Be prepared for the Winter Scripting Games, 3, 2, 1, Go!

1. Read the 2014 Winter SG Players Guide
   
2. Sharpen your skills by:
• Taking the following courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) with Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell and MVP Jason Helmick:
• Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start
• Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start
• Watching on youtube the free HD videos MVP Don Jones made for SAPIEN: use this link
• Reading books like Mike did


Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches

• Checking the event titles and trying to guess what it could be about (registry, log files, active directory, acl,…). Learn more on The Event Authors by following this link
• Reviewing previous years preparation study guides written by Ed Wilson, the Hey Scripting Guy

2012 Scripting Games Study Guide: A Resource for Learning PowerShell

• Reading the PowershellTips monthly volumes using this link
3. Be timely informed by
• Reading anything from this thread http://powershell.org/wp/category/announcements/scripting-games/ (everything you need to know is there!)
• Following coaches and judges (both RSS feed and twitter accounts)

Introducing the Coaches of the 2014 Winter Scripting Games

• Following the twitter hashtag #PSHGames
4. Prepare your toolbox
• By getting the latest version of PowerShell

Scripting Games FAQ: PowerShell Versions
How to Install Windows PowerShell 4.0

• By testing some collaboration tools to see how you’ll collaborate with your teammates: GitHub, PoshCode.org, IRC, TFS, Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive, DropBox,…
5. Last but not least be on time
• Review the games schedule
• As it’s up to you to translate UTC times in your local time, have some nifty pieces of code ready

# When will event 1 start in my local time zone?            
(Get-Date '2014-01-19 01:00:00').ToLocalTime()            
            
# How long until event 1 is due?            
New-TimeSpan -End ([datetime]'2014-01-26 01:00:00').ToLocalTime()

Don’t forget to have fun 😎

PS: …and if you don’t have time and/or aren’t on holidays, do at least what’s written in green (point 1. and 3.1).