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It's Chris Dickson!


11 April 2000

 

MSO's Webmaster Extraordinaire



Name:
Chris M. Dickson

Age and Location:
b. 23/10/75, Middlesbrough, England

Education:
BA Hons Mathematical Science, Oxford University

Blood Group:
7-Up positive


Position:
Webmaster. That can mean lots of things, but in my case:
  • I deal with your e-mail and make sure it gets to the right place
  • I produce the IQ quizzes and puzzles sections
  • I organise the creative thinking and trivia contests
  • I organise, promote and act as MSO_Admin at most of the chat sessions
  • I pick the Link of the Week each week and devise the polls
  • I organise the message boards
  • I produce the index, updates and site map pages
  • I produce most of the Mind Sports Olympiad section of the site
  • I do lots of other behind-the-scenes stuff (ie I make a damn fine cup of coffee).

Mindsports background and achievements:
When not seen playing the "rushing around the Mind Sports Olympiad trying to keep up with everything that's going on" mind sport, here are my MSO achievements:

  • Third last, "Hare and Tortoise" event at MSO I. (Technically there were only three entrants so I won the Gold medal which makes me reigning World Champion but third last is more accurate.)
  • Bronze medal, Puzzle Design (Brainteasers) event at MSO II.
  • 4/6, Entropy event at MSO III. Yes, things are going downhill.
  • I keep up with the latest board games in order to get a head start in the tournaments at MSO XXXIV. I run face-to-face tournaments in "The Settlers of Catan".
  • Keen player and organiser of games by mail. Once managed to keep a game of Nomic running for about nine months before it inevitably imploded due to over-complexity (and due a requirement to find Japanese and Russian translations for the ruleset).
  • Lousy game designer. Lousy games or lousy designer? Both.

Most unusual job I ever had:
Do you ever wonder where the wrong answers for multiple-choice questions come from? Someone's got to make them up. There are 1500 multiple choice questions floating about in the world where that someone was me.

Comments:
I have one of the UK's largest collections of game show video tapes with exhibits from five decades and five continents... and counting. After all, game shows are just made-for-TV mind sports, right?

Enthusiastic but untalented participant at laser games and ten-pin bowling. Once managed a perfect game at ten-pin bowling, scoring zero - "actually, that came at the end of a 32-ball missing streak, but I was only eleven at the time".


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