Friday, November 05, 2004
Lances of Death: 0, Steven: 3 - Victory!
Today the last Mid-term Matchup scores finally came out, and it was a resounding victory for the forces of good. The defending champion Steven faced off against the biggest and baddest opponent they could find to throw at him: Lance of Death 3: Microeconomics. But our champion came into this match swinging, and never let the attacker get the best of him. The first question threw a rediculously complicated second order condition his way, but Steven deftly avoided it by muddling out something, working out the Implicit Function Theorem and realizing that the form of the Hessian did not matter.
Steven's strong response threw off Lance of Death 3, which able to respond only with an easy equivillent variation problem, which posed our hero no real threat. By the third question, though the enemy pulled out the feared expected utility insurance problem. Fortunately Steven had spent extra time studying these types of attacks, and was able to set up and complete the problem, in all its ferocity with only minimal errors.
At this point Steven was coasting into an easy finish, and the last question, one about maximizing social utility given a tax system was no real threat to our champion. Even the judges agreed that Steven's performance was excellent and awarded him his highest grade yet.
This match ended one epic duel between our champion and the forces of evil. Good has triumphed, and Steven has survived to fight another day.
Today the last Mid-term Matchup scores finally came out, and it was a resounding victory for the forces of good. The defending champion Steven faced off against the biggest and baddest opponent they could find to throw at him: Lance of Death 3: Microeconomics. But our champion came into this match swinging, and never let the attacker get the best of him. The first question threw a rediculously complicated second order condition his way, but Steven deftly avoided it by muddling out something, working out the Implicit Function Theorem and realizing that the form of the Hessian did not matter.
Steven's strong response threw off Lance of Death 3, which able to respond only with an easy equivillent variation problem, which posed our hero no real threat. By the third question, though the enemy pulled out the feared expected utility insurance problem. Fortunately Steven had spent extra time studying these types of attacks, and was able to set up and complete the problem, in all its ferocity with only minimal errors.
At this point Steven was coasting into an easy finish, and the last question, one about maximizing social utility given a tax system was no real threat to our champion. Even the judges agreed that Steven's performance was excellent and awarded him his highest grade yet.
This match ended one epic duel between our champion and the forces of evil. Good has triumphed, and Steven has survived to fight another day.
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