This App Allows Cricket Fans To Cheer Remotely For Their Favorite Teams

Cheering is part of the fun of being at a stadium watching your favorite cricket team plays. However, as COVID-19 is showing no sign of stopping, what we used to consider normal is now a luxury.

That nuisance can now be solved with technology. Yamaha Corporation recently introduced a new tech that allows fans to cheer during live games using an app.

All people have to do is to catch the cricket game broadcast, and then push a button to applaud, cheer of even start a chant. What happens next is the system piping the sounds into the speakers of the stadium where the match takes place.

According to Yamaha, each of the buttons will represent different variations of users’ voices.

As stated by the project lead Yuki Seto, the tech brings about two benefits, one for the fans, and the other for the players. People who are unable to watch the game in person can still enjoy the fun of cheering and the players are able to know fans are actually supporting, not just making noise.

The tech was first developed for the elderly and hospital patients who cannot attend events. But now, with social distancing in place to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, Yamaha saw a new opportunity for their invention, as now, cricket and other sports might have to go back to normal but without anyone at the stadium.

Yamaha is conducting tests with 26 Japanese football and baseball clubs. It hopes to offer a certain degree of normalcy to fans and athletes.

The company did the first test in June during a football match on TV and the result was beyond what Yamaha expected. The company got 1.9 million taps from 65,000 users.

The tech became an instant hit on Twitter and suddenly, Yamaha’s tech was the latest trend.

In the next 29 matches, the company saw 300,000 people adopted its tech with 18 million taps. It also said players liked the invention too as they could feel fans’ support from afar and that feeling kept them motivated.

Yamaha even went as far as claiming the winning percentage grew as a result of players hearing fans’ voices. The company put forward evidence that the win rate of the 29 football and baseball matches increased to 51.7 % with this tech in place.

You may wonder if you are allowed to make sounds like ‘boo,’ Yamaha said it was the team that decided the system’s abilities.

While the tech has only been tested in Japan, the company said the NBA has shown interest in it and wanted to know how the tech could bring benefits to them.

As stated by Shawn Quill, the sports industry leader of KPMG, a remote cheering system is the latest example of tech firms taking advantage of fans’ desire to take part in sports experience.

Yamaha announced they would conducting more experiments until the situations are under control. After that, the company will work with the sports industry to come up with a suitable business model.

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