2007 PAC

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2007 Panasonic Academic Challenge
Champion Illinois All-Stars
Runner-up Missouri All-Stars
Third Florida All-Stars
Fourth Torrey Pines
Fifth Washington, D.C. All-Stars
Sixth Kentucky All-Stars
All-America Team --
Zachary Blatt, Manchester West James Shinn, All Saints
Greg Gauthier, Wheaton North Athena Jiang, High Tech
Jenny Tan, Torrey Pines Martin Ye, Jenks

The 2007 Panasonic Academic Challenge was held at the Convention Center of the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida between Sunday, June 24 and Tuesday, June 26. 31 teams competed representing 29 states, the District of Columbia, and the US Virgin Islands.

Round 1: 1st Preliminary Round

Team Score Finish Team Score
Tennessee 235 1 Kentucky 334
Idaho 135 2 Florida 217
West Virginia 112 3 Colorado 201
Indiana 58 4 U.S. Virgin Islands 99
Team Score Finish Team Score
Illinois 396 1 Oklahoma 339
District of Columbia 125 2 California 328
New Mexico 122 3 Connecticut 147
Maine 113 4

Round 2: 2nd Preliminary Round

Team Score Finish Team Score
New Jersey 204 1 Ohio 176
New Hampshire 184 2 Montana 169
Iowa 131 3 Alabama 156
Wyoming 84 4 Mississippi 117
Team Score Finish Team Score
Missouri 298 1 Maryland 209
Vermont 177 2 Louisiana 182
Texas 146 3 North Carolina 119
Pennsylvania 115 4 Wisconsin 31

Round 3: 1st Consolation Round

Team Score Finish Team Score Finish Team Score
District of Columbia 274 1 Vermont 243 1 California 420
West Virginia 205 2 Conneticut 230 2 Pennsylvania 179
Mississippi 193 3 North Carolina 211 3 Alabama 156
Iowa 148 4 U.S. Virgin Islands 103 4 Indiana 121

Round 4: 2nd Consolation Round

Team Score Finish Team Score Finish Team Score
Idaho 210 1 Montana 224 1 Florida 269
Colorado 184 2 New Hampshire 209 2 Texas 206
Wyoming 168 3 Wisconsin 156 3 Louisiana 178
Maine 119 4 New Mexico 137


Round 5: Semifinals

Team Score Finish Team Score Finish Team Score
Kentucky 268 1 Florida 301 1 District of Columbia 226
California 193 2 Illinois 253 2 Missouri 224
Ohio 184 3 Oklahoma 164 3 Tennessee 201
New Jersey 142 4 Montana 126 4 Vermont 128
Idaho 41 5 Maryland 79

Round 6: Finals

Team Score Finish
Illinois 252 1
Missouri 240 2
Florida 210 3
California 188 4
District of Columbia 148 5
Kentucky 91 6


Other Notable Players involved

Notes

  • This was the first time in 20 years that both Maryland and Virginia were not in the finals (Virginia by virtue of not attending).
  • This was only the fourth finals not to feature Maryland.
  • Illinois was the first Midwestern team to win the tournament, and only the fourth team not from the East Coast.
  • The theme of the tournament was the 20th anniversary of the PAC. Thus, many of the team boni used recycled themes from previous tournaments, though no player/coach claimed that any of the actual questions were recycled.
  • One of the highlights of the closing awards banquet was the humorous team statement filed by Missouri, and publicly read while their picture was displayed:
Missouri ... Despite numerous signs along Interstate-70 between St. Louis and Kansas City touting Missouri as the Cave State, we are not the Cave State. What we are is much more evident: we are the gateway to the downhill skiing excitement and cutting edge liberal scientific research of Kansas.
2007 Panasonic Academic Challenge
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