Reading Bowl Crisis

Our state-level reading bowl competition is this Saturday. We got an email over the weekend letting us know the virtual competition will be held on Microsoft Teams- widely considered the worst online meeting platform. Also we don't have access to it and therefore can't practice using it. We tried to log into it and use it for over an hour this afternoon without success. The kids were so discouraged and frustrated. They feel like they might lose the competition not because they don't know the books well enough but because of technology. That really sucks.