Roses 2019

Roses 2019 was hosted in York, and YSTV's coverage was for the first time organised by a 'Project Group', led by Edwin Barnes. Planning began in January 2019, with scheduling and larger technical planning being the first focuses.

Project Group

The YSTV Roses 2019 Project Group consisted of the following:

Management

Roses Lead: Edwin Barnes
Deputy Roses Lead: Stephanie Shires
Training and Development Lead: Olivia Gibbs
Merch and Promo Lead: Chun-Jou Yu

Technical

Technical Lead: Tom Lee
Infrastructure Lead: Matthew Stratford
O.B. Lead: Adam Birtles
Deputy O.B. Lead: James Bithell
Head of Visuals: Andrew Waddle

Content

Content Lead: Thomas Schubert
Head of VTs: Erhard Zurawka
VT Assistant: Klara Simonova, Prakriti Jha
Head of Presenting: Jacob Boyle
Deputy Head of Presenting: Tom McGonagle
Studio Lead: Zoe Dickinson
Deputy Studio Lead: Caroline Preynat-Viero
Head of Commentating: Piotrek Przyborowski

Operations

Operations Lead: Cal Cooke
Personell Lead: Charlotte Rogers
Deputy Operations Lead: Joseph Wharfe

Preperations

Preparations for Roses 2019 included moving all of YSTV's editing PCs into the studio space in order to free up the whole of the control room for a TX Centre. Setup for this happened over the week leading in to Roses. Other preperations further ahead of time included site visits, various purchases (including a lot of cabling and tape), and a visit to LA1:TV.

Promotion

Roses 2019 saw Edwin Barnes fulfil a long-held wish to make a parody video of the Mitchell & Webb Look Football Sketch, promoting YSTV's Roses Coverage. This trailer was produced in colloration with ComedySoc, starred former Chair George Blackman, and was released on social media to critical acclaim. The main upshot of the trailer was a running joke around YSTV, firstly to shout 'Watch the Roses' at random times (particularly during NaSTA 2019), and secondly to say 'All the ___, All the time' in relation to almost anything. At the time of writing, this joke is yet to grow old.

Other promotion included posters (simply designed and reading 'All the Roses, all the time) and social media takeovers, based around a 'YSTV Roses' brand designed by Edwin Barnes that drew heavily from his previous 'YSTV Sport' branding work. A planned website takeover like that done for YUSU Elections 2019 never materialised.