kenmatthews

Hi Bill, it used to be on the NROI page, bottom center a link called "Course Design Tools" . I think there were a couple .zip files there at one time, but I just went to that link and now it just contains a .PDF with stage design guidelines. Hope this helps, Ken

Hi, this is my first post to the benoverse, but I worked as RO/scorekeeper for this match, and have some comments about what I've learned working and shooting my first level 2 match. I worked stage 6 -- Partial Amnesia, and let me tell you my wife was not happy to see her bookshelf after you guys finished shooting through it. <grin>. I had the dubious distinction of being the first DQ of the match -- somewhere around 11:00 AM on Friday morning. So in a sense I won that division, I guess. Nevertheless, I had a blast the whole weekend (thanks for letting me play with you guys Alex). I gotta tell you those Kindle Nooks were giving me a fit on Saturday, to the point that I was ready to take up frisbee golf with darned thing. But then in between squads, I took it to Lee Neel and after he described how the machine worked and opined that maybe it was a dust problem, things were OK. Well, not OK, but at least then I knew what to do if it started to nut up on me. Oh, and I didn't catch your name, but if you were the shooter (with the big cut on your index finger) who helped me try to turn the display back from landscape to portrait among other things, thank you... thank you... thank you. It turned out that dust was causing the infrared sensors to get confused, and when I learned that, I could just blow out the sensors when it started to get erratic about every third shooter, and things would work just fine. And before the match started on Saturday, I had loaned a compressed gas duster to a shooter, which I repossessed when he happened by and after that I no longer had to hyperventilate every third shooter. On Sunday whenever we didn't have any shooters wallowing in the mud on 6, I went over to help scorekeep in the mud on stage 7 since there were only two RO's there. And while there I managed to score one shooter to the wrong person. I felt even worse about that than I did when I DQ'ed, and kept berating myself about it because I couldn't figure out how it happened. I apologize to that shooter, but we were able to catch the error and recreate his score for that stage (11.86 HP) from the paper copy. If the shooter I did that to is reading this, I'm sorry for the stress I caused you. But then I want back to stage 6 for another squad and a single raindrop came in and hit the face of the Nook at an oblique angle changing the page at the same time I selected a shooter, and the shooter that ended up being selected was not the one intended. I saw that one as it happened, so then I had the rest of the story about that failure mode. The next major match I work, here's what I'll do differently: I'll try not to DQ. I'm going to use a sharpie to number the back of the targets in scoring order so that if there's a problem, I can say "scoring target number..." when there's a technical issue. I did that anayway at this match, but it took probably 25 shooters before I remembered which target of the 16 on my stage was which. It would have been easier with a big number on the back. I'll make sure I have a fresh compressed gas duster. And maybe I'll suggest to the match director that some pasters are issued to the squads as well as those that are issued to the stages. If the shooters have a stash of their own pasters things won't stop if the stage runs out of paster. Best Regards, Ken

Hi, this is my first post to the benoverse, but I worked as RO/scorekeeper for this match, and have some comments about what I've learned working and shooting my first level 2 match. I worked stage 6 -- Partial Amnesia, and let me tell you my wife was not happy to see her bookshelf after you guys finished shooting through it. <grin>. I had the dubious distinction of being the first DQ of the match -- somewhere around 11:00 AM on Friday morning. So in a sense I won that division, I guess. Nevertheless, I had a blast the whole weekend (thanks for letting me play with you guys Alex). I gotta tell you those Kindle Nooks were giving me a fit on Saturday, to the point that I was ready to take up frisbee golf with darned thing. But then in between squads, I took it to Lee Neel and after he described how the machine worked and opined that maybe it was a dust problem, things were OK. Well, not OK, but at least then I knew what to do if it started to nut up on me. Oh, and I didn't catch your name, but if you were the shooter (with the big cut on your index finger) who helped me try to turn the display back from landscape to portrait among other things, thank you... thank you... thank you. It turned out that dust was causing the infrared sensors to get confused, and when I learned that, I could just blow out the sensors when it started to get erratic about every third shooter, and things would work just fine. And before the match started on Saturday, I had loaned a compressed gas duster to a shooter, which I repossessed when he happened by and after that I no longer had to hyperventilate every third shooter. On Sunday whenever we didn't have any shooters wallowing in the mud on 6, I went over to help scorekeep in the mud on stage 7 since there were only two RO's there. And while there I managed to score one shooter to the wrong person. I felt even worse about that than I did when I DQ'ed, and kept berating myself about it because I couldn't figure out how it happened. I apologize to that shooter, but we were able to catch the error and recreate his score for that stage (11.86 HP) from the paper copy. If the shooter I did that to is reading this, I'm sorry for the stress I caused you. But then I want back to stage 6 for another squad and a single raindrop came in and hit the face of the Nook at an oblique angle changing the page at the same time I selected a shooter, and the shooter that ended up being selected was not the one intended. I saw that one as it happened, so then I had the rest of the story about that failure mode. The next major match I work, here's what I'll do differently: I'll try not to DQ. I'm going to use a sharpie to number the back of the targets in scoring order so that if there's a problem, I can say "scoring target number..." when there's a technical issue. I did that anayway at this match, but it took probably 25 shooters before I remembered which target of the 16 on my stage was which. It would have been easier with a big number on the back. I'll make sure I have a fresh compressed gas duster. And maybe I'll suggest to the match director that some pasters are issued to the squads as well as those that are issued to the stages. If the shooters have a stash of their own pasters things won't stop if the stage runs out of paster. Best Regards, Ken