It's midday, Friday here in Kampala. We start taping shows tomorrow. This morning the control room has been very busy as we have been blocking camera shots, adjusting audio and lighting. Now we're taping the show intro, with our theme music and the host's entrance and introduction of teams. This pre-recorded intro will be used at the start of each of our 15 shows.
After lunch we will rehearse again a few times, and then we'll record a rehearsal game this afternoon. Also today we are conducting playoff games in 4 rooms simultaneously to pare the 32 teams that qualified to come here down to the 16 who will get to be on TV. They're using my software to conduct these games, too, so I'm also on-call to provide technical support all day long. So far I've run back and forth between the control room and the rooms where they're playing games about half a dozen times, but now the scorekeepers in all of the rooms seem to have found their rhythm.
I'm hoping that we're pretty well set up already. Once again, the main thing I'm waiting for is the questions for the games we will tape tomorrow. The question editors tell me that they're nearly done with the questions for the 4 games tomorrow, but I told them I need the 4 games for the next day, too.
Business as usual here at the Zain Africa Challenge.
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Randy, you are fun. I love reading your blogs even if nobody else does. Be safe, Sexpuppet!
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