Like the rest of the world, the Northwestern IT NUPredicts team was watching the Oscars last night. The prediction game was working just fine as the team rolled through the major awards, updated the leaderboard in real time, and keeping the game moving along. So, when the great screw up occurred, the Northwestern IT NUPredicts team had already put “La La Land” in and run the scores. After some immediate late night adjustments, re-running the scores, the correct winners were on the leaderboard. Despite best efforts we can’t anticipate all the issues that might come up when running a live game, we can only try and stay on top of it all, alot like Price Waterhouse…
