Welcome to oil country: Houston, Texas!

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So we flew in this afternoon to Houston, the largest city in Texas. We're here to compete in a Marketing Case Competition - against the other Top 10 US Business Schools - prizemoney of $5,000 for the winning team!

To get our energy, I insisted that we visit these famous Texan BBQ places. 2 pounds of beef brisket, 2 pounds of ribs, and a pound of chicken and sausage later, we were stuffed! Only to find that the organisers had planned the same thing for us to eat at dinner 4 hours later ... (here's our team before we'd eaten anything!)

... it's now 4am Texas time. We got the case 6 hours ago and we're deep into analysis and problem structuring. 14 hours left to prepare! :)