Slashdot Mirror
Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match (cnet.com)
"After initial indications the main event would commence at 11:15 p.m ET, it didn't get started until nearly one hour later," reports Variety.
An anonymous reader quotes CNET:
Saturday's much hyped fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC champion Conor McGregor drew fans from all walks of life, even those who'd never typically watch a standard boxing match. But when some of those fans settled in to watch the spectacle, beverage and snacks in hand, they found themselves in a world of hurt. Watching the fight wasn't cheap (nearly $100 on pay-per-view), so naturally, those who had technical issues as fight time neared -- on whatever platform -- were fighting mad. At 6:28 p.m. PT, as the undercard matches preceding the event aired, the UFC admitted on Twitter it was having technical issues with its Fight Pass streaming service due to the overwhelming interest in the bout.
ESPN confirms that the much-hyped event was "delayed due to pay-per-view outages."
ESPN confirms that the much-hyped event was "delayed due to pay-per-view outages."
if you had dierctv same price for higher bit rate and it can serve all customers at the same time.
Who fucking cares.
I wanna see two buffoons beat the shit out of each other all I have to do is look outside.
And it's free.
I demand a return to real bloodsport, where grievances are settled on the sands of the Arena, with the blessings of the Emperor and Almighty Iupiter, as our forefathers did.
This will surely improve our lives, strengthening us so we no longer fear death, and demonstrating to our enemies how mighty we are.
is creimer against a cheeseburger.
How the hell is that computer board worth 10 months of Netflix?
How the hell is that spinny disk worth 10 months of Netflix?
How the hell is that 3D printer worth 30 months of Netflix?
People have different hobbies and interests. Do you have someone looking over your shoulder watching your spending habits?
If you can put up with the kid running OBS trying to get subscriptions tabbing out of the stream every so often to splash "SUBSCRIBE" across the screen and 15fps at 320x240 it wasn't 1/2 bad. Course he'll get shutdown by morning for copyright violation.
did you watch the fight? it wasn't fake, it was blast from the past mayweather and mcgregor actually put up a good fight. this is what the pacquiao v mayweather fight should have looked like. fuck you "it's fake anyway". this ain't wrestling, son.
Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count. They did not, because from the get go this fight has been a test to see exactly how magnificently a handful of promoters and media moguls can fleece the average customer. You'll likely never see a refund for your 'online ticket.' as of right now, the fightpass servers are barely online with much of the page content timing out or flat out not connecting at all.
Now, from experience, when my fightpass connection glitched out after the second round I was angry enough to put my laptop through a fucking wall. But after some diligent searching I found pirate streams that were just as good, if not better quality, than the $100 show I paid to see. These streams remained consistently reliable throughout the entire fight, and im sure the torrents of the fight are going to be consistently high quality as well.
the industry needs to learn from this. the 'customers as an endless cash cow' model of Hollywood media is exactly what drove cable, CD music, and the theater movie experience into the fucking ground. Screw these streams up badly enough, screw over paying customers frequently enough, and the internet will quit caring about your streaming content entirely.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Mayweather won, but it went 10 rounds and was by the referee calling it.
I was overseas and wanted to watch the Superbowl. Hurray for drinking beer at 7:30am Monday morning! Tried and tried to use the legitimate NFL.com streaming to watch the game. It just would not work. I clicked submit and then it either timed out or went to a website error.
I went to myp2p.eu and got the stream from there. Steady, reliable, and it even got the commercials which the NFL.com stream would have lacked. Superbowl is the one time a year I actually want to watch the commercials. Once again, the pirates provided a better service than the corporations.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I really hate it when my fight didnâ(TM)t get streamed on time.
I had a look into it and it turns out that it's not fake.
I heard something about a friend of the ex-wife of the guy in charge of hiring the streaming provider being a frat pal of Gavin Belson. At least, this is what someone bro-ed me because, you know, bros disclose. LOL.
On a serious note: software-related (online) unreliability isn't precisely a surprise to me. The case of video streaming is particularly descriptive: there are quite a few sites with tons of problems, limited (browser or features) support and surprisingly slow. I have even seen these problems in the sites of major players in the broadcasting business like big television networks!
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
what the attraction is of watching one man hit another ? People wail when terrorists drive lorries into crowds but then cheer when someone smashes his fist into another man's face. I don't understand ?
Boxing is positively barbaric, but fake it is not.
I suspect you're thinking of professional wrestling.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Slightly off topic, I didn't watch this stream in particular. Why do sports streams always start glitching and lagging just as the action culminates? Like, just before there's a goal in football (soccer), and even when the time is running out in chess! Surely, not a lot of people are tuning in just then. If it's a variable bitrate stream, requiring more bandwidth for the fast action, that still doesn't explain it -- surely their streaming platform should be able to manage the overall bandwidth. Is it just a cognitive bias that it seems that way, or can anyone explain this for me?
Ah, I had also managed to completely ignore it.
Let me check..
Mayweather wins.. I guess that means something to someone (and if you didnt want to know, I dont give a shit)
And my wallet is not $100 lighter, which is the best outcome.
Yes, got to keep the rabble entertained somehow, apparently.
I get the gist of what you're trying to say, but you choose some pretty bad examples. All of those last significantly longer than a month, not less.
It is fascinating how this story has triggered all the classist buffoons and brought them out on parade.
Except it's $8 versus $100.
Plus DirectTV craps out in bad weather.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
"completely schooled" and 10 round TKO are an inherent contradiction.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
It was 100% fake. Like most MMA matches these days.
It doesn't matter. Both fighters have similar styles and the confidence of the man to step out of UFC into boxing has to be applauded. Because boxing isn't even half a fight compared to getting an elbow in the face or a shin hitting a quad muscle dead. Goodbye leg. Forget about taking someone to the ground and doing chokes or joint locks. Boxing is about as redundant in the 21st century as two gentleman walking ten paces and firing a pistol.
Mayweather wouldn't last 20 seconds in the cage with MacGregor and everyone, especially Mayweather, knows it. MacGregor won as soon as Mayweather took the fight. This was about Boxing passing the flame to UFC because it's more exciting than boxing. You may say that MMA is fake, the difference is it can be more real than boxing ever could.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
So a WWE wrestler claims, without evidence, that one particular UFC fight was faked, and from that you conclude that most UFC fights, as well as the Mayweather/McGregor fight, are faked?
"completely schooled" and 10 round TKO are an inherent contradiction.
Not if exposing a poorly skilled boxer with insufficient endurance was the goal. Not if eliminating the "he just got in a lucky punch" defense was the goal. Not if you are so confident that you can engage in 10 rounds of fan service.
Mayweather did indeed put on a clinic. He won on his terms, which he blatantly telegraphed.
I did not look into this, but at least one report said that most of the money was on McGregor even though the betting odds favored Mayweather. If that is true, it smells fishy to me. Generally, when the majority of the betting money is on one side, the odds for that side improve so as to encourage enough people to bet on the other side so as to cover the money the bookies need to pay out if the side with more money bet on it wins. Apparently, that did not happen here, suggesting that the bookies knew something no one else did.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
At what point will ISPs open up multicasting to the home? I'm sure the organizers used MC to get to distribution servers but everything from there to the end users is still unicast. I was working during the fight and our multicast to the edge modulator in the headend did just fine. I'm sure they'll point out that events like the Super Bowl will tax their edge routers but what about an event like this? I'm sure it was popular, but still a small fraction of users.
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
No they aren't. Mayweather while completely dominating treated Conner as a risk, so he let Conner punch himself out in the early rounds and as he became less and less of a threat he dismantled him. The 10 rounds is a testament to Conner's ability to survive or perhaps Mayweather had instructions not to put him down too early, either way the fight was over 5 rounds earlier when Mayweather could see Conner had nothing left in the tank, Conner displayed a lack of discipline and endurance by punching himself out early.
It's the start of a new sports Entertainment industry. The next one will be Michael Jordan against Wayne Gretzky in a tennis match.
Mayweather just toyed with him and was never even remotely in danger.
hahaha - 20 seconds in the octagon, any boxer.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
nothing strange here at all. All the large bets of the professional gamblers and the more impartial parties were on Mayweather, A lot of the smaller bets are McGregor/Irish/MMA fan base supporting McGregor who really did so regardless of how little chance he had.
I heard something about a friend of the ex-wife of the guy in charge of hiring the streaming provider being a frat pal of Gavin Belson. At least, this is what someone bro-ed me because, you know, bros disclose.
This whole paragraph is a reference to the sitcom Silicon Valley, exactly the same than the parent post.
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
And I've driven my Lotus Exige Cup 260 around and around in circles. Do you have any idea how expensive that is? I'm not even racing, as that is not allowed, as normally timing equipment isn't allowed. I drive at places like the F1 track at Spa. It's fun. It's not productive, and is a total waste of time. I'm at high risk or an accident or injury.
I don't like boxing, but watching it on pay-per-view is cheaper than what I do. Don't judge other people on their choice of entertainment. It's their money. Let them enjoy it how they like.
"The best part? I became an ordained minister while not wearing pants." -- CleverNickName
Clarification to the clarification: I am not interested in dealing with people actually needing these clarifications or similar (e.g., me adding "LOL" to denote that what I wrote shouldn't be taken seriously/literally). I am writing all these clarifications to minimise the chances of having to waste time on addressing nonsensical concerns (+ avoiding misunderstanding-based uncomfortable/negative-to-everyone situations).
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
Conor may be a professional in the Octagon but he is a rank amateur in the ring and the inverse would go for Mayweather.
Well as a rank amateur in boxing he just went 10 rounds with one of boxing's best, that's a pretty professional effort. I think MacGregor has just shown that UFC fighters could hold their own in a boxing ring with a limited toolset, UFC fighters have to know how to punch even if they don't know the strategy of boxing.
Boxers don't have a kick game, a ground game, a elbow game, a choke game, a lock game. UFC fighters have to be all rounders and it shows that the punch game for some fighters in UFC is pretty good, forgetting about all the other things that can be done with hands.
All in all I think this is a good thing for both sports. The level of professionalism show by both fighters was very high and I have a new respect for Mayweather because he was classy and humble in victory.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I watched it for $40 in a theater. It wasn't one hour, it was four hours, and had three title fights leading up to the grand finale. If you're not into boxing, you probably wouldn't care. I mostly thought it was a scam as well, but watching it changed my mind, not that anyone's actually worth the absurd amounts these guys got.
Just another day in Paradise
You clearly didn't watch. I did (for $40, not $100), and in my not so humble opinion, and as someone who's spent a few years sparring, it was not fake. Now, you can legitimately argue the value of their take home purse, but that's a different issue.
Just another day in Paradise
This fight was better than Pacquiao's ?? HAHAHAHAHAH McGregor could not hit a single fucking punch, and he doesn't know how to throw one. Get the fuck out of here.
An agressive fighter like Tyson would have destroyed any UFC fighter in his weight class within seconds.
Only in boxing and only in a boxing ring. If you put a fighter like Tyson up against a machine like Bas Rutten or Hickson Gracie anywhere else it would end up the same, with the boxer, on his back on the ground, unable to use his hands getting a face massage with an elbow or with a paniced look on his face as he gets choked out, not knowing what to do or how to do it. Sure, the take down maybe difficult to get however a semi-accomplished Muay Thai Boxer would patiently chop a boxer down, and never need to take the boxer to the ground, just with leg kicks.
Bullshit. A conservative figher like Mayweather was bound to make McGregor and the UFC look credible, which was the goal.
Hahahahahaha. You have to be shitposting, MacGregor landed more scoring hits on Mayweather than the last few boxers he fought.
What you don't seem to understand is UFC is a testing ground for which fighting systems are credible and effective. Boxing was discredited as an effective fighting system with a bunch of other bullshit martial arts back in the 1990s, boxers have stepped into the UFC and they have been annihilated when that is the only skill the have.
Whatever problems the UFC has you can pick any of your current professional boxers, at the top of their game and put them in the UFC and you will find it is the end of their career from the humiliating beat down they would receive from ONE UFC bout, before they go back to boxing. Kicks in the leg, take downs and none of the boxing fast hands make a difference. Whilst I tip my hat to the professionalism to boxing as a sport, that's what it is. The UFC showed us, long ago, that boxing isn't a credible fighting system.
Even the weight classes are heavier in UFC, where a light heavyweight in UFC is a heavyweight in boxing and on the street boxing is useless against even a semi-credible martial artist who could snap your knee and keep any boxer at distance just by using kicks and denying the boxer any use of their primary weapons.
Every time MacGregor got Mayweathers back, that was where the fight ended anywhere else that wasn't a boxing ring. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about or are shitposting because the scenario you spell out can only happen in boxing. Here is what happens when boxer meets a purple belt in Jui Jitsu, even when you give the boxer a few more weapons Or you can listen to what boxers have to say about stepping into UFC.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.