Player Movement/Retirement Thread
Player Movement/Retirement Thread
So as not to hijack the ACF Nats thread, I've created a new one to confirm/centralize rumors, facts, and other such stuff about player movement/retirement.
For what it's worth, I and my 30 ppg will be off to UC Irvine in the fall, and I'll more likely than not keep playing there.
For what it's worth, I and my 30 ppg will be off to UC Irvine in the fall, and I'll more likely than not keep playing there.
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I am moving from Chicago to Harvard.
I'll try and make the team there; whether or not they will let me play for them is out of my control.
I'll try and make the team there; whether or not they will let me play for them is out of my control.
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Re: Player Movement/Retirement Thread
You should recruit Brendan Shapiro to aid you in your cause. He will be there for grad school as well.cvdwightw wrote:For what it's worth, I and my 30 ppg will be off to UC Irvine in the fall, and I'll more likely than not keep playing there.
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Seeing as I'm quite the grad school dropout, I'm going to become (or, more accurately, continue to be) a degenerate gambler until I matriculate in some law school. I would like to say I'll spend my first year without the burden of school writing 10 tournaments and studying qb material in order to avoid sucking wherever I go, but we all know I'm too lazy and slow to do that. Also, gambling makes me more money.
I might still go to open tournaments or something, if only to drink heavily.
I might still go to open tournaments or something, if only to drink heavily.
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I don't think I'm the void being referred to here...although my stomach might best be described as a void after a standard week of dieting on nothing but powdered doughnuts and altoids.Seriously, whats with all the Westbrook bashing lately?
Er, the topic. Of course, I'll be hanging around playing open tournaments and whatnot.
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I'll be in law school at Stanford, barring any last-minute surprises. I don't expect to play many, or perhaps any, tournaments, though like Paul Litvak I am susceptible to persuasion in the form of seafood. Also, if Leo joins me at Stanford in a year you can definitely expect us to show up at ACF nationals 2009, if only to derail Seth Teitler's three-peat.
And for that, of course, much of the Northeast is grateful.Kyle wrote:The idea of grad students playing quiz bowl at Harvard is, frankly, staggering. At the ripe old age of 20, I am currently the oldest person on our team. Bruce and Paul: if you can tolerate us little kids, you should both come play. I'll make sure you get info about the first practices next fall.
Then again, I guess it's been a while since Jeff Johnson played for Harvard. . . .
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Carleton's graduating three this year. I'll be at Chicago for at least the next year and hope to play as much as possible. Max is going off to Boston University to do something with numbers and doesn't plan on playing in the future. And Pat for now is planning to start up a one-man team at North Dakota, but he has yet to hear from some places.
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Not that anyone cares probably, but our Russki resident Senior and most frequent captain Misha will be gone and won't be doing any grad school in all likelihood, which means he'll retire to spear fishing at his home in Minnesota, so perhaps he can get Bruce some seafood if he's too lazy to go to Red Lobster.
He might try to show up at the Minnesota Twin Cities HSNCT mirror with a couple of his former Orono HS teammates though, and in any case we'll have him at the Moon Pie Classic for his last official W&M tournament.
He might try to show up at the Minnesota Twin Cities HSNCT mirror with a couple of his former Orono HS teammates though, and in any case we'll have him at the Moon Pie Classic for his last official W&M tournament.
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Do they even have Red Lobster in the Boston area? All I've seen there is "Legal Seafood", which frankly isn't as good. The trout is too dry.Matt Morrison wrote:which means he'll retire to spear fishing at his home in Minnesota, so perhaps he can get Bruce some seafood if he's too lazy to go to Red Lobster.
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Since my efforts to use my wusta to get flights from London to Sana'a cancelled are doing nothing to ruin Jordan Boyd-Graber's weekends, I'm going to probably go to the University of Maryland to be better positioned for scheming to disrupt the weekends of Princeton college bowl personnel. I'll probably play quizbowl as a means to that end.
My life has meaning again.canaanbananarama wrote:Since my efforts to use my wusta to get flights from London to Sana'a cancelled are doing nothing to ruin Jordan Boyd-Graber's weekends,
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Next fall, I intend to enroll at Lansing Community College in order to begin my associate's degree. You see, I have high hopes of becoming a paralegal -- my only goal in life is to work at the law practice of one shadowy Leo Wolberg, whose true identity remains a mystery to this very day.
That said, my matriculation at LCC will allow me to then assemble the greatest community college team in the history of quizbowl and obtain my most significant victory at the 2008 ICT Community College Championship. It is then, and only then, that quizbowl posterity will bestow upon me the immortality for which I have yearned since the dawn of my playing days back in high school in Beverly Hills -- Beverly Hills, MI, that is.
So, Freeburn, you coming here next year?
That said, my matriculation at LCC will allow me to then assemble the greatest community college team in the history of quizbowl and obtain my most significant victory at the 2008 ICT Community College Championship. It is then, and only then, that quizbowl posterity will bestow upon me the immortality for which I have yearned since the dawn of my playing days back in high school in Beverly Hills -- Beverly Hills, MI, that is.
So, Freeburn, you coming here next year?
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I'm beginning a Ph.D. program at Wash. U. in St. Louis in the fall.
A certain Princeton dinosaur of the late '90s was seriously considering joining me there, but, Heaven help us, he's off to Illinois instead. I don't know if that means he'll play there or not, but it certainly can't help.
A certain Princeton dinosaur of the late '90s was seriously considering joining me there, but, Heaven help us, he's off to Illinois instead. I don't know if that means he'll play there or not, but it certainly can't help.
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Whom are you talking about?deep_friar wrote:...A certain Princeton dinosaur of the late '90s was seriously considering joining me there, but, Heaven help us, he's off to Illinois instead.
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I hope they reconsider. Wake Forest has a team that gets out to a couple of events every year, and Old Dominion is within easy distance of lots of Mid-Atlantic tournaments.Jason Loy wrote:Other former players will be attending grad school at Wake Forest and Old Dominion, but will probably not continue playing.