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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I wish they would show this, as the first part of the game or broadcast.
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There are so many things wrong with how curling is broadcast. They seldom show lead rocks, and when they do they are split screen with a commercial we've all see 500+ times. Could you imagine the NFL not showing kick offs to start a half or after a score? They do the recaps way too often, or show what is upcoming, instead of show lead rocks and/or the LSD before the games. They don't need to show the practices, but they can take 45 seconds to show both teams' LSDs. I understand curling needs sponsorship to survive. If you can't show every shot in the 11th end of the Brier final, something is massively wrong. There are about 10 things they show instead of lead rocks, and then recap what we missed. That is a poor formula. The camera angle for a lot of the overhead angles is wrong, since it won't show the guards or the back of the rings.
I understand the goal is for people of all levels to understand and enjoy the broadcast, so I've accepted that Vic plays the dumb guy and asks dumb questions. I doesn't matter that I don't like how he repeats things while the stone is in play (gotta get it by, gotta get it by, brush hard to get it by). But what can be immediately corrected is the announcers need to stop talking as much. Instead of guessing what Koe's going to do, they could just listen to Koe and his team debate the shot. In the 9th end of the Brier Koe had hammer. He chose to just come up to shot rock, in order to give Gushue a steal of one. You could see this by how Morris and Koe acted in the house with their brooms. You could hear this from Neufeld saying throw draw to the button weight. If you are drawing the button you don't say draw the button weight. At home we could barely hear it because Russ and Vic were talking. The rock was halfway down and they both thought Koe missed the shot. It's embarrassing how often something like that happens.