No matter what happens in the tournament, I definitely struck the first blow today by getting to the front of that queue half an hour ago. People are filing in to an increasingly cramped green room and I’m sitting comfortably and smugly at the back of the room with my laptop on one of the few tables. The mix of people is interesting. I reckon I might be one of the youngest. While I can’t tell who are the players and who are the spectators, 80% of the people here are 30-50 with a sprinkling of oldies and smaller sprinkling of 20-somethings. I don’t know why but I expected this to be a internet-kid event. The vast majority of the field are men with just a couple of women – one will be at my table.

I just caught a glimpse of Michael Craig with whom I’m looking forward to speaking. He seemed busy doing stuff in the lobby so I didn’t bother him.

 


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