Re: Georgia Tech Tournament Schedule

     To rephrase my teammate's post, the University of Florida
currently intends to host its annual Sunshine State Invitational
tournament on Jan 15th, to be followed by a trash tournament on Sunday
the 16th.  It's nine months away, so we'll hold off on the formal
announcements for a while.  As usual, all questions will be written
in-house, and either Kevin or I will be the chief editor.  I might be
doing it this year because of Kevin's travels.

It is perfectly understandable that GT would prefer the 1/15 date
because doing their tournament a week earlier as usual would be more
difficult on 1/8, possibly conflicting with winter breaks for some
schools.  Despite the relative proximity of the schools, about 325
miles apart, I don't think it would be disastrous for the two
tournaments to run on the same weekend.  Most of our SSI field tends
to come from Florida or environs, and most of the GT MLK field in the
past two years has come from the Atlanta vicinity or northward, I
think.  Only a handful of schools or players have attended both
tournaments in the past two years, I think.  So, while not the ideal
circumstance, it's really not that harmful to either school or to the
southeastern qb community if both tournaments run on the same weekend.

--Raj Dhuwalia, University of Florida


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--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, the_uf_engineer <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Wow it looks like Ga Tech is just poaching everyone's tournament 
> dates... the Sunshine State Invitational has been held MLK weekend 
> for three consecutive years, making its next incarnation, of course 
> January 15th, 2005 and I confirmed with Kevin Comer he wanted to run 
> it that weekend again.  And while I'm here I'll also announce that 
> we'll be following SSI with a yet-to-be-named trash tournament on 
> January 16th.  
> 
> P.S. Just out of curiousity, how many Oedipus at Colonus questions 
> will this year's NATSSO feature?
> 
> Michael Napier
> University of Florida
> 

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