A little credit please... +more comments

• From: Dirckhals
• Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:30:03 -0800
• Message-ID: <000S8RNCR.001QMULK1.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

A few points to make here:

1) Yo Goss,
shut up your damn self! Thanks for assuming that the
guy who everyone thinks is a jackass is automatically
from Maryland, Michigan, or Illinois, but give all of
us a little credit. If you'll recall my posting to
the QB list, not only did I congratulate the 3 teams
who upset the "favorites," but I distinctly remember
not accusing the Penn team of conspiring against us.
My post read that I was highly amused at the results
instead of being angry.

2) Does anyone doubt that
this MickMars wasn't even at the tournament? He claims
that Chicago was among the pre-play favorites. They
weren't, as they were put in the same bracket as Maryland
A. By the way, kudos to the scheduler at Penn, whose
brackets worked just the way they were supposed to,
producing four 14-0 teams. 

3)Does it make a
difference? Agitators just serve to bond the community
together. Here's just one more thing we can all agree on --
that Penn runs a fair tournament and that no matter
how much any of us dislike single-elimination
playoffs, the three top teams that lost did so because of
sub-standard play on their part. It happens. It just happened
to occur at the same time for three teams who many
people (rightfully) expected to perform much
better.

josh -- who is surprisingly unacerbic in this post,
but watch out, I'm probably just saving it up for my
next one