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Welcome to Omnibits for Wednesday, 14 August (Day 2) 0730[T2] Dobro jutro! Guten Morgen! Bonjour! Boker tov! Sabah-il-kheir! Buon giorno! Dobraye ootra! Buenos
dias! Er, Good morning! It rained here last night but the weather
forcast is good for the rest of the week. First call is 07:45 for 4-way
FS. I'm prepping the camera for the team photos and hopping out to
check out the photo tent. Last night at the hotel there were teams
actually creeping the dives in the hallways of the hotel.
Check out the elevater instructions on how to turn off the gass supply. Couldn't help to share that nugget of translation. T1, you got it now...
0800[T1] Team numbers are updated for 4-Way. Airplanes are taking off. First scores within the hour!
Pardon
me if I lack my muse this morning. I was here until after 1am last
night with the crew working the DZTV setup. We (mostly they) tried and
tried and tried to get the HDMI-to-RF modulator to stop compressing the
video vertically, to no avail. It's not a terrible picture, but it
clearly doesn't look optimal.
On the results pages, please be
patient trying the mp4 links under the team scores. It takes a day or
two to get the files transcoded and uploaded, and the FAI has priority
on that process, we have to stand in line behind them when it comes to
video dissemination.
0900First scores have gone up.
Cloud base is just high enough for 4-Way. Some teams had their gear get
wet in the storage hangar during last night's rain, and France 4-Way
Female is not jumping because their gear got a little too much water.
More on that as I learn.
FS judging feed on the left, Artistic on the right.
I'm
prevented from getting out in the trenches where a reporter should be
reporting from because I'm tethered to the judging area until all the
camera flyers have had a chance to use the copy station at least once.
But I will attempt a temporary escape or two!
I bleeping HATE Windows Update. I came back from a relief mission to a rebooting computer. Not good.
The France 4-Way Female gear was not just wet ... it was drenched, sogged, under water.
1045[T2]
Just spent the last few hours taking team photos, didn't get all of
them because some teams just went straight to the boarding area.
Heading back out to get some eye candy....
1100[T1] FS is progressing smoothly but AE has been paused while France's teams get their wet gear situation resolved.
Competispectators
will be pleased to know that with the Trude (IPC FS Subcommittee
Chair)'s blessing, I have removed the infernal "Judges Confirming" blue
screen from OmniSkore!HD.
Never liked it, always hated it. (It got put in at OSHD's FAI
evaluation last May at the instistance of the evaluators, and it
squelches a large percentage of the DZTV time.) Fortunately enough
competitors here complained during the first round this morning, and
Trude was one of those seeing how much frustration that screen was
causing. Happily gone now, and as it should be, the judges have to be
truly diligent about their procedures. Hooray for the FS judges for
going along with this. (The Artistic judges feel otherwise, but, that's
another story!)
1300After
two completed rounds of 4-way FS, Belgium continues to show their
prowess, and in the female, it looks like France and USA are going to
have a real battle for the gold....lunch time...
1830[T1]
We are back online after most of the afternoon without the Internet.
FreeFlying and 4-Way are complete through Round 3, 4-Way Female
and 8-Way through round 2, Freestyle almost done with Round 2 now,
VFS almost done with Round 1 ... and T2 down around 2pm. He and a
lot of other folks here have been hit with a bug, common speculation is
a food bug but that would just be speculation. Hope everyone recovers
as quickly. ([T2] Update - this bug stinks big-time, but the symptoms
resemble nothing more than an allergy attack on steroids times 10).
[T1
back] I have received several emails inquiring about the mp4 / video
links on our results pages and when will the videos be available.
Please understand that we do not create and upload those until (1) time
and computer resources permit, and (2) the FAI have uploaded theirs
first. The FAI owns the videos and I am lucky to have their permission
to use them, but only after they're taken care of first. So I beg your
patience.
1930The opening ceremonies are in progress. Very well done.
[T2]
Ya'll have a nice evening/morning, wherever you are. And please do
remember, the video links on the results pages won't work for a day or
two, and after losing half a day to illness I have some catching up to
do on team photos.
[T2ps] There are dozens and dozens (plus
two times ten!) drinking suds and watching the OS!HD jukebox outside.
The competitors are too busy competing to see the jumps during the day,
but when the sun sets and the beer lamp is on, it's a real viewing show
out there. A jolly good show indeed.
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