Greetings from Geneva. We’re over here doing the first webcast of the Magic The Gathering ProTour 2007 Season - for Wizards of the Coast. We’ll be webcasting five events this season, finishing up with Worlds in New York this December.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/events/protour

Yesterday we set up a large LAN for the Wizards staff, with wireless access points as well as an extensive cabled network. Event IT has turned out to be one of the more interesting aspects of working with Wizards. One has to work fast and be creative to work around the various restrictions placed on us by the venue and the show floor layout. Some venues are single large halls with pipe and drape “rooms” for staff - others, like this one, have rooms on multiple floors, so connecting everybody together is quite challenging.  The days are long, typically 12-14hrs, but the work is rewarding and interesting.
The main reason I’m here however, is for the webcast - on Sunday. It’ll begin at 2am Sunday morning (Pacific Standard Time) or 11am here in Geneva. It typically goes for 5-7hrs - so it may still be going when you get up Sunday morning. If you’d like to catch the finals - check it out then!

http://www.magicthegathering.com/webcast

- Aaron Booker

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