Shred 30

Rieferman · Post by **Rieferman** » 24 Mar 2006 05:40

Anyone remember how we ran the "fast shred 30" a few years ago? Instead of lengthy pauses in between competitors, there was a 10 second countdown to allow the first player to get out of the way and the next player to get into position. Like this

player 1 shreds for 30 second

countdown 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 GOOOOOO

player 2 shreds for 30 seconds

etc.

So, if it takes 40 seconds per player, and you have (say) 15 players, the entire event runs start to finish without downtime (i.e. "lose the audience attention" time) in 10 minutes.

I remember a couple competitors whining (get over it!!!) but the spectators LOVED it.

Rieferman · Post by **Rieferman** » 24 Mar 2006 05:41

Maybe we should have a thread "ideas to improve events" instead of me just opening thread after thread... Sorry if all these ideas are annoying

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » 24 Mar 2006 05:48

That is a very exxcelnt idea it would make compettiotrs stay on there feets

max · Post by **max** » 24 Mar 2006 06:46

yeah I remember doing this once at a comp in France too. Except it wasn't really planned; the first guy came up, did his 30s shred, then immediately the second shredder rushed up on stage and just started shredding... then the other 12 players followed suit. I honestly thought it was great!

no downtime as you say.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 24 Mar 2006 21:51

Yeah I think that's the best way to run shred 30 for sure. Unless you could find some way of getting the scores worked out with in a minute of the person finishing.

Rieferman · Post by **Rieferman** » 25 Mar 2006 16:28

If it's the way to go, what might we do to try to get event organizers to go this route? Too often there's this huge wait in between events. Though my wife supports my playing, she's a pretty typical spectator for the most part. As soon as the first break hits, she's bored and thinks the whole thing is pretty lame. My parents, my sister, my neigbor.. everyone I can think of feels the same way. Why don't we change? Let's make it fun to watch! How do we get people on board?

edit: I'm selling this as a "it will help us present the sport better" concept, but my motivations are really more of a "I think it's boring to wait through a half hour to 45 minutes of shred 30 when we have a better way to go that will allow me to get back to fun shred circles" type of thing. If you ran intermediate into open in this fashion it would be crazy to see the skill steadily step up as each 30 seconds pass.. and it would get us back out there shredding sooner too.

JoFa · Post by **JoFa** » 27 Mar 2006 14:49

I think it should definitely be like this. Sports get their money from spectators, and we need to make footbag something people would pay to watch - think about how big the sport would grow then!

Make it fun to watch, and footbag becomes three hobbies - playing, making, and watching!