| | Monday, 30 July
Round 2 of the US Open, I got to record board 2 - Jing Yang (my new amateur hero - having swept the two internet Ing qualifiers that I ran) vs Jie Liang.
It was by accident really, that I was promoted to board 2 already. You see, we've been having all kinds of network issues -- dropped connections, weak wireless signals, heavy lag time, etc. This morning, none of the Windows machines could get connected, but Todd and I had Macs and we had no trouble with our connections. So with time running out before game time, we quickly demoted the Windows recorders while our tech support guy quickly scrambled to resolve the networking issues. They had to record theirs offline (still not sure if we have those records or not)
Already Mac users had an easier time logging on to the school's network, because the school firewall wouldn't allow any Windows machines to logon until after they had all their latest updates installed and virus software turned on. The Macs just plugged in. Yea!
The game recording team is working well together. Sweety setup a private room on KGS for all the USGO's to gather and chat. She monitors the room from the EJournal staff office next door and helps us boot obnoxious kibitzers or sends someone to relieve us when we need a break. I brought two computers to the congress, and she's using one of mine to monitor.
At lunch time, the players decide to break and Jie stays to make his sealed move. He tells me and the TD that he wants to return to continue in 30 minutes, but Mr Yang has already left and they forgot to mention the return time to each other. So while I rushed through lunch and barely remember that I even ate anything, we had to wait for Mr Yang to return from his lunch.
Later this evening, the US Open TD staff (all two of them) decided to merge their office in with the EJournal staff office, leaving their space available for the top board game recorders. That also helped give the remaining strong players some more elbow room by spreading out the remaining tables. It turned out to ba a much nicer arrangement for all involved.
Tonight's Ing game (round 2), I was back on board 4. But at least this time I was on a board, instead of training and monitoring other junior recorders. This time, with all the additional recorders (and many of them with their own computer), we created some more USGO accounts and managed to broadcast a record setting 8 games, with only 7 accounts.
Why 8 with 7? Well Eric Lui and his dad, I-Han, were paired together and finished their game in about 10 minutes, so that recorder then shifted to the next available board.
Rumor has it, that the Lui's saw their pairing the day before, and already played their match beforehand, only replaying it for the official match. Or else, they just played really, really fast.
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