Sports seemed to be a pricklier subject at IBC 2018 than at past events, with certain vendors looking to distribute blame for disruptions during this summer’s World Cup tournament. Yet every year vendors tell us how cracking live sports contracts is the ultimate end goal. Encoding expert Harmonic had a big presence as always and provided a few uninspiring insights from Amsterdam, so Faultline Online Reporter preferred to focus a bit further down the pecking order – starting with Israeli start-up Pixellot. Pixellot was one of our surprise meetings from the show, swiftly shifting our initial cynicism, regarding some expensive looking camera set ups, to a mindset of intrigue about the company’s low-budget AI-based sports production tools. The automatic sports…