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Congratulations to Michael Braun of Blake High School, for winning the Summer Singles tournament today. He defeated Dan Wright of Thomas Jefferson to win the double elimination playoffs. I will go into more details tomorrow, after I get some rest, but I would like to thank our volunteers: Sharon Won...

We stand at 15 people (one less than ideal) with the waitlist empty. The dramatis personae: Michael B (Blake) Michael K (Gonzaga) Seth (RM) Tobin (RM) Daniel B (RM) Humza (RM) Barry (RM) David (GDS) Zack (WJ) Mike S (TJ) Dan W (TJ) Mike W (TJ) Alex L (TJ) Wil K (TJ) Daniel R (ER) The field is not on...

Dear everybody:

I will send out a mass email tonight with all the pertinent information. Good luck on Saturday.

Recent grauduates are certainly elegible; I will most likely be playing. Mike, I heard from your brother, but I am still waiting for Alex to contact me about who else from TJ is coming. Besides the TJ contingent—which I've heard numbers 5 or 6—here is a list of people who will be there. I am als...

Yes, on Saturday, July 31 at the University of Maryland in College Park, there will be a Summer Singles Tournament. We will be using the questions from ACF Fall 2003. Anyone who played on a local A-team—or powerhouse B-team—during the past academic year is invited to play. Other players may regi...

sometimes the more pyramidal (and therefore correct) way to order clues will be less than optimal from a grammatical perspective. Bingo. Question writers of all stripes abuse the passive voice like whoa, but thank god for this inelegence; it enables clues to be ordered correctly. "This book&qu...

There's been some question about the format for the tournament, so I'll do my best to address those issues. The first half of each game will consists of 5 categories of 5 toss-ups each. These will be shortish (3 lines in Word or so) but not buzzer races: each will have multiple clues in order of dec...

Delaware's tournament did indeed move to April 3.

[I posted a similar announcement a few minutes before, and MLafer removed it. This particular post is now without purpose. Cheers.]