Meet Kevin Egeland
Every fall, the same question shows up in school offices and booster club meetings: “Can we stream the games?” Grandparents live three states away. Parents work Friday shifts. Recruiters ask for film. The demand is there — what’s missing is someone who knows how to put a broadcast on air without a production crew.
Kevin Egeland, an All-star contributor in the YoloLiv User Group, has been answering that question every week for long time: high school football on Friday nights through the fall, varsity basketball through the winter, streamed to the schools’ YouTube channels. Full graphics, live scoreboard, multi-camera switching — run by one person, on venue Wi-Fi.
In Kevin’s words: “I’m a one man band operation.”
The setup questions he’s patiently answered add up to a complete playbook. Here it is.
The Entire Rig Fits in Two Duffle Bags
When another user asked Kevin to break down how portable the setup really is, he listed the whole kit:
- 2 Sony 4K camcorders (HXR-NX80)
- 1 YoloBox Ultra
- 1 Mackie 8-channel mixing board
- 2 Audio-Technica headset mics
- 1 24-inch monitor
- Power, HDMI and aux cables, camera power and zoom controls
- Packed in 2 rolling duffles plus 2 tripods
Notice what’s not on the list: no laptop, no streaming PC, no graphics workstation, no rack of encoders. The YoloBox Ultra is the switcher, the overlay engine, the audio mixer’s destination, the recorder, and the encoder in one touchscreen . That consolidation is the entire reason one person can run this — every job that would normally need another operator lives on one screen within arm’s reach.
The setup breaks down and rebuilds every game. One week it’s the High School press box; the next, a brand-new venue; by December, a gym rail for back-to-back basketball games at 5:30 and 7:00. Same two bags, same workflow.
The Settings: 3000 kbps, 30 fps, Venue Wi-Fi
Asked directly what settings and internet connection he streams on, Kevin’s answer was three lines long:
- Bitrate: 3000 kbps
- FPS: 30
- “Always just used available WiFi”
That last line deserves attention, because connectivity is where most school streams die. His approach isn’t a stronger connection — it’s a lighter stream. At 3000 kbps and 30 fps, a 1080p sports broadcast looks clean and fits comfortably inside the upload that an ordinary school network can actually sustain on a packed Friday night.
The lesson: set your bitrate for the network’s bad nights, not its good ones. A stream that never buffers at 3000 kbps beats one that looks marginally sharper at 6000 kbps and drops out every quarter.
If your venue’s network is genuinely unreliable — or you’re streaming from a field with no Wi-Fi at all — that’s the YoloLiv Network Bonding. Combine multiple internet sources into one single faster & more reliable live streams. You can see customers’ review at https://www.yololiv.com/blog/is-yololiv-network-bonding-worth-it-hear-what-our-customers-say/. But Kevin’s year of broadcasts is proof of how far “available Wi-Fi” goes when the encoder settings respect it.
The Live Scoreboard Trick
This is the technique people in our user group keep asking Kevin about — three different members have raised it under his game posts — because his streams show the actual gym scoreboard, live, as a clean corner overlay. Score, clock, period, always current, and he never touches it during play.
The obvious guesses are wrong. There’s no data cable to the scoreboard controller and no OCR software. His method, as he’s explained it:
- Point a dedicated camera at the physical scoreboard, zoomed in tight.
- On the YoloBox Ultra, use Add Video Source → Customized to bring that camera in — not as a switchable angle, but as a layer.
- Crop, size, and position that layer so only the scoreboard face shows, docked wherever you want it on screen.
- Set your main game camera as the base source. The scoreboard layer rides on top for the whole broadcast.
The result: the scoreboard updates itself, because it is the scoreboard. The scorekeeper at the table is unknowingly running your graphics. For a solo operator, this converts the most demanding live-graphics job in sports broadcasting into a zero-touch layer you set up once before tip-off.
It stacks cleanly with prepped graphics, too. Kevin’s broadcasts pair the live scoreboard layer with overlays built before the game — both teams’ logos, season records, a “GSL Friday Night Football” title bar — so the on-screen package looks fully produced while the only thing changing in real time is a camera feed.
Football Season: The Outdoor Playbook
Go high. The press box or top bleacher row gives the game camera the elevation to read plays and keeps gear out of the crowd.
Plan for changing light. A 6 PM fall kickoff starts in daylight and ends under stadium lights. Avoid full auto-exposure on the game camera — it will pump as the sky darkens. Set white balance you can live with at both extremes or adjust at halftime.
Weather-proof the plan. Cold drains batteries; wind ruins open mics. Headset mics (like the Audio-Technica pair in Kevin’s kit) keep announcer audio tight against wind, and one spare battery per camera covers the most common outdoor failure.
Walk the venue before game one. Find the press box network drop if one exists, test the Wi-Fi, and pick your bitrate for the worst night, not the best.
Basketball Season: The Indoor Adjustments
The rig doesn’t change — that’s the point. What changes is the environment:
Positions move to the rail. An elevated side view at center court replaces the press box wide shot; a baseline angle replaces the sideline camera. The scoreboard camera just finds its new target.
Gym lighting is consistent but unforgiving. No sunset to fight, but overheads can blow out the court while the stands go dark. Expose for the floor.
Echo is the new wind. Gyms are reflective boxes. Headset mics close to the mouth; resist cranking crowd mics — the room reverb comes through plenty.
Doubleheaders reward prep. JV at 5:30, varsity at 7:00 leaves no time to rebuild graphics between games. With logo overlays prepped for both matchups and a scoreboard that updates itself, the turnaround is a roster swap, not a redesign.
The Season-Long Mindset
The structural lesson from a year of Kevin’s broadcasts: build the workflow around the switcher, not the venue. Venues change weekly. Sports change seasonally. When switching, audio, graphics, recording, and streaming all live in one portable device, “new location tonight” just means a different table to set it on.
Start with one sport, one venue, two cameras and a scoreboard cam. By the time basketball season arrives, you won’t be rebuilding your broadcast — you’ll be moving it indoors.
Ready to build your school’s broadcast? Read this: https://www.yololiv.com/sports
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