I think that I can say, having hit both 995 and 993, (in fact 995's only loss was to us but thats a different story) that both teams were decidely deserving of a place at nationals, allthough 993 didn't get one. Additionally I think that based on what I saw the best teams at the tournament got the bids, I have seen Kenyon earlier this year and honestly I think that they have been more impressive in the past, I don't have the tab summary with me but I seem to recall observing that they had oppoturnities to advance based on the pairings that they had. I also don't think that it is fair to make the claim that OSU didn't deserve their bids, they clearly put up preformances worth of 4.5 wins while many other teams failed to do so. Additionally the argument that Miami was more deserving of the two sliver bids over OSU doesn't seem to hold a lot of water. First, if you look, even if 993 and 994 were to recieve sliver bids OSU 308 still would have recieved a bid. Secondly, had Miami recieved the bids then Bowling Green would not have had the oppurtunity to advance. Our team had 506 in round one and I was very impressed with their presentation, they definatally deserve to advance. I also agree with the argument made by UMCane*GWB, the fact that our team had to go against two MU teams in a row definatally hurt our preformance. While we split with both teams I would say that it is extremely difficult to take two ballots from Miami (as evidenced by the fact that no team managed to do this). All in all I am extremly satisfied with the results and the bid allocation.
