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Tuesday, August 06, 2002
Escape from Chattanooga
Another week, another quizbowl tournament up in Chattanooga. I had a blast at Muck Masters, although I failed to defend my title from last year despite a much stronger supporting cast that ended up going 10-0 in the preliminaries. Lost in the semis to the eventual champs in one of the more thrilling matches I've ever played in. We were down 240-40 at the half, then stormed back to score 250 consecutive points to take the lead before allowing them to take the last three tossups -- on things I knew pretty well -- and the victory. Otherwise, it was plenty of routs throughout the day. Can't complain about the single-elim format since my teams have won twice up there as 3 seeds; guess it works the other way as well -- it was a 5 vs. 6 (out of eight playoff teams) for the title. Seemed like one of those conference tournaments in March.
Anyways, enough babble from here. I'll be spotty (like I hadn't been already) for most of this week as I'll be in Dallas for the AAJA National Convention. Maybe I'll update from Texas if I'm in the mood. We shall see.
posted at 1:54 AM
Aight, blah!
No real reason for the subject line really, other than I've been fortunate to find Fox burning off episodes of Greg the Bunny on Sunday nights between Futurama and The Simpsons. The material doesn't seem appropriate for 7:30 Sunday night, but I guess to paraphrase to Harry Doyle in Major League, "Ah who cares, no one's watching!"
Also intriguing was the airing of the Puerto Rican Day episode of Seinfeld that I don't think aired in syndication until now because of a handful of controversies, such as the burning of the Puerto Rican flag. It's a very odd episode and I guess it helped to set up the love it/hate it series finale that would air a few weeks later.
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