Besides the thanks I owe to the six teams who competed in FOGHAT at Rolla this year, I owe huge amounts of gratitude to the following folks for their essential roles in making this year's tournament a success. Question Writers and Editors: Ben Lea as he has for the last four FOGHATs provided his excellent sports questions, research assistance and hawk-like swooping on sports stories that mention the word "squirrel." Charlie Steinhice, John Kilby and Jason Schwengler each contributed a fine packet to the set. Ben, Jason, Craig Barker and Rob Wright helped with editing, readthroughs and/or fact checking. Also, Jason's infant son Jacob cried when I read Jason a couple of the harder toss-ups providing very valuable predictive feedback. Finally, all the teams at Big Lots at UTC provided a fine play test group for the set. Tournament Staff: Ben Lea, Paul Nelson and Rob Wright all moderated and kept score during the tournament and each did an excellent job. Matt Crook did an absolutely amazing job as chief statistician. Despite technical difficulties (i.e. my laptop refused to talk to my printer), Matt was able to have live records, toss-up scoring leaders and "punt return" stats viewable to the teams. He did all this by writing them on a chalkboard and did all this in the neatest handwriting I have ever seen anywhere. Finally, none of this would have been possible without the UMR ACO who secured the fine rooms in the half-scale shadows of UMR's Stonehenge, made sure the campus Barney Fifes had the rooms open on time and then set up the buzzers in a hurry so we could start almost exactly on time. Prize Donations: Ben Lea (Ricky Williams poster and the Jar Jar game), Delano Barnes (a copy of Gymkata I gave to Ben Lea as question writing "payment") and Brandon Chapman (Detroit Shock hat) were all kind enough to donate FOGHAT prizes. Brian Hight, who did not donate a prize, also pitched in by getting married near the Lewisville, TX Big Lots, which had Morimoto's Asian Spicy Sauce in stock. Tournament Advertising: Charlie Steinhice provided kind words about the FOGHAT question set on this message board last week that probably did not change our field size, but were appreciated nonetheless. More impressively, Sean Phillips and some other Wash U folks did their part by holding up a sign saying "Foghat Rules" behind Ron Reagan Jr's head during Hardball pre-debate coverage a few weeks ago. Thanks again to everyone listed above. FOGHAT wouldn't have been possible without your contributions. Jeremy White
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