End of WSC2009

Global Green Challenge 2009 is over! It was a very exciting week, with many events. Beautiful cars, joy and tears, tense battles and big crashes.

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About many teams we didn't report much (or anything at all), but as the name wsctube suggests, this is primary a video site. In my opinion, solar car adventures are best watched in motion pictures. Nuon and Twente produced many interesting videos, Umicore and Tokai also made some. Thanks for it! We have included and subtitled most videos (except from Tokai). Thanks to Sjaak Piest and Andre Hospers for the subtitling, translating and other work!

Why didn't more teams produce daily videos? How many people watched the battle between Sunswift and MIT for the Silicon class championship? It adds greatly to the exposure time of your sponsors, as it is not only broadcasted on Internet but also on regional TV (and (inter)national TV if you are lucky).

You don't need a satellite transmitter, as there are just enough places with phone coverage along the way. Well, not everywhere. From the official WSC media team I got a message "Due to the remote places the solar challenge passes through in Australia we have been unable to establish a reliable connection to upload the video files. [...]".

The mediacrew students from the Saxion Hogeschool Twente were smarter. Two of them travelled the route in reverse direction in the week before the race took place, not only to shoot some videos about interesting places along the route (you can watch these in the long version videos of the daily reports at solarteam.nl), but also to check phone coverage to find the best spots for uploading the daily video reports. And they succeeded in this. (Nuon and Tokai too, with or without satellite disc).

So, in 2011 we expect more daily reports, coming from more teams. OK?

And for now: many teams have recorded their challenge on video or in photos. So, make a nice documentary of it and send it to us (w@wsctube.com), then we'll place it here! Please include English subtitles too (even if the video itself is in English, just for the hearing impaired like me). Thanks!

Vincent Groenhuis