ACF Nationals 2002: Congratulations and Thanks

• From: rsbhan <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:54:50 -0000
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Hi, all.

The 2002 edition of ACF Nationals was hosted by The George Washington 
University (held at the University of Maryland-College Park) on April 
20.

This year's ACF champion is the University of Michigan A, consisting 
of Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Ben Heller, Adam Kemezis, and Paul Litvak.  
The second-place award was given to the University of Kentucky, 
consisting of Seth Kendall, Kelly McKenzie, Robert Osborne, and Steve 
(sincerest apologies for not catching the last name).  Michigan A 
secured the championship by defeating Kentucky 320-210 in a very 
impressive final match.  Congratulations to both of these stellar 
teams.

The top three individual scorers were John Kenney from the University 
of Virginia, Matt Weiner from the University of Pittsburgh, and Raj 
Dhuwalia from Florida Atlantic University.  Congratulations to these 
individuals, as well.

Full statistics will be posted shortly by the tournament host.

Many thanks go to the following people for their help with 
writing/editing the questions: David Goodman, David Hamilton, Andrew 
Yaphe, Ken Mitchell, Stephanie Walker, Suzy Rivoire, Grant 
Gavranovic, Ross Ritterman, Tim Young, Edmund Schluessel, and Bryce 
Avery.

Thanks also to everyone that volunteered to staff the tournament.  
The readers were all excellent to my knowledge and the presence of 
some scorekeepers greatly facilitated things.

I would like to give special thanks to Edmund Schluessel for his 
tremendous organizational efforts, and to Tim Young for his 
format/scheduling genius.  The tournament ran very smoothly because 
of these two individuals, and the few problems that did occur were 
efficiently solved.  Also, special thanks to the fine folks at the 
University of Maryland-College Park for providing us with a 
tournament site at the last minute.

Finally, thanks to all the teams that attended.  I hope everyone had 
fun and I hope to see you all at next year's series of ACF 
tournaments.

If you have any praise or criticism whatsoever regarding this year's 
ACF Nationals, please feel free to either post your message to this 
forum or send me an e-mail at rsbhan_at_....  I have already 
received lots of commentary and I plan on addressing it all in the 
near future.

I have a lot more to say, but I'll do so in separate messages during 
the course of the week.  That's all for now.  I hope everyone had a 
good academic year.  See you all at the summer tournaments.

R. Bhan
Editor
ACF Nationals 2002