We have it on very good authority that subject to the required paperwork being completed that the Royal Yacht Squadron Commodore Aaron Young was not just there for the party and that the new Challenger of Record will indeed be GBR’s Royal Yacht Squadron.  (That doesn’t mean the freeking Ineos is going to be there again, does it? Because like last time, that sends a great message about the integrity of our sport… – ed)

Yes, for once the rumors  were true and the next Cup will be Squadron against Squadron and of course anyone else who wants to join in.

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So after already blowing the chance to put on a good, free America’s Cup broadcast,  when NBC finally does go free (showing the match live on NBCSN, the NBC sports channel), they screw even that up!

For the previous 9 races, NBCSN showed the AC (although burdened by too much yakking from people who shouldn’t be talking) for us yanks at exactly when the races actually start. But tonight, in what will no doubt be the final races, the broadcast has been delayed by three hours!

And why? Well, they just have to show a Motocross race re-run! A fucking re-run instead of showing the America’s Cup live??  If putting that sort of recycled shit in place isn’t a giant Fuck You from NBC to the AC and it’s US viewers, I don’t know what is.

Congratulations, NBC. Your fuck-up is complete. – ed.

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An heroic effort at the start line once again by Jimmy Spithill on Luna Rossa in the final race of the America’s Cup (what is that, like 27 straight wins off the line??), but ETNZ got to the right side, got the shift, had the speed and honestly? That was that, and just like that.Put Spithill on that boat and it never loses a single race. But the reality is that the Kiwis  sailed well, on a boat that was so clearly faster than LR. By huge amounts.So that concludes this version of The Cup. It was great. It was fucked. It failed, it succeeded. It left a lot of us scratching our heads about what we just saw…

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It seems like every time there is an America’s Cup, there is some sort of TV/Interweb balls-up, and this year was no exception. I don’t pretend to know the real numbers behind why NBC chose to play this AC out like they did, but I think it was pretty obvious that the idea of wanting to make ‘muricans pay a couple hundred bucks to watch it on TV was dead at birth.

Perhaps NBC isn’t aware that besides porn (and why even pay for that?) nobody pays to watch anything on the web or television? Maybe their Tech Team didn’t bother to tell them about VPN’s as a $5 dollar way to not pay NBC for the privilege of watching?  Whatever audience research they did clearly missed the mark.

Given that all American TV networks are embarrassingly clueless, it is no surprise at all how badly NBC botched this. Granted, NBC had little idea about what a disaster the racing would be, but they should have known not to piss off their audience by trying to charge money for it from the jump…

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