(A separate posting will soon describe the trash tourney.)

This past Saturday UCLA held what I believe was its first ever
invitational-- the Bruin Beach Party.  10 teams attended, and
a full round-robin was played to sort the groups into 2 brackets
of 5, who then played another mini round-robin.  The rules were that
the champion would be the team in the top bracket with the best overall 
record in both rounds: if 2 teams were tied a one-game playoff would ensue
for the championship.  Continuing the proud Los Angeles area (or as we
like to say, Southland) tradition established by Cal Tech, 24 tossups were
read in each round.  

Things ran pretty smoothly and on time except for a technical problem 
one of the teams had with their parking ticket getting back to the lot 
after lunch which caused a 30 or so minute delay in one room that basically 
propagated throughout the rest of the day.  As far as I know, no game had 
to be resolved by a protest, and their weren't even any incorrect answers
(were there?), though there were some questions that should have prompted 
for more information or accepted more accurate information but didn't that 
we as editors missed.

The results after the first round robin were:

Berkeley  8-1
Chicago   8-1
GW        7-2
CalTechA  6-3
Stanford  5-4
EdisonHS  4-5
Davis     4-5
ASU       2-7 
CalTechB  1-8
UCLA      0-9

Chicago lost to Berkeley in a thrilling match at the end of the first round
robin that was tied after TU 20 at 210 which Berkeley wound up winning 
290-210.  Berkeley's loss was to Stanford.  The two bracket system we used
was particularly appropriate because the only team in the lower five who 
beat a team in the upper five was Edison, who beat Stanford.

Edison HS had an impressive showing, as they wound up winning the lower
half, despites ASU's strong comeback:

Edison HS  3-1, 7-6 total
Davis      2-2, 6-7 
ASU        4-0, 6-7
CalTech B  0-4, 1-12
UCLA       1-3, 1-12

In the upper half, Berkeley and Chicago went thru their first 3 rounds
undefeated, setting up a title match in the last round since they both
had 11-1 records and best record wins the championship.  At the half,
Chicago was only up 140-95 but they pulled away in the 2nd half to
win 340-160 and in so doing win their championship Bruin Beach Party
prizes: some sandals, a nerf football, an inflatable beach ball, and a 
beach umbrella thingee which should come in handy if they ever decide 
to leave Chicago (hey, we need to get more players on the West Coast
circuit somehow.)

The upper half standings were:
Chicago   4-0, 12-1
Berkeley  3-1, 11-2
Stanford  2-2, 7-6
CalTechA  1-3, 7-6
GW        0-4, 7-6

GW, Cal Tech A, and Stanford all split their games with one another: since
head-to-head was the only tiebreaker we used they all finished tied for 3rd,
4th, or 5th, depending on your worldview.  

Finally, I used Statkeeper from the web site to do stats (which is a terrific
program, BTW-- thank you very much Steven Johnson and Auburn University),
but I can only print out the results-- has anyone been able to figure out how
to capture them as text?

Anyway, here's a summary for the top 12 scorers, if anyone else wants to 
know their stats just email me (or, I suppose, you can send me a self-addressed
stamped envelope).  Everybody listed played 13 rounds except Richard Mason, 
who played 9 and a half.

Player         Team       TotTU   TotInt   Pts/Rd
John Sheahan   Chicago     126       9       93.5
David Farris   EdisonHS     94      19       65.0
Tim            GW           82       6       60.8
Brian          ASU          82      18       56.2
Nick Meyer     Berkeley     67       8       48.5
Brad           Stanford     65      33       37.5
Mike           Berkeley     52      12       35.4
Richard Mason  CalTechA     41      16       34.7
Rachel Marshak Stanford     43       4       31.5
Craig Leff     CalTechA     48      16       30.8
Brandon        CalTechB     44       9       30.4
Christian      Chicago      42       9       28.8     

Thanks to everybody who came, particularly Chicago, GW,
amd ASU for giving us a representative from every time zone,
and I hope we can all Party on again next year.

-- 
Asmin "Oz" Pathare
UCLA