The pandemic has struck the automated sports production market with a double-edged sword. On one side of the blade, revenue streams were decapitated earlier this year as virtually all global sports events were halted. On the other, sports organizations have been forced to reflect on their fundamental production processes – with many wishing they had taken the plunge into automation, AI, and the cloud years ago. Discerning between AI and automation, specifically the negative headlines that the two sectors garner in relation to replacing human workers, is a perpetual problem in technology. For sports production, however, there is no shying away from the fact that camera operators are replaced by automated camera systems and technical directors with AI-based detectors. For…