VerTec for NRL Grand Final 2003

On the evening of Sunday 5th October, 2003, the NRL held its Rugby League Grand Final at Telstra Stadium to a capacity crowd of 82,000 spectators. As pre-game entertainment for the crowd live performances by Meatloaf, Hoodoo Gurus and Kelly Clarkson took place. JPS provided a distributed field system comprising of 54 Vertec 4889 cabinets, on 18 JPS custom karts, 36 Crown MA5002VZ amplifiers and 4 BSS FDS366 Omnidrives. The Vertec system covered all of the stadium and the house Bose system was only used to supplement coverage in the top sections of upper Eastern and Western stands. JPS supplied 2 Senior engineers, Greg Rosman and Michael Waters, along with 12 JPS audio staff/technicians. The complete Vertec system was removed from the field in just 6 minutes after the live pre-match entertainment.