We've been so hung up on getting ready for exams, revision and practice questions and everything, that I've completely forgotten this blog. I actually haven't written anything here since the event went ahead, so I might as well start with that:
So anyway, it was snowing. Alot. It was too late to call it off, and the forecast had failed to predict it far enough in advance - so we went ahead. Since we had the day off school, I got to the hotel around 1pm, to check out the hardware setup - good thing I did, because they were sticking an underpowered laptop, which couldn't even run the presntation, in the middle of the room in full view of the audience. I got them to move it all to the corner, and we ended up using a teacher's laptop instead (Geewai used the hotel's one to do the scores). We came up with a system to transfer the scores into the actual presentation as it was up, which went off pretty much without a hitch, and really, really quickly (no more than 30 second's pause).
Despite a couple of problems with some of the questions (stuff like music occasionally not playing), I think it really went well, and speaking to people afterwards, no-one really noticed the problems.
On account of the snow, not that many people came (well, 145...), and I reckon this was actually a blessing in diguise. I really don't see how we could've comfortably fit any more people into the space we had, and it seemed more 'special' with slightly less of a crowd.
TBC
