The Main PA was designed to cover all seated areas, but not infiltrate the broadcast platform, which was positioned at the back of one row of racked seating. Stand alone PA systems for the VIP area, practice courts, press conference and the fourth, a hardwired wireless show communications system were also provided.
The set up was performed by Cloud One System technicians Jasen Hattams and Miles Barton according to the design executed by Paul Stratford using Adamson's predictive shooter software. The 32 box main PA configuration had four flown Y10 hangs of eight enclosures each. 16 EAW SB1000 subs were placed under the seats around the arena and eight Meyer UPA1P were used as in-fills, placed halfway up the seating area in a rigged formation just to fill the very back corners the Y10's weren't reaching.
The Adamson system was driven by Lab.gruppen fP3400's and fP6400's and processed with XTA DP224s and DP226's. System operator Dereck Zeeba utilised a Yamaha M7CL with 48 channel 56 input desk for the event.
(Jim Evans)
