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*In the aftermath of [[Watkins-gate]], Evan Adams coined the phrase "better at science than Eric" as a code word for "cheating". For many years after the event, Eric would mark the occasion by eating Thai food in reference to a question that Andy Watkins had answered fradulently. | *In the aftermath of [[Watkins-gate]], Evan Adams coined the phrase "better at science than Eric" as a code word for "cheating". For many years after the event, Eric would mark the occasion by eating Thai food in reference to a question that Andy Watkins had answered fradulently. | ||
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| + | *Due to [[travel disaster]]s Eric missed the majority of rounds at the [[Princeton]] mirror of [[WAO II]]. His arrival during and subsequent [[neg]] on the final tossup of round 9 meant that he briefly had a [[PPG]] of -100. | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:55, 30 May 2026
- While playing the NSC mirror of 2015 BONGOS Eric fell off the hotel bed he was sitting on while being outbuzzed by Ike Jose to a tossup on vorticity on a clue about Ertel's theorem, which the two had discussed recently.[1]
- In the aftermath of Watkins-gate, Evan Adams coined the phrase "better at science than Eric" as a code word for "cheating". For many years after the event, Eric would mark the occasion by eating Thai food in reference to a question that Andy Watkins had answered fradulently.
- Due to travel disasters Eric missed the majority of rounds at the Princeton mirror of WAO II. His arrival during and subsequent neg on the final tossup of round 9 meant that he briefly had a PPG of -100.