yeah, being a setter is definitely a tough job. It really seems like they’re always everywhere on court.
What position did you play?
I played competitively for 18 years for my hometown. Started when I was ten 'cause a colleague of my mum was managing the club. “You’re tall; don’t you want to play?!” boom - next friday i was in the gym. 
The last years I was having problems with my knees though, so I had to stop when it was getting too much. Also it was taking a lot of time going back and forth when I switched cities for uni and i was at a point where I thought i wanted to try some other sports as well.
Haikyuu definitely reminded my though why i played for so long and love it so much, so i’m back to playing a bit at my uni’s sports programme (not right now though 'cause corona -.-).
thanks for having me, that was fun! I’ll be ready next week to help with translation
Ooo, that’s cool. You must have lots of great stories from the 18 years you played competitively! And the “You’re tall, don’t you want to play?!” 
I totally get you.
I played DS (I also call it ‘digging specialist’ 
). The teams I played were not very competitive, so I got to play front row a bit and enjoyed that too. But since I’m short, I was better at digging and diving.
Btw, Tokyo 2021 is starting soon, maybe we could follow the volleyball coverage and do a watch party sometimes for fun.
added this week’s sign up sheet. Grouped together the crowd and single-line aoba josei players (just kunimi and yahaba i think) and marked everyone with less than 5 sentences of dialogue. We’ll have to double up again this week, but I’ll wait until people claim their first choice.
So I just got to this part (p.103): オープン攻撃:山なりに高く上げたトスを打つオーソドックスな攻撃
And I thought I’d give a bit more of background info:
Summary
What’s happening here is, that their receive wasn’t really good and Kageyama will have to do the toss from an unusual position. Because the ball from the receive won’t come to his usual setting position between 2 and 3. So what you usually do is to play it safe and do a toss which the spikers can still hit relatively easy even if it doesn’t get to them perfectly. Usually you’d set it in a high and long arch to one of the wing spikers (when you’re far enough in the back sometimes also to position 6), so they got enough time to adjust to the toss and probably still have some flexibilty on how they hit the ball over the net.
But with that easier toss it’s also pretty clear to the opposing blockers where they might expect an attack and, due to the long and high toss, have some time to plan where to set their defense.
question when it comes to the sign-up sheet: what’s the difference between the part 1 and part 2 columns?
Honestly, they’re a holdover from when we had more people than manga characters to read for, so we’d split characters into two halves. Now that the cast of each chapter has expanded to where there’s more characters than readers, they don’t really serve a purpose but I just haven’t bothered to remove them.
However, if you did want to read for one of the characters already taken, you could sign up for part 2, and that would mean you’d read that character for the second half of the chapter.
@caraage @BarelyFragile Thank you both!
Different question, to the group or to @rainysunday, I tried to fix the poll but couldn’t figure out how to make it display within the details panel. Do we still want the poll, and does it have to be behind the Hide Details panel?
That’s actually an old poll from before we started Vol 2, everyone who voted to join the read-alouds chose to keep the same time schedule.
So no worries about fixing the poll for now, thanks for checking. For Vol 2, we’re all set. For Vol 3, we may repoll if there’s any request.
Finally added this week’s read-aloud sheet. I spent a while debating whether or not I should split the aoba josai players outside of Kindaichi, but with the length of the character list as it is it seemed unnecessary.
The opposite team coach has some pretty fat dialogue, just warning whoever takes him. He pulls a Daichi in this chapter pretty hard.
So that’s become a fixed expression now. XD
should this be an instance of using the part 1 and 2 split to divide the work?
If you want to! There are no fixed rules for this. Currently, the people who want to read a character sign up for part 1 (if it’s available), and leave part 2 for someone else to sign up for. If no one signs up for part 2, then the person who signed up for part 1 reads the whole thing. Otherwise, they split it, no hard feelings.
I’m a bit late, but if you want to we can split the character between the two of us? I didn’t want to sign up for him because he speaks non-stop & too much, but doing half of it sounds alright! (Obv, if you want to take his whole dialogue feel free to do so ^^)
He talks for 4 pages first, gets interrupted, and then talks again for a few pages, so we can split it during the “intermission”. I’ll take Takeda too since he has a small role!
Splitting it works for me! I’ll take which part hasn’t been signed up for yet (will check after I post this). I’ll take the other bit parts too (aoba players + crowd)
As it’s already thursday, I just aded this week’s read-aloud sheet. I tried sorting a bit for who speaks how much.
Thanks @JuiceS.
This week is flying by so fast for me, haven’t gotten the chance to read the chapter yet…
No problem. I’m unexpectedly early in reading this week as I was procrastinating on some other stuff. ^^’
Hi pals! It’s the end of Thursday for me, so I figured I’d put up the read-aloud sheet for chp 15.
It’s a heavy Takeda episode in the first half. Busy teacher’s first big speech!
then Oikawa speaks his mind in the second.
I grouped the list more or less by number of lines.
I’m not able to join on the 24th, so I’m glad I could contribute this.