Welcome to Omnibits for Tuesday, 8 October (Day 1)

0700

It's looking like a GREAT day for a skydiving competition! Almost all of the setup got completed yesterday and we're now ready to get down to business. 

The holdout setup task: We're going to use Boxcast streamers to send the live judging pictures to my Youtube Live channel. Those streamers arrived yesterday. One of them works, but the other two would not register on the boxcast web site. I contacted their tech support and they were surprised to learn -- as was I!!! -- that those two units were already registered to another user. 

They have to fix that at their end, and until they do, I can only use one streamer.  Look for more details (URL etc) soon.

0730

The good news: All three broadcasters have been added to my account!

The bad news: Boxcast is only allowing one broadcast at a time!!! Yes we're trying to fix that.

The broadcasting links are:

• FS:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuU7gkdHOQ
• AE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHQDA6UpJo
• Rankings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCMegs2L4RQ

PLEASE NOTE: Boxcast.com will only allow me to schedule 8 hour broadcasts. That means these links will only be good until approximately 3PM Arizona time, after which I have to create new broadcasts, so do expect a disruption of the broadcasts midafternoon, followed (probably) by new YT links.

0900

4-Way VFS Round 1 in progress and it looks like the live stream is working well. Woo-hoo!

I don't know what's going on with Artistic Events but will endeavor to find out ... 

4-Way VFS is finishing Round 1 and 8-Way now starting.

1145

The link to the FAI's official results pages is here:

http://results.worldskydiving.org/FrontEnd/CompetitionCollection/1032

(The link from  "LIVE RESULTS" on https://www.fai.org/ipc-eloy2019 is b0rken as of 1130 this morning)

Oh and the Artistic Events start tomorrow -- today is an official practice day for AE.

Oh and we are working on team photos. A coupla glitches with that process but we hope to have them in the loop this afternoon.

For those watching the live streams: I have the FS jumps replaying on the AE channel, as I had not known until just a few minutes ago that the Artistic events start tomorrow, while today is official practice for them.

1300

8-Way now complete through 3 rounds (and 2 points separating the top 3 teams!)  and 2D 4-Way is on a short call!

1500

New YouTube streaming URLs:

• FS (Live Judging): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlrdn3RrsKg
• FS (Replay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pg_RRxI4CQ
• Rankings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI03CEvBkkc