Let’s see. The forensic world lands in Atlanta? Check. Delta
computers go down for the return trip? Check. Finally, something other than
Trump to concentrate the mind, at least for a few minutes.
I spent a lot of the weekend room whispering. Penn has
umpty-ump buildings, and it was a matter of determining who would do what
where. And, of course, there was the updating of the schedule. Once again we’ll
have a tournament where there’s alternating rounds in the same room, meaning
that Saturday will, for all involved, be the proverbial life of Riley.
Unfortunately, that means that on the one hand we seem to be tabbing all the
time, but on the other hand, we always have the rounds ready plenty of time in
advance, with lots of time left over to harass people to get to their rounds.
CP was doing this via Facebook for Emory. We like the more hands-on approach:
we do it by sending our tabroom golem to the rounds and beating a few people
upside the head in person. For tournament directors, the tabroom golem is available
under the tab Schematics/Enforcement/Artificial. Just click on “mud monster”
and drop it into the rounds you want to get started. Works wonders.
Baby Bump is now all set. Quite good numbers, when all was
said and done. Very robust PF divisions, workable LD divisions. Apparently we
even have the auditorium this time out. That’s a real throwback. As long as I
can remember we had to use the cafeteria for starting and ending, which
required me to talk loud and for people to listen loud, neither of which ever
came off particularly well. This being an event for young ’uns, having an award
ceremony, however brief, makes sense. Like an MHL or CFL. Also, we’ll have a
short kickoff for judges so that they are all on the same page. A lot of the
attendees are relatively new to debate; it can’t hurt to give them a little
reassurance before they start.
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