The\u00a0Tournament Challenge <\/em>marathon\u00a0<\/em>began on ESPN with the\u00a0NCAA Women\u2019s Selection Special <\/em>at\u00a07 p.m. ET on Monday and ran through to a special edition of\u00a0Tournament Challenge\u00a0<\/em>at 4:30-7 p.m.\u00a0on ESPN2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The lineup of programming was produced out of three studios in Bristol, CT; one in Los Angeles; and a remote set at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. It features Tournament Challenge<\/em>-themed editions of popular shows, including Mike & Mike, First Take, Outside the Lines, Jalen & Jacoby, The Jump,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0SportsNation<\/em>, plus live cut-ins from\u00a0SportsCenter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Archer and Leonard worked closely with Creative Services and Studio teams to make the best use of technology throughout the shows, including virtual graphics from Vizrt and telestration technology for analyst breakdowns. Much of the footage and content that was run through the shows was pulled together by Managing Producer Dave Arnold. Building relevant clips that could be shared among all the shows was made simpler through the network\u2019s Quantel (now Snell Advanced Media) media-management system.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there has ever been a greater example of cooperation across the campus to make sure all of our bases are covered, this is definitely a project that has done that,\u201d says Archer. \u201cIt\u2019s taken a lot of people and departments working together over the past six to eight weeks, fine-tuning the shifts and needs of the various shows.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the days between Selection Sunday and the start of the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament, there\u2019s a window when sports fans are hungry to learn as much as they can […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":114026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9248,33],"tags":[131,1352],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114029,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114025\/revisions\/114029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"tourneychallenge\"](\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tourneychallenge.png\")
<\/a>\u201cThis is one of the true elements of sports Americana,\u201d says Tom Archer, who, along with Kate Leonard, served as coordinating producer on the project. \u201cEverybody fills out a bracket, and you don\u2019t need to be an expert in college basketball to have fun picking your teams and picking a national champion. Our goal is to surround the 24 hours of coverage with fun and some degree of differentiating brackets and Tournament Challenge<\/em> content both in the linear presentation and in our digital and social platforms. We want to make it as easy as possible for viewers to know how to sign up, how to enter, how many ways you can play. It\u2019s up to us to give you information on how to win.\u201d<\/p>\n