatever. Oh - and "let's cut to our mate on a boat in the harbour, chatting with some boozed up insipid fluffybunnies".

Tim

This week has been great!

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Americas Cup