Clearly, this young'un hasn't grasped the concept of a summertime Masters tournament, yet. The idea isn't to make rising sophomores feel good about themselves. Rather, it's about providing a challenging playing field for the legends of the game. Anyone else who wants to throw their hat in the ring is welcome, but they do so at their own peril. I thought the questions were of an appropriate difficulty level. Sure, Tom and I went undefeated, but we had several close games--including a real nail-biter with runners-up Hentzel and Hillemann. The questions were hard, but gettable. Importantly, they were consistent in difficulty level--both tossups and bonuses. I've been competing in these summertime Opens since the summer of 1984. This was certainly the least "up-and-down" one (if the hardest) I've ever been to. Kudos to Andrew for an excellently written tournament. Finally, one should not confuse this weekend's tournament with ACF, as the youngster obviously did. This was not an ACF event, but a tournament written by Andrew Yaphe who happens to be the president of ACF. Furthermore, ACF doesn't strive to make all of its questions this hard. After all, ACF packets are aimed at college student teams, not the wizzened graybeards who dust themselves off for these summertime Clashes of Titans. Albert Whited
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