Now I have a question for you. I have a spreadsheet that tells me everyones current live scores as the match progresses. How the hell do you guys keep everything updated? It took me forever to manually type out everyones predictions for the last match into my spreadsheet. Is there a quicker way that you guys use that I'm overlooking? Like a way I could just copy and paste everything or something?

Yeah, we did everything with a spreadsheet up until the Villains contest, when there were less people than now... it still took a lot of time. For summer 2005, I made a MySQL database and wrote a Python script that parses the topic and puts all the predictions in the database. That's why we're so picky about things like percent signs. Entering predictions is MUCH faster than before now. The web site runs of the same database so we don't really have to update the site (just put everything in the DB).

It would be nice to have live updating scores on the site... I'm not sure if Morgoth wants to do any more work on that site right now though. =)
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Experiment status report update: Metroid project 'Dread' is nearing the final stages of completion.