New Normal Game Setup - a success or a failure?

[hahay]

It can be said that it worked, because only with them being able to continue the match I think it worked enough to apply new rules to every match in this new normal era. At least from the initial step by checking everyone who will be involved in the field, it is also a success and if the organizers continue to innovate to add other things such as virtual audiences or other things, of course it is an increase in taking advantage of technological developments, so it can be said that was more than enough or successful.

[kkaroul4]

Yes we could consider it as success like the NBA which successfully finished the playoffs and the leagues in the football matches are successful as of now and I think some tennis games and baseball games also.

[carter34]

But to this you said, a dead man or woman does not play football or other sports. Someone dead don't watch either. So it is better that they stopped the games to safe more lives. The games have started again and live has continued, people would have died more if the games were not stopped because of contact.

So far some of the sports organization I'm following are doing great, Basketball and boxing two of my favorite sports are doing great in coming up with great matches and fights and fans are loving it, of course, if something is going wrong the organizations should look into it, but so far they are following protocols and they are making sure that no contamination is happening.

It looked like the little time stop for the games because of the covid-19 didn't cause any obvious negative change for now. Most football leagues still followed up and managed to finish the leagues and started new session now. Also the champions league had to manage up .

[Saisher]

Yes we could consider it as success like the NBA which successfully finished the playoffs and the leagues in the football matches are successful as of now and I think some tennis games and baseball games also.

It's actually historical for coming up with an exciting games it's like there is no CoVid players are coming up with their best plays and condition, Miami Heat gave Lakers a run for their money when Miami won two games in a row it made me think that there could be a big upset in the making but Lakers eventually win, and they deserves it.

[madnessteat]

In my opinion, a complete stop of games is unacceptable, because for many athletes games are the only way to support themselves and their families.

The main funds for sports events financing come from advertisers. So, we continue to watch games broadcasts and cheer for our favorite teams online.

But to this you said, a dead man or woman does not play football or other sports. Someone dead don't watch either. So it is better that they stopped the games to safe more lives. The games have started again and live has continued, people would have died more if the games were not stopped because of contact.

Maybe it would be better for athletes who participate in collective disciplines to take the simplest COVID-19 test every three days than to give up contact sports?

What if COVID-19 doesn't go away? Will the whole world completely forget about sports?

[Lakai01]

It looked like the little time stop for the games because of the covid-19 didn't cause any obvious negative change for now. Most football leagues still followed up and managed to finish the leagues and started new session now. Also the champions league had to manage up .

Whereby it must be said that the teams and leagues, which did not want to finish the championships because of Corona, were threatened with heavy penalties.
As far as I know, Belgium and the Netherlands, for example, ended their championships early:

Belgium’s Pro League was the first in Europe to end its 2019-20 season, as the deadly effects of the COVID-19 health crisis began to hit, but the decision made by the league’s board in early April was still to be ratified by the 24-member clubs.

Source

In the end, UEFA withdrew their statement that champions who had been crowned prematurely could be excluded from all competitions, but at that time it was already foreseeable that the Corona situation in Europe would ease up again. I think this was in late April/early May.

The corona situation in Europe is now much more tense than at the peak of the first wave. Germany, Italy and also France are reaching new highs in the number of infected persons and even smaller countries like Austria and Switzerland have very high numbers. I am curious to see how UEFA will react to this and whether the Champions League, for example, will be launched at all. Now that the first countries are at least partially shutting down, there is no reason to think about cross-national soccer.

Of course this has direct effects on us sports better, without sports events there will be no bets. But my wallet will certainly be happy about that ...

[Smartvirus]

It all depends on the way we view it. A lot of price is being paid just to keep this up. I'm sure the aim of this sacrifice isn't out of place. A therapist would always advice an addictive smoker with a particular need to stop smoking ahbit to start by halving the number of sticks he consumes in a day and continue reducing it until the smoker is in control of his/her smoking habit. So also do my high school teacher do tell me, 'live your books for a day and it would live you for a week'.

These are just instances as to what the pandemic is trying to do to football fans amongst other sports. As this will in turn reduce fans participation even when all about the pandemic is resolved. It is a hard price that is being paid by both fans and players. Fans not to be in the arena, players to play without the admiration of their fans and organizers continue to loose huge funds at every game play. So much to keep up the game spirit.

[cabron]

Its the new normal now that we can now just enjoy watching sports while players are eager to have a live audience 

I'm not sure if the Fight Island was already in the plan before pandemic but somehow it was quickly created for the UFC sports we enjoy.  It does have a bright side especially for cryptocurrency users like us.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

Yes we could consider it as success like the NBA which successfully finished the playoffs and the leagues in the football matches are successful as of now and I think some tennis games and baseball games also.

The new normal setup is truly a success because sports bettors and sports team fans had been excited and entertained that they have finally watched their favorite team and sport play again, even we are in the middle of the pandemic. So this new normal thing might continue not only in sports events maybe in public casino that they would be able to reopen again only with limited players could enter and play.

[zidanw]

Looking at the sports betting website right now I've seen that there's a lot of open leagues and sports it's like the usual fights we've seen in the old normal. By looking at these fights we can say that they are already successful.

[Silberman]

Some of the sports leagues that got canceled due to the pandemic already finished with their respective resumes with some still on-going and lots of future events will take place under the new normal setup.

We have seen how these leagues put big efforts to somehow bring the sports back while people don't need to go outside to watch. They also think of a way on how to help players feel that the intense and excitement is still there performing in front of the fans.

Even with low ratings and small revenue (as expected), I consider this new normal setup as a success. It's not that easy to set up an own bubble amid the dangerous pandemic.

Kudos to their effort.

I am not so sure I agree with your opinion there have been low ratings, people love sports and for the most part many love to be in the stadium cheering for their favourite teams and since they cannot do that they are watching them on their TVs, if anything I think many sports are probably reporting record audiences as people are still desperate to get some kind of entertainment and being able to take off their minds of the difficult reality we are living through, however I agree that there are less profits to be had especially for those organizations that are not as popular and that depended heavily on the attendance of people to the stadiums to sustain their business model.

[bitcoin31]

They really needed to cancelled athe sports events for the safety of the people because there is still a lot of people having virus and not safe for us to go to the sports events. Everything will back to normal all just need is the cooperation of everyone so the pandemic will end.audience is always important when they have spors events but because of what happened today they just need a nee set up or cancelled it

[dunfida]

Some of the sports leagues that got canceled due to the pandemic already finished with their respective resumes with some still on-going and lots of future events will take place under the new normal setup.

We have seen how these leagues put big efforts to somehow bring the sports back while people don't need to go outside to watch. They also think of a way on how to help players feel that the intense and excitement is still there performing in front of the fans.

Even with low ratings and small revenue (as expected), I consider this new normal setup as a success. It's not that easy to set up an own bubble amid the dangerous pandemic.

Kudos to their effort.

Its better rather than have nothing at all and there no doubt that it did really succeeded. ex. NBA. In spite of the current situation we are in,they do still able to finish the season and did really make out
for it to be done.Yeah it might be different but at least you can really see the effort has been made which you can really appreciate.If it was a failure then they wont really able to make it that far.
Kudos in deed to the entire association or management where they do still proceed out and make their best to continue even it is really that hard and does really change up when it comes to
revenue.Hopefully that all of these things would be over so that we can already go back to normal on where crowd is surely present.

[iv4n]

There's no other way to say it, sport = money! Locking down caused many financial problems, not just for sport clubs, also for all other businesses directly connected with sport!
A success or a failure?! Well the games will not stop, be sure in that! This period is hard for many, and like always strong will survive! Many others will have trouble surviving, some clubs will change their owners...but generally it's nothing new, those things happened before! Like always, it's either adapt or perish.

[harizen]

Revenue isn't a basis for a new normal setup to called a success. It's already expected that there's a decline in revenue for an obvious reason.

It was determined on how far the development goes during the bubble setup. The fact that the majority of sports events that already done this pandemic didn't recorder or involve in a Covid-19 related case, then that's a success as protocols are properly followed.

but when it comes to ratings I think the opposite is happening. Why? Because lot of sport fans are hungry to watch thus became more excited and interested to watch the long awaited games. Perfect proof is the huge number of views on their live streamings and other videos.

Can you give us some links or sources that show a huge number of views on across the sports this pandemic? I'm pretty sure ratings got low compare to their usual. That was even on news. Reasonable though.

Take note that when we say "low ratings" the figures are still "millions". However, not the usual numbers prior to pandemic.

[Twentyonepaylots]

Yes we could consider it as success like the NBA which successfully finished the playoffs and the leagues in the football matches are successful as of now and I think some tennis games and baseball games also.

We cannot really tell if they succeed on continuing finishing the season this  year in terms of health conditions, yes they ended very well but is there anyone who feel sick right now? Any asymptomatic person could infect someone without them knowing. So yeah, I must say they succeeded on a new game set up, but we're not really sure if they did it just as fine as no one gets the virus.

[chaser15]

The revenue dropped, but the ratings are the same as far as I know.

I would agree on the part where they got low revenue compared before but when it comes to ratings I think the opposite is happening.

Low ratings were all across the sports during the pandemic. Even the most awaited every year for some basketball fanatics, NBA finals established a new record of all-time low ratings in a Final series.

For better understanding, you can check an article here:

Falling TV ratings across most sports? Here are four reasons to explain drop during pandemic

[bitbollo]

Some of the sports leagues that got canceled due to the pandemic already finished with their respective resumes with some still on-going and lots of future events will take place under the new normal setup.

We have seen how these leagues put big efforts to somehow bring the sports back while people don't need to go outside to watch. They also think of a way on how to help players feel that the intense and excitement is still there performing in front of the fans.

Even with low ratings and small revenue (as expected), I consider this new normal setup as a success. It's not that easy to set up an own bubble amid the dangerous pandemic.

Kudos to their effort.

I agree with you . Actually at this point this new normal setup it is a success. but as long as it lasts?   
if you take a look, there are a lot of players that has been infected by COVID19.
I am not sure that this is a suitable method for "the long term".

[Fatunad]

Yes we could consider it as success like the NBA which successfully finished the playoffs and the leagues in the football matches are successful as of now and I think some tennis games and baseball games also.

We cannot really tell if they succeed on continuing finishing the season this  year in terms of health conditions, yes they ended very well but is there anyone who feel sick right now? Any asymptomatic person could infect someone without them knowing. So yeah, I must say they succeeded on a new game set up, but we're not really sure if they did it just as fine as no one gets the virus.

So far we can see that there are now news about players or parts of staffs that had able to get some infection which indicates that the entire association is
careful on following good health protocols because if they havent done such thing then expect that the entire season wont continue since there would be
a widespread that will happen internally but we have seen that they had finished it up in spite of the condition or situation we are in.
Its a success imho but there might be differences in sight but still a good job.

[ralle14]

Each league have a different setup but overall I think it's a success at the moment even though i've seen some games getting rescheduled and postponed because of a few infections.

Players are feeling different now and we can see that in the games that happening now,their performance really changed and their also the home court
 advantage is gone for now.

I agree that some teams are struggling when playing at home but I disagree with the advantage being gone for good. Few weeks ago Aston Villa took down Liverpool at their home field.