Commencement Ceremony

by BRIAN TIVOL

195 yellow and blue "meteors" fell onto the crowd gathered in Lobby 7.
When examined, each proved to have a letter-number pair and a word on
it. If arranged in a grid (letters=X axis, numbers=Y axis), the words
read as follows:

TESTING ONE TWO THREE CONGRATULATIONS INTREPID SOLVERS LISTEN
EXTREMELY CAREFULLY BECAUSE EACH WORD MATTERS GREATLY FAILURE TO
FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS MAY HOWEVER SPELL DISASTER OOPS THERE GOES
NORMALVILLE STAY FOCUSED AVOIDING FAILURE THESE ROCKS ARE ATYPICAL OF
THOSE PUMMELING PRECIOUS NORMALVILLE FIRST OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE
COORDINATES WHICH NAME MATRIX POSITIONS PRECISELY SECOND THERE ARE
WORDS PRINTED ON EACH METEORITE THIRD THEY'RE SMALLER AROUND ORGANIZE
AN ARRAY ORGANIZE METEORITES ALPHABETICALLY LETTER A TOPMOST SORT
COLUMNS NUMBER BY NUMBER INCREASING AS YOU MOVE RIGHT LOOK AT THE GRID
FROM ABOVE QUOTE READ THIS QUOTE IS VISIBLE CLEARLY THAT MESSAGE ISN'T
IMPORTANT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE'S READING RIGHT NOW HOWEVER
THERE'S YET ANOTHER MESSAGE OKAY PLEASE FOLLOW MORE WRITTEN
INSTRUCTIONS FOCUSED AROUND TESTING YOUR MIND OKAY NOW STAY STILL
THAT'S IMPORTANT FIRST THE PRECIOUS SOLUTION HIDDEN CAREFULLY MAY LOOK
UNFAMILIAR SHAME SHAME SECOND WHILE UNFAMILIAR THIS HIDDEN SOLUTION
SHOULD CLEARLY SPELL SOMEONE'S NAME ANOTHER MATRIX MOVE STILL TO COME
CHECK ALL ROCKS MIND WHAT IS PRINTED WHENEVER WORDS WRITTEN READ LIKE
ONE DUPLICATED WORD THOSE LIKE METEORITES TRADE COORDINATES TWO OF A
KIND WILL HAVE SWAPPED LOCATIONS YOU HAVEN'T SWAPPED POSITIONS AS YET
FROM OUR READING PLEASE BEGIN CHOP CHOP

As an additional hint, the yellow meteors look like "READ THIS" in the
above arrangement.



Swapping the meteors per the instructions results in "DOUG INGLE" spelled out by the yellow rocks. The answer is DOUG INGLE.