By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
The 2024 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four will feature players sporting bodycams, presenting a unique point of view to fans.
Euroleague Basketball shared details on bodycams designed by MindFly expanding from the Regular Season to the championship-crowning tournament on Thursday.
The Semifinals matchups, Panathinaikos Aktor versus Fenerbahce Beko and Real Madrid versus Olympiacos in Berlin’s Uber Arena are set to be played on Friday. Championship and third-place contests follow on Sunday.
Per the press release: “Following on from the successful collaboration between Euroleague Basketball and MindFly during the 2023-24 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season, the partnership is ready to go to another level at the 2024 EuroLeague Final Four in Berlin, Germany.
At the Final Four, two referees per game will be using MindFly’s cutting-edge technology for the EuroLeague Semifinals and the EuroLeague Championship Game, as ultralight AI powered bodycams which record video and audio capture conversations between players and officials. This will offer fans unprecedented access to the biggest games in the EuroLeague calendar.
EuroLeague fans were able to get a peek behind the curtain for some of the biggest derbies of the season thanks to MindFly’s equipment, with six derbies being featured in the 2023-24 campaign: Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona; AS Monaco vs. LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne; Virtus Segafredo Bologna vs. EA7 Emporio Armani Milan; Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul; Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade vs. Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade; and Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens.
Later in the regular season, two FC Bayern Munich players wore the technology during a regular-season contest against Zalgiris Kaunas, as fans could see how Niels Giffey and Isaac Bonga move and interact with both their teammates and opposition players on the court.
MindFly and Euroleague Basketball have already broken new ground with this type of technology, with fans loving this type of content, but on the Final Four stage – with so many eyeballs on the event – new streaming records are almost guaranteed to be achieved.”
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