The Intercollegiate Championship Tournament is a week away and your intrepid ICT Coordinator has made a special trip to the Brook Park public library (Cleveland suburb) to supply some last-minute details. Alas I cannot get to my Unix account with e-mail contacts. However, I believe most if not all attending teams have people on either qb_at_iastate or Yahoo Clubs. TRAVEL UPDATE: If you don't already have something booked, good luck getting a flight now. =) Driving or public transit directions are at NAQT.com and people.bu.edu/qbowl, or contact matt979_at_... or qbowl_at_... for specific answers. If you're flying into T.F. Green airport near Providence, write to me for instructions concerning the hourly Bonzanza bus line to Boston's So. Station. HOTEL UPDATE: The primary hotel is Howard Johnson's, Kenmore Square (617) 267-3100. Many teams got into the block before it expired (as per typical hotel practice, any unbooked rooms were removed from the block a month in advance). Still other teams got a group rate here via me. It's definitely too late to get the block rate and probably too late to get the group rate (only one way to find out) but if money is no object then this is your most convenient place. Howard Johnson's-Fenway is a 25-minute walk (at slow to moderate pace) from the tourney site and apparently about $30 cheaper than Kenmore for non-special rates (especially with the Red Sox on the road). Of other hotels mentioned on the NAQT site, Best Western is full but that Holiday Inn probably is not. Other options: The Boston University org has suggested Priceline or similar services as the best way to get a cheap last-minute room. Contact matt979_at_... or qbowl_at_... for advice on how convenient any particular downtown Boston hotel is to the site. For teams who drive but do not wish to stay in Boston nor book on-line, the best solution seems to be to call the 1-800 number for your nationally franchised hotel of choice. MODERATOR INFO: The number of expected game officials is currently in excess of 33, high enough to guarantee good readers in every room and scorekeepers in somewhere near half. By quantity, this ICT will be better staffed than either 1998 or 1999. Game officials are still welcome, both to maximize reading talent and to maximize the number of rooms where no player has to volunteer to keep score. Information for game officials themselves was supposed to be forthcoming earlier this week but my Internet access has fallen short of what I hoped for since arriving in Boston earlier this week (and greater Cleveland for the weekend). PLEASE, everybody (teams and officials both) review the rules on the NAQT web site. My Internet access will be spotty until Sunday night (Case Western will be to thank for whatever access I get before them) but I'd be happy to answer anyone's questions ASAP. Sincerely, Matt Bruce ICT Coordinator (Because this update was hastily typed, any mistakes (or for that matter implied opinions) are purely my own and not officially from NAQT.)
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