Second Life grid lock-down could stop SurfLine competition

As many Second Life residents will know, resident logins were disabled by Linden Labs at about 10.30pm SLT (or PDT) Friday due to connectivity issues.

There was a temporary fix announced by Linden Labs at 3.30am and the grid was open until about 7.30am SLT, but then shut down again due to more technical issues. At 9.07am SLT, a forced log out of all users in-world was announced to allow Linden Labs to work on a solution. So, as of 10.20am SLT the grid is still closed for logins and all residents previously logged in have apparently been forced to log out.

Since the SLSA SurfLine Shortboard Pro competition is scheduled to start at 11am, this has obviously led to speculation about the competition. Naturally, there's no prospect of the competition starting if no one can log in. However, as far as SurfWatch is aware there is no intention to cancel the event just yet and there is a margin for delay possible here and, depending on SLSA decisions, it may well be that if the competition can not start exactly on time, it may be possible to delay for an hour or so and still hold the SurfLine event in its entirety.

SurfWatch suggests that you check these sites often for updates:

Second Life blog
SLSA Forum
SurfWatch

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