<< I'm a junior from Detroit Country Day,>> Just out of curiosity, what's the Country Day practice schedule? Did you attend Country Day as a middle schooler? If so, did you have Mr. Sherman as teacher? (Remember this: at heart he's still just a crazy, squirrel-shootin' varmint from Gull Lake.) << and attempting to cope with the graduation of 6/7 of our top 7 players.>> What happened to Alex Goldsweig? He's like the second coming of Charles Van Doren. I know this because I've been around for the Class B championships the last couple of years. Was it two years ago that Andover had a 75 point lead with one minute to go, when (for some reason unbeknownst to me, other than the rationale that "Well everybody else calls timeouts these days in close games at the end, why not us?") CD had just botched a tossup and one of the Yellowjackets was about this [] close to having a nervous breakdown...... ......of course, Andover's time out helped Country Day much more, giving you guys a chance to regroup, and get the last 75 points to tie it up.....ugh. My memory's hazy now, I forget if it went to a tiebreaker, or if Andover missed a tossup w/ time running out, or both of the above. That was a hell of a game for the 98 Class B championship. My heart was racing at a dangerous pace. The funniest thing was, going to the state quiz bowl tournament was just a spur of the moment thing. It was a nice May afternoon and I didn't have anything else better to do, and I hadn't seen any of the tournament since I played in it last in 1991. A little voice inside of me said, "Go to Port Huron--it'll be worth your while." And so it was. It can be funny how the scores vary from game to game and from year to year. The final score of the 98 Class A championship (Salem and Eisenhower? Or was it Grosse Pointe North? I'm too lazy to search for available reference sources and my memory these days is a hell of a lot less sharp than it used to be) was something like 375-290. The score in the deciding game between Detroit Catholic Central and Eisenhower HS in the 1999 Michigan Class A championship was 1085-535. Heh. Imagine scoring 535 points in a game and still losing by 580. This was a buzzer war in which CC decimated Ike. << We've always just resigned ourselves to not buzzing on most math... at least we can avoid the -5. I would guess that the tournement doesn't want to deal with the hassle (?) of supplying pencil and paper,>> (?) is right. We always brought our own, anyway. << and the questions are not difficult, but often require paper ("How much volume will 2.8 liters of gas occupy at STP?") One last comment... the first few rounds are clearly intended to be easier than the rest, leading to huge buzzer wars for entire games. ("What is the y-intercept of the line with equation y=2x+3?")>> There is a Port Huron canon......including but not limited to scads of historical quotes, Science terminology, ball-busting number-crunching questions, grammar, and African geography. If you can sweep those five categories (and it's ALWAYS been this way) you've got a good chance to dominate the field. << Again, on the whole, the tournament people do a great job >> Are you aware that the Port Huron local public access videotapes several games per tournament for broadcast in Port Huron? I'd like to find the individual who lives in Port Huron (or Marysville or wherever) who's been taping the last decades' worth of broadcasts. mak
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