IMPORTANT PENN BOWL INFO

• From: nicolas_walters <Sywolf_at_nicolas_walters.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:04:59 -0000
• Message-ID: <cmdugr+hh5m_at_...>

Hi everyone,

I'm quite sorry that I haven't formally posted an announcement for 
Penn Bowl. I know a lot of you have been curious, and I won't keep 
you in suspense any longer. My hope and expectation is that Penn Bowl 
14 *will* happen sometime early next year. Samer is on board to help 
with editing, and we might have a couple of other experienced people 
to share the load as well. Right now, our problems are two fold 
though, which are preventing me from making the announcement. First, 
is the problem of the date. Traditionally, as you all know, Penn Bowl 
has been held at the end of January. However, the ATC tournaments are 
taking place on January 29th, and Matt Weiner has asked me to try to 
avoid the weekends on either end of ATC. So, that leaves us with a 
slight problem as to when would be best to host it. The other issue 
is that without Samer physically here, I'm reluctant to make Penn 
Bowl as big as it has been in years past. 

My inclination right now is to either have Penn Bowl on January 15th, 
or in the end of February, two weekends after NAQT Sectionals. I'm 
probably leaning towards the latter, since we're getting somewhat of 
a late start on planning this year. Also, my intention is to cap the 
field at 24 or possibly 32 teams. So here's the important part of my 
message. If you are interested in coming to Penn Bowl, *PLEASE E-MAIL 
ME* (nwalters_at_...) and let me know what your preference for 
the date is, and how many teams you'd like to bring ideally. Any 
other creative ideas or solutions on how to make Penn Bowl the best 
it can be this year would also be appreciated. Thank you so much.

--Nick Walters, Penn College Bowl