Re: Best Players

• From: allythin <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 19:27:59 -0000
• Message-ID: <b992bv+k248_at_...>

> To Sean:  gee, you hate my guts.  What a surprise.  If it makes you 
> feel any better, why don't you lord it over me Saturday at the high 
> school state tourney about how you're moderating and I'm 
scorekeeping 
> and your slightly higher high school scoring average.

Are you supposed to be on some sort of medication that makes you act 
like a person who is actually able to engage the real world, and are 
just refusing to take it?  I have no idea what this means, although 
I'm sure it makes perfect sense in JasonLand.  

> To those who attended our NAQT SCT:  I was a bit of a Dromio, but I 
> can't control reader speed and Div II would have went fine if SEMO 
> had showed up and Wichita State could understand rules.  And yes, I 
> will be using an actual stat program at our upcoming tournaments 
> September 27-28.

I have it on good authority that Witchita DOES understand the rules 
and sent that team as an exhibition team.  Those matches you promptly 
counted in the standings which gave our D2 team 2 extra wins by the 
way.  And even with a team dropping, you did not reconfigure the 
schedule to make it a full rr, you made it a full rr plus where a 
team randomly hit two other teams with all games counting in the 
standings, and one of your staff members justified that with the very 
well reasoned reply "Them's the breaks."  Now when you made us pay 
significantly more than every other SCT in the country, forgive me if 
I find that unacceptable and unprofessional, the latter NAQT required 
your staff to act as.  As a result of the scheduling incompetence, I 
honestly believe the ordering of teams #3-#7 in D2 to be suspect 
(note WUSTL is at the top of that ranking, so this is not us whining 
about possibly being screwed so much as I worry we screwed someone 
else).  

In addition, YOU CAN CONTROL MODERATOR SPEED.  It's called TRAINING.  
You were required to: "have sufficiently trained staff to 
realistically expect to average 20 tossups read per round with no 
game having fewer than 18 tossups read."  If you look at your stats 
which you did not post with any completeness at any point in the 
tournament, you can see that NO D2 team heard on average 20 tu's with 
some on average barely hearing 16.  You WERE the TD, you WERE the 
person responsible for that tournament, you ARE responsible for 
moderator speed.  If you did not understand that, you should never 
have put in the bid.  If you don't understand what is required of a 
TD, I fear for anyone seriously going to your tournaments this fall.

Sean
*shutting up about this now*