9, 10 and 11 were Vandy, Emory A and FSU I think...(I know that Vanderbilt lost to both of the above in the playoffs but I think their record coming in from their bracket was such that they still came out ahead...I'm not sure about after that....Florida won the bottom bracket I think---at least they kicked everyone's butts in the playoffs--depends on their record going in... Many, many kudos to Raj for another fun and well-edited ACF Nationals...something that really stood out was the internal consistency in the bonus difficulty...I think this is generally one of the hardest things to accomplish in QB...the Bhanster pulled it off (a couple packets were quite a bit more difficult than the rest (Wesley Matthews' and the first round of the playoffs) but they were still internally consistent (except for the one softball mimicry bonus), which is all one can ask for). Whoever wrote the Adrian Leverkuhn tossup, you are to be commended...one of the best tossups I have ever heard... The only real screwups--the bracketing was lopsided--I think that was obvious going in and is confirmed in the results...perhaps use bonus conversion from regionals as a way to prevent this? The A bracket was clearly stronger from top to bottom--even more so at the bottom end... The writers and editor did an excellent job of avoiding qb-oldies in the lead-ins...one exception was the Dean Acheson tossup... Victor Emmanuel III was not the last king of Italy...Umberto (Humbert) II ruled for one month in 1946...although the bonus part at issue was clearly looking for Victor Emmanuel III this is the kind of factual error that writers can easily avoid with a little research... (Umberto II is still alive and recently returned to Italy for 4 hours in order to meet the pope, caused a bit of a stir)... all in all, great job all concerned, nathan freeburg
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