Congratulations to Oklahoma for winning the WSU Junior Turkey Quiz-Fest for the second straight year. Congrats to team members Jonathan Tanner, Kendall Jackson, Molly Strothmann, Matt Dirckx, and Rachel Peoples for a very impressive performance. Congrats are also due to the team at Cloud County Community College for winning both the Division II championship and the JUCO championship. The format was as follows: 8 teams were entered, of which 2 (WSU A and WUSTL) were in Division I. It was decided that the tournament champion would automatically win the Division I championship, while, if a Division II team won (which they did), the next best Division II team would win the tournament championship. Division II teams consisted of all-JUCO players, or all-1st year players, or players who had never averaged 15 PPG at a tournament prior to this semester. Division I teams had at least one player who did not meet that criteria but who are now eligible under NAQT’s new Division II eligibility. Teams played a full round robin, after which they played a modified version of ladder play, in which 4 rounds were played, and the bottom team was eliminated after each round, while the top team would only have to win once to advance to the championship game. After round-robin play, the standings were as follows (division in parentheses): Oklahoma (2) 7-0 Washington-St Louis (1) 6-1 Wichita State A (1) 5-2 Wichita State B (2) 4-3 Independence CC A (2) 3-4 Cloud County CC (2) 2-5 Missouri-Kansas City (2) 1-6 Independence CC B (2) 0-7 Upon the completion of ladder play, the standings were as follows (teams were ranked according to final seed, so it was possible for a team to finish ahead of a team with a better win-loss percentage): SEED TEAM W-L PF PA PPG +15 +10 -5 BonAvg 1 Oklahoma 8-0 2710 685 338.8 20 87 23 15.47 2 Wichita State A 8-3 2105 1670 191.4 11 79 19 13.83 3 Washington-St Louis 7-3 2495 1260 249.5 9 99 8 13.06 4 Cloud County CC 5-6 1040 1840 94.5 3 60 14 7.38 5 Independence CC A 5-6 1115 1875 101.4 7 58 30 8.92 6 Wichita State B 4-6 1280 1815 128.0 5 56 7 11.15 7 Independence CC B 1-8 575 1815 63.9 2 38 6 4.88 8 Missouri-Kansas City 1-7 905 1265 113.1 1 51 15 8.75 Oklahoma then defeated Wichita State A, 650-370, in a 2-game, total-score final. Individual scoring in the final was as follows: +15 +10 -5 TP Jonathan Tanner, OU 4 6 3 105 Molly Strothmann, OU 2 7 2 90 Vadim Izgur, WSU A 2 4 0 70 Kendell Jackson, OU 1 4 1 50 Mario Espinoza, WSU A 0 5 0 50 Arthur Marshall, WSU A 0 2 0 20 Matt Dirckx, OU 0 1 0 10 Lisa Edmonds, WSU A 0 2 2 10 Individual Scoring (excluding final): +15 +10 -5 TP GP PPG Jonathan Tanner, Oklahoma 8 32 9 395 7 56.43 Marc Einstein, WUSTL 2 38 3 395 8 49.38 Jonathan Frick, WUSTL 5 29 2 355 8 44.38 Delano Barnes, WSU B 4 40 6 430 10 43.00 Shaun Tierney, Independence A 5 45 21 420 11 38.18 Kendall Jackson, Oklahoma 6 20 6 260 7 37.14 Amy Branson, UMKC 1 33 10 295 8 36.88 Molly Strothmann, Oklahoma 4 18 3 225 6.5 34.62 Lisa Edmonds, WSU A 6 32 8 370 11 33.64 Luqman Sadia, WUSTL 2 21 2 230 8 28.75 Mario Espinoza, WSU A 3 28 3 310 11 28.18 Vadim Izgur, WSU A 4 22 6 250 9.5 26.32 Matt Dirckx, Oklahoma 2 16 4 170 6.5 26.15 Jesse Sutter, Cloud CCC 1 29 7 270 11 24.55 Neil Offutt, Cloud CCC 3 16 3 190 11 17.27 Tye Ortega, Independence B 0 15 0 150 9 16.67 Josh Heckman, UMKC 0 15 5 125 8 15.63 Tejas Mazmudar, WSU B 1 10 0 115 10 11.50 Casey Starret, Independence B 0 8 2 70 9 7.78 Bethany Scoggin, WSU B 0 7 1 65 10 6.50 Jordan Cousland, Cloud CCC 1 6 1 70 11 6.36 Wayne Royal, Independence A 2 7 6 70 11 6.36 Nik Melchior, WUSTL 0 5 0 50 8 6.25 Robin Park, Independence B 0 5 1 45 9 5.00 Tanner Holmes, Indepdendence A 0 6 2 50 11 4.55 Aaron Lauter, WUSTL 0 4 1 35 8 4.38 Saumil Mehta, UMKC 0 3 0 30 8 3.75 Rick Moberly, WSU B 0 4 2 30 10 3.00 Neil Henning, Cloud CCC 0 4 2 30 11 2.73 Arthur Marshall, WSU A 0 3 1 25 11 2.27 Rachel Peoples, Oklahoma 0 1 0 10 5 2.00 Eric Owens Vice President & Tournaments Director WSU Academic Quiz Team etowens@feist.com