Re: Best Players

james_g_blaine_4prez <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Tue, 06 May 2003 18:27:06 -0000

I disagree with Joon on several points. Pretty much every point, 
actually. Specifically:

I think Jeff Hoppes is the best active player on the West 
Coast—he puts up fantastic numbers at every tournament. At 
NAQT Sectionals, he personally had more powers and less 
negs than my whole team. He beats science players to science, 
myth players to myth, and reads Latvian national epics in his 
spare time.

I am certainly not the best science on the circuit, let alone the 
West Coast. Joon, Raj Bhan and Paul Lujan are the  first people 
who come to mind when I think, "best science players on the 
circuit." There are plenty of great non-West Coast science 
players I'm skipping, but I don't see them play much. Similarly, I 
don't think I'm the best myth player on the circuit. Maybe on the 
West Coast, but then there's only 3 or 4 myth players out here.

The team I played on at ACF Nationals, much like the team I 
played on at Michigan's Auspicious Incident, did not have any 
one person leading it to victory—we all rode each other's 
coattails.

Since Joon was at both Austpicious Incident and NAQT 
Nationals, I am surprised at his claim regarding "most improved 
player." When we saw Subash at AI, he was very good. When we 
saw him at NAQT ICT, he was perhaps the best quiz bowl player 
ever. I personally believe he improved his level of play more in 
two weeks than anyone has done in the past year.

-Seth

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, jpahk <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> i can't say a whole lot about some of the players from the east 
and 
> midwest that i've only seen a little bit, but i would like to 
> reiterate a point i've been trying to make all year to those who 
will 
> listen: seth teitler has made himself into the best player on the 
> west coast. not only that, but he is the best science player and 
the 
> best myth player anywhere on the circuit. witness him leading 
his 
> team to victory with 48 ppg at ACF nationals. he and jeff 
hoppes are 
> a killer 1-2 punch for sure, since they are both national top 10 
> players who overlap very little to boot. but they essentially had 
the 
> same scoring average, playing together, at ACF fall and 
regionals and 
> seth outscored jeff by 20 ppg at nationals. not to take anything 
away 
> from jeff, who is obviously a super player, but people need to 
know 
> about seth. i'm sure josh hill is greatly improved this year, but i 
> can't imagine anybody is more improved over the past year or 
so than 
> seth.
> 
> joon