It seems that no matter how esoteric the books that Kevin Costello
reads on the way to a tournament, they will come up. He brought six
books / papers to a Stanford tournament and all of the topics came up
in the first two rounds.
This never works for me, except when Caleb, Kevin, and Matt read a
book to me outloud as we were driving up to Berk (those lazy bums
can't drive, so I drove the entire way). So perhaps Kevin just has
some special powers.
-Jordan