I see that our TD has not posted the results yet, so I'll summarize them briefly. Results: ACF Regionals West was held at Berkeley on February 15th. Despite the initial difficulties in obtaining rooms, the tournament went off without any problems after that. Berkeley A (Jeff Hoppes, Seth Teitler, David Farris, and Jon Pennington) went 11-1 and came in first, with their only loss being to Stanford A, who came in second with a 10-2 record. Some of the high scorers were Joon Pahk, Jeff Hoppes, Seth Teitler, and probably a bunch of other people that I can't remember right now. Comments: Speaking strictly for myself, I enjoyed the questions quite a bit. I thought the tossups were for the most part very good, but I wasn't so fond of many of the bonuses. In particular, it seemed as though the bonuses had a pattern of one gettable part, one gettable part if you're really knowledgeable, and one part gettable if you wrote the question. In particular, one question comes to mind: the Australian geography bonus. The third part of that bonus asked for the second highest mountain in Australia (Mt. Townsend, if anyone cares). Now, I don't know squat about geography, but Jeff Hoppes's jaw dropped when he heard the question. My guess is that if he didn't know it, no one but the question writer probably knew the answer either. My other complaint is about the science tossups, particularly some of the physics ones. Several of them had mistakes and many had a tendency to put the giveaway clue first or second. Fortunately these tossups were a small fraction of what I'd like to emphasize was a large number of very well written questions, and detracted only slightly from the overall enjoyment of the tournament. A great big thanks to Subash for such a good editing job, and thanks to everyone who came out to Berkeley to play. Jerry
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