I was assigned to the stats team for the next qualifying session.
Lucy and I were sitting at the stats team table with our laptops open. We watched the first games on the large LED screens before the score runner delivered the scorecards to us.
A wave of scorecards would show up once in a while, Lucy and I would input the scores on a Google Spreadsheet.
There was more downtime towards the end of the session.
I got to watch the qualifying session on the main stage during the downtime.
The new qualifying format made the qualifying round more exciting to watch. It pushed players to play aggressively on the Killscreen levels because there was no score cap.
This format also didn’t heavily penalize players for taking breaks. At one point, I saw Alex T and iBall taking a break and casually chatting with each other.
After the qualifying session ended, Lucy checked the scores for each player to see if they matched the scores on the clipboard that the judges filled out. There was a way to easily do that in the spreadsheet. There were no issues with the scores submitted.
With that, I was done with my task for the day.
