I'm calling your bluff, Tim. This is not to imply that you don't REALLY think that CBI is not a legitimate format. But I think your opinion is extremely biased, as is most of GW's. Notice that schools like Chicago and Michigan are PROUD of their achievements. Michigan still lists CBI Nationals as a trophy worth showing off. Chicago proclaimed themselves "Triple Crown" winners in 1999 -- and the third leg wasn't Penn Bowl, it was CBI. In addition, on the van ride from the hotel to Lambert airport, I talked to the Williams team, who seemed to be looking forward to a trip to Los Angeles at the end of the month. However, Tim, you and Edmund have made no secret that you feel you were screwed in 19 different ways at the 1999 CBI Nationals and other such events along the way. One need only look at Edmund's Deb Fuller award announcements to see his obvious spite toward CBI. Strangely enough, this has *nothing* to do with CBI itself -- merely with the regional coordinators -- but that's a digression. Tim, I simply don't know where your horrid feelings towards CBI came from, but understand that you represent only yourself. (At this point, I might as well admit that I haven't yet played CBI at Duke, simply because we were not affiliated when I arrived.) If Kenny enjoys CBI, he is allowed to. He is not "wrong". Perhaps, Tim, CBI will conform to your and other people's ideas. However, so long as you think that your ideas are superior and that you are doing CBI a favor (by playing for them) rather than CBI doing you a favor (to see people you otherwise never would and to try to get new school programs started), they have no reason to listen to you or anyone else who exudes elitism. Wow, that took a nastier turn than I anticipated. Let me sum up as neutrally as possible: CBI Nationals is still a National. GWACC's opinion doesn't change that. Andy
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