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First cooking marathon video live streamed: Luc Driesen sets world record
Jan 12, 2020
Oostmalle, Antwerpen, Belgium--After a culinary marathon that lasted five days, six hours and 15 minutes, Chef Luc Dreisden, 49,
kissed his wife and received the congratulations from the friends at his Frituria Estrela chip shop, but also of the thousands of fans who watched him online during a record attempt which also sets the world record for being the First cooking marathon video live streamed, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
The GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the longest video live-stream is 161 hr 11 min 32 sec in duration, and was achieved by Hulu (USA) in Santa Monica, California, USA, from 13 to 20 May 2019.
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS also recognized the world record for the longest uninterrupted live webcast (audio only) is 52 hours and was achieved by Nescafe 3ü1 Arada (Turkey) in Istanbul, Turkey from 13 April - 15 April, 2012.
The main event was setting a new world record in the category
"Longest French Fries Cooking Marathon,"
record that was successfully achieved
In addition to the traditional methods of verifying the record, the Academy of World Records has requested that the entire culinary marathon be transmitted live via the Internet.
"it was like a new kind of big brother show, with real people doing real things," says Ramona Nita, the online publisher at the World Record Academy, who oversaw the entire Live monitoring process.
"We have eliminated any local subjectivity, with live monitoring being done with completely independent observers, located in different corners of the world, who cannot be influenced in any way,"says Ramona Nita.
Chef Luc Driesen has hired Secures, a Belgian company specialized in Internet transmission and monitoring. They installed professional equipment that allowed the images to be taken and transmitted in good conditions via the Internet.
The biggest audiences were recorded in the last two days of the record, when the televisions announced the event and the newspapers mentioned the live broadcast, something new.
The biggest audiences were recorded in the last two days of the record, when the televisions announced the event and the newspapers mentioned the live broadcast, something new.
