Good morning, quizbowl

[Kyle]

Today, there will be 13 SCTs spread across three countries. The day begins quietly with me, sitting alone in my room, five hours ahead of the rest of you, printing out scoresheets. Before chaos ensues thirteen times, one after another, I want to wish good luck to all the teams competing and all the people trying to run these tournaments. May everything go smoothly!

[MicroEStudent]

Today, there will be 13 SCTs spread across three countries. The day begins quietly with me, sitting alone in my room, five hours ahead of the rest of you, printing out scoresheets. Before chaos ensues thirteen times, one after another, I want to wish good luck to all the teams competing and all the people trying to run these tournaments. May everything go smoothly!

To you as well! We are just about to embark on our trip to Canada to get soundly beaten!

[Skepticism and Animal Feed]

Today will be the first time in my six-year collegiate quizbowl career that I will not be playing SCT. Not sure how I feel about that. For a while it's ironically been my favorite tournament.

[The Moviegoer]

May everything go smoothly!

Too late, snowpocalypse.

[Geringer]

MORE LIKE SNOWHIO STATE, AMIRITE?

[Papa's in the House]

May everything go smoothly!

Too late, snowpocalypse.

About that... We're sitting in a ditch right now. Hooray ice.

[Cheynem]

It was after the snowpocalypse. They had to get to the SCT power station.

[Kyle]

How about a six-way tie for second place among six of our eight teams?

[Important Bird Area]

Good morning, quizbowl!

Local time: 6:20 am.

Protest committee status: awake, sort of.

(Note: there will not actually be a protest committee liveblog itt.)

[OntarioQuizzer]

Is there a number other than the 888 # I can call? The 888 number is not working for me up in Canada and I need a number to call.

Long distance is not an issue, my cell plan can call anywhere in North America.

[rylltraka]

You think it's bad with snow? Snow, huh? I have to deal with RAIN.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Northeast SCT is happening despite lack of Dartmouth. Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building. One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files; one person weeps more and provides unpassworded versions and prays.

[Not That Kind of Christian!!]

Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building.

One of these things was accomplished by someone who is not only not a member of Harvard A, but not even a student at Harvard, and another was accomplished by someone not a member of Harvard A. Bonding may have to wait.

[AKKOLADE]

Andy Watkins has superglued his teammates together. Let's see what happens!

[Mechanical Beasts]

Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building.

One of these things was accomplished by someone who is not only not a member of Harvard A, but not even a student at Harvard, and another was accomplished by someone not a member of Harvard A. Bonding may have to wait.

I LIKE TO PRETEND

Lunch is going to be after this round. DII is running about a round behind, in no small part because our teams vanish at strange intervals. I wish I could read a round to this empty room.

[Frater Taciturnus]

Andy Watkins has superglued his teammates together. Let's see what happens!

Let's hope he used the right bonding angles.

[Kyle]

Four-way tie for one spot in the top bracket? Nothing we can't handle in the SCT of Total Parity. (Also, regarding this parity, the variance seems to go up when seven of your eight teams have bonus conversion in single digits)

[Captain Sinico]

...One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files...

If this problem recurs, check out http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html for a Mac utility that can open passworded zips (and is better than the default OS X unarchiver... though it can be easily uninstalled after the tournament if people prefer the old one.) I'd recommend every TD who's running a tournament with electronic reading to have that on hand.

MaS

[Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant]

...One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files...

There's also

just launch the terminal and use "unzip -p [password goes here] [name of zip file goes here]".

if you don't want to download anything.

[Captain Sinico]

Yes, there's that too, if people are, like, down with the terminal.

MaS

[fleurdelivre]

...One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files...

If this problem recurs, check out http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html for a Mac utility that can open passworded zips (and is better than the default OS X unarchiver... though it can be easily uninstalled after the tournament if people prefer the old one.) I'd recommend every TD who's running a tournament with electronic reading to have that on hand.

MaS

Don't worry; having been a mac-using quizbowler for some years, I managed to pull the name of the unarchiver after only a minute or so - no actual weeping was involved.