What I learned from this weekend's Route 66 IV.

1.  No, you DO NOT have enough packets.
2.  The packet deadline should be set at least 4 weeks before packets are
actually needed.
3.  Sophomores are not to be trusted with statkeeping.
4.  Never assume all of your people will show up.
5.  Never assume all of the teams will show up.

That being said, everything went (IMHO) fairly well and most of the snafus
stayed fairly well hidden under the carpet.  The stats were a horrible
wreck, but, as it turns out, the same teams would have made the playoffs
and the same people would have won the individual awards, anyways.  And
thus we have quick results for the Route 66 IV.

(Full results will follow to the participants.)

Boomer Pool:
1.  Arkansas I 6-0
2.  UTD 4-2 (lost to Texas II)
3.  Oklahoma 4-2
4.  Wichita State II 3-3
5.  Texas II 2-4 (beat UTD; lost to WSU III)
6.  Independence CC 1-5
7.  WSU III 1-5 (beat Texas II)

Sooner Pool:
1.  Texas I 6-0
2.  WSU I 5-1
3.  Arkansas II 3-3 (lost to OBU)
4.  Missouri 3-3
5.  OBU 2-4 (beat Arkansas II; lost to Butler County)
6.  Cloud County CC 1-5
7.  Butler County CC 1-5 (beat OBU)

The top three teams from the pools advanced to single-elim playoffs.
Originally, this caused chaos because OBU had been incorrectly reported as
beating Butler, creating the doomed "circle of death."  Had this existed as
we thought, Missouri would have advanced on point differential.  MU had
taken off, so instead, Arkansas II made the playoffs, and all was restored
to what it actually should have been all along (as we later found out).

Quarters (Arkansas I and Texas I had BYEs):

WSU I d. Oklahoma, 210-170.  WSU bolted to a 190-90 lead before a
last-minute OU rally.  Unfortunately, OU negged tossup 20 and came up just
short.  Henry Herron paced WSU with 65, Andrew McKenzie had 45 in the
losing cause.

UTD d. Arkansas II, 155-145.  A back and forth struggle that was tied
90-all at half, Arkansas trailed 155-130 but grabbed tossup 20 and needed
15 on the bonus.  They got 5, instead, and UTD advanced.  Ryan paced UTD at
3/0, Dargan (who had 3 times as many interrupts as anybody else in the
tournament) went 9/5 for Arkansas II.

Semis:

Arkansas I d. WSU I, 175-165 (OT).  Largely a battle between Mike Wehrmann
and Henry Herron, Daniel Hazman grabbed the OT tossup to advance Arkansas
I.  Wehrmann had 60, Herron 65.

Texas I d. UTD, 370-85.  Dallas grabbed 4 of the first 7 tossups but horrid
10-for-120 bonus conversion left them trailing before the roof collapsed as
UT reeled off 8 straight tossups.  Everybody had at least 25 for Texas,
Sean paced UTD with 35.

Finals:

Texas I d. Arkansas I, 220-135.  Aided by two Arkansas negs, Texas grabbed
tossups 1-6 and raced to a 145-(-10) lead.  Arkansas staged a mini-rally at
the end, but it was too little, too late.  Jennifer and Suzy led Texas with
30 each, Mike Wehrmann had 5/4 for Arkansas.

Congrats to Texas I, who took home the family-size can of ravioli for 1st
prize.  Congrats also to Arkansas I.

Individual awards (originally misreported, but the same four people won):

MVP:  Henry, WSU I, 70.00 ppg
Mike, Arkansas I, 65.83 ppg
Eric O., WSU II, 55.00 ppg
Dargan, Arkansas II, 54.17 ppg

And the rest of the top ten:

John, WSU III, 42.50 ppg
Scott, Missouri, 40.83 ppg
Jennifer, UT I, 37.50 ppg
Alfred, UT I, 33.33 ppg
Adam, Oklahoma, 30.83 ppg
Andrew, Oklahoma, 30.00 ppg

The humor prizes consisted of things found in the Goddard pharmacy,
compliments of various drug reps:
3rd Place (a Diflucan pen): Ryan, OBU, for duly answering "glacier" to a
question about a geologic object that moves at 20 miles per hour.
2nd Place (took off early):  Sean, UT-Dallas, for suggesting that Heracles'
mother was named Euripedes.
Grand Prize (an empty bottle of Viagra 100mg):  Texas II, for the linking
bonus featuring Praise the Lord of the Dance (Jim and Tammy Faye
worshipping Michael Flatley), The Village People's Temple (where Jim Jones
leads his disco-lovin' followers after they get kicked out of the YMCA),
and The Raisin Bran-ch Davidians (two scoops of heaven!).

Special mention goes to our three community college teams, all of whom
ventured out into competition with the four-year schools for the first time
and acquitted themselves very well.  Special mention also to UTD, who
looked really good (and they said that Margolis is coming back, too) and
the Oklahoma "house team" of five freshmen, two of them in their first
academic bowl competition ever, who far exceeded our expectations.

Eric Bell (ebell@ou.edu)	OKBridge "Eric"
Goddard Health Center Pharmacy	IRC "Avistar"

http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/B/Eric.S.Bell-1/