There's been a whole assfull of anonymous posts on the boards these
last couple weeks. If you're going to come out here and call us all
chumpmonkeys, at least have the balls to say who you are. It's easy,
and I would say cowardly, to insult people from behind the veil of
anonymity.
Also, there's good reason to discuss tournaments online in a public
forum, and there's good reason to address perceived injustices in
the forums too. I wasn't at ACF Nats but I can certainly sympathize
with Vanderbilt's situation. If something was done poorly, I think
the community deserves to hear about it, and we benefit from
learning about the mistakes of others. The Vanderbilt/Harvard
situation will hopefully benefit the circuit by emphasizing the
importance of having a tiebreaker policy in place, which not every
tournament does. Likewise, if a tournament was run exceptionally
well (like the NAQT ICT [at least the DII matches], regardless of
any of its other shortcomings) we should all hear about that as well
so we can get a better feel for how tournaments ought to be run.
Jerry