Re: The Grail Achieved

• From: ufilthycur <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 18:16:49 -0000
• Message-ID: <aqeamh+3ocg_at_...>

What exactly are the parameters for this "perfect game?" Is this in a 
normal, college academic event? I asked around here, and was told 
that a a Masters Team of Don Windham and others had done it before 
against what I believe was a team of high schoolers. Granted, that is 
not equivalent to Illinois's accomplishment (congrats to all involved 
there), as the idea of Windham and others playing high schoolers 
sounds like something equivalent to clubbing baby seals to me. 
Anyways, it has happened at some level at some tournament before this.

Patrick Riser










--- In quizbowl_at_y..., ehillema <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In quizbowl_at_y..., arsaces_i <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > You know, lost amidst the usual spellbinding streams of 
conversation 
> > occasioned by this inquiry, something hasn't yet been said, so 
I'll 
> > say it: Congratualtions!
> 
> Yes, absolutely!  It is surprising that "the Grail" did elude teams 
> above the high school level for so long, and congratulations to the 
> first team finally to do it.  The closest I ever came was on the 
only 
> team I've ever played on where I was the #4 player:  Tom Waters, 
Rob 
> Hentzel, Tom Drucker, and me.  One of our last matches at that 
> Philadelphia Experiment masters was against the clear weakest team 
in 
> the tournament, and we actually discussed (privately!) going for 
all 20 
> before the match, which was arrogant but not unrealistic -- and our 
> intentionally wanting to go for it was prompted by the notoriety 
then 
> of the fact that while teams had come close, it had never been 
done.  
> We got 19, and it was Tom W. himself (thankfully, for the rest of 
us 
> not having any guilt feelings about being the one to blow it for 
Tom) 
> who went in early with one wrong answer late in the game - not the 
last 
> tossup, but a late one.
> 
> Nice work, Illinois!