Today the Swarthmore college bowl team hosted SNEWT II: Grandson of QOTC,
a tournament whose eligibility was limited to freshmen and sophomores.
Sixteen teams from ten schools competed.  

A few random notes:

a)  Special thanks to everyone who helped us out (a lot of outside
moderators/scorekeepers, including Julie, Josh, Arthur, and Adam from
Maryland; Bill from CMU; Dwight Kidder; Mike from Delaware; Chris from
UMBC; Samer from Penn; Fong and Lakshmi from JHU; and probably several
other people I've forgotten...)  Thanks also to those players who wrote us 
freelance packets (Steve Lawrie, Subash Maddipotti, Matt Bruce, Matt
Schneller, Mike Davidson, Josh Allen, and Arthur Flemming.)

b)  If you left your coat at the tournament, email us and we'll see about
getting it back to you.

c)  If you didn't pay us, expect to hear from us soon-- or contact us to
avert our anger.  We know who you are...  :-)

d)  (Shameless plug)  The questions will be available for sale or trade--
16 rounds in all!

Now the results--

Individual awards

1.  Adam Humphreys, South Carolina (96.4 PPG) 
2.  "Hassan" (Jeffrey Liao), Johns Hopkins A (60.7 PPG)
3.  Aaron Lichtig, Yale A  (55.6 PPG)
4.  Peter Austin, Swarthmore A Fistfull of Tossups  (50.7 PPG)

Stonecutters Division		

South Carolina, 7-0
Swarthmore A Fistfull of Tossups, 5-2
Yale A, 5-2
Pitt, 5-2
Penn B, 3-4
UMCP, 1-6
Yale C, 1-6
UMBC Squrats,1-6

Swarthmore wion the tie-break by head-to-head point differential, then
Yale beat Pitt by head-to-head.


Movementarians Division				

Penn A,	7-0
Swarthmore For a Few Boni More,	6-1
Johns Hopkins A, 5-2
Carnegie-Mellon, 4-3
Delaware, 3-4
Johns Hopkins C, 2-5
Yale B,	1-6,
UMBC Mutant Fish, 1-6
		
Play-offs

The field was divided into three play-off brackets; the top three, middle
three, and bottom two teams each played their counterparts from the other
preliminary division.  The top two teams (based on record against the
other five teams in the play-offs) advanced to finals.  

(The morning-of-the tournament cancellation of two teams kept us from
giving a three-round play-offs to all teams, and the late word of
cancellation kept us from splitting into two 8 team play-off divisions...
Sorry for any inconvenience.)

Full results will be available later, but here's a quick summary of the
top bracket:

South Carolina, 3-0 (advances to finals)
Penn A, 2-1 (advances to finals)
Swarthmore Tossups, 2-1 (third place)

There was a tie among several of the remaining teams in the bracket, which
we have yet to break.  Within the bracket, rounds were very competitive:
an amazing number of matches came down to the final TU, and though USC and
Penn were the early favorites to make the finals, any of several teams
could have made it through.  This was an extremely powerful field.

Finals

USC enters with a one-game advantage in the best-of-three finals as the
only undefeated team (with a 245-220 win over Penn A in the play-offs.)

Game 1:  Penn A 260, USC
Game 2:  USC 285, Penn A 215

The University of South Carolina (Adam, Daniel, Chris) is the winner of
SNEWT II!

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Over the next few days I'll start putting full results and stats (both
team and invidividual) up on the Swarthmore team's web page.  I may also
send out a message with commentary on the tournament later in the evening.
Once again, thanks to everyone who came, wrote us freelance packets, or 
helped with the tournament!  I hope that everyone who came to Swarthmore
enjoyed SNEWT as much as we enjoyed running it...

Ed Cohn