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The University of Minnesota is a four-year public university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Long known as a CBI powerhouse, in 2008 the team achieved the unique feat of qualifying teams for the playoffs at both CBI and ACF Nationals, on the same day.
Tournaments
Minnesota traditionally holds two tournaments. The packet submission Deep Bench tournament is traditionally the Midwest's first large-scale invitational of the fall. It was won by the University of Illinois in 2007, with Mike Sorice as the lead scorer. Beginning 2008, Minnesota gave up the Deep Bench format and instead hosted the First Minnesota Open, which was the Midwest's first truly open event of the academic year. It featured side events such as a Literature Doubles, Jeremy Eaton's Video Game Tournament, and a Trash Tournament edited by Colin O'Donnell. The 2008 iteration was held on October 18.
Minnesota also hosts the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament, which used to be an NAQT IS set event but is now packet-submission. The 2008 iteration took place March 29.
Minnesota is also very active in hosting high-school tournaments. In the winter, Minnesota hosts the annual Gopher Invitation tournament which is run on an NAQT IS set. Other tournaments hosted in 2008 include Chitin Classic and PACE Spring Qualifier.
In Fall 2008, Minnesota hosted the 2008 Ubu Roi Season Opener.
Players
- Aaron Barnhart, freshman
- Chris Bauleke, sophomore
- Brendan Byrne, junior
- Rob Carson, junior
- Mike Cheyne, first-year (?) grad student
- Eric Gruber, freshman
- Joseph Hansen, freshman
- Andrew Hart, junior
- Lauren Johnson, sophomore
- Gautam Kandlikar, sophomore
- Jon Martin, junior
- Rita Otto, senior
- Mike Parks, junior
- Ryan Peterson, second-year med student
- Sean Skaar, junior
- Bernadette Spencer, sophomore
- Daniel Weispfenning, senior
Notable Alumni
Title Succession
College Bowl Title Succession
Results
- 2007 NAQT Division I ICT: 16th place. Ezra Lyon finished seventh in scoring.
- 2007 NAQT Division II ICT: 15th place. Andrew Hart finished eighth in scoring.
- 2007 Chicago mirror of EFT: 1st place. Andrew Hart finished fourth in scoring, Gautam Kandlikar sixteenth, and Rob Carson seventeenth.
- 2007 Minnesota Deep Bench: stats were lost, but a team led by Gautam Kandlikar finished sixth in the tournament that was edited by Andrew Hart and Rob Carson.
- 2007 Titanomachy: 2nd place. Rob Carson and Gautam Kandlikar finished second to Brendan Byrne and were third and fourth in scoring, respectively.
- 2007 ACF Fall: 1st place. Rob Carson, Bernadette Spencer, and Gautam Kandlikar beat Brendan Byrne in the final to win the championship. Gautam and Rob were the fourth and sixth highest scorers, and Andrew Hart was a tournament co-editor.
- 2007 Illinois Open: 4th place. Andrew Hart was the fourth highest scorer, and Rob Carson was tenth.
- 2007 Illinois Open Literature Tournament. The tournament was largely written and edited by Andrew Hart. Maryland's Jonathan Magin won, and Gautam Kandlikar played with Seth Teitler and finished second.
- 2007 Illinois Open Doubles. Gautam Kandlikar played with eventual winner Matt Weiner, while Andrew Hart rode Matt Lafer's coattails to a second-place finish.
- 2007 Truman State Brainal Leakage: 3rd place. Andrew Hart finished third in scoring, while Rob Carson was sixth.
- 2007 Michigan MLK: 4th place. Pre-playoffs, Andrew Hart was eighth(?) in scoring, while Rob Carson was 13th.
