Overlooking the obvious
This is how the home screen for ESPN’s 2007 Men’s [NCAA Basketball] Tournament Challenge game looked yesterday afternoon (I saved it because I had a feeling I’d be writing about it today). Read it carefully:
There are more than 3 million active brackets in the game, and players are allowed up to five entries, which means at least 600,000 people (but probably more like 2 million, since lots of people only do one) have been repeatedly logging in through that page for almost 24 hours.
Here’s how it looks this morning:
As you can see, they have recognized the problematic text but made only two changes: “see if you will win $10,000″ in the first sentence and boss’s to boss’ in the last one. The first change helps, but still doesn’t totally fix the sentence; the second change is wrong.
Nobody cares, of course, unless their (my) brackets aren’t doing well and they (I) need something to complain about.
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