Congratulations to "Harvard Wrath," winners of "Crimson Puppy Chow II: Makes Its Own Gravy," an 18-team junior bird held at Boston University and co-hosted by BU and Harvard on Saturday, October 10. Wrath [Erica, David, Fabio and Michael] defeated "Williams D-Day" [Caleb, Joel, Lydia] in a two-pack, 40-tossup cumulative final. The score of the final was 715-510 (Harvard Wrath led after the first "half" 355-280). Semifinalist teams were Princeton "Depends on Your Definition of 'Is'" and Harvard Barney. [six of Harvard's team names were deadly sins; Pride, however, was replaced by something even deadlier] Twenty teams had been scheduled to compete at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences; but Wellesley dropped out the day before and Harvard had more than a team's worth of players fail to show up. (Lust got axed.) Special thanks to Matt Boggie, tournament director; and to NAQT, suppliers of 15 rounds from "Invitational Series 10." Since the questions were intended for high school players, the best teams at the tournament put up especially impressive scores; the questions were structured, however, in such a way that I believe the matches were still competitive and fun. I don't know if we're at liberty to talk about specific questions, but I have no comments anyway -- I'm a biased observer. =) Joel from Williams was the top individual scorer. Full individual stats and team results are forthcoming. Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crimson Puppy Chow II Standings After Round Robin Team Name Division Win Loss Points Opp Pts Diff/GM Williams D-Day Caster Oil 8 0 3425 840 323.13 Harvard Barney Caster Oil 7 1 2875 1325 193.75 Harvard Avarice Caster Oil 6 2 2350 1460 111.25 MIT Po Caster Oil 5 3 2180 1690 61.25 Harvard Envy Caster Oil 4 4 2070 1830 30.00 MIT Tinky-Winky Caster Oil 3 5 1240 2500 -157.50 MIT Dipsy Caster Oil 2 6 1055 2255 -150.00 D'mouth Brutish Caster Oil 1 7 1250 2390 -142.50 BU Mystic Order Caster Oil 0 8 600 2755 -269.38 Harvard Wrath Gordita 8 0 3160 860 287.50 Princeton Gordita 7 1 3185 1165 252.50 Dartmouth Nasty Gordita 5 3 1875 1670 25.63 MIT Laa-Laa Gordita 5 3 1590 1900 -38.75 Harvard Sloth Gordita 4 4 2075 1670 50.63 Williams Blutto Gordita 3 5 1255 2225 -121.25 Dartmouth Short Gordita 2 6 1210 2150 -117.50 Harvard GluttonyGordita 2 6 1340 2260 -115.00 MIT Nu-Nu Gordita 0 8 675 2465 -223.75 Both ties were broken by head-to-head competition. Willams Blutto defeated Dartmouth Nasty but lost to Harvard Gluttony; all other games won by the higher-finishing team. Following the round robin, the top 16 teams were cross-bracketed into single-elimination playoffs. Both #5-seeded Harvard teams "upset" both #4-seeded Harvard teams; the higher-seeded team won all other games. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team stats here do not include playoffs. (16-team single-elimination with "cumulative" (two-game) final). Games were untimed; a Dartmouth-Dartmouth game went to overtime. Tossups Pts Per Tossups Bonus Bonus Team Name Heard TU HeardGotten Pts Conv Williams D-Day 160 21.41 107 2255 21.07 Princeton 160 19.91 105 2030 19.33 Harvard Wrath 160 19.75 96 2160 22.50 Harvard Barney 160 17.97 97 1935 19.95 Harvard Avarice 160 14.69 82 1515 18.48 MIT Po 160 13.63 78 1415 18.14 Harvard Sloth 160 12.97 75 1365 18.20 Harvard Envy 160 12.94 75 1395 18.60 Dartmouth Nasty 163 11.50 79 1130 14.30 MIT Laa-Laa 160 9.94 55 1040 18.91 Harvard Gluttony160 8.38 55 825 15.00 Williams Blutto 160 7.84 54 785 14.54 D'mouth Brutish 160 7.81 48 825 17.19 MIT Tinky-Winky 160 7.75 49 730 14.90 Dartmouth Short 163 7.42 53 700 13.21 MIT Dipsy 160 6.59 50 590 11.80 MIT Nu-Nu 160 4.22 36 315 8.75 BU Mystic Order 160 3.75 29 310 10.69 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crimson Puppy Chow II: Boston University / Harvard University October 10, 1998 Individual Stats Through Round Robin Statistics compiled by the "Stats99" program. Team Names: BU [Mystic Order of Arachnid Avengers] Dartmouth [Brutish, Nasty, Short] Harvard [Avarice, Barney, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Wrath] MIT [Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Nu-Nu, Po, Tinky-Winky] Princeton [Depends on the Definition of "Is"] Williams [Blutto, D-Day] Player Team # 15 10 -5 Points Rounds PPG Joel WD 11 45 3 600 8 75.00 Mike PD 21 29 11 550 8 68.75 Jeff PD 15 33 3 540 8 67.50 Gautam HB 15 38 13 540 8 67.50 David HW 18 32 14 520 8 65.00 Lydia WD 16 21 2 440 8 55.00 Dave HS 8 38 14 430 8 53.75 Sahir HA 8 30 9 375 8 46.87 Fabio HW 10 25 7 365 8 45.62 Mohamed ML 8 26 4 360 8 45.00 Carey HG 5 28 6 325 8 40.63 Rajay MN 6 20 5 265 8 33.12 Tanis MP 5 20 3 260 8 32.50 Dave DN 6 22 12 250 8 31.25 William HB 4 23 8 250 8 31.25 Ben HE 3 26 15 230 8 28.75 Amy MT 3 19 2 225 8 28.12 Malini DN 5 15 2 215 8 26.87 Hashim HA 6 14 4 210 8 26.25 Michael DS 2 17 6 170 6.5 26.15 Ron MP 4 18 7 205 8 25.62 Ed MD 3 16 2 195 8 24.37 Sameer HE 5 14 4 195 8 24.37 Sid MD 1 18 3 180 8 22.50 Kieran BU 3 14 3 170 8 21.25 Rob WB 4 15 8 170 8 21.25 Vagish HE 2 16 4 170 8 21.25 Margret MP 2 14 2 160 8 20.00 Tom DN 2 14 4 150 8 18.75 Josh MP 0 15 2 140 8 17.50 Mike F. DB 5 8 3 140 8 17.50 Shelley HA 3 10 3 130 8 16.25 Caleb WD 4 10 6 130 8 16.25 Nick DB 1 12 1 130 8 16.25 Andy DN 4 11 8 130 8 16.25 Chris DS 2 8 1 105 6.5 16.15 Jesse MT 3 8 0 125 8 15.63 Aida WB 1 11 0 125 8 15.63 Matt DB 5 12 14 125 8 15.62 Hannah ML 1 12 3 120 8 15.00 Joe HS 2 9 0 120 8 15.00 David HA 3 8 1 120 8 15.00 Marco DS 0 10 1 95 6.5 14.62 Justin DS 1 8 2 85 6 14.17 Sergio WB 4 8 6 110 8 13.75 Andrew HB 2 9 5 95 8 11.88 Jim HG 1 10 5 90 8 11.25 Kyle HG 2 8 4 90 8 11.25 Yevgeny MT 0 9 0 90 8 11.25 Jenn S. BU 0 9 1 85 8 10.63 Jesse HS 1 9 5 80 8 10.00 Bronwen HE 0 9 2 80 8 10.00 Chris HS 0 8 0 80 8 10.00 Erik MD 0 8 2 70 8 8.75 Amanda MT 0 7 0 70 8 8.75 Tara DS 1 4 0 55 6.5 8.46 Jason WB 4 7 13 65 8 8.13 Barbara PD 1 6 2 65 8 8.13 John MN 0 7 1 65 8 8.13 Michael HW 0 7 2 60 8 7.50 Brad HB 1 5 2 55 8 6.88 Erica HW 4 0 1 55 8 6.87 Eric ML 1 4 2 45 8 5.63 Jen V. BU 1 2 0 35 8 4.38 Natalia MN 0 3 0 30 8 3.75 Mike B. DB 0 5 4 30 8 3.75 Vanessa ML 0 3 1 25 8 3.13 Andy MD 0 4 4 20 8 2.50 Kevin HG 0 1 0 10 8 1.25 Matliyn MN 0 0 0 0 1 0.00