SailGP User Reviews

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Race replays: 1st day great, but where’s 2nd day?

I’m trying to catch up with the series before Cowes. The Sydney and San Francisco first day replays are great. However, I don’t see how to find the second days of racing for those cities.

Response from developer

Hi, When watching the race on replay, tap on the video and select races. You can then choose which race to watch, from Day 1 and Day 2. Hope that helps, The SailGP App Team

Casting problems

Spotty operation when casting to TV . Sometimes I can cast to AppleTV and sometimes no. Option just not there and very frustrating.

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your feedback. Support for casting (Chromecast and AppleTV) is not currently supported in the App. You can mirror your screen (for example, using Airplay on iOS), however the App does not have control over performance. We know that casting is important, and we are looking at new features for the future. We hope you continue to follow SailGP, Thanks The SailGP App Team

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This keeps crashing, and now no signal.

BT Sport + App

Watched the live racing on BT Sport and had the app running so I could follow the GP Team boat cam at the same time. Impressive.

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. The App is designed to be used as a 2nd screen experience, and to compliment the live TV broadcast you are watching in your region. Really pleased this worked for you. https://sailgp.com/watch/ Hope you enjoy the New York and the rest of the season. The SailGP App Team

How exciting!!

Stumbled across this and started watching. Amazing racing! Those boats go so fast.

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your feedback, and glad you found us. Hope you enjoy New York and the rest of the season as well. The SailGP App Team

Works Well!

This App has loads of features and works very well on an iPad. Rotating the screen shows everything very clearly.

Response from developer

Hi, Appreciate your feedback. Glad you are enjoying the App and the SailGP experience. The SailGP App Team

Pretty pointless app

Similar to other reviews. Replays slow to appear. You hear the results in the news and you still can’t get to see any racing.

SailGP has sold out to broadcasters and forgotten fans.

Without replays struggle to find anything relevant in the app.

Deleting app.

Response from developer

Hi, Sorry to hear your feedback. We have been working hard to make the replays available as soon as we are allowed to, and we want to give the sailing fans and sports fans a great App experience that works well with a great broadcast experience. 12 races available for replay now, each race with the world feed, 6 boat cams and the umpiring feed to choose from. Hope you come back to SailGP and give it another go. Plenty of exciting racing ahead for the rest of the season. The SailGP App Team

Incorrect and underwhelming

Shows technical base in SF as Treasure Island when it is actually at the bottom of Alameda.
Opened up today to see when the practice races are on.... 7:30 in the morning and still nothing!

Response from developer

Hi, We do our best to make the replays available as soon as we can. Hope you join us for the rest of the season. The SailGP App Team

Too much going on

Always thought I had excellent internet service, never a problem downloading or streaming movies, music or games: grandkids, but this just doesn’t work. As soon as I try to watch the race it continually buffers telling me my connection isn’t fast enough. Gave up in the end and deleted the app. Far too much going on guys.
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. Sorry to hear you did not have a good experience. If you download us again, try the App in landscape which will only show a video to see if that improves performance. The SailGP App Team

Actually worked really well!!! But....

App was really good but its biggest problem was that it was just too data hungry for a mobile network! It was constantly freezing and the cause of the freeze was pretty obvious... the video....

When you could get something happening it was great, but for someone actually watching the races, it wasn’t a very complementary experience...

Would highly recommend providing the opportunity to remove the video from the display and possibly add a few more data points. Perhaps even a simple comparative summary screen... speed vs heading and current wind speed for all six boats.....
Perhaps the next level up from that is rather than the video of the umpires view, is it possible to provide the actual animation... with some zoom capability.... it was impossible to see as it was... it was so small on both phone and tablet...and added to the bandwidth issues...

Oh, and the guy who complained about the high pitched whine in the audio??? It’s the sound of the boats/foils in the water!!!!

Overall, held held high guys.. it is a great app!!!
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your feedback. Our initial focus was to provide users with the best possible video experience. We do appreciate that not every user will have good connectivity, so we are considering ways to offer a great experience for those users as well. We want to provide all users with the ability to choose which data points they see, and provide them with different layout options. This is something we are considering for the future. Glad you enjoyed the overall experience and hope you follow the future events. The SailGP App Team

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