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Scrabble coming to ESPN
clemon79:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Nov 7 2003, 06:05 AM\'] As a much bigger fan of the board game than I ever was of the game show, I'm eagerly waiting to see exactly how they're going to present this. [/quote]
Having seen ESPN do both chess and Magic, I have a feeling it will be your straight overhead shot of the board, and you might get windows or graphics showing a player's rack when considering their move. If they're feeing particularly jaunty they might throw a scorebox in the corner.
I meant to ask, did you find this yourself or did your Tivo hook it up as a Suggestion?
Jay Temple:
So, basically, the same way they cover poker.
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 7 2003, 11:58 AM\'] No longer...she's an ABC property now, as I found to my dismay when I tuned in Monday Night Football for pretty much the first time this season a week or so ago. (This is what happens when yer a Seahawks fan. :)) [/quote]
Didn't believe me when I first told you, Lemon? But try being a Lions fan. No Monday night or even Sunday nights games this year. No Lisa Guerrero, no Suzy Kolber...not even Pam Oliver (sideline report on Fox's A-team). It's usually either Chris (as in Christopher) Myers or no reporter at all (given that choice, I'd take none).
BTW, shouldn't Fox Sports Net give equal time for nets?
dickoon:
With just one hour to cover an entire tournament, I would expect the majority of the coverage to be personality-driven and interview-based. I'd expect them to give pretty detailed play-by-play coverage of one of the games of the final, but it would be unlikely that they would spend more than about ten minutes on one game.
I fear this may be veering a little too far from the topic for there has not yet been a game show called Chess, but if you like this news, then you may be interested to know that ESPN are scheduled to be showing 17½ hours of chess between Tuesday 11th November and Tuesday 18th November - the "man-versus-machine world championship match" (the purists will note the recent spate of draws and suggest that the championship has been held by a computer since 1997, though perhaps Deep Blue's - ahem - retirement has vacated the title again) between Garry Kasparov and a version of the Fritz computer chess software designed to produce pretty 3-D board graphics.
The schedule is supposedly 1-6 on Tuesday and Thursday, 1-3:30 on Sunday and 1-6 on Tuesday 18th; it may not actually appear in the official ESPN schedules yet but apparently "ESPN just hasn't officially put it in the slot yet. Don't panic."
Again, I am convinced that made-for-TV Scrabble (and poker, and chess, and Spelling Bees, and...) are closer to game shows than e.g. programs about video games, but I ranted about this last week.
Slightly grouchily due to kicking off the tail end of a cold,
Chris
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote ---I meant to ask, did you find this yourself or did your Tivo hook it up as a Suggestion?
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It was a Suggestion, one of my first indications of just how creepy-good THAT feature can be. On the other hand, it was one of about a hundred options, so the odds were pretty good SOMETHING on that list would be a pleasant surprise. Do those filters eventually start narrowing the choices to some degree?
--- Quote ---Again, I am convinced that made-for-TV Scrabble (and poker, and chess, and Spelling Bees, and...) are closer to game shows than e.g. programs about video games, but I ranted about this last week.
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Hey, why do you think I started the thread?
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