Alon Cohen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
So the TiVo I brought up earlier, you're able to watch it with slow-mo and rewind.
And we have, at the time, a tablet or a touchscreen, and we have taken our piece of paper, and we have split it in twain, and you're able to mark what you see as you see it, save a round.
Yes.
They are some of my favorite people.
We have had trained scorers in our group that go back 13 years with us, folks that we plucked out of the ether, right?
You put something online looking for people who are interested in learning this stuff, and then you have to whittle out the people who can learn how to do it and then do it quickly.
The first time you score something like this and try to make sense of the scoring page, it's going to take you 15 minutes to do a five-minute round.
It might take you more.
And that means that at the end of the fight, you're probably 35 minutes late.
And so you have to do this for six or seven months on a regular basis, paying you, make sure that, you know, you're fairly compensated to get you to the point where you're able to make decisions rapidly.
It just comes a second nature to you.
And this is the dirty little secret of UFC, but we joke, we've been trying to put ourselves out of that business for, at this point, 11 or 12 years.
And we aren't close yet.
A human score.
Yeah.
You know, we wanted initially we have used it as additive data.
So we wanted to do motion tracking.
So 11, 12 years ago, we bought a motion tracking software and it couldn't make sense of any of what it was seeing inside the octagon.
Like it really couldn't understand.