F.O.G.H.A.T. 2005 Acknowledgements

oneeyed_squirrel <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:12:24 -0000

I wanted to post some well-deserved thank yous to the various people
who helped make the sixth annual edition of F.O.G.H.A.T. not only
possible but a success.  Although I think I thanked everyone
individually, as we were running an hour late on Saturday, I didn't
get a chance to thank everyone publicly on Saturday and want to
correct that here.

First and foremost, thanks to all the competitors without whom there
would be no reason to have a tournament.

Oceans of thanks are due to Ben Lea, my co-executive producer who had
a variety of duties including question writing, research assistance,
editing, prize acquisition, moderating and generally keeping me from
screwing up the tournament on Saturday.  Ben not only drove and
trained it all the way up from Rolla for the event, but made the
ultimate sacrifice, namely missing seeing (although did hear) the
first hour of his beloved White Sox in the World Series as the
tournament went roughly an hour late than I had planned.

Thanks are due to Brian Hight and Mark Richey who wrote many excellent
questions for the set, did additional editing and provided excellent
moderating and scorekeeping on Saturday.

Thanks to James Quintong for so generously contributing an entire
round to the tournament packet set.

Thanks to Alexis Mansfield and Kevin Olmstead for doing an excellent
job moderating on Saturday.  Bonus points to Alexis for bringing muffins.

Last but certainly not least, a million thanks to Northwestern's quiz
bowl for hosting this year's FOGHAT.  Several players helped out with
set-up and scorekeeping throughout the day.  Heaps of extra thanks to
Justin Moles, who was my main contact in setting this up.  He secured
the various rooms we need and handled statkeeping on the day of the
tournament.

So in summary, Thanks,

Jeremy White
Tournament Director and Co-Executive Producer for F.O.G.H.A.T.