Match Game: Fretting Over Setup

[kevin_standlee]

Because the laser printer on my desk at work is better than the ink-jet printer at home, I intended to print questions for Match Game SF today. Because it's mostly a different audience and all but one of the panelists are different from BayCon, I plan to re-use some of the questions (sorry figmo!); however, some of the questions were highly BayCon-specific and I need new ones. Wouldn't you know that I left the bag of existing questions at home? Oh, well, I was probably going to have to re-print all of the questions anyway, because I have no blank 4 x 6 cards left, only the larger 5 x 8 cards I bought this week, so in order for the new questions to match the old, they'll all have to be reprinted. I have the files of the questions from BayCon; what I don't have -- again, left at home -- is the stock of more questions that T.A.R.D.I.S. wrote and gave to me when they gave me their game setup years ago. I'll manage.

One thing I need is to get the panelists together for a relatively short (15-30 minutes if BayCon is any indication) run-through on how the game works and what's expected of them. Then Lisa, announcer David Gallaher, and I need to do a somewhat longer technical rehearsal so that Lisa and Dave can get get comfortable with the equipment and reading the intros. It may seem simple, but it took us quite a while at BayCon to get things synced properly. The reason it may have looked smooth when we performed it was because we'd rehearsed it. Doing a live show is more difficult than a taped one where if you glitch, you can just go back and film it again.

Unfortunately, I don't have contact information for all of the panelists, so I'm going to have to try and round them up somehow at the con. As if I didn't have enough to do!

Comments

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

Fortunately there is nothing in the Pavilion before Match Game SF, so you can do a rehersal in situ.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

True; however, one of the key people for this is Dave Gallaher as the announcer, and he'll be tied to dinogrrl's table because she's in a panel at 11 AM. Maybe I'll have to do setup at 10 and do the tech rehearsal then, then get the panelists in at 11:30 or so, if their schedules can tolerate it -- I haven't checked them for any conflicts.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, it would seem that Nancy Holder won't be at con after Saturday. Don't have confirmation on that but she is no longer listed as a Match Game SF panelist on the program schedule. You may want to confirm with programming@conzilla.info, and alert your alternate.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

Ah. Here it is:

>
> Monday: 12 Noon:
> Pavilion Match Game: Remove Nancy Holder

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Hm, Cody Goodfellow was the alternate. I've asked that he be activated if he's available; otherwise, we'll have to scramble to add someone at the last minute.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

He's got a panel at 11am on Tuesday, but nothing afterwards.