Most of what I do in professional/vocational life seems to involve my figuring out ways to make my own self superfluous. Maybe that's a good thing, as once I'm superfluous I can use the marginal time to find new projects or just goof off.
This doesn't rise nearly to the level of an official announcement, but since many of you readers are also frequent HSNCT/ICT game official types:
Joel Gluskin (Wash U. alumnus) will have more or less the same role for 2006 HSNCT and ICT that I had for those tournaments in 2004 and 2005. I'm trying to pass that completely to him for ICT; for HSNCT letting go is going to be incredibly difficult (think of Bilbo's increasing reluctance to part with the ring) but it's the right thing to do if only to avoid burnout. (There will still be plenty of work for everyone to fill our free time to the point of group burnout.)
I suppose the big exception is HSNCT stat room (even if it kills me - or an outside observer would assume it was killing me - I want that role, and assume that nobody else is crazy enough to come near it). Even at that, the better the stat programs get, the more superfluous I can become even in the HQ trench.
Best reason to blog this rather than, say, an HSquizbowl post: I assume competing teams themselves would have no sense of my role for either tournament. If you're playing at ICT, your main man is Barker; HSNCT, some combination of Bell & Kubicek.
Posted by Matt Bruce at June 7, 2005 01:24 PM