Re: Heinrich Boll?

quizbowllee <*charolee_at_quizbowllee.yahoo.invalid*> · Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:24:59 -0000

Because I consider Saurabh a friend, I was gonna hold out on 
discussing Heinrich Boll, but since you asked - and since it seems 
that everyone else is keeping silent, I will elaborate.

I have attended three or four tournaments a Ga. Tech over the last 
year or so, and I've been impressed by them all (hence I keep going 
back).  However, Heinrich Boll was pretty awful.   I don't know WHY 
Saurabh was an hour late getting there or why we had to wait two 
hours between the modified round robin and the bracketed playoffs.  
However, I'm confident there was a good reason.  Saurabh seemed 
really distracted and commented to me that he had not slept in 38 
hours.  I don't know if that was a hyperbole or not.

Anyway, because of the lateness of starting and the ridiculously 
long time between initial round robin and playoff brackets, we had 
to do "tossups only" in the playoff brackets. I also noticed that in 
the final three rounds, the question categories were not distributed 
throughout the round.  The first 4 were science, then there were 4 
literature questions followed by four history questions and so on...

I know that Saurabh is a great tournament director and he just had a 
bad day (there were no stats posted, either).  I do feel that it was 
an error in judgement to have the Ga. Tech team compete.  Stephen 
Webb is also a good TD as evidenced in this summer's NATSSO 
tournament.  I think Saurabh could seriously have used his help.  
Despite my rantings, I still have the utmost faith in Ga. Tech 
tournaments, they are usually great.  If this had been my first Tech 
tournament, I probably would not go back.  However, I realize that 
everyone has a bad day and I will return to Tech as often as I can.

Now on to the actual results:  After a very brief round robin, the 
upper playoff bracket consisted of:

Kentucky A - Kelly solo
Kentucky B - Seth et al.
Kentucky C 
Kentucky D - Robert et al.
Athens State
Berry College

I believe that Kelly won, followed by the other Kentucky teams.  
Athens State defeated Berry for the Div. II title.  

I really couldn't tell you about the lower bracket results, but 
Saurabh says that he will have it all posted soon.  

Thanks, 

-Lee Henry
Athens State University Quiz Bowl

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, tgallows <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Was the Heinrich Boll tournament at GT held this past weekend?  If 
so,
> what happened?
> 
> --Raj Dhuwalia