Subtleties are the key - why does everyone seem to overlook the most important aspects of an intellectual proposition? If you cannot grasp the finer details of an argument independently of your own prejudicial beliefs, you are in way over your head. Let me try another comparison: let us suppose a freshman of a DI team qualifies for the ICT, and plays for the DI. If I am correct, he/she revokes eligibility for DII for the following sophomore year, regardless of the people available to fill the team. I am proposing that the same should be held forth for sectionals: if you qualify on a DI team, your DII eligibility should be revoked for nationals for that year. Period. In other words, I don't give a **** what Pitt did this year. It could have been MIT, it could have been Berry, it could have been Michigan. From the posts by Tim Young and Adam Fine, the proposition doesn't appear to be too difficult to implement. <<In conclusion: Don't assume that other teams' internal decisions are designed to bend the rules, or that your own team has a divine right to succeed, and that there must have been foul play afoot if it did not. If you wanted to go to ICT, you should have played better at sectionals.>> Idiot. 1. I distinctly said that I would do the same if I was in Pitt's shoes, and I congratulated the DII team on their victory. Foul play is only afoot if the action breaks the rules, which Pitt clearly did not. 2. Stereotypes are perpetuated based on such ridiculous statements as "divine right to succeed". Such statements are comparable to homophobism, racism, sexism, and the like, in which ideas are perverted based on an old idea (1996: Maryland players are arrogant), and applied to a new, completely unrelated situation (2001: Maryland players are arrogant). Have you ever talked with me outside of "good game"? Have you ever asked my opinion about anything? In every one of my posts, I have asserted that George Washington University (and Florida Atlantic, when they were initially placed on the waitlist - as a side issue, they finished 14th) holds the same claims as those I have presented, and I have presented data to back my claims. If you have a counterclaim, present the idea. Such personal attacks are ridiculous and should be left in the high school class of gossip and childishness. I have been trying to present a case in which the teams left out from the Mid-Atlantic region would statistically have done moderately well at the ICT, and thus rationally justify our claim to a spot rather than just saying "we were screwed" as a whining lament, as many would be prone to do. If you are going to be so juvenile as to assert something which is clearly ad hominem, go back to posting evolution messages. At least your ideas were more to the point. -Shaun
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