Moomba Masters International Invitational March 9th – 13th 2023

[Horton]

All time Melbourne local

[Horton]

Video links TBA

( if anyone has it please send it along )

[Horton]

Skier list 

https://www.moombamasters.com.au/2020-accepted-skiers/invited-skiers-2023/

 

[Horton]

Jr Moomba kicks off in a little over 5 hours. I guess the stream will be at https://livestream.com/moombamasters2023 Not sure.

[03RLXi]

https://www.moombamasters.com.au/webcast-2023/

 

[ral]

We got spoiled by TWBC…

Edited March 9 by ral

[Jody_Seal]

look at it this way. normally they would be into the second day by now and all the bugs were worked out. they dropped a day in the schedule so opening day bugs are prevalent. tomorrow should go with no hiccups 😒 😑 🙄 😐 lol!!

[Horton]

Holy Crap boys slalom round 1 was interesting. 

Nicolas Nelson really impressed me.  I know he has a Jr World title but I have never watched him before.  Kid is good.

In other news, Charlie Ross got thrown off super early. 

[Cooper_Trelawney]

Link to scores?

[MISkier]

@Cooper_Trelawney

 

Junior results (live):

http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=T-23AUS064&page=live

Open results (no live option just yet):

http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/23AUS065/

 

[MDB1056]

So what's with the Moomba site link?  - has the playback clips from yesterday but if you click on boys slalom  - nothing but commercials and some tricks - no slalom . Girls slalom is the girls slalom  

[fu_man]

@ral I agree.  However the more frustrating part is that the live stream isn't you-tube so you can't "forward arrow" to easily fast forward between passes.  Hurts even more because the the sit times are longer than normal on the Yarra.

[Jody_Seal]

@fu_man 45-60 sec on one end. 90 at the other depending on the tide.

[Blofeld]

Anyone have thoughts on Charlie Ross fin set up. He skied great today but that fin looked a little deep.

[Horton]

Level of skiing is crazy for the Yarra River. If the Pros get these conditions this is going to be a wild Moomba.

[Horton]

@BlofeldI saw that. I think it is just the result of defensive skiing. Skiing in a current is just weird. 

[OK_SKIER]

Are the previous days archived somewhere? 

[MISkier]

@OK_SKIER, if you go to this site and look on the left side, you can click where it says (pdf) next to the division/event name and it will bring up the results.

http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=T-23AUS064

Edited March 10 by MISkier

[Cooper_Trelawney]

Listening to the announcers talk about Glen Thurlow breaking the 200' barrier at Moomba in 1983.  That was 40 YEARS AGO!!!  Man, that got me.  Made me feel old! 🥺

[rwskier]

This Is the strangest webcast ever. Anytime they are not in the course they play commercial's while they continue to over talk them.  The camera work from the boat is so bouncy it almost makes me nauseous. 

 

[Horton]

Fred's 39 was bananas!

[Andre]

Great set from Pigozzi and one of the first time i see Nate overturn onside at 2 ball.

Sure looks special skiing the Yarra,boat is always bouncing at pre gate on the bridge side and there's some mysterious water movement sometimes...

[jedgell]

I just wish they'd stick with the boat camera.  Each pass switches back and forth 2-3 times between boat and shore cameras.  Maybe use the shore video for the replay?  Other than that I don't mind the webcast, sure miss TWBC though!

[Gloersen]

Hats off to Robert Pigozzi for exemplary sportsmanship displayed after coming up short for the final round.

[swbca]

Who thought it would be good for Ski Nautique and other advertisers to give their ads more air time than the tournament, even playing ads over the skier interviews and replays. 

 

Edited March 12 by swbca

[75Tique]

Coverage...Ugh!!  Hey I have an idea, lets show hours of people walking across the bridge, and lets switch to the commentators in the middle of a pass.   TWBC!! 

[MDB1056]

Agreed. The Moomba hosting organization hopefully is getting some candid feedback on their broadcast, although there’s a good chance they may not be as if they had in the past we probably wouldn’t be seeing what we are today.  As the comments of this thread validate, as presently produced it’s clearly sub par. Is it better than nothing? Ok sure……

[Andre]

Webcast was ...ok at best but mostly because we compare to the top:TWBC!  Tony AND Vincent have an excellent product that they can be proud of!

Edited March 12 by Andre

[aupatking]

Anyone know what time Moomba Monday coverage starts?

Edited March 12 by aupatking
Got rid of my bitching about bad jump camera work and commercials for ugly ass wake barges that should be illegal

[BGrow76]

8:15am 

[Horton]

woman's trick is on the water now

[mfjaegersr]

If only I earned a dollar for every bloomin’ time the announcers said ‘put your hands together…’ I could buy a lake. Ugh.

[ETskier]

The Masters team at Calliway is the same crap.

[ETskier]

I do need to say, Tyler has improved a lot at Calloway. If only he could get rid of the the wakeboard dude and put in a water ski guy or gal. 

[Horton]

Men Slalom Finals in 30 minutes

[Luv2Ski]

So frustrating.  I missed all of womens slalom because the feed just keeps freezing.  😞

[rwskier]

I am glad to be able to follow an event that is on the other side of the world. They keep stating that Moomba is the largest and most prestigious event in the world. However this webcast makes me want to turn it off! Commercials right up until the skier is pulling out for the gates. They are interviewing athletes right after they have finished skiing and they either play commercials or have a camera angle that is behind the interviewer. Something will have to change in order for me to want to tune in again for this event. I agree that we are spoiled with TWBC, they certainly have done an excellent job at presenting our sport exceptionally well. Thank you TWBC

[Luv2Ski]

Everything just keeps buffering and buffering and buffering.  Then the volume is low, then really loud after silence for a while.  It is very frustrating.  I'm trying my best to be patient.  I can't figure out how to go back and watch all the women that I missed because it keeps freezing up.  

[Horton]

since the webcast is broken maybe someone can tell me why Fred is wearing this old Jobe vest on the dock

[Horton]

If you want to know what is going on...

 

https://iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=T-23AUS065&page=live

[aupatking]

Nate, Freddie, T-Gas

[motoxr]

With regards to the Jobs lifejackets. I suspect it's a requirement on the docks as I noticed Drew Ross and Charlie both wearing them as Neilly was preparing for her run.

Odd some others in the photo were not wearing any.

 

[Cooper_Trelawney]

What happened to Dorian in the jump final?  His score is 0.

Also, interesting 4th place in Men's Slalom is a skier from Mexico that most people haven't heard of.  Good for him!

[scoke]

He's still the best skier in the world and probably the best slalom skier ever. Amazing win.

Navigating the website for live scoring and then the webcast. It's like it was from a second world country or a high school IT team. Laughable.  So grateful for what we have in the US for waterskiresults.com, TWBC and others supporting the sport. 

[MDB1056]

Agreed. Webcast was absolutely awful. 

[Cnewbert]

Not to mention the fact that whoever was operating the chyrons was either sleeping half the time or randomly pressing buttons.  

[Jody_Seal]

Shout out to Dodd! 220'  on the yarra! again, the guys that have jumped 220 plus on the yarra are few.

Dorian taking the $10G home a Moomba trick title.. solid trick sking by the top women for sure it was a shoot out in the final..

Seen deeper Elite fields in the past but then again 3rd place pretty thin odds on the risk vs reward, If ya know what i mean..

Shout out to Robert Wing as well as Jarred and the crew.

i do miss the ABC day's when they put a Live TV camera on top of the tallest building in Melbourne that just happened to line up with slalom course clean clear shot of the action!

 

 

[brody]

anyone know what happened with Taryn Grant, heard she had a bad crash but cant find a video or update about it.  

[Horton]

I am conflicted between grateful that there is a webcast and wanting to complain about the quality.  

[MDB1056]

@Horton Couch as constructive feedback, especially since coming from you/BOS as the largest forum for skiing on the web it should well be viewed as credible.  You already wrote the platform -  being that of grateful, but wanting to be honest about viewer comments etc. Go be our ambassador.....       

If nobody tells them it's bad ...... we'll all be complaining about the same next year . Might anyway but they should at least be made aware from the viewing audience that it was not received well. How to get them to sub to TWBC?. 

Edited March 13 by MDB1056