1st Annual Fuller Award Results

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• Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 07:57:18 -0700
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The 1st Annual Fuller Award for Doing Something
That I'm Sure Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time was
awarded yesterday at TRASHionals. Events eligible for
nomination must have occurred between April 1st, 2000 and
April 1st, 2001.

Nomination was subjective and
the identities of nominators will be kept secret.
Nomination indicates a procedural, not ethical,
judgement.

#9 - Matt Weiner, Pitt -- methodology of the crusade
against Questions Unlimited
#8 - Stan Jabrszeski,
DePauw -- the truest format, half-trash, half-ACF
#7
- Jonathon So, JHu -- Character classes
#6 -
Mike Davidson, UMich -- This year's CBI questions are
better than this year's NAQT questions
#5 - Andy
Goss, Duke -- QB Survivor
#4 - Phil Castagna,
Villanova -- the assertion at Mid-Atlantic TRASH Regionals
that there were only two "top-shelf" players there;
his subsequent retirement, which lasted less than
John Nam's average retirement.
#3 - Howard
Weinberg, DCC high school -- Suggesting that PACE NSC, a
national high school championship, should be run on a
Tuesday

Runner-up, 2000-2001 Fuller Award:
Tom Shield, PSU --
"Africa has never given us anything but disease and
slavery" at NAQT IFT at UVa, complaining about how many
Africa questions there were -- at a tournament they were
leading.

Shields is offered an original vinyl copy of the
soundtrack to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The
Movie," featuring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton.
Highlights of the soundtrack include Steve Martin singing
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

Winner, 2000-2001 Fuller
Award:
Ann and Richard Claussen, tournament directors, CBI
Region 4 championship, for their entire format; a
highlight of this format was that a team with a 3-many
win/loss record was very likely to (and, in fact, did) get
into the playoffs at the exclusion of teams with
winning records.

The Claussens are offered a copy
of _Sex_Songs_of_the_Ancient_Letts_, by Bud Berzing
and Arsene Eglis, a 300-page academic work jam-packed
with ancient Latvian erotic work ballads, such as
#34532:

All of roads, highways, too,
Find their way to
Riga;
All the sinews of my neck
Flow into my
testicles.

Nominations for the period from April 1st, 2001 to April 1st,
2002 may be sent to trivia_at_... .

Edmund
Schluessel