I wrote a script and ran it against the database to fix all the discrepancies.

I thought Div 3 had more caption points now?

As per the chart on page 7 of the handbook, Divisions 3 and below all are allotted 120 points.

i mis understood a previous reply sorry

This is just a heads-up to all the directors out there that 68 directors (over one-third) have yet to fulfill their caption and schedule obligations. We could see a lot of division moving next week if this number does not dramatically decrease. The same thing happened last year and the year before, and I take it very personally as a slap in the face for all the hard work we put into this. I know some have valid reasons, but most just don't bother, and that really gets to me.

Scheduling and Caption picking will be locked at 12AM EDT. During this time I will be deleting all the "no-shows" (fantasy corps whose directors failed to either pick captions or at least 20 shows) and bumping mucho fantasy corps up a division. As it stands now, there will be 5 divisions, with Division 5 having just over 25 fantasy corps. I will adjust everyone's schedules in the database to make sure you are placed in the correct (updated) divisions at your competitions. There are 4,381 entries in the schedule database, so it may take me a while.

For those of you moving into a division that gets you more caption points, don't fret, you and everyone else will be able to change your captions up until opening day. I will unlock caption picking and make an announcement once I am finished moving everyone to their new divisions.

I have finished deleting all no-shows -- 49 in total -- from the database. I have bumped several fantasy corps up a division, and in some cases, two. We have 5 divisions, with Division 5 having 34 fantasy corps.

No further editing of schedules is neccessary. What you have now is your final schedule.

For those that have moved from Division 3 to Division 2 or from Division 2 to Division 1, you now have more points to spend on captions.

I had planned on re-opening caption editing after I was done editing the database, however my ISP is experiencing problems that keep me from directly accessing the Drumlines.org server. I can access the server through a proxy server; however, I have my FTP service setup in a way that prevents me from accessing it through a proxy. I will try to connect later before I go to bed. If it is still not working, I should be able to connect from work later sometime after 2:30PM. I will reply to this post when I have re-opened caption editing.

PS - Just as my ISP went haywire, I was transferring files. I was tranferring the showonecorps.fdc file at the time. Because of this, this file is blank on the server. I will remedy this once I can attain an FTP connection to my server.

Seems as if my ISP got their crap together. Caption editing is back open for business until opening day.