I am going to both agree and disagree with Mr. Romero here. His assertion that members of the Academic Tournament Commission, notably Mr. Weiner, Mr. Frankel and Mr. Sorice, are incapable of overseeing the production of a quality and accessible question set and a set of quality, packet-submission tournaments is hasty and tenuous. Here come together a group of people to put together a set of tournaments for the quizbowl circuit, even if these tournaments are ACFesque. Not only should we appreciate their efforts, we should support them, not dismiss them based on their reputations, and let the results of their labors on January 29th speak for themselves. On the other hand, I agree that it is selfish to demand buffer weekends for the January 29th event. One of those buffer weekends, February 5th, is already filled with NAQT SCTs around the country. To demand buffer weekends is to deny or discourage other tournaments from existing on this year's schedule, which is definitely not something that is healthy for the circuit. I also concur with Mr. Romero that Penn Bowl should be scheduled for January 22nd. Penn has had several weeks to make preliminary arrangements, such as asking Samer to edit and deciding on field size, etc. ATC beat them to the January 29th date, so Penn Bowl should respect that and run their tournament on January 22nd. Like Penn Bowl, Michigan MLK is a long-running tournament and it should not be negatively impacted by Penn Bowl or the ATC. In conclusion, more tournaments good. Dan
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