2007 PAC

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

• Carlo Angiuli - Illinois
• Papa Chakravarthy - Kentucky
• Charles Dees - Missouri
• Greg Gauthier - Illinois
• Ted Gioia - District of Columbia
• Greg Peterson - Illinois

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.

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