Re: What's up with NAQT ICT Invitations

danpassner <*DanPassner_at_danpassner.yahoo.invalid*> · Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:40:49 -0000

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, Andy Saunders <andy_at_...> wrote:
>
> danpassner wrote:
> 
> >Who the hell was on that Michigan team? I take it it wasn't 
anyone 
> >good from Michigan's program, and if not, those were IS 
questions. 
> >Does it say anything if you beat some mediocre Michigan players 
on 
> >tu's on three line tus on "the moon" or "room"s? And, it was not 
as 
> >if we had a full team at sct anyway, it was me and a freshman. It 
> >wasn't a team with Andy (of last year's ICT,) or one of our other 
> >decent players. Not to mention that our two-person team had 
> >significantly better stats than Ottawa (other than powers per tu, 
> >but you have the luxury of waiting when you know your opponent 
> >generally won't know Massacio from Kelly Monaco.) Making blanket 
> >statements without the data behind them is idiotic. Whoopdee-doo 
> >dude, you got to beat random Michigan people, and hoorah for the 
> >team that beat two sleepless Americans with their astounding 11 
PPB, 
> >thanks to their deep "glottal stop" and "tilde" knowledge (this 
is 
> >not even going into the fact that this final was played on a 
> >truncated packet with 90 seconds left on the clock at the end of 
> >regulation.) The whole damn thing should be statistical as far as 
> >I'm concerned, and I don't care if that means we don't get an 
> >invite, the status quo sucks. Also, naqt could always, like 
always 
> >at least make D1 open or something, like a certain other format 
that 
> >still manages to produce reasonable standings, etc.
> >
> >Anyway, who calls themselves "de great"?
> >
> >  
> >
> At least I manage to keep my seat on the University Senate.
> 
> Andy
>

So, instead of talking about the substance of my post (i.e. saying 
things like "some permutation of Michigan lost to the twelve-headed 
beast that is BROCK", or "You still lost to Canadians, dude,") you 
chose to reply to my throaway line at the end. Good for you. Anyway, 
this is pointless flaming. My point is simply to present things 
clearly, and that the ICT should be reserved for the best programs 
in the continent, or it should be open.