One night, 900 guests, forty rings, and a room that had to feel like the season it was closing. We ran the build, the show, and the film that outlived it.
The brief from ownership was one sentence: make it the best ring night anyone has been to. We started at the door, not the stage. Guests walk a 90-foot corridor of season footage before they see another person.
Every ring got its own eight-second cut, built from the play that earned it. The room learned the rhythm by the fourth name and stayed on its feet through the fortieth.
Live is the moment; the film is the asset. Eighteen cameras, a two-day edit window, and the recap live before the league office opened Monday.