What Greg believes in...

[444N@delphi.com]

> Just because Chico got 2 people to vote for them doesn't make
them smart,
> it doesn't make them right...it just means nationals is a
screwjob.
>                                                    ---from me

Well, you're right on all counts.

Pat and Matt were not made smart by getting two judges--they
were smart before then.

Winning a round doesn't make a team right--it does make them
the winners of the round, though.

Nationals can be a screwjob--the three hundred + other teams
that didn't win it all are all surely able to find one decision
they don't like.

Losing at Nats sucks, but it is a fact of life.  I didn't see
the round, but the fact is that Chico won it.  And whether
anyone likes it or not, in order to win a debate round a team
must convince the judges.  Chico did, you didn't.  Bad judges
(I don't know the panel, so I am not assuming the critics were
"bad")?  Tough luck, Greg.  The bottom line is the same--one of
the two teams there had to win those judges.

You already know that, and as someone who once thought they
should've won a semis round at Nats and didn't, I know that
part of you will always be hacked.  I guess my ire was raised
by the tone of your "p.s." which implied that Chico was somehow
unworthy of a place in octos.  If you wanna vent on the judges
(which really won't get you anywhere, anyway) go ahead.  But
try not to take out your frustrations on a very good team that
was deserving of octofinals--just like you and Brad were.

Pax,

Uncle Charlie
CARSON BRACKNEY

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