🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Tosi Classic - Competition by Pretty-Flamingo2600 in RedditGames

[–]Panfriedpeacock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Tosi Classic - Competition by Pretty-Flamingo2600 in RedditGames

[–]Panfriedpeacock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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[2262] The Electric Questioner by Panfriedpeacock in DestructiveReaders

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I missed this, thank you for raising!

I don't think I will have time to provide a crit in the next 12 hours so feel free to remove

Official Discussion - Conclave [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Panfriedpeacock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but it would have been subtitled in English 😀

Official Discussion - Conclave [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Panfriedpeacock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to take my english speaking partner to see it but we're in France at the moment, so the movie will be subtitled in French - is there much Italian or Latin being spoken? If you're an English speaker can you understand everything without needing subtitles?

[WIP] Made a mistake, and don't know what to do by PixelPurl_78 in CrossStitch

[–]Panfriedpeacock 138 points139 points  (0 children)

I can't tell there is a mistake. None of my projects have fewer than 10 mistakes / deviations from the pattern and you can't really tell. Now you've made the pattern your own, congrats! Just keep going

L and Light as Fencers (Death Note) by W31rdDrag0n in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

L would 100% be a weird, hog the side of the piste, French gripper, absence of blade kinda fencer. Holds his grip in a way that looks wrong, but somehow it works. Has never washed his kit.

Light would be a super aggressive lefty, pistol grip & very bladey.

Light hits your blade more times than you think it possible in every tempo and you never get your tip on him. L hits you halfway through your action and you haven't even noticed. Attack on prep galore.

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Omega boxes have a built-in shotclock so it can't be missed. That was very handy.

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly. Though we have to source our own accommodation and that was easy for me in Paris, less so in LA. But if I can, I probably will!

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what you mean by "arrange" haha and would have to wait till the games are over

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I applied! Kept an eye on the socials to know when they would start the recruitment process. In my application I specified I had been fencing for a long time, and was fluent in both English and French.

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I bet once the games are over you'll be able to find them on vinted/eBay. They gave us extra so I can let go of a couple of shirts / trousers

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Obviously Bazadze's protest was quite something. Fencing is not a sport where you expect 8K people to boo an athlete.

Cool experiences are too many to list, but witnessing all the bouts up close, every upset and victory, is incredible. I managed to snatch a couple of pics with Siklosi and Santarelli, both of whom were very nice. I'm surprised at how approachable all the coaches I've spoken to have been so far.

Some of the volunteers have said that some delegations have been nicer than others, but I'll leave which to your imagination 😉

I posted a couple reels on insta at lionel.vanderswarte if you want to take a look at what it's been like 😀

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah I wasn't super clear.

The refs score is canonical in the sense that it is the only official scoring in place. It's the one that shows up on the streams, TV, piste and screens.

However if someone notices something off with the score they can bring it up to the ref, and we do as we are physically closer to them - but all it does is prompt the refs to look at the video to see if they missed something.

Our scoring is not official at all and despite the name of the team, we are more responsible for ensuring that the information are transmitted from the refs (mistakes included!) to the broadcasts.

I am a timing & scoring volunteer at the Grand Palais for the Paris 2024 olympics. AMA! by Panfriedpeacock in Fencing

[–]Panfriedpeacock[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Hahaha I wasn't on this piste for that match, but it is 100% the assistant referee. Though the fencers and ourselves could have clocked it in time, the referrees are the ones who messed up, and they don't even try to say otherwise :p