2022

2022 Team Roster: Adrian Small Ashley Chala Juwan Byers Tawab Attaie Toya Acharya Team Faculty Advisors/Coaches: Dr. Annamalai Annamalai Dr. Mohamed Chouikha 2021 Winter Classic Team Roster: Toya Acharya Ishan Khatri Johnny Turner Faculty Advisors/Coaches: Dr. Annamalai Annamalai Dr. Mohamed Chouikha  

Lunch with Team Tennessee State:  They selected Whole Foods for their first meal. I have a hard time with that given my entire life devoted to unhealthy eating. Well, the pretentious smugness of Whole Foods factors in as well. Ahmed is definitely throwing this in my face with his meal order of a handful of…

Texas Tech Matadors/Red Raiders Dinner – the Sequel:  In the second video, we find the team at “Torchy’s Tacos”, another fine Lubbock institution. This place has a hilarious menu, including entries dubbed “Trailer Park”, “Tipsy Chick”, “Tokyo Drifter”, and the ever popular “MoFaux.” With the Trailer Park taco, there’s a “Make it Trashy” option that…

Team UTEP:   It’s rib night for UTEP and I’m highly supportive of that choice – big fan of ribs. They have some good news to accompany their meaty feast:  at the time of filming, they were one of the four teams that maxed out the ORNL ML challenge and it has moved them into third…

Texas Tech Matadors/Red Raiders Dinner – the Sequel:  In the second video, we find the team at “Torchy’s Tacos”, another fine Lubbock institution. This place has a hilarious menu, including entries dubbed “Trailer Park”, “Tipsy Chick”, “Tokyo Drifter”, and the ever popular “MoFaux.” With the Trailer Park taco, there’s a “Make it Trashy” option that…

Team Prairie View:  It’s Italian night in Prairie View, TX, and the team is eating in with a huge feast from Olive Garden. Ok, I make fun of Olive Garden a bit in the video, but I don’t think there’s an authentic Little Italy in Prairie View, so you take what you get and enjoy…

Team Spelman-Morehouse:  They satisfied their Mexican food craving at an Atlanta area joint called The Bone Garden Catina, excellent choice. During the interview we talked about what the team has learned during the competition, which is a lot, according to them. We also talked about their future in terms of career interests. One of the…

Team Morehouse Update:  Our first interview with Morehouse was a corrupted file fiasco, but we finally caught up with them and gave them a proper interview. The team has a couple of chess players who, strangely enough, have never played each other. I try to stir the pot to get a rivalry going between them.…

Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University:  FAMU competed in the first Winter Classic event last year and have one returning player this year. The team leader, Kawika, was the foundation of the 2021 team and is a time management ninja, as you’ll see from the video. Other than Kawika’s limited exposure to HPC last year, the…

2022 Team Fayetteville Andres Ayala-Lagunas David Abdo Jean Paul Fermaint Hernandez Octavia Riddick Faculty Advisors/Coaches: Dr. Albert Chan Dr. Mingxian Min Team Fayetteville:  It’s a Greek lunch for Team Fayetteville in the fashionable Greek District of Fayetteville, NC. (Full disclosure: I have no evidence to support the claim that there’s a Greek District in Fayetteville…