1997/03/02

First of all, I would like to thank everyone for participating
in the ACF Mid-Atlantic Regional.  Twelve teams attended the regional at
the University of Maryland, College Park.  A full round-robin was run,
then the twelve teams were placed into three playoff brackets of four
teams each, for a final mini round robin.  Here are the results: 

                                RR      Playoffs        Total
        1.  Maryland A          9-1     2-1             11-2
        2.  Virginia A          9-1     2-1             11-2
        3.  Virginia B          8-2     1-2              9-4
        4.  Ohio State          7-3     1-2              8-5
        5.  Princeton           6-4     2-0              8-4
        *   News of Retire...   6-5     1-2              7-7
        6.  GW                  4-6     1-1              5-7
        7.  Virginia Tech       4-6     0-2              4-8
        8.  Thomas Jeff. HS     2-8     3-0              5-8
        9.  Howard              2-8     2-1              4-9
        10. Maryland B          3-7     1-2              4-9
        11. Randolph-Macon      1-9     0-3              1-12

* News of Our Retirement Has Been Greatly Exaggerated was an exhibition
team of Matt Colvin, John Nam, Alice Chou, Brian Goldenberg, Ken LaSala,
and Dave Vacca.  Maryland B consisted of Khon"an the Destroyer" Lien
and four freshmen.  Teams ranked 5-7 played one fewer game because they
played the exhibition team in the playoffs.  Games against News... did not
count.

        Both final overall ties, including the big one at the top, had to
be decided by total points, due to the fact that there were just enough
packets to run the 16-round tournament, and Maryland A and Virginia A
split their head-to-head matches.

        Congratulations to Maryland A (Dave Hamilton, Dave Goodman, Arthur
Fleming, Jesse Molesworth) for winning Regionals.
        Congratulations to Andrew Yaphe, the sole member of Virginia A,
for an awesome performance.
        Congratulations also to 3rd place Virginia B (Phil,
Carrie, Anthony) for completing a major feat:  defeating Maryland A and
Virginia A at the same tournament.

        The 1997 Mid-Atlantic Regional All-Star Team consisted of Andrew
Yaphe (104.0 PPG), Mike Starsinic of Ohio State (73.5 PPG), John Edwards
of Howard (68.5 PPG), and Phil O'Donaghue of Virginia B (53.0 PPG), with
Jeff Stewart (52.0 PPG) as the alternate.

        Full team and individual stats will be posted within the next 
week or so.
       
	Remember, as Mr. Harman from BYU has already posted, please
refrain from talking about the packets until the other Regionals have
completed.  Thank you.
            
Adam Fine
Maryland Academic Quiz Team