HCASC is over, but the work is not done.

Don't let that smile fool you. Although things went very smoothly this year, I was working until nearly 1am every single day I was here, including last night. I'm only smiling in this picture because I was happy to get one last chance for a picture with outgoing Honda exec, Eric Conn.

As it always is with the complicated setup we have, we spent many hours last night working on the show computer to make it do what was needed. My program sends images to the fronts of the desks on stage, and it would be very embarassing for it to fail in the middle of game play, in essence, stopping the game in its tracks. This year, everything went well and worked as expected. Even our audio-visual questions, a source of annual angst, played without problems and really added to the look and feel of these final games.

The winner this year was Oakwood University, a Seventh-Day Adventist school in Huntsville, Alabama. Because of their religious observance of the Sabbath, we change the schedule in their division to allow them to play all 7 of their round-robin games on Friday. They swept all 7 games to win their division, but we had to wait until 8pm Saturday night to play their playoff games. This put me a little behind on my setup for final games, which is one more reason I'm short on sleep.

Just a few more things to do here before I'm done, but no rest for the weary; My ride for the airport leaves tomorrow morning at 5:00am. The sooner I leave, the sooner I get home to rest in my own bed.