The Esports World Cup in Paris ran 7 weeks, 8 stages and 35 languages on Riedel. Is esports the toughest live job?
ASKED BY · Paul Walhus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:56:44
He has no personal experience with esports production and cannot comment on its difficulty level compared to other live work.
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56:29institutions everywhere we can spend ten grand now but we can't spend two grand every every year for five years, that kind of stuff. Right. No, I've been around that a good little bit. Next question. This is another one from Paul Valhos in Austin, Texas. The Esports World Cup in Paris ran seven weeks, eight stages, and 35 languages on Readle. Is Esports the toughest live job with a link?
56:58So this is comms. Readle is huge in comms. What do you think? I have no idea. I've never done Esports. So I couldn't tell you. Yeah. I think that's a big, big, big, big, I mean, eSports World Cup in Paris. That's now small time operation. So I'm not at all surprised that those big companies and Riedel is among them do a great job of that, but not at the level you're working at.
57:24Next question. Here's one from the QR code. Jonathan in Sydney, Australia asks, looking for information on the Quantel cipher character generator. most famously used on NBC's coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Does anybody know if there's any decommissioned surviving units? Oh, that one's a tough. There are a couple of companies who specialize in high-end reconditioned or high-end old equipment, but 88 is going back a long way.
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