Now that my first experience at such a uniquely formatted tournament is over, I can say I had a good time at Chicago's Deep Bench this past weekend. Questions were good for the most part (with the exception of two packets), but were definitely on the trashy and easy side. All the same, I was proud to get the Treaty of Adrianople twice (the only repeat I can remember, nice work editors). All in all, I was surprised at how smoothly everything went. Thanks for the Giordano's pizza, and for the good questions. The one thing I did notice was that 20 tossups seemed a bit too small to constitute an entire game and to get an accurate measure of who was the better team on the distribution. Take for example, the fact that winning a game on 20 tossups alone during the singles/doubles was worth just as much as having won a game of 20/20 during the quads. Probably having something on the order of 10-20 more tossups per round in the second half of the tournament would have made it truly excellent. In any event, I'd like to thank Peter O and all of the staff at Chicago for making this experience enjoyable and allowing us to get home at a very decent hour, a rare exception these days. Sudheer Treasurer, UIUC ABT
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