Today, teams across the country are arriving in Chicago to compete in the 2007 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament. One hundred sixty teams in all are competing in the HSNCT, hailing from as distant mythic locales as California and Florida; one team is even coming from Ottawa. (Yes, that Ottawa. Yes, it really does exist.) The tournament is in a Rosemont hotel, so we don’t have quite as much of a trip.

The ten preliminary matches are all day tomorrow; teams with a winning record will advance to Sunday’s double-elimination playoff. Last year we eked out 6-4 on Saturday with a substantially weaker team; we hope to do better tomorrow. (We quickly bowed out in two matches on Sunday.) Anyway, we looked at our points per game from last year, and it was horrendous. We really were pretty bad, weren’t we…

Tonight is registration and scrimmaging against other teams. Our team is driving down and playing to get warmed up–and perhaps we’ll get to scout out other teams?