Good to see the West Coast circuit expanding, if at least by one more
team. I remember being beaten twice by a UCSD team at one of UC Santa
Barbara's tournaments a while back, but maybe that's less than
material.
Furthermore, due to certain university
> regulations, we cannot get the student organization funds to pay
> for a buzzer set - and apparently they're quite costly... is there
> another way of obtaining buzzers for practice?
If UCSD still plays CBI, it's probable that there's a buzzer system
in a closet on campus somewhere that the CBI contact at UCSD knows
about and uses for its intramural tournament-- You might have your
president contact that person and ask if it could be borrowed one
night a week for practice, which is how we got around having to
replace a lost Judge. Union Board is very generous and kind to let us
borrow their system, though we still can't take it to tournaments--
maybe that'll be the case there as well, but if it works it may give
you some (not very costly) practice. Then, of course, there's
building a system (haven't got around to that quite yet).
--Wesley (of Indiana, but formerly of Occidental)