Thursday, November 14, 2013

Hanging up the stockings on Bumpmas Eve

Everything that should be done at this point is probably done, but I don’t feel that way. There’s been a couple of problems that have nothing to do with the tournament, but those are things no one can do anything about. We’ll cope. Otherwise, mostly it’s assemble stuff tomorrow morning, print out a few signs and whatnot, go pick up the trophies, eat lunch, pray to Kritikius, the patron saint of debate, show up at the school and hope for the best. No hurricanes are predicted, or blizzards, and it’s even going to warm up a bit, or so they say.

CP has put a smart twist into the setup. When determining tie-breakers in the past, we’ve used adjusted points, even in round 3, which means using the single middle point. He’s set it up to use total points until round 5. I agree that this is a better arrangement, and more indicative of where one stands in the bracket. You could arrange every bracket differently, if you were so inclined. I also see now how to do break round pools, which wasn’t really an issue at Vassar where all we did was ask the People’s Champion who was available. Other than that, what remains to be seen is the handling of prefs. CP has been very happy about that when he’s run it, but he’s a much less stern critic than JV and I might be. The good news is that, unlike Vassar where we had to curse CP from afar whenever we got confused, this weekend we can do it to his face.

And that’s about it. A few days from now it will all be over. Let the rejoicing begin.

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