As everyone else has mentioned: Georgetown Cup was run excellently! Congrats to Alexis and everyone else at Gtown for great work. One classy touch: four pencils per team with "Georgetown Cup V" embossed on them. I concede that we won't be that cool at Penn State's tournament this weekend, but we'll have other perks for teams(plug plug plug) Beth Gaughan wrote: >The questions themselves for the most part were >well written. The distribution in the vandy packs > left something to be desired. WAY too much chem, > even the "biology" was bio-chem. Way to much >music not enough visual arts but i still enjoyed > myself. I would agree with some of this: I thought the questions were well written, with only one hose that nailed me (description of "paradigm" *buzz from Rob* - answer was Structure of scientific revolutions). Perhaps it is the fact that my last tournaments were Philly Experiment and NAQT ICT, but I didn't find the questions tough at the time. They were, of course - I just had expectations that were skewed to scoring 10 ppg. It seems like a trend in tournaments: that biology is becoming supplanted by biochemistry and molecular biology. I guess that is the way the science of biology is going too, so it isn't too surprising. Kind of tough for non-specialists though. Beth also wrote: >Congratualtions to my teammate Nick Rothfuss who >had a 95 pt game. I also had my best tournament >performance (non-invitational series to date), >improving in the last three rounds which >unfortanely didn't get into the official stats. Congrats to the winners, and to Bowling Green who gave us the nastiest loss of the tournament - looking forward to better and better things from your team. While we're praising our own teammates, I'm going to plug the three freshmen I brought with me to the tourney: Steve Segal, Samanth Iyer and Dev Thakur averaged all over 12 points per game each in their first tournament of ANY sort, and have currently written two good packets between them for NLIT. I agree with Matt, hard-core ACF'ing is great for the game (even if I'm rather soft-core myself). Also, congrats to UMCP, which proved once again that it is the school which consistently produces the best players - though often they are overshadowed by the wealth of talent at home and only shine once they graduate and leave. That's another little plug for our little tournament this weekend: while Gtown's tourney often seemed like a Maryland reunion, ours will be "99 44/100% UMCP-FREE" (TM). :-) We're going to let Adam play as the 0.56%.
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