The canoe sprint season started in the so-called capital of the world for canoeing in Szeged for the 2024 ECA Canoe Sprint European Championships, this time with some extra, with the SUP Europeans, hosted for the first time at European Level.
For months we were challenging ourselves in deliver something new, more modern more capable and that would fit current sport needs.
We knew what we wanted to do, but only with some craziness and many passion would it be possible to deliver.
After some preliminary tests in 2023, we move forward and created the new ID control, the new Boat control as long as the new race viewer, a totally new experience and management of one canoe sprint event. All this tools were added to the new ITOs tools where also a new module for online reports for the ITOS are now a reality too.
Added to this, the sports presentation module was also implemented, for big outdoor led screens with race data and protocol, with the first experience made in 2023 European games.
Finally, we also implemented one VOIP server to substitute the old walkie talkies of all ITOs, together with the delivered product.
The only things missing were a name for it and to put it running in one event. The name was easy to find, we pick up one old dream story and made it kind of real. SUPER JUICE(Supra sumo). To put it practice, what better than a multisport event with sprint, paracanoe and 4 Standup disciplines in the capital of canoeing?
With big support and help of ECA and OC we built it up using 15+ laptops, 14 iPads, and much less paper ( no start lists were printed for ITOs in each day) and we put it running in the first day. Of course there were worried faces, low confidence from some, but by the end of day 1, everyone was asking for more and already helping us how to improve.
Ito’s in boats holding one tablet instead of a piece of paper, sharing a race viewer, made us smile just by looking them using it.
As this was not enough, we push the OC to use the green screen and video clip animations into a European Championships in sprint for the first time, after we have done it for the first time for this sport at world level back in 2018 during game of canoeing unique show.
As ECA wanted to deliver new and independent image from ICF, the goal was set to redesign the first draft of the Eca tv graphics used in 2021.Knowing it can still improve a lot, it’s a start for an independent image at European organizations.
Finally the last challenge. Present the sport better for the public and canoeing community. A total of 34 European championships in Canoe Sprint have been done, but each of them lack something. So, we had to add something more, once again.
For the first time we made the new European and World best times a reality in TV graphics and official results at finish line crossing.
A huge database was made, with the help of friends of the sport, and we provided the best result per athlete and per country in team boats in individual lanes presentation. We were able to compile the last 10y of finals in all categories for Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe and used it in the individual lanes’ presentation at European, world and Olympic levels. Also, that data base was shared with the ECA official commentator to improve once again the sport presentation. Adding to this we upgraded and used the world, European, Olympic, paralympic and European games current champions in all disciples and presented it inside official results and tv graphics.
In the end it was a very successful event.
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