Yes, that's right folks, the first packet deadline for NATSSO officially closed about 8 minutes ago according to my clock. That being said, here's an update on teams and their status * means packet received ~ means team possible + means freelance packet interest Georgia Tech Alums (Jim Dendy, et al.)* Athens State et al.* University of Florida ~ +(if not playing) North Florida Emory ~ Ole Miss ~ Valencia CC ~ Saurabh and anybody else he rounds up ~+ Seth Kendall Kelly McKenzie Bainbridge College ~ If there are any errors in this, please send me an e-mail at gtg500h at mail dot gatech dot edu. I've been getting stuff through my yahoo account, and while I don't mind I would prefer it all go to my Tech account, just to satisfy my anal retentiveness about orderliness. One extension has been made on packet deadlines due to technical problems on the end of the team. Also, special thanks to Kelly, for pointing out that I didn't bother to ask for offensive, crude, sexist, derogatory, funny (any combination or none of the above) team names. Please include those if you want to be known as the South Georgia Ferret Gods or whatnot. More details have been ironed out as to how the tournament will be run. Registration should start at 8:30, and play will hopefully begin around 9:30. Translation: there will be a team meeting and if all goes perfectly well and everybody shows up on time, we start at 9:30. Tournament will break for lunch for an hour at 12 or 12:30. Tournament will be full round robin, and since as of right now if everybody who has shown interest comes we will have 10 rounds, unless there is an uproar for more play there will be no playoff as such. Any circles of death will be decided by points, again unless there's an uproar for more rounds. We aim to please. As for what people will be getting for prizes and whatnot, rather than get the good ol' trophies we all know, I've decided to award a reference package to the winning team, and have books for the top five individual scorers, as well as one for the highest TU/neg ratio above some arbitrary number of toss-ups answered (probably 30 or so). As yet another reminder of this, I will be relatively difficult to reach most of next week (I may only check my e-mail once per day rather than the usual five or six). If you need a copy of the tournament announcement, I won't have it handy then, so you'll just have to dig through the archives for the time being. Sorry guys. Well, I'm done rambling. Many thanks, Stephen Webb Tournament Director NATSSO I: Presumptuous Numbering
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