Academic Competition Newsletter Editor in Chief: Gaius Stern 10 November 2002 To readers, Please feel free to send in corrections, supplements, or entries for the ACN. I occasionally run incomplete stories or even get items wrong. My focus is turning away from College Quizbowl and the ACN is one of the few things that keeps me anchored there. Since the newsletter is an electronic serial, it is free to any who wish to add a subscription. Merely write and tell me what school you are affiliated with and which e-mail address you desire to be added to the subscriber list. Likewise, if you wish to cancel, just write the same address and ask to be removed from the list. This issue has results from Illinois Deep Bench Illinois Open 2002 Berkeley WIT TRASHionals ACF Fall New web page listings New club in So Ca at Pomona plug for local trivia author Note from Yahoo coordinator DML ---------------------- Upcoming events: UC Irvine Novice Nov 16 contact: wongaw@uci.edu CalTechnophobia VII Nov 23 contact: mason@robby.caltech.edu U of Arkansas JrBird Nov 23 contact: awehrma@uark.edu Illinois Novice Nov 23 (sorry - check webpage) Illinois wins Chicago Deep Bench When the University of Minn. declined to again host Deep Bench (in the past run by Carleton College) U-Chicago took up the task. This year it was won by Illinois-UC. Other participants were Carleton, DePauw, IIT, Michigan, and Northwestern. Kentucky Wins Illinois Open 2002: Urbana Renewal on 9 Nov. Kentucky came out tops, marching undefeated through the field of 9 teams, and then defeating 2nd place team Iowa St. A in a playoff. Third place was captured by Indiana. Subash Maddipoti(Chicago) was the leading invidual scorer, followed by Kelly McKenzie (Kentucky), Wesley Matthews (former Occidental - Now at Indiana), Matt Cvijanovich (ISU A), and Charles Thomas (ISU B). Thanks to everyone who attended Berkeley (embarassingly) Wins own WIT X from David Farris, TD: Thirteen teams competed at Berkeley's 10th annual Western Invitational Tournament, "WIT X: Free Yard Tips." They included 5 Berkeley teams, 4 Stanford teams, University of Chicago, Texas A&M, UCLA, and a hybrid team of Jordan Katine (IBM), Lindsay Jones (UCSC), Sean Cole (former Oregon, now Sacr. government building), and Lev Osherovich (UCSF). The teams played a round robin on packs they submitted along with some from Charlie Steinhice and a packet swap with Iowa. In the end, Berkeley Seth was undefeated, and Texas A&M had one loss to them. They played a best of three final with a one game advantage to Berkeley, and Berkeley won ca. 500-125. Congratulations to Seth Teitler, Jeff Hoppes, and Larissa Kelly, who took home some thrilling used books from Moe's Books. Team records and game scores are available at http://lagaffe.cs.berkeley.edu/quiz-bowl/events/wit/wit10/ The MVPs are not to be taken to seriously. Although Gaius was the top scorer, he only played one game and therefore disqualified himself from the MVP prizes. The top ten run as follows: (Gaius Stern - self-disqualified), Jeff Hoppes (Berkeley Seth), Jerry Vinokurov (Berkeley Yuri), Paul Lujan (Berkeley Paul), Seth Teitler (Berkeley Seth), Joon Pahk (Stanford Suzy), Peter Onyisi (Chicago), Raj Bhan (Stanford Joon), Pat Friel (UCLA), newcomer Brendan Shapiro (Berkeley Brendan), and Charles (UCLA). Missouri wins Midwest TRASH Thirteen teams competed today in TRASH Regionals Midwest here at UIUC. Missouri went 9-1, and was proclaimed the champion. Second place went to Northwestern A (6-3), and third to UIUC (6-3). The top individual scorers were Mica Hilson (Indiana), Mark (Mizzou), Erik (Iowa A), Matt (Iowa A), and Mike (Iowa B). There was some confusion as to how to award placements since a number of teams had equal records and head to head and other tie-breaking means had to be employed to rank teams 2-7. Champion: MISSOURI (9-1) 2. Wash U 6-4 (3-2) (beat UIUC, NW A) 3. UIUC 6-3 (3-2) (beat NW A) 4. Northwestern A 6-3 (3-2) 5. Indiana 6-4 (2-3) (beat Iowa A, Iowa B) 6. Iowa A 6-4 (2-3) (beat Iowa B) 7. Iowa B 6-3 (2-3) ASU Alumni win West Coast TRASH from Seth Teitler General Knowledge and the Equivalents (ASU Alumni) won the West Coast TRASH Regional tournament, going 13-1 in a double round robin. Second place went to Box Office Bombs (Berkeley B). Top individual scorers were Nick Meyer (Berk. A), Matt Levine (Berk. B), Negmaster J (Jason Zuffranieri, ASU), Pat (UCLA A), and Zack (Charles Meigs, UCLA B). The top 10 individual scorers and the winning team members picked up fine prizes, including Billie Jean King's Autobiography, the Encounters of the Third Kind board game, a semi-functional zen garden, White Squaw #14: Red Top Tramp, and a book of Hawaiian jokes. Complete statistics replete with comic team names will come later. Chicago, Simon Fraser, Tx A&M, Berkeley, win ACF Regions from Michael Falk, ISU Seven teams took part in the ACF Fall Tournament today at Iowa State U. The top Division I team was Univ. of Chicago who ran the field with a 12-0 record. U. of Illinois took second place with a 10-2 record. Division II was won by Carleton B, who went 6-0 The Pac NW ACF region was held at Simon Fraser Univ. between SFU and Wash. State. SFU C won the tournament. Wash State is a new team on the radar and onen hopes to see the NW region vitalize. from Mengmeng Zhang, UT-Austin The SW ACF Region was taken by two teams from Tx A&M who had tied after the prelims. After one full round robin, the teams split into two 4 team brackets for another round robin. In the end, A&M B and A&M C tied at the top with 9-1 records (beating each other once), and decided to leave as Co-Champions. UTD A was the Div II champion. The West Coast ACF Region was won by Berkeley in an 11-0 record and second place with an 8-3 finish. The field of 6 teams played double RR. Berkeley also took the top 6 MVPs. New Team Starting at Pomona College Derek Wilairat writes to tell me he is founding a Quizbowl Club at Pomona College in the Clairmont area. Pomona has traditionally played College Bowl at CA Regionals for many years. Derek hopes to persuade the faculty advisor to consider additional forms of quizbowl, possibly the creation of a separate society for Quizbowl. A group of 14 has met a few times to start practice and Derek hopes to send one or two teams to NAQT in Spring. He welcomes comments, suggestions, and invitations to tournaments from anyone. New Web Addresses for Berkeley and Stanford Due to graduations, Berkeley Quizbowl has changed its URL and can now be found at http://lagaffe.cs.berkeley.edu/quiz-bowl/ . The Berkeley page has many helpful resources for other clubs. In addition to Jason Hong's list of tournament results, one can find Round-Robin scheduling, old ACF and ACN newsletters (with buzzer reviews), a calendar of events (sometimes out of date), and links to other clubs. Stanford also has a new URL at http://quizbowl.stanford.edu and Grant Gavranovic has recently added results of its second HS contest, the Cardinal Jr. Classic. The Stanford page is celebrated for its extensive Tournament Packet Archive of used questions from recent and not so recent competitions. Quizbowl Team Ranking Poll Chris Romero is running a poll to rank quizteams. Anyone may vote. Ballots are now being accepted for the 2002 Fall Academic Competition Poll. Details may be found at: http://academicleague.tamu.edu/poll/ SF Bay Area HS Quizbowl heats up This year Berkeley and Stanford have both held HS quizbowls in Fall as interest in HS quizbowl increases. Berkeley had an unusually small Bear Cub IV won by Half Moon Bay. The odd thing was that most of the fairly close teams did not attend, but 4 of the 7 came from over an hour away. A tie had to be broken between Bentley C and Half Moon Bay. Questions were mostly from Charlie Steinhice; the Berk club wrote sone also. Eok Ngo was the TD. Topscorers: Kumar (Bent C) - 87 PPG Ed (Bent B) - 59 PPG Vernon (Half Moon)- 42 PPG Shannon (Steve B) - 35 PPG Xin (Bent C) - 29 PPG Stanford ran their contest 3 weeks later and was very surprised to see a one-man team of Daniel Barclay from Menlo-Atherton win the tournament and of course the MVP. Daniel is the captain of the three-time winner of Peninsula TV's Quiz Kids TV show. About 9 teams attended in all. Full stats can be found at http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/hs.html Triva Author Howard Rachelson Publishes New Book Howard Rachelson will attend a book signing and Trivia Night at Oliver's Bookstore in San Anselmo, California on Weds. 20 Nov. He invites college teams or trivia enthusiasts to meet him and compete in a trivia event. Howard used to coach the very successful Branson HS quizteam. Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30 PM Oliver's Bookstore 645 San Anselmo Avenue San Anselmo, California A Note From Yahoo Games Quizbowl Founder, David Levinson Periodically Yahoo groups goes down. Unfortunately this can occur at the least convenient times. It has been suggested from time to redundancy (in fact, when the original Yahoo quizbowl club was founded, it was intended to be the redundancy to the older mailing list for non-urgent notices). Many of us have webpages, but we need a single place that anyone can post to and that everyone knows to go to. To that end, I have set up a Quizbowl wiki at: http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=1022&doc=QuizbowlWiki (The link is at the top of the groups homepage as well). The beauty of the wiki format is that anyone can edit anything. So if you are a TD, you don't need an account, you can just post last minute changes, or whatever. Of course, anyone can revert any changes as well. But as adults, I suspect most people will behave responsibly. This is an experiment, and as it evolves rules may need to be established etc (and maybe it will ultimately need to be moved to another site). But I figure it is best to establish this in the absence of crisis than in the midst of one. ----------------that is all -----