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[zeropointfour]

It really is amazing that a college with so much money has the audacity to admit people who have dreamed about going there for years only to give them such crappy scholarships that they aren't able to enroll. I'm not getting any money from Yale, which is one small part of my rant, but when it really comes down to paying for it I know that my

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[zeropointfour]

Hey Clifford, thanks for giving me their names. I knew that Tanya was there, but it's great to know that there will be someone else in my grade. Have fun at Columbia, too! Too bad Nathan opted out.

As for Science Bowl...you can look at it however you want. It is true, Venice did not make double elimination while Samo did. We drew into the consensus most difficult bracket--6 teams from California, plus an incredible team from Cincinnati (Sycamore) and a solid team from Massachusetts. Meanwhile, Samo had drawn into a considerably easier bracket with only 7 teams. They made double elimination only to lose in the first game to Sycamore, and subsequently to some other team. I'm not knocking them, though--they were a formidable team. We scrimmaged against them and were basically even with them (it was pretty casual, but we lost the first two games on the last question and won the last game by a comfortable margin). It was disappointing not to have advanced, but the fact is that we ran into great teams before everyone else did. And we felt vindicated by the results in double elimination--both teams from our division made noise. Sycamore lost to TJ by 4 points at the buzzer in the third round, and Mission San Jose was the runner-up. If only second place were always enough to win a trip to Australia!

Now, though, it's time to move on. Science Bowl was awesome, but Yale and Columbia will be even better. If a year goes by and you're still sniping about the finals, or I'm still sniping about the bracket, we're not going to get anywhere. Congratulations again on being part of such a great team, and realize that the qualities that make NoHo Science Bowl such a great team will enable you to do incredible stuff long after Science Bowl is over. Best of luck.

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I agree. It is time to move on. Science Bowl was loads of fun, and it was my life for quite some time, but hopefully I'll find other things to do. columbia should have something for me.

yeah, random sitting in science bowl should not exist. you should be ranked on how well you score. glad to hear you guys did well, although the final results don't really reflect it.

TJ. either has to be luckiest guys out there, or they are really brilliant. I wouldn't know because I've never faced them. But from hearing from old noho sci bowlers who have beat them at competition before, they aren't that fast or knowledgeable, just really lucky.

oh and i forgot to mention, Jennifer Yeh, one of my team members was considering Yale before ultimately choosing MIT. so that's one potential classmate-ex-science-bowler but oh well.