1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
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1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
This was the best tournament of 1989 in the Southeast. I totally smoked toss-ups on HP Lovecraft and Lou Reed. But on the other hand, Georgia Tech beat my UF team something like 400-60. But we got to listen repeatedly to my cassette of The English Beat's "Wh'appen" the whole way back to Gainesville, so it was cool.
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
It's the earliest tournament listed on the Stanford archive!
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
It's the finest Designate Bowl set in all the land.
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
I was usually too lazy back then to actually write questions for the team, but I do like the two-line toss-up on "Heisei," or "Achieving Peace," in the UF packet! Who says we didn't know stuff back then?
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
what was the date of this tournament?
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
Hmm, I think it was in March. I know it was in spring, as it wasn't football season.
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
Also, as I was thinking about this tournament (my first outside of UF, FSU, Berry, or Stetson, who actually had a program in the 80s), I remembered that the all-stars were determined by a vote of the teams. Each team wrote down the top four players they played against, and the top four got little plaques or something. I remember our captain, Mike Brooks, writing stuff like "guy with glasses from Tennessee" and such, since we didn't necessarily learn names.
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
I was unaware that Auburn ever had a team prior to this past year.
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Re: 1989 Allen Ludden at Auburn
Auburn won the very first Trash tournament back in 1993.jmannor2 wrote:I was unaware that Auburn ever had a team prior to this past year.
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