Illinois links: Preview, FFFF Offense, Defense. Primer on the Tampa 2 defense.

New features this week: Bobby tweaked the mana and focused on some bugs, for example the universal translator now picks up Breen. I used the new DELAY function for Rutgers because my stream was about 1 minute off—it was good for protecting me but makes it hard to participate in the liveblog.

To use it, see the settings button next to your three little men. Go there, and change that to however many seconds you need.

FAQ:

The yellow/ orange bar is your mana. 
Sending messages costs mana. 
Messages cost more, the more active chat is. 
The red dudes on the side bar are lives remaining.

If you break the Board Rules, you lose a life. Lose three lives and you have to insert a quarter into your monitor. No no keep trying it, it’ll go in. As always, the Liveblog Chaos Mitigation Post is The Law.

Enter the liveblog here: http://kibitz.io/#/illinois

(will open in new window. Sorry no embed yet. Tuesday.)