Sorry, I didn't read this before responding to Amber's message that this was a response to. >a. The team could not qualify for nationals in >D1 only qualify a D2 team. Actually, we qualified a D2 team for nationals that didn't have Matt on it. I think that at qualifying (at Johns Hopkins) our D1 team was Eric, Matt, Beth, and Josh, and our D2 team was me, Ben, Jon, and Jess. Then Matt and Ben traded places; since we had qualified a D2 team we were going for it to win, and Ben's knowledge, though considerable, is basically a subset of Matt's. Jess couldn't go to nationals, so Josh moved from D1 to D2 in her place, because the guy who was able to replace her, Rich, was D2-ineligible. >b. logistics prevented sending a D1 and D2 team - > the school preferred to send the younger players Both we and Princeton had D1 and D2 teams. Of the other teams with D2 players scoring 50points/22tossups or better, Occidental didn't have a D1 team, Chicago's D1 team was the best in the nation, and Sewanee didn't have a D1 team. >c. the school preferred to compete for a likely >victory in D2, rather than a lower finish in D1 That's true for us - presumably for Princeton, too. Michael davies mld6_at_... <a href=http://lab.eccentrica.org/neg-5/ target=new>http://lab.eccentrica.org/neg-5/</a>
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