The “ease” of the online bracket
Yakko wants to fill out a tournament bracket online. He sees the ad that you can do it for free on SportsLine. He even works hard to get ready for school early so we have about 20 minutes extra. It turns out that signing up for the bracket is “easy.” All you have to do is:
1. Go to sportsline.com
2. Click twice for the same action (the link on the front goes to a page that contains nothing but a link to the actual game).
3. Enter your sportline ID
4. Except you don’t remember your sportsline ID, or even if you have a sportsline ID, so sign up for a new one
5. Except the username you chose is already in use, more or less confirming that you have already signed up at some point
6. Search gmail for your welcome email from sportsline. Fail to find it.
7. Go back to the sportsline tab, and have them send you the password, which apparently you didn’t get to pick because it’s not something you would ever have purposefully made your password.
8. Finally get signed up and go through to the bracket (interesting to note that you can’t continue signup without inviting at least one other email address to receive unsolicited mail from sportsline)
9. The text says you won’t get a “save” button until after the entire bracket is complete. But then after you fill out the whole thing, you find from reading the info box at the top that it doesn’t think you’ve filled out the first region, even though you have. Thus, no save button.
10. Take your son to school, hoping you can get it figured out when you have more than 20 minutes to spare.
This is why there will always be a demand for paper copies of tournament brackets.
March 12th, 2007 - Posted in Homelife | |
