Re: Interesting QB article on the Web

• From: suds1000 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:08:25 -0000
• Message-ID: <drlo79+t5pa_at_...>

Greg:

I, for one, applaud your efforts in undertaking the writing of an
article of this scope and magnitude.  To be frank, I don't care about
seeing my name in print as much as I hope that this publicity gets the
quizbowl circuit some more exposure.

I'm glad I was able to help you out, and I think that at the very
least, my teammates feel the same way.  Best of luck, and of course
let us know if you decide to write anything like this again in the
future :-)

--Sudheer
UIUC ABT

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "mrleaker" <mrleaker_at_y...> wrote:
>
> I was just looking over my Friday post again and was taken aback by
how defensive I came 
> across. I was a bit depressed in anticipation of criticism about
what was, at some level, a 
> critique of NAQT and the game, not to mention the disappointment of
everyone who 
> spoke with me for this piece and didn't get to see their name in
print. So, I'd like to take 
> this post to thank everyone who helped me with this story in all of
its myriad forms. My 
> apologies if I misspell anyone's name or forget anyone.
> 
> Thanks to (in chronological order of interviews): Chris Romero, Dan
Passner, Charlie 
> Steinhice, Matt Weiner, James Dinan, Jerry V. and the (as of 2004)
UC-Berkeley team, Peter 
> Freeman, Eric Hilleman, Pat Matthews, Craig Barker, Carol Guthrie,
David Goodman, Sue 
> Kayton, Chad Kubichek, Chris Golde, Kevin Olmstead, Kemin Fleming,
Subash, Andrew 
> Yaphe, Matt Bruce, Doug Bone, Dr. Gordon Carper, David Frazee,
Dwight Kidder, Dan 
> Benediktson and the Princeton team, Jeremy Horwitz, and Ken Jennings.
> 
> Special thanks go to: Robert Hentzel and Emily Pike for having me as
a guest in their 
> home, and especially to Robert for the hours and hours of interviews
he endured; Dom 
> Ricci, Sudheer Potru, Mike Sorice and the rest of the U of I team
for allowing me to attend 
> the 2004 Illinois Open and to shadow them at the 2005 NAQT ICT. I
would have played for 
> all four years at U of I if they had been my teammates. And thanks
go to  Maribeth and 
> Richard Mason, who not only had me as a guest, but drove all night
from LA to Berkeley to 
> attend WIT with me and then hauled me back with them to LA.
> 
> I couldn't have written this piece without any of you. Thank you all
so much.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Greg
>