[Rick TYler]

I'm going to be Scorekeeper for the new Seattle Regional, and spent last Saturday at the scoring station in Portland. The rules for this game are, as we all know, brutally complicated. Combine difficult rules with volunteers who don't get to spend years honing their craft like Major League umpires do, you are going to get inconsistent calls. The only real solution is to play the same game every year so that the officials become as expert as professional officials. Short of that, training and careful attention to detail are the best we can do.

For one, this might be a cautionary tale about games with complex rules. Aim High was a piece of cake by comparison. I'm sure the GDC will include this kind of feedback in developing future competitions. Meanwhile, I'm going back to studying the scorekeeping software. Frankly, I'm really afraid of it...