Tim Dickinson wrote:

>...  Based upon the BCS rules and format, I declare Gustav Mahler to be
>the Best Champion Symphonist of all times.  (Angry shouts continue to come
>from the Beethoven camp, with their volume and veracity ever increasing.
>Our commentator exits swiftly stage right, with the several angry
>Beethovians in close pursuit.)

Not to mention Brucknerians (here!). Maybe Shostakovichians and Sibelians,
too.

Roger Hecht