NATSSO Comments

• From: dargan_w <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:44:04 -0000
• Message-ID: <be1q14+4kjm_at_...>

I just wanted to throw in my few cents and to say that I really 
enjoyed the tournament.  I also want to thank my teammates Saurabh 
and Darren -- although there are challenges to playing with people 
you've never met before I enjoyed their company and felt like we 
were just right there off the radar screen of contention.

This was my first time playing in the southeast and thus my first 
opportunity to get spanked by the likes of Raj D. and Kelly 
MacKenzie.  It was certainly a worthwhile experience. 

The questions overall were quite good, but the repeats did get 
annoying, especially the Miltiades questions Kevin mentioned, which 
were followed in another round by a tossup on Alcibiades that 
sounded similar at the beginning.  Also there was a question on the 
Chinese writer Gao in which the first clue was the work "Bus Stop," 
Darren won the buzzer race in our room to neg with Inge.  

As for the GT alums packet... I haven't looked it over closely, but 
I remember it only as being mildly annoying... maybe like Lee said 
they were answered so quickly I never knew they were so short.  As 
for why it was in the tournament... well Matt, politics will get you 
every time -- would you like to run a tournament at Georgia Tech and 
reject a packet by Jim Dendy?  Still I guess you can say Stephen 
should have pressed them for more revision.  

Anyway, overall it was a very well-run tournament and the only 
delays were caused by a buzzer arriving late and then not working.  
Also like Raj said the stats were almost immediate.  

Dargan