Monday, August 16, 2010
Video streams from the back room
There are also live video feeds from the room of the Scientific Committee, complete with amusing commentary. Head over to http://www.justin.tv/ioi2010.
Day 1 live scoreboard
With the practice round just over, tomorrow morning here will see the first day of competition begin. This will start around 8:30pm Monday night in Perth or 10:30pm Monday night on the East coast. The live scoreboard will be here. The contest will run for 5 hours into the dark of the night for .au. We're told that the live scoreboard is only a guide and may cease updating at any time.
Apparently anyone can play at home too with nothing but your brains and a mouse. See here for more detail.
And here's an action shot from today's practice contest! (just don't look too closely...)
Apparently anyone can play at home too with nothing but your brains and a mouse. See here for more detail.
And here's an action shot from today's practice contest! (just don't look too closely...)
Day 1 - Opening ceremony
So today was the first official day of the IOI. I began the day by waking up to a nuclear siren going off, our alarm for the next 7 days. After recovering from the shock, and having a quick shower where privacy comes after economy, me and Evgeny went to the breakfast hall and had breakfast with the English. We then met Bernard while heading back to our rooms, who instructed us to wake the others up and get them dressed in their blazers, so that we could catch a bus instead of walking. We decided to neglect the detail that there was multiple buses, so Kenneth and Robert had fun rushing up to breakfast only to find that there was no real need.
The opening ceremony itself was quite good. They began by having a Canadian Celtic band play, who were quite good. Then they replaced it with multiple people welcoming us to the IOI in different languages, and finally the main organiser, Troy, spoke for a while about the importance of this in our lives. Then a trick/comedy duo performed, which was slightly entertaining, but clearly pitched to a different audience. After this, we were entertained by cheerleaders, which again was quite awkward and we the audience did not appreciate maybe as much as others would have. Finally, a boy archipelago group sang several songs, which was easy to listen to.
After the ceremony, Robert was interviewed by Canada National Television, and showed his true bogan side to them. We also got Peter Taylor, the head of AMT, to have an intimate time with the cheerleaders, as can be seen in some of the photos. After this, we headed back to the university, for lunch and the practise session.
For lunch, the queue was incredibly long, meaning we were almost late to the practise session. In the session, we played tetris and minesweeper, printed off documents with the text "Please hand to the hottest guy in the room". The problems presented we had all seen before, meaning me and Evgeny got off to a perfect start to the IOI, hopefully a good sign for tomorrow.
After the problem session, we went and had some dinner as we were all incredibly tired, and so afterwards played a bit of Bartog before meeting with Bernard to discuss the final changes before the leaders went into quarantine. During this the Internet was shut down, which is why this is posted the day after it had all happened.
The opening ceremony itself was quite good. They began by having a Canadian Celtic band play, who were quite good. Then they replaced it with multiple people welcoming us to the IOI in different languages, and finally the main organiser, Troy, spoke for a while about the importance of this in our lives. Then a trick/comedy duo performed, which was slightly entertaining, but clearly pitched to a different audience. After this, we were entertained by cheerleaders, which again was quite awkward and we the audience did not appreciate maybe as much as others would have. Finally, a boy archipelago group sang several songs, which was easy to listen to.
After the ceremony, Robert was interviewed by Canada National Television, and showed his true bogan side to them. We also got Peter Taylor, the head of AMT, to have an intimate time with the cheerleaders, as can be seen in some of the photos. After this, we headed back to the university, for lunch and the practise session.
For lunch, the queue was incredibly long, meaning we were almost late to the practise session. In the session, we played tetris and minesweeper, printed off documents with the text "Please hand to the hottest guy in the room". The problems presented we had all seen before, meaning me and Evgeny got off to a perfect start to the IOI, hopefully a good sign for tomorrow.
After the problem session, we went and had some dinner as we were all incredibly tired, and so afterwards played a bit of Bartog before meeting with Bernard to discuss the final changes before the leaders went into quarantine. During this the Internet was shut down, which is why this is posted the day after it had all happened.
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