Thus begins what Matt Colvin Said: >In 1994, a team of Arthur Fleming, myself, Ram Kannappan, and Misha Bernard (then M. Swisdak's girlfriend) played at Philadelphia Experiment I. <deletia> >And Misha was not a quiz bowl player at all; she did not attend practices or tournaments, and was only playing to fill in our fourth seat and accompany Marc to the tournament. Thus ends what Matt Colvin Said. Not to denigrate the team's (I believe they went by the name Noodle Noggin) accomplishment, but this contains a slight inaccuracy. I still keep in contact in Misha and thought she might be interested in her place in Quiz Bowl history. After sending her Matt's post, she offered the following, slight, emendations. 1. She was not a complete layperson as she did sporadically attend UMCP practices during 1993 and 1994, although during that time (by her own choice), she did not play at tournaments. In high school she had occasionally played on her school's second team. 2. She later went to graduate school at Chicago where she attended practices although, again, not any tournaments. To what degree someone who has practiced but never played in a tournament can be considered a layperson is somewhat in doubt. Still, she was (by her own admission) quite unwilling to buzz and a unlikely candidate to pull down any tossups. Otherwise she agrees with Matt's recollection --- Chicago played a horrible game, taking a number of bad negs and inexplicably sitting on several other questions. Matt and Arthur got the majority of the team's tossups, but Misha and Ram picked up two or three juicy nuggets of trash on the way to victory. Again, this takes essentially nothing away from the upset's magnitude as Chicago was far and away the better team in this match, at the tournament, and in the country that year. Marc Swisdak
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