The projected — but never-shown — Sunday final against Stice

texture · Year of Glad

• When: Year of Glad (YG, 2010), the novel's frame year; Tucson AZ, Hal's collapse at the university-admissions interview
• What: In the novel's opening frame — a year after the YDAU events, at Hal's neurological breakdown in the E.T.A. admissions interview — Stice survives as Hal's standing rival: Hal notes he "will play either Stice or Polep in Sunday's final. Maybe in front of Venus Williams." The book ends before that final is played, so the last thing the record holds for Ortho Stice is a projected championship match against Hal that the novel never shows. (See Dating notes on the two Hal–Stice matches.)