To add to Mr. Allen's comments, there was a similar incident at a previous Georgetown Cup that had a different ending than what happened to Maryland-Eastern Shore. Back in the fall of 1994, Howard University (pre-Mr. Edwards) competed in the infamous made-for-TV "Campus Challenge" tapings at GW. A number of the U.S. players competing welcomed Howard to the quiz bowl circuit, and encouraged them to play a few invitationals. Howard said they would consider. Meanwhile, Georgetown attempts to invite as many Beltway-area schools for Georgetown Cup II (a true Beltway Bandits, so to say). From what I've, and a few others, been told, Howard and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) were offered invitations to play, and ACCEPTED. However, both said they would have to clear it with CBCI. Sherman Oaks reportedly told both schools they could kiss their relationship with HCASC goodbye if they competed at GTown Cup. As you can guess, neither school attended the tourney. It's incidents like the above that anger me about CBCI policies. For HCASC schools to ask permission to play in invitationals makes me question whether Sherman Oaks wants HCASC schools to be competitive. Someone made a mention of this previously, but I thought it would be worthwhile to repeat it. Why not have the winner of the 2000 HCASC championship (believe it will be held before the NCT) represent "Region 16" at the 2000 CBI NCT, instead of drawing a wildcard team? James
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