Re: Michigan State Tournament

• From: nmeyvis
• Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:33:59 -0800
• Message-ID: <000S978ON.0004LQ474.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Hi again... hopefully more than three of us care
about the Michigan State Tournament...

Here at
DCDS, we have practices (very informal) every day at
lunch, on a show-up-if-you-can basis. Nothing formal
(Coach J isn't into that kind of stuff).

Andy
(not Alex) Goldsweig graduated (along with his
astounding stores of knowledge) last year and went to MIT
(along with 2 other members of the qb team).

Boy,
that 1998 final was quite the title game. First of
all,
I'd like to disagree with you and say that we were
*already* well in the midst of a nervous breakdown. Thank
God they called that timeout. I was the freshman
having a nervous breakdown and desparately praying on
the sidelines. The rest, of course (3 tossups with
bonus conversions in a row, the last with time running
out), after the timeout, is history. And I don't think
my heart has recovered yet.

Oh, and if I may,
one more gripe about the tournament: there are a
moderator and a scorekeeper in every room, and that's
great, but they are the *only* people to protest to. And
their decisions are final. So if you're protesting a
history question in a room with a science teacher and a
random person from Dan LeGrow's staff, you're out of
luck. (last year: "amnionic sac" was deemed
unacceptable for "amnion" because they just didn't know
anything about it).

Yeah, I would like to see a
broader Port Huron canon with less: repeats, social
science, grammar, vocab definitions, African geography,
geology, binary math, etc., etc.

Oh, and we just
qualified for States again today (we'd only been to two
tourneys this year)... so watch out. :)

--Nate