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[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

This is wild to me but standard corporate shite.

Tennis Australia has decided to turn tennis players into cartoon characters to overcome broadcasting restrictions so the Australian Open social media pages can broadcast games live, but the cheeky move has left fans divided.
On Monday night, Channel 9 – the official broadcast partner of the Australian Open – had to make the difficult choice of which two matches to show on their dedicated free-to-air TV channels.

It was a tricky decision given the fact Aussie fan favourite Nick Kyrgios, multiple-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic and former World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz were all playing at the same time.

The network ultimately opted to go with the Aussie and Djokovic leaving viewers wanting to watch the No.1 Spaniard the choice of coughing up $27 a month for Stan Sport or tuning in to a unique YouTube channel.

So it looks like this, here's a screencap from Nick Kyrgios -



Here is the YT Wii-style live stream recording from last night's match of Alex De Minaur, complete with AI stadium etc. It's weird as the outfits aren't the same as the live players and they have the real players walking out in the stream but once the play starts it switches to Wii-styling.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

Up next -- some action-packed Aussie football, with the AFL live streaming service on YouTube. The players will be Teletubbies.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Up next -- some action-packed Aussie football, with the AFL live streaming service on YouTube. The players will be Teletubbies.

The way the Tigers have been the last couple of years Teletubbies might actually be entertaining.

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

Genius!

 

[poppabk]

Surreal. Also weird that this is enough to circumvent restrictions.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

let's go, give the characters unfiltered dialogue immediately

 

[Jinzo Prime]

This is wild to me but standard corporate shite.



So it looks like this, here's a screencap from Nick Kyrgios -



Here is the YT Wii-style live stream recording from last night's match of Alex De Minaur, complete with AI stadium etc. It's weird as the outfits aren't the same as the live players and they have the real players walking out in the stream but once the play starts it switches to Wii-styling.

That's so bad it circles back around to being great

 

[Lord Panda]

Now we need a decent tennis game again.

 

[E-Cat]

Impressive that it’s real-time

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Impressive that it’s real-time

Yeah, it goes for feet, hands, racquet face, wrist etc. Not bad off a live video feed.

 

[GymWolf]

The botox face wii character in that yt thumbnail close to the redhead character is giving me vivid nightmares...dude look like the new ciri model for w4 ffs.