Several messages ago, I posted some quickie results about the Supernatural Ice Bowl held Saturday at Pitt. This was a high school tournament that originally featured 12 teams and was initially scheduled to use NAQT IS-22. Detroit Catholic Central HS had expressed early interest in attending SIB, but had to be initially turned away as they were already scheduled to play in Boston this weekend on IS-22. Unbeknownst to us, they successfully petitioned NAQT to change the set we were scheduled to use to IS-21. NAQT e-mailed us the set a few days before the tournament, and everything appeared to be set for an 11 game round robin tournament ... UNTIL ... Matt Weiner (darwins_bulldog) had a burst of insight and recognized that DCCHS had played at Northwestern's October tournament on the same set (IS-21) that they had petitioned to use! Obviously, this was very unacceptable, and it was a good thing that we caught this when we did (about 10 hours before tournament start). We quickly confirmed the facts and approached NAQT (namely R) with our situation. Since DCCHS had already begun travelling, we felt it would be improper for us to summarily disqualify them from the tournament and face some sort of public squabble. Working with NAQT via email until about 4AM Eastern, we reached a solution where DCCHS was unable to compete for the title and would not play on the IS-21 which we had already prepared for use the next morning. Instead, NAQT very kindly permitted us to use the Intramural Set for DCCHS games as exhibitions. While not a perfect solution, this was the best possible one to be reached with the time constraints on both sides. I salute NAQT for their flexibility in this situation, although I am still upset that this situation happened in the first place. Things like this are entirely avoidable ... (more on that next) -- eps
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