NAQT Mid-Atlantic Acknowledgements

• From: CComMack
• Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 08:52:45 -0800
• Message-ID: <000U6D9AT.001KMPIGD.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Many thanks and ackowledgements from yesterday's
Mid-Atlantic SCT at Swarthmore College.

Thanks to all
players, moderators, and scorekeepers, for showing great
forbearance in the face of a series of minor mishaps and bad
karma, a disturbing number of which weren't actually our
fault.

Thanks to Princeton C, who remained gracious after a
last-minute clerical error nearly cost them the Div II
title.

Thanks to Dave Bykowski and Samer Ismail for coming to
help moderate and for being sources of NAQT-related
wisdom.

Thanks to Appetito's for helping spare the players from
the culinary desert known as the borough of
Swarthmore.

Thanks to Matt Bruce's Stats99, the day's infallible
holy tome.

Negative thanks to the computer that
was *running* Stats99, for crashing during Round 8,
and wiping out 7 rounds of carefully entered Div I
team and individual stats.

Thanks to all those
with the patience to deal with me in the stat room as
I threatened them with violent death in the
aftermath of the crash. Special thanks to Rebecca Paul, who
kept me sane enough to keep from following through on
those threats.

And finally thanks to Adrian
Packel, who managed to get the stats page live within
five hours of the last
round.


Congratulations again to UVA and Princetons A and C. I hope
everyone had more fun than I did ^_^ and look forward to
seeing people back on March 30 for QOTC XI: Magical
Girls and Giant Robots.


Peace and fair
buzzers,

Michael Noda
Swarthmore College Bowl