[Sorry to resurrect a really old thread - been
away, including ICT, for a while!]
I think the
artificial stimulants award must go to one of our Oxford
team, Ian Bayley, who is (in)famous in British Quiz
Circles for ingesting a combination of Lucozade (an
energy drink) and raw coffee granules before any
tournament. He did this for the first day of the ICT, and
couldn't get to sleep (having also drunk 4 litres of Coke)
until the early hours of the
morning...
[pointless anecdote alert!] We were woken up the Saturday
morning of ICT by the hotel reception asking us to move
our bus. Now let's review the evidence: we flew in
from London to Boston, using the T to get around. Bus?
They had looked at this 52-seater (the property of a
youth choir, incidentally), seen "New Britain, CT" on
the side, and assumed it belonged to the Oxford
team.
Duh.
:-)
Rob.