On Saturday November 15 2008, Qrodo live-casted the skateboard event Quicksilver Vert invitational 2008 from Stockholm Skatepark (Fryshuset) over the Tre 3G mobile network. The event was listed and available for free in the Extreme Sport Channel. For the filming we used a semi-pro Sony DV camcorder using resolution 752×520. The live casting of the event had around around 140 viewers and is considered the modest invitation effort a good number.
The Qrodo video player now support live tagging to help other viewer with interesting action. We have plenty of features planed to really take benefit from the contributions from a community.
This weekend Bromma Bombers Hockey Club in Stockholm kicked-off their on-line hockey channel. Bromma Bombers HC will be live casting their home games, and increasingly market them for hockey lovers. Bromma Bombers is a gang of experienced winners, who will not back down even if they meet the Hanson brothers.
Bromma Bombers lost the game, but was not giving the win away easily. They fought back with but getting over ten penalties made things difficult for them. But they are never dull to watch, if you want real hockey action Bromma Bombers is a team for you.
We are looking forward to many great games online with the Bromma Bombers. Join Their growing community of fans come to live games or watch them live on Qrodo.
Being a start-up we are always in fund raising mode. Due to our increasing traction in the market we are starting to look at new financing options. We recently got selected to present at the European Venture Summit.
“On 1 & 2 December 2008, Dusseldorf (Germany) will be host to the 2nd edition of the European Venture Summit, offering entrepreneurs from Biotech & Industrial Biotech, ICT and New Energies the opportunity to grow their businesses across borders by facilitating contacts to an experienced and international network of venture capital and corporate investors, strategic partners and expert advisers.”
We hope to see you there to discuss partnerships or other joint opportunities.
On Saturday November 1 2008, Qrodo live-casted Stockholm Futsal Open from Råstaparkhallen in Solna over the Tre 3G mobile network. We used one semi-pro Sony DV camcorder using resolution 752×520. The live casting of the event was not announced until Friday, but it still had around around 100 viewers.
The final of Stockholm Futsal Open was looking like a draw until only 4 seconds remained. Järfälla scored and won 2-1 over Shankar Söderort. Falcao and Örebro FC shared third place. The arranging club Stockholm Futsal Club lost in th equarter finals to Örebro. A very well played tournament and some samba futsal highlight can be viewed in the recordings at www.qrodo.com.
Quarter final Järfälla - Access2tel 5-2 Quarter final Shaktar Söderort - Väsby Futsal 1-1 (1-0) Quarter final Sthlm FC 1 - FC Örebro 2-5 Quarter final Falcao Futsal - Älven FC 4-1
Semi final Järfälla - FC Örebro 3-0
Semi final Shaktar Söderort - Falcao Futsal 2-0
On Saturday October 18 Qrodo live-casted the finals of S:t Erikscupen from field A of Skytteholms IP in Solna. The finals were available in the branded Qrodo channel “S:t Erikscupen”. We were using a local Wifi spot courtesy of Vasakronan with a uplink of 700 kbit/s.
First out was boys 14 years old. Brommapojkarna was playing AIK in a very exciting game were two penalty kicks in the second half was pivotal. Stefano Vecchia from Brommapojkarna scored his chance, while AIK shot it over the cross-bar. Players-of-the-game were Simon Tibbling (BP) and Simon Werner (AIK). In the final for girls 14 years old, Hammarby IF DFF won 2-0 against Tyresö FF. A fantastic game where Hammarby had most of the game and scored twice by Josefin Nordin and Nelly Karlsson-Åhlén. Players-of-the-game were Nelly Karlsson-Åhlén (HIF DFF) and Isabelle Berg (TFF). AIK FF was underdogs in the boys 15 final, but Poya Dehghan scored the only goal in the game and the Brommapojkarna team was not able to respond. Players-of-the-game were Ludvig Cederteg (BP) and Mathias Modin (AIK). The AIK girls age 15 was controlling the game against Brommapojkarna, but BP was very efficient in the defense and it look like a draw until the very last minute when Aminata Sy blasted the ball into the net. AIK winners. Players-of-the-game were Jackie Kirsch-Brunzell (AIK) and Angelica Cilicci (BP).
S:t ERIKSCUPEN is the biggest youth soccer tournament in the world. It is arranged by Stockholms Fotbollförbund (Stockholm Fotball Federation) in cooperation with the sponsor Expressen. The first kick-off for S:t ERIKSCUPEN as we know it was in 1957, but during the years of 1943-1956 it had started in the name of AT-cupen.
Qrodo and Stockholms Fotbollsförbund have agreed to start a branded channel for soccer games in the S:t Erikscup. In 2009 any soccer club participating in S:t Ericscupen may live-cast their games in this channel. Qrodo will provide the service and training. Here.
Google search for Soviet hockey players. Interestingly enough the qrodo blog show up in top 5
The current Qrodo release is named after Valerij Charlamov. Charlamov is a real legend in Soviet hockey. He was very creative and unpredictable on the ice. Relatively small, but one of the major attractions in the game of hockey when he played. He had impressive skating and stick handling skills. Not only was he a fast skater, he could constantly change gears and direction.
Valerij Borisovitj Charlamov
Who would you like to see naming the release thereafter? Who is your favorite? We have used Firsov, Maltsev, Krutov and Bykov earlier.
The first line of CCCP in Canada Cup 1987 with Aleksej Kasatonov, Vjatjeslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Vladimir Krutov and SergejMakarov must be the best line ever? The second line during these dominating years with Bykov, Chomutov och Kamensky was fantastic, but my second all-time line is of course Valerij Charlamov, Vladimir Petrov and Boris Michailov that ruled the rink in Summit Games and World Cups of 1970s. The real striker; during 15 years in the CCCP-jersey was Alexander Maltsev with 213 goals. The first Qrodo release was named after Anatolij Firsov who played in the Soviet team from 1962–1972. He is probably the first non Swedish player that I picked as my favorite in the Stockholm world championship in 1970. From that era we have forgotten the big defenseman Alexander Ragulin.
On Saturday October 18 Qrodo live-casted Stockholm Kendo Open over the Tre 3G mobile network. We used one semi-pro Sony DV camcorder using resolution 752×520. The uplink from Tre (www.tre.se) was very reliable at 800 Kbit/s and up to 1,2 Mbit/s. We experimented with two configurations of Qrodo, during the event, one with 25 frames/s and one with 15. The higher quality stream was steady around 500 Kbit/s, but went up to 1,3 Mbit/s when we used zoom and pan, which is understandable as the video encoding is based on deltas, when the scene changes alot the bitrate goes up significantly. The lower quality stream was streaming at 300 Kbit/s and topped at 800 Kbit/s for agressive camera management.
On Saturday 18th of October, Stockholm Kendo Open was live-casted using the Qrodo service. The tournament had participants from 13 countries and friends and family in the home countries could follow the action at www.qrodo.com.
Winners:
A-class: Rafal Jastak, 23 years old, 3dan from PZK Polish Kendo Federation.
D-class: Kurumi Matsui, 22 years old, 4dan from Federation of Kendo Saint Petersburg Russia.
B-class: Dennis Mattsson, 27 years old, 1kyu from Uddevalla Kendoklubb.
J-class: Alexander Hamilton, 17 years old, 2dan from Wäsby Kendoförening.
On Saturday October 11 and Sunday October 12 2008, Qrodo live-casted Mälarcupen in Gymnastics over the Tre 3G mobile network. We used one semi-pro Sony DV camcorder using resolution 752×520. A simple production, no cuts, no overlays, no slow motion. The event had around 1000 viewers mostly from the Nordic countries.
Sverige, 8558 Finland, 1702 Island, 818 Storbritannien, 309 Danmark, 190 Taiwan, 159 Norge, 324 Spanien, 170 USA, 14 Kina, 10. Viewed live minutes.
Jóhanna Rakel Jónasdóttir, Armann, Island
Dora Sarpaneva, Helsingfors GK, Finland
Ida Gustafsson, Eskilstuna GF, Sverige
Inna Nyysönen, Kieppi, Finland
Agnes Suto, Armann, Island
Alexandra Olsson, Eskilstuna GF, Sweden
