It's been quite a weekend. I would just like to add my kudos to Eisenhower, who I have had the good fortune to play, but never beat, several times this year. I'm lucky we are in a different class than they are, and they are even more impressive when you consider that Knowledge Master questions are far from ideal for their extremely fast and deep knowledge of many more, er, traditional topics that are not covered in such depth at States. Additionally, I would like to say that the tournament was as well-run and organized as in years past, thanks to the superb efforts of Senator DeGrow et al. And thanks to the talented team of great sportsmen from Haslett, who prevented a +25 for us from being turned into a -5 when, in the second-to-last game, they admitted that my answer of "cunjunctive membrane" was acceptable when they had "conjunctiva" on the answer sheet. As much as I love this tournament, I truly think that it needs a better outlet for protests; to cite just one more example, it took similar opponent friendliness for "sodium chloride" to be accepted instead of "halite" as "a mineral used to prepare roads after precipitation and to flavor food." All in all, it was a thoroughly enjoyable tournament, and I offer my congratulations to all the other winners and all the other teams. --Nate, enjoying Class B victory and still recovering from the close games
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