First appearance: the unseeded unknown, "Ind." on the draw-sheet

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pivotal · UNDATED (~last couple years of Unsubsidized Time, B.S.; ~age 16)

When: "the very last couple years of solar, Unsubsidized Time" (~B.S. 2000-01), Clipperton unseeded at sixteen
What: Clipperton materialized without warning in East Coast regional tournament play, an unseeded sixteen-year-old nobody had heard of. The town/academy slot after his name on draw-sheets read only "Ind.," presumably for "Independent"; he had "seepily risen, some sort of human radon, from someplace low and unknown."