Hey everyone. Andrew Yaphe, playing alone as Chicago A, defeated Illinois Malignant Tumor (Vishnu, Jon Green, Mike, Jerry) in two straight games (the 2nd by 5 points) of a best 2-of-3 series to take the ACF Midwest crown. (Illinois had beaten Andrew in the last game of the round robin.) Chicago teams have thus now won 7 consecutive ACF regionals, and I believe Andrew is now the 4th person ever to win a tourney singlehandedly. More results & stats tomorrow (must go drink now) but quickly: Top 4 teams: 1. Chicago A 2. Illinois Malignant Tumor 3. Michigan 4. Carleton A 4 All Stars were named from the top bracket, and 2 from the bottom bracket. The top bracket all-stars were: Andrew, Vishnu, Subash, and Dave Goodman. The bottom bracket all stars were: Anthony (CWRU) and a guy from Marquette whose name I think was Tom but which will verify tomorrow. (Apologies.) The pizza was, as promised, Giordano's stuffed crust. I challenge anyone to find a tournament field this year which ate a better lunch. I will have the complete stats & standings for everyone tomorrow- special thanks to all who helped out, especially to all the moderators and star statistician Mike Altman. I hope all the teams had as good a time at the tournament as we had running it! -Mike, who doesn't know what to do with 3 weekends of downtime. ;) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mike Zarren - mikez@tiac.net Official Official, University of Chicago College Bowl Team This message brought to you by Europe. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The ACF Midwest Regional Championship was held this weekend at the University of Chicago. Teams were divided into 2 divisions, in which round robins were played, with the top 4 from each moving on to a playoff RR. The top 2 teams then played a best 2-of-3 final. Tiebreaker was point differential, because I was finally convinced not to use head-to-head by the argument on the qb list last month. Stats follow, but first: The tournament ran an hour ahead of the planned schedule. This is purely due to wonderful teams & a wonderful volunteer (well, they got pizza...) staff. Thank you to everyone who helped out, including moderators Alice Chou, John Edwards, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Lorin Burte, Eric Hillemann, John Tangren, and a guy from BGSU whose name I cannot recall (very very sorry.). A special huge thank you to Mike Altman, statkeeper extraordinaire, who had new stats up after _every_ round, on time. On to results: In the final, Chicago A beat Illinois Malignant 360-60 & 235-230. Final Team Results, including all rounds (1st & 2nd RRs): (top bracket listed first) H=initially in Hugo Bracket. I=initially in Core Bracket. 1st RR 2nd RR TOTAL Team W L PPG W L PPG W L PPG Illinois Malignant 6 1 294 7 0 296 13 1 295 H (loss to Mich) Chicago A 6 1 287 6 1 304 12 2 296 C (lost to Ill A & M) Michigan 6 1 294 3 4 195 9 5 245 H Carleton A 5 2 249 4 3 186 9 5 218 C Illinois Amani 6 1 219 2 5 142 8 6 180 C Chicago $ 5 2 215 2 5 163 7 7 189 H Quincy 4 3 171 3 4 166 7 7 169 C Chicago B 4 3 203 1 6 126 5 9 165 H ======================================================== (bottom bracket) Marquette Fluffers 4 3 154 5 2 161 9 5 158 C Carleton B 3 4 153 4 3 169 7 7 161 H Illinois Benign 2 5 92 5 2 106 7 7 99 H Bowling Green SU 1 6 129 4 3 122 5 9 126 C Chicago & 2 5 76 3 4 88 5 9 82 H Northwestern 0 7 79 4 3 107 4 10 93 H Case Western RU 2 5 121 1 6 106 3 11 113 C Marqu. Wet Platinum 0 7 46 2 5 77 2 12 62 C Seedings from Brackets: CORE: 1. Chicago A (6-1, loss to Amani) 2. Illinois Amani (6-1, loss to Marquette) 3. Carleton A (5-2, losses above 2) 4. Quincy (4-3, losses above) -------------- 5. Marquette (4-3, losses above exc. Ill) 6. Chicago & (2-5, wins below) 7. BGSU (1-6) 8. Northwestern (0-7) HUGO: 1. Illinois Malignant (6-1, loss to Michigan) 2. Michigan (6-1, loss to Chi $) 3. Chicago $ (5-2, losses above) 4. Chicago B (4-3, losses above) --------------- 5. Carleton B (3-4) 6. Case Western (2-5) 7. Illinois Benign (2-5) 8. Marquette Wet P (0-7) Individual stats, combined for both RRs. 4 All-stars were named in top div & 2 in bottom div. (T=top bracket, B=bottom bracket H=Hugo bracket, C=Core bracket) Note that these stats are not exactly all comparable, as the best teams were in the top division. (Thus the "T"s & "B"s) Name Team TU -5 PPG TU/I GP Br. awards Andrew Yaphe CHIA 162 30 105.0 5.4 14 CT All-star (Wang) Anthony de JesusCWRU 87 19 55.3 4.6 14 HB All-star Vishnu Jejjala ILLM 79 11 52.5 7.1 14 HT All-star Subash MattipodiQUIN 78 19 48.9 4.1 14 CT All-star Dave Goodman MICH 77 21 47.5 3.7 14 HT All-star Samuel Bennett CHI$ 58 9 38.2 6.4 14 HT Jason Arvey CHIB 47 7 31.0 6.7 14 HT Ryan Thom MARF 47 9 30.4 5.2 14 CB All-star Andy Felton CARA 51 24 27.9 2.1 14 CT Jeremiah Thomp. ILLA 42 7 27.5 6.0 14 CT Emily Pike CARA 39 3 26.8 13.0 14 CT John Turk NWU 31 4 24.1 7.8 12 CB Jerry Hagen ILLA 36 5 23.9 7.2 14 CT Bryan Georgiady CHI& 21 4 23.8 5.2 8 CB Jon Green ILLM 31 3 21.1 10.3 14 HT Mike Angel ILLM 33 7 21.1 4.7 14 HT Nick Fossland CHI$ 29 0 20.7 inf 14 HT (Getz) Douglas Grote BGSU 30 3 20.4 10.0 14 CB Dan Snyder CARB 31 6 20.0 5.2 14 HB Justin Mauger NWU 25 7 19.5 3.6 12 CB Andrew Ulland CARB 31 9 18.9 3.4 14 HB Dawn Owens-N. ILLB 32 12 18.6 2.7 14 HB Chris Vicich ILLA 27 6 17.1 4.5 14 CT John Tangren CHI& 12 4 16.7 3.0 6 CB Nich. Rothfuss BGSU 24 2 16.4 12.0 14 CB Haggai Elitzur MICH 24 4 15.7 6.0 14 HT Steve Jenkins CARA 25 7 15.4 3.6 14 CT Kyle Atwood ILLB 24 6 15.0 4.0 14 HB Mike Davidson MICH 24 7 14.6 3.4 14 HT Roderigo SanchezMARF 24 7 14.6 3.4 14 CB Brian Ulrich QUIN 22 4 14.3 5.5 14 CT Ryan Scranton CHIB 20 1 13.9 20.0 14 HT Mike Soto CHI$ 24 9 13.9 2.7 14 HT Patrick Earnest CHI& 29 20 13.6 1.5 14 CB Frank Shockey CHIB 21 5 13.2 4.2 14 HT Katy Beebe CARB 23 9 13.2 2.6 14 HB Beth Guigan BGSU 24 11 13.2 2.2 14 CB Jerry Mrizek ILLM 19 3 12.5 6.3 14 HT Saul Hymes CHI$ 17 6 11.7 2.8 12 HT Stuart Walsh MARW 18 4 11.4 4.5 14 HB Brian Saxton BGSU 18 4 11.4 4.5 14 CB Matt Kiefer CHIB 23 14 11.4 1.6 14 HT Joe Burger MARW 17 5 10.4 3.4 14 HB Nathan Freeberg MARF 25 21 10.4 1.2 14 CB Ted Salk CARB 15 2 10.0 7.5 14 HB Noel Erinjeri MICH 16 5 9.6 3.2 14 HT Cheryl Klein CARA 13 3 8.2 4.3 14 CT Todd Gregory ILLA 14 6 7.9 2.3 14 CT Jeff Brook ILLB 15 8 7.9 1.9 14 HB James Warren MARW 4 2 7.5 2.0 4 HB Meghan Arnold MARW 12 4 7.1 3.0 14 HB Mike Hantsch MARF 13 9 6.1 1.4 14 CB Peter Steffen CHI$ 1 0 5.0 n/a 2 HT Mike Hainziger ILLB 9 5 4.6 1.8 14 HB Jason Selvey NWU 5 0 4.5 n/a 11 CB Leah Williams CHI& 8 4 4.2 2.0 14 CB Edwin Ramos NWU 6 3 3.8 2.0 12 CB Lloyd Frias MARW 4 3 1.8 1.3 14 HB Ted Broker QUIN 2 0 1.4 n/a 14 CT Anne Michalenka CHI& 2 1 1.1 2.0 14 CB Lauren Arestie NWU 2 2 0.9 1.0 11 CB Bev Nordahl CWRU 0 0 0.0 n/a 14 HB Matt Warning QUIN 0 0 0.0 n/a 14 CT Prizes selected from what was available: Andrew: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Kuhn Subash: The Creators, by Boorstein Vishnu: The Cartoon Guide to Physics, Gonick Dave: Norton Complete Plays of Chekhov Anthony: Guide to Building a Classical Music Library Ryan: Guide to Pacific Mythologies. Nick Fossland of Chicago $ won the Rob Getz award for highest TU/I ratio, min 10 PPG. (he was 29-0) For his efforts he won the traditional U of C coffee mug. Andrew Yaphe won the Andy Wang award for most -5s, compiling 30, which is more than Andy himself had last year, IIRC. For his efforts he won the traditional U of C shot glass. Thanks again to all who helped out! -Mike, midwest TD +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mike Zarren - mikez@tiac.net Official Metabolism, University of Chicago College Bowl Team This message brought to you by Lionel Hampton. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++