Re: Brief TRASH Mid-Atlantic Results

• From: bhg144 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:13:43 -0000
• Message-ID: <bonrt7+i36i_at_...>

NOt that I normally would make a big deal of such things...but who is 
Bob Gross?  You see if he was the one competing, then I have to wonder 
if my attendance at the tournament yesterday just a dream?  It 
wouldn't surprise me.

Maybe he's a distant relative or something.

-Ben Gross
formerly of Yale Student Academic Competitions

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, <cwhite2_at_s...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Nineteen teams convened on Swarthmore for the second half of our 
"Old Friends"
> tournament weekend, TRASH: Keep the Customer Satisfied.  Who Wants 
to Watch
> the Next Joe Millionaire (Samer Ismail, Kenny Peskin, Bob Gross, and 
Andrew
> Hutchings) swept the field with 9-0 prelim and 3-0 playoff record to 
win the
> tournament and a "Big Mouth Billy Bass Superstar!", a 
non-wall-mounted version
> of the infamous icthyoid; he sings idiosyncratic versions of "Act 
Naturally"
> and "I Will Survive".  Kidder Notorious (you-know-who) won second 
(and a Care
> Bears UNO set in a Collectible Tin) with two losses due to his 
head-to-head
> victory over Fear the Kool Aid Man (Adam Fine, Arthur Fleming, Mike 
Starsinic,
> and Phil Durkos), which also had two losses (They won a Simpsons 
Magic
> 8-Ball).  Rounding out the top bracket was A Social Concern: The 
Media is
> Desirous that our Team Does Well (Delaware); 17 or 35 Points of 
Flair (I
> think) (GWU Alums); and Allentown B.
> 
> Awards were given to the top 4 scorers: you-know-who was first; 
Kenny of
> WWTWTNJM was second; and of the other two one escapes my mind while 
one was
> Tim from ...Flair.  Awards were books by Robert Ludlum, Philip K. 
Dick, Dave
> Barry, and Charles Barkley.  Two people (James of Rutgers-NB and 
Hot&Spicy of
> Law and Order: Special Poultry Unit) shared the neg prize.  The 
planned neg
> prize was "The Big Book Of Bodily Functions", while for the second 
one I
> pressed into emergency service "Why We Lost the ERA" from an 
extremely dry
> poli sci class I took 2 years ago.
> 
> Full stats will eventually be posted, along acknowledgements, 
comments, and
> bad negs, but that may take a while, due to my having neglected real 
life for
> about a week and needing to catch up, as well as a couple other 
factors I will
> detail later. (Comments will probably appear before stats.)  (I will 
say that
> this ran considerably smoother than SNEWT the day before, due mainly 
to us
> being prepared to deal with a) cantankerous pizza places and b) 
playoff dropouts.)
> 
> Chris
> Swat CB