Illini Final Four viewing in your city/country

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altgeld88

altgeld88
Arlington, Virginia
altgeld88
Illini Final Four Viewing in Rio de Janeiro?

I'll be in Rio for the Final Four weekend and am hoping to find some Illini partisans who will watch the game together on Saturday (and Monday.) We're staying in Leblon but will go wherever we need to be. I dimly recall someone posting something about a Music City Bowl watch party last December, which stoked my hopes.

Thank you.

:illinois: 🏀
 
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Egyptianillini
I'll be in Seoul where the time for the ILL/UCONN game will start at 7:09 am Sunday morning. According to the internet there are several sports bars which might have the FF on. Anybody else going to be in Korea and planning to watch the game?
 
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21ChampaignSt
altgeld88 said:
Illini Final Four Viewing in Rio de Janeiro?

I'll be in Rio for the Final Four weekend and am hoping to find some Illini partisans who will watch the game together on Saturday (and Monday.) We're staying in Leblon but will go wherever we need to be. I dimly recall someone posting something about a Music City Bowl watch party last December, which stoked my hopes.

Thank you.

:illinois: 🏀
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No advice on where to watch. I just got back a few weeks ago. Spent most of our time around Ipenama. Did not see any bars around there playing American sports.

I did however fly down on the same plane as Trey Burke and his Mexican professional basketball team, the Astros de Jalisco. So, there must be somewhere to watch basketball around there.

Rio is a fever dream. Have a great time!
 
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hooraybeer
i still want to know where the person that was in Puerto Rico this past weekend watched the game
 
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altgeld88
21ChampaignSt said:
No advice on where to watch. I just got back a few weeks ago. Spent most of our time around Ipenama. Did not see any bars around there playing American sports.

I did however fly down on the same plane as Trey Burke and his Mexican professional basketball team, the Astros de Jalisco. So, there must be somewhere to watch basketball around there.

Rio is a fever dream. Have a great time!
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Thanks. Am going with my partner, DC native but half-Brazilian. Her mother was from Rio and she lived and worked there ~ 20 years ago for 2-3 years. I will be in good hands. Am hitting the ground on Wednesday morning and the first order of businesses is a Fluminense FC Série A football match at Maracanã Stadium on Weds evening.

We planned this months ago but the timing really does suck. I lived in Canada in 2005. Seems it's impossible for me to be in the USA when the Illini are in the FF.
 
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pvaughn8
For those out of the country, FYI, you can watch games on your phone using YouTube TV and a GPS spoofing app (I use fakeGPS)
 
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Todd99
altgeld88 said:
Thanks. Am going with my partner, DC native but half-Brazilian. Her mother was from Rio and she lived and worked there ~ 20 years ago for 2-3 years. I will be in good hands. Am hitting the ground on Wednesday morning and the first order of businesses is a Fluminense FC Série A football match at Maracanã Stadium on Weds evening.

We planned this months ago but the timing really does suck. I lived in Canada in 2005. Seems it's impossible for me to be in the USA when the Illini are in the FF.
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Have you considered spending more time out of the country around this time of the year?

Speaking for all Illini basketball fans, we would really appreciate it! :ROFLMAO:
 
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altgeld88
hkillini said:
I will be watching in Hong Kong at home through a TV Box (TBS) at 6:09 AM in the morning on Sunday.
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I'm tech-illiterate about how to tune into a game online in a foreign country. I welcome any tips.
 
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Lincster27
Well, I'm in Yola, Nigeria. The best I can do is listen either on TuneIn or SiriusXM. We have a long weekend here, and I thought about flying to the capitol, Abuja, to find an expat pub that might have it, but that's a little spendy. Not as much as an actual Final Four ticket, but still spendy.
 
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NorthShoreIllini
altgeld88 said:
I'm tech-illiterate about how to tune into a game online in a foreign country. I welcome any tips.
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You can download a VPN app like Nord VPN. Usually can sign up for a free trial. Then set your location as somewhere in the US and you should be able to stream on March Madness app or something like You Tube TV if you have a subscription. Basically tricking the provider into thinking you're physically somewhere else.
 
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hkillini
altgeld88 said:
I'm tech-illiterate about how to tune into a game online in a foreign country. I welcome any tips.
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TV Box is a device like Apple TV that you connect to your TV set. Through internet streaming you can watch any TV station in any country real time. For USA, I can watch FS1, FS2, CBS, NBC (peacock), ESPN, TNT, TBS, etc.
 
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2qtslow
altgeld88 said:
I'm tech-illiterate about how to tune into a game online in a foreign country. I welcome any tips.
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A Roku box or stick and a wifi connection should get you where you want to be.
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
I'm tech-illiterate about how to tune into a game online in a foreign country. I welcome any tips.
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How do you get your TV normally at home? Directv, Sling, YouTube, etc?
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
2qtslow said:
A Roku box or stick and a wifi connection should get you where you want to be.
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I missed your reply while I was typing mine. This would be the best way. Your tv subscription should have an app that is built in that you can access thru either Roku or firestick. Load that app onto the Roku & then you should be able to access it.

Another option would be thru your phone or ipad or laptop you can load the video on one of those & then connect the device directly to the tv with a HDMI connection.

The final 4 is a big enough event that there may well be some international presence covering it. And basketball is a fairly big sport in Brazil so you might be able to find normal TV coverage or at some kind of sports bar or similar venue.
 
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skyIdub
lol so I was in Bruges, Belgium for the Tennessee game last year. Had to use NordVPN to access a US server and stream the game in the hotel lobby🤣
It worked but the wifi wasn’t that good.
 
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altgeld88
Todd99 said:
Have you considered spending more time out of the country around this time of the year?

Speaking for all Illini basketball fans, we would really appreciate it! :ROFLMAO:
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I lived in the UK from the beginning of the '91-'92 season through the '94 season. Pre-internet so I missed everything in the post-Pearl decline of the program.

I lived in Canada from '97-'99. I take full credit for our run to the BTT title game in '99 but you can see the effect my absence had on those two regular seasons.

And I was in Canada again from the beginning of the '03-'04 season through '07-'08.

So it's data mining to claim that when I'm abroad we do well.

I think the more accurate claim is that when I attend Illini road games (four this season) we flourish. ;)

I was also in SHI Stadium for the Rutgers game in Nov. '24 and take full credit for the Luke-Pat miracle.
 
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altgeld88
2qtslow said:
A Roku box or stick and a wifi connection should get you where you want to be.
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Really? It's my impression that I need a VPN as the price of entry. But thank you. I'll stick the Roku box and cables in my case tonight.
 
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