100% agree that learning focus and persistence was a very valuable result of doing math competitions. Completely random: If you're who I think you are, I still

100% agree that learning focus and persistence was a very valuable result of doing math competitions. Completely random: If you're who I think you are, I still remember seeing your name on the list of perfect AHSME scores in 1998ish. I think we met briefly at an ACM competition in '03 (we played Mafia for a while in a big group, and were briefly introduced by Po-Shen Loh who was one of my ACM teammates.)