ACF Nats Predictions

[Demonic Leftovers]

1. As soon as Charles Meigs wraps up his knife-balancing, belly-dancing act on Chris Ray's stomach, the team will be hard at work going for the double. Jonathan Magin is already reading the collected works of Alain Le Sage, FOR PLEASURE. Dan Suzman will pretty much just sit there.

2. The tossup on the Battle of the Dunes was, alas, predictable.

3. Wall of Ham: OUT.

END COMMUNICATION

[No Rules Westbrook]

Really? No predictions, gang?

[vcuEvan]

Maryland
Brown
Chicago

[BuzzerZen]

I'm predicting a strong showing for myself at the meat-eating contest at dinner Friday night.

[Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)]

I predict that in the Brown-Yale matchup Eric Mukherjee will be challenged to play solo, and that Yale will call Kalki to consume Eric out of spite for stealing their up and coming star Linna Duan. Afterwards they'll watch the video of the fight on youtube during practice.

[Mechanical Beasts]

Ted ascendant.

[BuzzerZen]

Ted ascendant.

Is Ted playing?

[Skepticism and Animal Feed]

Ted ascendant.

Is Ted playing?

Ted will be replacing Charlie Dees on the "Rom and Friends" team that competed at MLK. Sadly, Ray Sun will be unable to make it, so for ACF Nats the team will be Rom Masrour, Bruce Arthur, and Ted Gioia.

[grapesmoker]

Ted will be replacing Charlie Dees on the "Rom and Friends" team that competed at MLK. Sadly, Ray Sun will be unable to make it, so for ACF Nats the team will be Rom Masrour, Bruce Arthur, and Ted Gioia.

What's ACF Nationals without Ray Sun?! I may have to call for a boycott of this event...

[AKKOLADE]

I predict a hilarious article to be published by the Maryland student newspaper.

Oh hey I win! (Bolding is mine)

The Maryland Academic Quiz Team is ready for a rematch with their archrival, the University of Chicago, on Saturday.

The quiz team won its first national tournament at Washington University in St. Louis on April 12, defeating the University of Chicago after it won both national academic tournaments last year.

The team hopes for a repeat this weekend at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. The university's team said winning both tournaments is not out of the question, since their rivals managed to do it last year.

"We already won a national title," said Charles Meigs, a graduate student studying Arabic. "What do those guys have on us?"

The team prepared last night with more difficult questions than usual but said they don't plan on cramming on Friday evening. Instead, they'll be watching Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

"It's not about putting in the study time," said Chris Ray, a sophomore history and government and politics major. "It's about having the intellectual curiosity."

The team agreed that everyone would prepare for the tournament in their own way.

Jonathan Magin, a senior English major, has a notebook scribbled with facts he's collected. And Ray said he learned the geography of Antarctica by watching Alien vs. Predator numerous times.

"You don't need people with good GPAs," Ray said. "If you like learning things, it's a good start."

The team consists of four members with areas of expertise. There are two types of questions - toss-ups, where players buzz in, and bonuses that go to teams who answer the toss-up correctly.

The team considers itself more of a knowledge team rather than relying on the quickness of buzzing in.

"You don't win by speed," Magin said. "You win by knowledge. That's how you win Quiz Bowl - by knowing things."

This style of play will be more fitting for the team this weekend because the tournament on Saturday is more of an academic tournament, compared to other tournaments that focus on popular culture or other themes.

Team members said they are one of the more laid-back teams. But a lot of them enjoy the competitive side of the tournaments.

"You get some real characters when you're playing Quiz Bowl," Ray said. "There's a whole range of attitudes."

The team talked trash about the best player on the University of Chicago's team, calling him their "evil archvillian." And the captain of Brown University, they said, has a fiery temper. Meigs said it's nerve-racking to play across from the Brown University team because one player has a tendency to throw things when he gets angry.

This university's team attends about 12 events a year, competing in tournaments around the country at Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago and Brandeis University.

Jerry =

[grapesmoker]

I have been slandered in the popular press! Sir, I demand satisfaction! Buzzers at dawn?

Seriously though, I can't believe they actually published that.

[DumbJaques]

I notably didn't actually say any of the things attributed to me. . . except that thing about AvP, which I promptly demanded they print. Seriously, my knowledge Elephant Island/Predator physiology is going to carry the day pretty hard. I kept stressing things like "it's really easy to join, free, we're really laid back and don't require people to study, and we're losing a lot of people after this year" and all those things to encourage readers to check the team out. I'm sure glad the eschewed that to focus on Charles's concerns about Seth Teitler's evil empire, an admittedly serious threat to world security.

[AKKOLADE]

I notably didn't actually say any of the things attributed to me. . . except that thing about AvP, which I promptly demanded they print. Seriously, my knowledge Elephant Island/Predator physiology is going to carry the day pretty hard. I kept stressing things like "it's really easy to join, free, we're really laid back and don't require people to study, and we're losing a lot of people after this year" and all those things to encourage readers to check the team out. I'm sure glad the eschewed that to focus on Charles's concerns about Seth Teitler's evil empire, an admittedly serious threat to world security.

Maybe Alien vs. Predator will teach you how to recruit.

[The Goffman Prophecies]

I notably didn't actually say any of the things attributed to me. . . except that thing about AvP, which I promptly demanded they print.

This brought to you by the journalism school that produced Jayson Blair and Jack Kelley.

[Maxwell Sniffingwell]

Well, they misspelled "archvillain," but that's a great article. Hilarious in parts, actually... I am surprised the

It's better than the ones that got written about Lawrence quizbowl when we qualified for/played at ICT. Notable highlights included the headline "LU quiz bowl team ends up in championship round" (true for people who don't play quizbowl; totally false in reality, as it was your choice of Maryland v Chicago or Carleton v Western Ontario) and the first article incorrectly proclaiming me to be the Messiah.

[cvdwightw]

That is awesome...I sent a small blurb to our school paper about our T-4 finish at ICT, thinking it might have some campus significance since except for a few minor sports and apparently rigged MTV shows Irvine never finishes that high in anything...despite nary a word on quizbowl, our weekly paper contained the following: four full pages of comics, an editorial lamenting that alternative fuels are driving up the price of beer, and two separate articles on the difficulties that women face at UC-Irvine, namely (1) being Jewish on a campus where there apparently aren't enough nice Jewish boys and one has to settle for nice non-Jewish boys and (2) being given a lapdance by a gay male friend in full view of one's boyfriend. Hmm...quizbowl...comics...beer...interfaith dating...gay male lapdances. I think you can discern which one ends up cut.

[AKKOLADE]

Journalism!

[Auks Ran Ova]

I hope this trend of journalists taking Charles Meigs seriously continues forever.

[AKKOLADE]

posted 4/24/08 @ 11:58 AM EST

The next thing I throw at ACF Nationals will be you out the window, Charles Meigs.

[naturalistic phallacy]

I hope this trend of journalists taking Charles Meigs seriously continues forever.

[theattachment]

Results on the meat eating contest?

[Auks Ran Ova]

humans 1, meat 0

[Auroni]

I hope this trend of journalists taking Charles Meigs seriously continues forever.