TRASH NE Regional

• From: mcoen_bu <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 17:50:46 -0000
• Message-ID: <ankkdm+jerd_at_...>

For what may be the millionth time, Boston University is hosting the 
TRASH NE Regional, held this year on Saturday, November 9, 2002.  

The NE Regional, based on its descriptor, will take anyone from what 
could be construed the northeast, be it New England, the Tri-States, 
Quebec and Atlantic Canada or Northeast Oklahoma A&M.  We also extend 
our special postal abbreviation invite to any and all teams from 
Nebraska; you could use a weekend away to forget your gridiron woes.

For all that, past participants here include BU, Harvard, MIT, 
Dartmouth, Yale, NYU, Brandeis, Wellesley, BC, and those geezers from 
the Gerbils and A Dog's Bollock.  If I forgot your team, sorry, but 
I'm doing this from an increasingly aging memory.  We still love you 
and want you to play with us!

Format is pretty much as it usually is here, some form of single or 
double round robin that best accommodates the number of teams we have 
(aiming for 12 rounds or so of game play).  Standings will probably 
involve mimicking the standings system used by some sort of minor or 
defunct sports league.  Or we'll mess with everyone's heads and use 
straight win-loss.  


So what's the damage to attend? 
 
First team - $75 
Second team - $60 
Third+ teams - $50 each 
 
Discounts: 
 
Buzzer - $10 each 
Game official - $10 each 
Distance - $5 off per person who traveled over 100 miles to play 
here. 
 
Teams competing for the first time only have to pay $20.

Just to see if anyone will bite, teams from Nebraska play for FREE! 
 
For everyone else, the minimum fee is $40. 

You will be playing for a variety of things, including the thrill of 
victory and the agony of defeat, pride (or the loss thereof), and a 
boatload of crap from places like the Christmas Tree Shops and 
Building 19. My hope is that this will be the third regional in a row 
where we can give away a fresh copy of the Diggstown novelization.

There's also the matter of playing to qualify for the 2003 edition of 
TRASHionals.  

If you are interested in playing, please email all particulars to 
qbowl_at_... so we can start figuring out who's coming.  Thanks!