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It the the brand of soap in some Taco Bell restaurant... Yes, this tossup was terrible. Few things about this tossup [thank Dwight for it], though-it was in its original context part of the insult theme of our packet, and was thus intended to be completely crappy. I expected it fully to be cut from...

zwtipp wrote: Your school brought two teams, but submitted one packet? Another packet from your team (even by the people that refused to go because they perceived the quality to be poor) would certainly have helped. The organization for the UCLA teams for this tournament was very shoddy-the novices ...

I did not suggest that Caltech had not come due to issues with the questions-the mentioning of Caltech was just to note the teams noticeably not in attendance at this tournament and was not an attempt to analyze the motivations of any of those teams. I know that there is a certain element in my own ...

Ghetto Warz happened. After a six-game round robin and a bracketed playoff, UCLA A (6-2, 2-1) and UC Irvine A (6-2, 2-1) were tied. No finals match was played to resolve this and UCLA A was awarded the title based on having accumulated a higher points-per-game average. Yes, it ended in a tie. Grante...

Resurrecting a long comatose thread, but this didn't come up and I'm very curious about it: So Yale had it's autobid revoked after it qualified a team by playing into the ICT field. Doesn't really bother me much, but here's what I don't understand. The University of Georgia, which hosted the Southea...

Chris Frankel writes: Also, good to see you guys coming, Charles... can I put your UCLA roster in my predictions thread because that definitely counts as one more good team coming to the mix. Go ahead. And to make this post slightly more interesting than a boring reply, I think that Berkeley's havin...

MLafer writes: but there are other teams, like those on the west coast (Stanford, UCLA, Caltech) who are only going to ICT and it would be cheaper to attend ACF Well, UCLA actually will in all likelihood go to ACF Nationals with a team of Ray Luo, Jay Turetzky, and me. But that's moderately irreleva...

Results from the West Coast: In the round robin, UCLA [Dwight, Ray, Jay, and I] (4-2) defeated Stanford A [Kevin, Kristiaan, Frank, and that other guy] (2-4) by margin of final record. Berkeley A finished tied with UCLA at 4-2, but featured an ineligible player and had an 0-2 head to head record aga...

Jerry writes: This is something I just don't get. You made the playoffs and got two extra rounds?! It boggles my mind how a team at a tournament can be denied the opportunity to play in the playoff rounds by virtue of "not making the playoffs." This has never been the case at any tournamen...

The Grapico Kid writes: You're right about two things: I was on the Amelia team, and my name is Paul (though I don't appreciate you posting my e-mail address). But you forget that there were two people on the team-- my friend, and myself. Basileus, and Medea. I wasn't able to attend the entire tour...

Certain things: 1. The tournament did happen December 3, 2005, which I have neglected to mention up until this point. My use of the term "dug up" was not in reference to it being something far on the backburner in terms of time, but rather location-it wasn't posted anywhere, and I only hap...

Dr. Chuck wrote: I'm trying to recall... how well did you do Charles? :) We are aware of the few wunderkinds that came out from California, but I can't remember if this performance is at all comparable. A. I'm not very familiar with these NAQT lower level invitational packets and exactly how much of...

Dug up while I was procrastinating for two final exams coming in six hours: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~quizbowl/tw3/TWIII_teamdetail.html#t6 Can this be real? Is this some team from out of the state of California? Really, what's going on here? I'm willing to believe that there are some amazing high sch...

Meadow Boy writes: No, geography seems to be around b/c it's enjoyable to have some questions on the topic. It's hard to justify that the geography that comes up in ACF or else where is "academic" like the other topics, but it's still a topic people like to answer questions on, just like ...

For what it's worth, the UCI packet was submitted not by Willie Chen, rather by the other UCI team. Unless I'm mistaken, the Willie Chen-led UCI team was a late addition to the field and provided no packet; the packet was written by relative novices from the second team.

Charles Meigs

To elaborate on some of the points mentioned earlier. To the best of my remembering what Noah told me, the Jerry packet was going to be scrapped and used for parts. The Jordan packet was not mentioned in this conversation, although it ended up being the packet actually used for its parts during the ...

I suppose after a rather lackluster experience at WIT, I could expect no better from a tournament entirely run and edited by a team that submitted one of the poorer packets to that tournament. Unsurprisingly, I was right. Unfortunately, on top of that, there were major logistical problems and errors...