Final order of finish: 1. Cornell 10-1 2. Rochester 9-3 (d. Queen's 220-180 in Semis) 3. Queen's 9-3 4. Albany 6-4 ... 5. Syracuse 5-2 In all, a weird tournament; Cornell was without Eric or Dwight for the first time this century...er..decade; Syracuse was (sadly) without the services of Andy Wang; Albany was without Larry Kauffman for the first time since he started at SUNY in 1987...Or something like that. Top scorer was Jon Engel from Syracuse, with Evelyn Browne of Cornell a close second. Comments: 1. Any team with me on it is a scout team. It's too bad we couldn't send all of our first-stringers. 2. The questions were very bad, possibly the worst I've ever heard from CBI - and we have packs all the way back to 1986. It's a good thing we paid Canadian at par for registration and got the discount for the IM packs. 3. The answers to the questions were very bad. In particular: we say "La cantatrice chauve." They say "No, it's _The Bald Soprano_" Next time, all my answers will be in french. 4. Pretty well no Canadiana. In 1996-97, I think Canadians temporarily fell in as one of the groups that CBI felt it had "slighted". Canadian content experienced a sudden surge to one question per pack. And then the next year, there were no Canadian schools in CBI. And now we're persona non grata at CBI headquarters. That sucks. And yes, I think someone made a concerted effort to get rid of the hockey questions. It's really too bad that the distribution is too American. Vs. Rochester, I think we were the more knowledgeable team, but too many questions about Salmon P. Chase and the FDIC kicked our asses. 5. Bonus variability. Basically "For 30 points, name the three most popular credit cards in the US." Who wrote that one? 6. Rochester Institute of Technology's team was made up entirely of deaf players. The organizers had simultaneous reading and overheads. It was a very interesting setup - though I think everyone ended up reading the overheads rather than listening. 7. I think we really missed the combined presence of Andy Wang and Larry Kauffman. Larry, as some of you may know, was impeached as student body president at Albany because, during a football game, he disrobed atop a van parked on the sidelines in an attempt to cheer on his school's team. According to Matt Colvin, Andy got invited to a keg party in Syracuse and decided to stay there for the weekend. 8. And hey, congrats to my teammates, all of whom had never played in a tournament before. Back with a vengeance next year? Gabe [who is older than our coach...]