The tiebreaker-

They've really got to ditch the neon BS. That is killing my excitement, and making it impossible to turn anyone else on to this amazing event.

That's a hard sell. It's my guess that the neon is the only way the pilots can keep track of where they are, and where they're going. It even got annoying to me a bit (but also looked like a video game, so wasn't TOO bad) but I can see why they did it. I'm not sure if it would work without the high intensity visual cues.
I was glad they didn't light up everything. They could have put LEDs on every hand rail and post to highlight them, but they didn't.
I'm sure they'll figure out a balance eventually. Don't give up on them yet, it's the first race after all.

Turn on annotations to be able to click through to FPV on any drone you wish.

One last try, I can't believe almost no one likes this.
*promote

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 8:29pm PST - promote requested by original submitter newtboy.

*sports

Adding video to channels (Sports) - requested by ant.

I'm late to the party, but that was quite fun to watch. Reminds me in some ways of watching the interviews with Battlebots builders and then the actual matches.

I bet these will pick up some steam here on the sift once more people check it out.


**edit**
Oh, and the neon didn't bother me. I bet the pilots need some high-contrast visual cues to help them navigate; might not need to be neon, but something. If enough people object to the neon in particular, I'm sure they will experiment with alternatives.