BARCELONA WORLD RACE 2014 2015 OBJETIVO 2014
The Barcelona World Race and thinks and works for its third edition.
The Barcelona World Race 2010/11 is history. The third edition of 2014 takes over and starts and positioned by the success of the previous. The race has exceeded all expectations and broadcast sports that were raised at the end of the first edition.The international ocean racing has a new consolidated around the world with a wide projection of the future.
The 28 patterns that have shaped the 14 teams are the main protagonists in this success. They and their ground crews, media and their sponsors who have believed in the profile of an event open to the world to spread the values of a human sporting event is a natural extension of the great challenges facing the candle world ocean and the IMOCA class has managed to incorporate in all its facets.
The Barcelona World Race has ridden on the shoulders of giants. The extraordinary success of racing in the Vendée Globe solo, which has established itself as the undisputed Everest of sailing, and as the transatlantic Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale, The Artemis Transat Jacques Vabre and Transat have created an exceptional sports platform without doubt has enabled the birth of two round the world non-stop, and the success of its development over the past three years. We will continue working in this direction, to expand the world of ocean racing and the resulting internationalization shows the strength of the extraordinary human sporty model that fits the Barcelona World Race.
Around the world two also has attracted sailors from other countries that have been released in the classroom and this kind of racing, but above all, this edition of the Barcelona World Race is also the confirmation of an emerging fleet of Spanish navigators most of which have been incorporated into the IMOCA class over the past two years. Have been 13 marine, 46% of the fleet (in 2007 were 4, 22%), most of them bound in other specialties of the sailing regatta, which have faced a challenge that will define their careers and create a promising basis for future growth.
Established format and open to revision
14 teams started the race and 9 have successfully completed the race, 64%, a proportion higher than that of the first edition which arrived in Barcelona were 55.5% of those who left. Clearly, the double-handed material submitted to the IMOCA Open 60 at a pressure that increases the value added and technical sports of the Barcelona World Race. But the race has shown that the presence of a second crew member is a factor that favors the maintenance of the ship to meet the ultimate goal of completing the round the world, this is a dimension that all employers have identified as especially beneficial for the evolution of the class. On this basis, the pit-stop, technical stops to some extent supports the regulations, and which this year have made 5 ranked teams, are a factor in these figures and are among the issues that the race has raised in their future format.
A race for the world
The Barcelona World Race 2010/11 has meant an international sports event of the first order who has achieved the highest levels of exposure in all sectors of the world of communication. After the 27 days of the Expo at the port of Barcelona, the race has continued to live with a unique media monitoring through communication technologies specially developed for coverage.
Around the world with better monitoring
The Barcelona World Race has had its own technology to ensure better communication given so far in a race around the world. The commitment to innovation has allowed a daily videoconference with an average of three boats in each session, which means over 130 hours of live streaming on the website. Since the boats have been 314 videos, over 800 photographs and 565 emails.
The technological development applied to telecommunications edition also has a historic milestone: the March 3, 2011, the Barcelona World Race became the first race around the world to broadcast live from the Virbac-Paprec 3, the step of the mythical Cape Horn.
The race in schools
The Education Program at Barcelona World Race is one of the pillars of the diffusion of the race and of human values and teaching of ocean sailing. This edition has been followed live on more than 6,000 students from 132 schools in five Spanish regions. Video conferencing have been followed by 1641 students from 22 schools and the poster contest "Ocean Live - Living Planet" has had the participation of 6356 students from 85 schools. Education Program's blog has received 29,772 visits and outreach activities involving some 4834 teaching professionals and students.
48,189 players at The Game Barcelona World Race
The Barcelona World Race Game, the game's virtual racing, has been developed by the Foundation Navegació Oceànica Barcelona in collaboration with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. It is a unique product independent 2D-3D can be used on more races and be in constant evolution and improvement. It has a totally free software with which all players compete in the same conditions. In the Barcelona World Race gamers have had the same files that were sent UGRIB weather ships participating in the actual race and the average real polar IMOCA Open 60.
48,189 virtual players were enrolled in this Barcelona World Race and application for iPhone game ranked at number 29 of the most downloaded from the Apple Store, with over 3,000 downloads in the first two days in the shop.
A dissemination event of exceptional
The extensive and excellent response from the public and the media to the Barcelona World Race 2010/11 has generated exceptional media figures.
More than seven million visitors to the site of the regatta, which have been 37,341,779 million pages, 360,000 videos viewed on the official YouTube channel and more than 4,100 published articles and news. Television coverage has generated 72 hours of news programs and exhibition has been available in 200 countries.
News of Facebook pages in Spanish, Catalan, French and English were nearly 17 million and mentions "likes" and comments reached 38,095. On Twitter, now the race was followed by 3082 followers.
2014: the stakes are very high
The side bar for 2014 is high. The evolution of the leading IMOCA class to enter fully the challenges of sustainability in the Barcelona World Race has promoted and is considering further promote in the near future. The research and development to achieve zero-emission ships to refine based power sources from the hydrogenerators, solar panels and kinetic generators will be crucial to provide an absolutely clean navigation and will involve a test well beneficial to their overall development.
In terms of telecommunications, we will work to take another step forward to ensure the maximum track teams around the world. This is one of the factors that have been highlighted in this issue and provides a backbone for the dissemination of ocean racing at all levels. Also the success of the virtual game is a step that will have continuity, always with the philosophy of free and educational, this last issue in which the Barcelona World Race will move forward to bring the values of ocean sailing to schools, since that's where the great future of this exciting sport.
