Russky, it sounds like you were incredibly fortunate with the Icetime TV coverage you had. Looking at twitter, I was one of many to have hardly (if any) coverage!
I am delighted with the victory for the Devils tonight. However, I am angered and appalled by the disgracefully unprofessional actions by those at IcetimeTV today. I was not fortunate enough to secure a ticket. Despite this, I thought I was in safe hands knowing I could watch and support the team on IcetimeTV. How wrong was I? I caught perhaps 10 minutes of the game, and even that was with heavy interruptions and pauses. I missed all 3 Devils goals and not only am I extremely disappointed to miss seeing the large majority of a game where the Devils won a trophy, a group of friends and I were even charged £10 for it! Judging by twitter, hundreds of us were left in the lurch by an unprofessional group who were clearly unprepared for the amount of viewers who would be accessing the stream - it's a cup final, how can you be left surprised by this!? Before anybody disagrees with that point, the tweets IcetimeTV sent out prove how unprepared they were. 'We are just resetting server guys' in the middle of the game; 'the site has crashed'; refusing to put the stream on YouTube when fans desperate to see the game requested it.
The bits I did see included interviews with people who's microphones were turned off; the entire stream's audio failing on numerous occasions; and the three presenters shouting things after the game on the ice when clearly unaware they were on air. Unprofessional and I'm appalled that I've been charged £10 for the 'privilege' of missing seeing my team win a cup. Refunds all round!
I'm with you dude. Almost exactly in the same boat, had friends over to watch the big game then looked a total fool when i couldn't even sign in to icetime tv. Had a look on here and seen that some were having the same issues. I've never had any issues with the webcast before but it just sucks it had to happen for this game.
Happy for those who got to watch the game but also fully understand why so many feel annoyed and angry that they couldn't, me being one of those.
Luckily for me after literally trying to get it to work for 2 hours my friend managed to sign up and we ended up buying the £10 webcast to watch about 10 minutes of hockey. On one hand I am happy that we managed to see the end of the game and us lifting the trophy. But on the other, very disappointed and angry that this was so poorly managed and confusing as hell as to why it would work fine for others, not so well for some, and outright not work for what i am guessing, was a lot of people....
It might sound silly but what really annoyed me....actually, even hurt...was when i was trying to sign in and watch it but couldn't, was the fact that I in someway couldn't be part of what was happening. I couldn't support my team, after watching them play over the years and going through the bad times of a few years ago, I couldn't get to see them play and i felt totally helpless.
Maybe a bit over the top or what have you, but a loyal supporter being denied in a way of supporting the team sucks. Like i said i managed to get the last 10 minutes but still leaves a bad taste in the mouth on what was an amazing performance and result.
