--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, allythin <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> First, congrats to UI Chicago, as a former wild card team member
> it's always a nice surprise to find out you're back in the mix of
> things. Second, this is a question bc I don't know the pre-1990
> history of the game very well. Was ACU-I not involved with CBI in
> the first two years, or did were they not involved for two years
> sometime later? The CBI site has the first national as being
> contested in 1978 which would make 2002, not 2004, the 25th
> contest. None of the older people on my team could answer this
> question for me and I was wondering if anyone else knew.
>
> Sean Phillips
> (Congrats also to Truman St. for winning probably the most
exciting
> pair of final matches since CBI adopted the double elim. format)
NCT's were not held in 1983 or 1985. That makes 2004 NCT XXV.
Tom