"One problem which was beyond UVA's control was that 2 teams in division I and 1 team in division II didn't show up. The solution in Div I was to play all the games against empty seats. I never saw the point of this (other than to get us our guarranteed 12 "games")." As someone with tournament director experience, I know what a pain in the _at_$$ it is when teams cancel at the last minute -- the evening before or even the morning of the tournament. Along with the other last-minute headaches, there is basically no time to figure out (and copy, and work out logistics for) a new schedule. The other option would have been to give teams two more byes -- but if I were on a team, I'd rather actually be doing something during those rounds, even if it's just hearing the questions with my own teammates. There was some nasty weather in Virginia on Sat. morning, so I don't blame Georgetown for not coming. I agree that the person who said that the rounds would be replayed later probably shouldn't have said that -- there being neither the packets nor the time in the schedule to do so, once the absent teams had missed the first couple rounds. " It was particularly anticlimactic to be told we HAD to play our last game against empty seats (or suffer statistics penalties for NAQT ICT seeding) after finishing undefeated." Oh come on, Rob -- they could have suddenly broken out an Uber-ACF packet and you could have lost 0-(-5)! Doug
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