We didn’t walk in with a production trailer and a client list. We earned it — season by season, upgrade by upgrade, Friday night by Friday night. This is how TigerVision went from a borrowed webcam and four viewers to winning best stream in the world.
The Palmetto High School Booster Club had been paying around $5,000 a season to put football games on AM radio. They wanted off a dying medium. Jordan was looking at buying an ad banner around the football field at the time — someone on the booster board remembered him being “a bit techy” and figured they’d ask if he could move the broadcasts online. He wasn’t certain — but he knew who to call.
Nobody on the team had any prior livestreaming experience. The early plan was simple: a $100 Sony Handycam, a Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle, a laptop, two wired mics, a small soundboard, an aircard, and a basic USTREAM subscription. The whole ask came in around two grand — still less than half the AM radio bill. At minimum, it was going to be an audio upgrade.
Then someone said “what if we hooked up a webcam so you could kind of see the action?” That was all it took.
The first broadcast went live and we had every problem you could imagine — but it worked. Camera placement was dictated by a 25ft HDMI cable, so flexibility wasn’t exactly our strong suit. Jordan grabbed a webcam from his house and we were showing off our newfound production skills with two whole cameras. We averaged about 4 viewers. It was probably painful to watch.
Around halftime of that first game we discovered that Wirecast had a scoreboard feature — we could show team names and the current score on screen. No other fancy features. But we were official.
We outgrew the laptop almost immediately. A proper desktop was requested — a beast of a machine. Special Teams coach Robby Stevenson had the solution: build a TigerVision box. Put it all in one place. The result was a 7-foot behemoth containing a full desktop, monitor, soundboard, keyboard, mouse, microphones, and everything else needed. “Portable” the way a refrigerator is portable.
During these years we also cracked the replay problem — in the most TigerVision way possible. USTREAM had a built-in broadcast delay, so you could pull up the “live” (delayed) feed in a browser, cast that to the stream, and cut to it on replay. This became what we call “Tiiiiiiigervision” — less of a technique and more of a feeling. Duct tape and band-aids. But it worked, and nobody complained.
TigerVision also found its permanent broadcast voice during these years — Brian Varnadore and Ken Burton, Jr. joining Rick Wells on the call. Both were already Palmetto football fans who had been helping behind the scenes. Honestly, it was only a matter of time.
The box needed to die in a fiery grave. After multiple seasons of fighting for space in press boxes and hauling equipment across opposing stadiums, the answer was clear: we needed a trailer. The internal plan started modest. Then the what-ifs started. What if the press box won’t have us? The announcers need to call from inside the trailer. After enough of those conversations, ClickingSpree and GarrettRichard made some hefty donations — and TigerVision landed a 24-foot toy hauler.
Bare plywood walls, sheet metal ceiling, no AC. In Florida. Robby Stevenson opened his home for a work day. We built desks, insulated everything we could reach, painted the walls, did the floor. Then came a portable AC unit and a Honda generator — funded out of personal pockets. None of it sponsored. None of it reimbursed. Every person involved was a volunteer. The fact that they kept showing up says everything.
Justin Stancil of Stancil Entertainment brought his team over from Manatee High School. Our volunteer roster nearly doubled overnight — every one of them came in skilled. The trailer got a complete redesign: two more desks, a sound room, and the biggest TV we could fit. Five computers. Ten monitors. A proper Blackmagic ATEM switcher that changed everything about how we operated.
This was the first season TigerVision ran actual 30-second commercial breaks and produced proper intro videos. We had grown up.
We heard about NDI — a bleeding-edge protocol from NewTek that turned any networked device into a plug-and-play broadcast camera. No more miles of cable. We picked up three NewTek Spark Connects and went all-in on pre-alpha technology, live on a high school football broadcast. Because of course we did. Setup time dropped from three hours in brutal Florida heat to about 30 minutes.
We entered the PTZOptics streaming awards. TigerVision won best stream overall. A volunteer high school football production from Palmetto, Florida — best in the world. Jordan and Chad were invited to NABShow in Las Vegas, which quickly turned into an on-stage interview in front of an audience of industry professionals.
Watch the NABShow Interview →Best Stream in the World — Overall Winner
A volunteer high school football production from Palmetto, Florida. Beating professional studio operations across the globe. Presented at NABShow Las Vegas.
The 2025 season brought TigerVision’s latest milestone: the in-endzone pylon camera. As far as anyone in the high school streaming world can tell, TigerVision is the first high school broadcast outlet to ever run pylon cameras. Networks pay enormous production budgets to put that shot on college and professional broadcasts. TigerVision brought it to a high school field — for free, for the community, because it wasn’t there yet and it should be.
The same 2025 season also marked TigerVision’s first time covering a regional broadcast: the MSTV “Game of the Week.” Stepping out from the home stadium to produce a feature game for a regional television outlet — another line crossed, another first.
It fits the pattern perfectly. NDI when nobody in high school broadcasting had tried it. Pylon cams when nobody had gotten there either. We don’t wait for someone else to do it first.
TigerVision runs on 10–20 volunteers on any given game day — business owners, insurance professionals, tech entrepreneurs, elected officials, and a music minister. Every one of them shows up because they believe in what we’re doing.
None of it ever cost the community a dime. Every dollar came from sponsors or out of our own pockets. Every hour came from volunteers who gave up their Friday nights because they believed in something.
To everyone who has ever volunteered a Friday night, written a check, or just showed up — thank you. This is all because of you.
What started as a webcam zip-tied to a press box railing is now a 28-foot fully self-contained production trailer with dual Honda generators, HD cameras, PTZ robotics, in-endzone pylon cameras, dual replay stations, a sound room, SpreeSports custom live graphics, and In-Venue Live fan engagement — AI photo transforms, synchronized phone light shows, and live fan cameras broadcast to a portable LED jumbotron in the stadium.
“We started with a borrowed webcam and four viewers who were probably our parents. We’ve won best stream in the world. None of it cost the community a dime. Every dollar came from sponsors or out of our own pockets. Every hour came from volunteers who gave up their Friday nights because they believed in something. That’s TigerVision. That’s always been TigerVision.”
We built everything you see here because your program needed it and it didn’t exist yet. We know what it takes to produce a broadcast that a community is proud of — and we know how to make the numbers work on a school budget.
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