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Vassar is shaping up as pretty small. I think we may have a situation where we’ve got a tournament too many. Bid tournaments do fine, but non-bidders have to have a gimmick to survive. That’s one of the reasons I came up with Academy, the idea being to provide rounds for people who aren’t at the top of the varsity ladder. I mean, at Bump, for instance, there’s a limit of 5/6 students in the PF/LD varsity divisions, and that means that, for a lot of schools, seniors only, or seniors and juniors. But sophomores and the rest of the juniors need something. It doesn’t make sense that a college tournament be that something, though. The Ivies don’t lack for people who just want to visit, bids notwithstanding, but even UPenn, before it got its LD bid, was primarily a PF venue, where it did have bids. In any case, there will be a lot of discussion over the weekend about the direction Vassar should take in the future. It should be interesting.

I’ve now decided to run both divisions on tabroom. That should be interesting too.

I met with the Sailors last night, postponed from Election Day when school was closed. We did a rather bizarre demo PF round, as the Plebes will be trying PF in December. Of course, they all think that they get to decide who teams with whom, which makes no sense to me in their fetal state, where they should all just get as many rounds as possible. I told them to think about the future, i.e., which tournaments they could attend in December, bring that information with them to the next meeting, and we’ll plot accordingly. (Note to self: good luck with that.)

We also divvied up the Bump jobs, although oodles of Speecho-Americans weren’t there (they always meet on Wednesdays), which was sort of surprising. Oh, well. They mostly get the concessions tables, which makes them perfectly happy, and there you are. As for the rest, we should be in good shape with enough runners to cover the territory.

Speaking of Bump, all the TBAs have flown the coop. We’re still a little overbooked, but the library can handle it if necessary. There is always a last minute rush to the exits as fees are set, and that should do the job. Food has been ordered, in any case. Parents have been shamed into contributing to the judges’ lounge. Trophies are being forged, software is being updated (it won’t show the school fee), places are being set at India House for the alumni dinner. What else is there?

Nothing, I hope.