Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Introducing Team Bond Girl TV

A little late blog, but here it is with some updates: 

What did you do this Thanksgiving weekend?

Instead of braving Black Friday sales and stuffing faces with leftover turkey, a couple of Bond Girls found themselves in the mid-west jimmy-rigging webcams with tape surrounded by Fireball crazed curlers. It was not your typical bonspiel weekend...

It was a very "warm" curling season according to the locals.  There was lots of curling, fun, and FIREBALL! Most importantly, we debuted Team Bond Girls Curling TV with their first webstream test from the Fireball 500 Bonspiel in St. Paul, Minnesota. With 2 Bond Girls present, Jennifer Gamboa and Donna Umali Mendoza, we figured this event would be a great opportunity to practice setting up the new webstream in an unfamiliar venue.  For previous matches, we streamed our games through a site called ustream. You can see some of our old games recorded here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/team-bond-girls-curling-club-nationals

This year we signed up as an affiliate of The Twelfth End Network through Justin TV to offer a more sophisticated stream.  Using the The Twelfth End scoring program, we are able to update the scores for each end, and we are experimenting with a wireless 2nd camera set-up through an iphone.  We also have the capability to give our sponsors more advertising options. With this new system, we can now raise more funds for our curling endeavors which is now going international since we've received our invitation to Scotland at the Glynhill Ladies International Tournament.

Our test stream wasn't perfect, but we'll try to get it together before the next stream. 


You can visit our new stream site here: http://www.justin.tv/tesn_bondgirls

We have confirmation that Team Bond Girls will stream their MoPAC Playdown games: Salt Lake, Utah (January 13-15th)

See you on the ice!

- Domino