Can we please not have the drama. I don't know where you got the idea that ATC tournament is "my" event (I was approached by Eric with a request to edit history questions, which will be the sum total of my contribution to the tournament) or that I asked Penn Bowl not to occur, but it didn't happen. In fact, I emailed Nick yesterday to offer writing and editing help for Penn Bowl, which would be a strange move indeed if I was trying to compete with it. Running Penn Bowl against tournaments at Princeton and Harvard just because some player who is not affiliated with any of those schools has some inane dispute with the people involved in the other tournaments would be counterproductive to everybody. Personally, I would like to go to Penn Bowl and I would also like to have this board iron out any disputes in a reasonable fashion rather than through lies and insults, or better yet not create disputes where none exist. For a constructive suggestion: Penn Bowl and Sword Bowl have often used the same questions and are held over 700 miles apart. For this reason they usually have been held on the same weekend in the past, so I'm not sure why avoiding a conflict between those two tournaments is necessary. The only teams that traditionally attend both Penn Bowl and MLK are Michigan and Chicago, so perhaps if those schools were consulted on their plans for this year, we would find that scheduling Penn Bowl on MLK weekend inconveniences few or no teams. Or, Penn Bowl could be held on any of several completely open weekends in February or March. Purposely scheduling geographically nearby tournaments against each other, especially at the suggestion of third parties from halfway across the continent who have no one's best interests in mind, is really not a great idea when every tournament must struggle for teams. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
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