Hi folks, This Saturday, February 27th, the ACF Northeast Regionals were held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a field of 11 teams. Boston University Greasy Weasels Columbia A Columbia B Cornell Harvard Friggin' Huge Harvard Not So Wee Harvard Wee Wellesley Yale Big Time Yale Hammer Time Yale Miller Time The teams played a full round robin, earning 2 Sumerian Love Poems for each win and 1 Sumerian Love Poem for each draw. Following the round robin, the teams were bracketed 4-4-3, playing again against the other teams of most similar record. Team W D L Poems Pts For Pts Agains Ratio Harv Huge 12 0 1 24 4525 1200 3.77 Cornell 12 0 1 24 3860 1335 2.89 Col A 7 1 5 15 2900 2060 1.41 BU Greasy 6 2 5 14 1655 2645 0.63 Y Miller 7 0 6 14 1660 1795 0.92 Y Big 6 1 6 13 1875 1775 1.06 Harv NotSo 6 0 7 12 1730 1960 0.88 Harv Wee 5 0 8 10 1340 2180 0.61 Wellesley 4 0 8 8 910 1895 0.48 Y Hammer 2 0 10 4 540 2410 0.22 Col B 1 0 11 2 625 2365 0.26 At the end of this the top two teams, Harvard Friggin' Huge and Cornell, were tied at 24 Sumerian Love Poems apiece, and they played against each other in a 30 tossup Battle Royale. [Cornell had defeated HFH in the full round robin 185-180. Harvard evened the score in the bracket match-up, 375-175.] Harvard Friggin' Huge defeated Cornell 370-185 to win the Northeast Regional ACF championship. Harvard: Gautam 1/1 David 3/3 Joon 5/0 Guy 6/0 Cornell: Matt 6/1 Prasun 2/0 Evelyn 1/2 Anwar 0/0 Congratulations to Harvard for their victory, and to Cornell for making the finals. Also, many thanks to Jake Parrott who for the second time in three weeks ran a dang swell tournament; to Amy who successfully slaved for hours over the stats; and to all the people who helped out by moderating: Adam Fagin, Kyle Pope, Willy Jay, Matt Boggie, Paul Lujan, and the members of the MIT QB team. Individual scoring awards were given to the top two scorers in the full round robin play - Cornell's own Matt Colvin and Aaron from Yale Miller Time. In the complete play stats (not counting the Battle Royale) they maintained their positions, as seen below, with Sahir (HNSW), David (HFH), Bill (ColA), Guy (HFH), and Prasun (Cor) also breaking 30 PPG. Name Team TU Int Points PPG Games Matt Cornell 71 8 670 51.5 13 Aaron Yale Miller 55 8 510 39.2 13 Guy Harvard Huge 49 15 415 34.6 12 Sahir Harvard NotSo 51 14 440 33.8 13 David Harvard Huge 47 8 430 33.1 13 Bill Columbia A 48 11 425 32.7 13 Prasun Cornell 43 3 415 31.9 13 Ramin Yale BigTime 43 9 385 29.6 13 Dave Harvard Wee 42 7 385 29.6 13 Matt BU Greasy 46 17 375 28.8 13 Ben L Columbia A 37 5 345 26.5 13 Gautam Harvard Huge 38 9 335 25.8 13 Evelyn Cornell 31 1 305 23.5 13 Ramey Yale Hammer 33 13 265 22.1 12 Mike BU Greasy 29 1 285 21.9 13 Joon Harvard Huge 31 10 260 20.0 13 Kirsten Wellesley 28 8 240 20.0 12 Saurabh Harvard NotSo 29 7 255 19.6 13 Nissim Columbia B 26 5 235 19.6 12 Ben C Columbia A 28 11 225 17.3 13 Victor Yale BigTime 27 9 225 17.3 13 Ben Harvard Wee 15 7 115 14.4 8 Sam Yale BigTime 21 6 180 13.8 13 Kate Wellesley 12 2 110 12.2 9 Sindy Yale Miller 16 1 155 11.9 13 Erica Harvard NotSo 13 0 130 10.0 13 Thad Yale Miller 14 2 130 10.0 13 Andrew Columbia B 10 2 90 10.0 9 Julia Wellesley 9 0 90 10.0 9 Kieren BU Greasy 15 5 125 9.6 13 Erin Wellesley 7 0 70 7.8 9 Anwar Cornell 11 2 100 7.7 13 Kyle Harvard Wee 13 8 90 6.9 13 Andrew Columbia A 7 0 70 5.4 13 Stephanie Harvard NotSo 10 6 70 5.4 13 Jim Yale BigTime 8 3 65 5.0 13 Ann Yale Hammer 6 2 50 4.2 12 Humberto Columbia B 7 4 50 4.2 12 Jennie Wellesley 3 1 25 2.8 9 Jim Harvard Wee 3 0 30 2.3 13 Perry Yale Hammer 4 3 25 2.1 12 Sarah BU Greasy 3 1 25 1.9 13 Later, Dom