Re: "Covert" revision of D2 elligibility rules

• From: glennallenbobo <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:48:38 -0000
• Message-ID: <c0bcim+p9qf_at_...>

Just for the record --- no one playing for Bevill State this year 
played two years ago at Chapel Hill....

-- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, valenciaqbowl <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "nicolas_walters" <Sywolf_at_a...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > The tournament essentially has gone from one where any 
> > team in the field could win, depending on luck, packets, etc. to 
> one 
> > where it is almost a de facto result ahead of time. We might as 
> well 
> > send them the trophy already, if the same four that played at 
West 
> > Coast SCT are playing at ICT. 
> 
> 
> I can understand Nick's frustration here, but I've got to say as a 
> coach that I'm surprised by his willingness to concede the 
tournament 
> already.  I'm not good with S-values and stuff, but even if they 
> scored a bunch of points, there's six weeks in which to drill 
> yourself and your teammates to get better.
> 
> Besides, experience-schmexperience:  I realize I'll probably get 
> hooted for this, but I don't think it makes that much difference to 
> have played ICT before.  You've played NAQT format, so that's not 
> new; now you just have to answer questions.  You either know the 
> answers or not; it shouldn't matter if you were there last year.  
> 
> Further, though perhaps I shouldn't be broadcasting this, UCLA's 
team 
> won't feature the only veterans you might face.  If my Valencia 
team 
> qualifies at our SCT this weekend (a fair bet), two of my players 
> will be playing ICT for a second (and a third) time, obviously in 
> Division II.  Last year both of them played in the DII final.  
That's 
> more experience than even the UCLA fellows have.  It's also 
possible 
> that some members of the Hutchinson CC team that qualified from 
> Kansas or the Bevill CC team that qualified from Alabama could have 
> vets from two years ago, when both were at the ICT in Chapel Hill.  
> In any case, NAQT, allows three years of play for CC competitors.  
> 
> In any case, I hope Nick and others in DII at the ICT will use the 
> existence of UCLA vets in the field as a motivator to practice hard 
> for the next few weeks.  Don't be sending that trophy to UCLA just 
> yet . . . 
> 
> --chris