Games of the VIII Olympiad – OOC thread

[Krytenia]

Yep. Looks like my headers have caused problems again, this time in the fencing. I have no entrants showing in the Men's Individual Sabre (which I have now noticed in my signup is missing the word "individual"; I would wager all six individual fencing events will be affected.

[Gregoryisgodistan]

My keyboard only has one apostrophe. Evidently my iphone which I'm on now has both, but my laptop doesn't.

Also, my shooters on Day 2 were entered just fine even though I used that apostrophe so clearly it's not my fault.

Your shooters on Day 2 were picked up because I searched for "SHOOTING" rather than the event name, as it was the first event on the list anyway. Might I suggest trying to annoy the host is not the best thing to do.

Fair enough. My apologies. It's been a long day for me today and I just snapped. It was uncalled for. Thanks for entering the other two and the rest of the delegation.

[Gregoryisgodistan]

Just out of curiosity, if the only athletes you initially found were the two shooters, why was I allowed to compete in the first place? My average skill would be way too high.

[Liventia]

Just out of curiosity, if the only athletes you initially found were the two shooters, why was I allowed to compete in the first place? My average skill would be way too high.

I calculate signup totals separately from creating individual event signup lists. The method I used for signup totals ignored all event names and were based on semicolon-delimited entries.

[Gregoryisgodistan]

Just out of curiosity, if the only athletes you initially found were the two shooters, why was I allowed to compete in the first place? My average skill would be way too high.

I calculate signup totals separately from creating individual event signup lists. The method I used for signup totals ignored all event names and were based on semicolon-delimited entries.

Fair enough. That makes sense. By the way, is it fair game to RP an explanation for why my judoka didn't compete since I said in a previous RP he would (blame it on a clerical error or something)?

[Liventia]

I calculate signup totals separately from creating individual event signup lists. The method I used for signup totals ignored all event names and were based on semicolon-delimited entries.

Fair enough. That makes sense. By the way, is it fair game to RP an explanation for why my judoka didn't compete since I said in a previous RP he would (blame it on a clerical error or something)?

Yep, completely so. You're free to RP it as an error on the organising committee's end or your end, I don't mind, as long as it's clear OOCly that there's no way I would've picked up on it unfortunately unless I'd used a more time-intensive method of signup collating.

[Liventia]

Yep. Looks like my headers have caused problems again, this time in the fencing. I have no entrants showing in the Men's Individual Sabre (which I have now noticed in my signup is missing the word "individual"; I would wager all six individual fencing events will be affected.

Fixed all your other fencers; as discussed on IRC your missing fencers' additional points have been reallocated elsewhere.

[Vulshain]

Ummm. What happened to my fencers? I thought I entered in that event?

[Some Village]

Ummm. What happened to my fencers? I thought I entered in that event?

I'm sure Liventia can answer more exactly, but after taking a quick look, it seems you made a mistake against:

Do NOT change the name of any of the events. If it says "Women’s 100 m Freestyle" do not change it to "Women's 100m Freestyle". When I create entry lists I use the find function, and if you change the name of the event I will NOT find your entry. I will not be held at fault if I miss any entries in this manner.

Your fencing events did not have the term "individual" in their sign-up anymore. Judging by what happened with Gregoryisgodistans entries, I'm afraid they can't be brought in again for today's event. Maybe something is possible for the other days if you ask Liventia.

Disclaimer: I'm not Liventia, so this is not a definitive answer.

[Vulshain]

Ummm. What happened to my fencers? I thought I entered in that event?

I'm sure Liventia can answer more exactly, but after taking a quick look, it seems you made a mistake against:

Do NOT change the name of any of the events. If it says "Women’s 100 m Freestyle" do not change it to "Women's 100m Freestyle". When I create entry lists I use the find function, and if you change the name of the event I will NOT find your entry. I will not be held at fault if I miss any entries in this manner.

Your fencing events did not have the term "individual" in their sign-up anymore. Judging by what happened with Gregoryisgodistans entries, I'm afraid they can't be brought in again for today's event. Maybe something is possible for the other days if you ask Liventia.

Disclaimer: I'm not Liventia, so this is not a definitive answer.

Ah okay. I didn't see that part. Thank you for pointing it to me.

[Krytenia]

I'm sure Liventia can answer more exactly, but after taking a quick look, it seems you made a mistake against:



Your fencing events did not have the term "individual" in their sign-up anymore. Judging by what happened with Gregoryisgodistans entries, I'm afraid they can't be brought in again for today's event. Maybe something is possible for the other days if you ask Liventia.

Disclaimer: I'm not Liventia, so this is not a definitive answer.

Ah okay. I didn't see that part. Thank you for pointing it to me.

I made exactly the same mistake, so you're not alone.

[Vulshain]

Ah okay. I didn't see that part. Thank you for pointing it to me.

I made exactly the same mistake, so you're not alone.

Okay. Yeah, I must have left that part out when I was writing up my entry. I copied and pasted a lot of stuff, so I probably made a mistake somewhere.

[Kingdom of Costa Luna]

Could a bracket for the Tennis - Singles tournaments (both male and female) be posted for RP purposes?

[Liventia]

Could a bracket for the Tennis - Singles tournaments (both male and female) be posted for RP purposes?

They go top to bottom once the athletes with byes are entered in the second round.

Vulshain, same as with Krytenia, I'll get the rest of your fencers in but those who missed out today have missed out.

[Vulshain]

Could a bracket for the Tennis - Singles tournaments (both male and female) be posted for RP purposes?

They go top to bottom once the athletes with byes are entered in the second round.

Vulshain, same as with Krytenia, I'll get the rest of your fencers in but those who missed out today have missed out.

It's cool and thank you. Sorry about the mistake.

[Saugeais]

Drat, a day of three near misses for medals.

[Vulshain]

What happened to my female gymnasts? I mean I know that I titled the event right.

[Liventia]

What happened to my female gymnasts? I mean I know that I titled the event right.

You titled them simply "Women"; the event name was "Women’s Individual All-Around". I'm guessing you copied and pasted your signup from the last Olympics. I'll fit them in since gymnastics isn't too difficult to accommodate such an incident.

If there are any more events you think are affected, please raise them now. I will not be so accommodating after this. I can't keep going back and rescorinating events for missed people when the signup instructions were clear.

[Saugeais]

What happened to my female gymnasts? I mean I know that I titled the event right.

You titled them simply "Women"; the event name was "Women’s Individual All-Around". I'm guessing you copied and pasted your signup from the last Olympics. I'll fit them in since gymnastics isn't too difficult to accommodate such an incident.

I probably did the same thing too by mistake, as none of my female gymnasts were included.

[Liventia]

Right, I'm making this clear now. Everyone who thinks they have made an error in their signup with event names, make it known by the next scorination. After that, I will not accommodate after-the-fact additions.

[Vulshain]

What happened to my female gymnasts? I mean I know that I titled the event right.

You titled them simply "Women"; the event name was "Women’s Individual All-Around". I'm guessing you copied and pasted your signup from the last Olympics. I'll fit them in since gymnastics isn't too difficult to accommodate such an incident.

If there are any more events you think are affected, please raise them now. I will not be so accommodating after this. I can't keep going back and rescorinating events for missed people when the signup instructions were clear.

Thank you. I'll look at my entry as soon as I can. I appreciate you doing this and I apologize for the trouble.

[Saugeais]

Right, I'm making this clear now. Everyone who thinks they have made an error in their signup with event names, make it known by the next scorination. After that, I will not accommodate after-the-fact additions.

I think I can see why you missed it: I had the designation ARTISTIC, with Men's and Women's rosters underneath. Same with TRAMPOLINE underneath that, if you hadn't included that in. Sorry for the bad naming convention.

[Liventia]

Vulshain's and Saugeais' women's gymnasts have now been added.

[Vulshain]

Did a quick glance at my entry. Seems like I got a lot of bad naming errors.

[Some Village]

A minor question upon boxing. Do the boxers compete in the next round in the order as they are scorinated now (b.e. guys from the first two lines against eachother, then the guys from line three and four, ...) or is it randomized?