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I don't know if this was touched on in the game threads (I assume not), but Stanford did a lot to improve the fan experience at the game this year. They completely changed up the scoreboards, instead of having half the real estate taken up with game status information, resulting in live action that was smaller than before the board was upgraded (which was a decision that could only have been made by someone who had never actually been to a game), they moved that information to the ribbon board. So now the jumbotron is actually a jumbotron, and shows the action pretty well. Only gripe is that the aspect ratio is pretty wide now, probably like 3:1, so you miss some things that happen at the top/bottom of the camera. Small price to pay to be able to actually see the things.

Also, they completely did away with that horrible "tag board" that displayed the same 4 tweets over and over last year and drove my wife nuts. She was ecstatic about that.

Only downside was that the credit card processing at the concession stands is pretty horribly slow, and not every stand had it, including some of the new ones that they were specifically advertising. Who carries cash any more? Especially for Silicon Valley's more-or-less official university, that continues to baffle me.

But lesson learned, I'll stop by an ATM before I go to the next game. At least I'll actually be able to see replays this year.

[stupac2]

I don't know if this was touched on in the game threads (I assume not), but Stanford did a lot to improve the fan experience at the game this year. They completely changed up the scoreboards, instead of having half the real estate taken up with game status information, resulting in live action that was smaller than before the board was upgraded (which was a decision that could only have been made by someone who had never actually been to a game), they moved that information to the ribbon board. So now the jumbotron is actually a jumbotron, and shows the action pretty well. Only gripe is that the aspect ratio is pretty wide now, probably like 3:1, so you miss some things that happen at the top/bottom of the camera. Small price to pay to be able to actually see the things.

Also, they completely did away with that horrible "tag board" that displayed the same 4 tweets over and over last year and drove my wife nuts. She was ecstatic about that.

Only downside was that the credit card processing at the concession stands is pretty horribly slow, and not every stand had it, including some of the new ones that they were specifically advertising. Who carries cash any more? Especially for Silicon Valley's more-or-less official university, that continues to baffle me.

But lesson learned, I'll stop by an ATM before I go to the next game. At least I'll actually be able to see replays this year.