Sport Production Awards: Record number of entries received and revealed

SVG Europe is delighted to announce a record number of entries for the 2018 Sport Production Awards which will be held in Amsterdam on 13 September.

The Sport Production Awards will follow our Sport Production Summit in the DeLaMar Theatre in Leidseplein on the Thursday before IBC.

This year there were five categories for entries: Outstanding Technical Achievement in Graphics, Imaging and Audio; Outstanding Live Achievement; and Outstanding Digital Achievement. There will be no shortlisting process for the over 30 entries received this year: the winners will be announced in late August and presented with their Awards at our event on 13 September.

SVG Europe Executive Editor Fergal Ringrose said, “There is no question that the profile of our Awards is rapidly increasing, given the record number and global spread of entries right across categories, technologies and disciplines. We would like to sincerely thank all those organisations that took the time to submit entries for 2018: everyone in the business will agree that it is a particularly strong line-up of entries – one that will be very challenging for our Advisory Board members to decide upon!”

In no particular order, and in no particular category, here is the record list of entries received for the 2018 Sport Production Awards:

+ Ncam – camera tracking for Univision Deportes’ Sports Award Show

+ Reality Check Systems – Cloud-based production and distribution at FIFA World Cup

+ OBS – Winter Olympics

+ Mediahaus – European Snow Volleyball Championships

+ All England Lawn Tennis Club – Wimbledon 2018 host broadcast

+ BBC Sport – 2018 FIFA World Cup presentation

+ Formula 1 – HALO/2018 season

+ Grabyo – Cloud-based production and distribution at FIFA World Cup

+ NEP The Netherlands – Winter Games

+ Discovery – Winter Games 2018

+ Ooyala – VR for Olympic Broadcasting Services

+ FIFA – 2018 World Cup

+ EVS – Intel Extreme Masters

+ Timeline Television – involvement with BBC Sport HD/UHD/HDR FIFA World Cup coverage

+ Telstra – NetCam technology at tennis Grand Slams

+ Reality Check Systems – DAZN OTT platform

+ Formula 1 – F1 Esports

+ ATP – ATP World Tour tennis

+ Timeline Television – Dubai World Cup

+ ITV Sport – Moscow studios at FIFA World Cup

+ LiveU – 2018 Wings for Life World Run

+ NEP Finland – World Rally Championship

+ Aspera – file transfer for FOX Sports at FIFA World Cup

+ Sky Deutschland – Sky Game of Life AR programme

+ FIFA – 2018 World Cup – UHD/HDR

+ Formula 1 – 4K/1080p

+ Avid – European Championships graphics

+ Make.tv – cloud infrastructure for ESL One Cologne eSports event

+ NEP The Netherlands – Formula 1 pit stop AR for Ziggo Sport

+ Globo – FIFA World Cup VR production and graphics

“The SVG Europe Sport Production Awards have become an annual tradition at IBC and the support from the industry this year has been great and all of the nominations are deserving,” said Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director. “In the coming days our Advisory Board committee will begin the hard work of evaluating the submissions to determine those who will be honoured at the ceremony.”

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