Canadians win Challenge Bowl  Challenge Bowl  By Dean Clark, TLE
Editor  The widespread Canadian team of Darragh O'Connor and
Adrian Smith cruised to the championship of the seventh SEG
Challenge Bowl with a dominating performance, before an
enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd, in the finals Monday
during SEG's Annual Meeting.  O'Connor, a master's candidate at
Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and Smith, a graduate of
the University of Western Ontario now at the University of
Calgary, were tied with the eventual runners-up from India at
the end of the first round. However, they shifted into high gear
at that point.  O'Connor and Smith breezed into the championship
round by scoring 90 points in the five-team semifinals (one more
than expected but forced by a three-time tie for the final spot
and made possible by some efficient maneuvering by emcee Peter
Duncan). That nearly doubled the total of Debarpit Chandra
(Maharashtra Institute of Technology) and Debanjan Datta (Indian
School of Mines) who captured