Call me selfish, but I'd say the greater achievement would be not the 800-point game, but the single-player 20-0 -- on the theory that it's a lot easier to get together 4 players with knowledge of everything than it is to be one player with knowledge of everything. As for my personal involvement with the QB record books, consider a game at 2000's NE NAQT SCT, Division II. A number of unusual statistical happenings occurred at this tournament -- both Vik Vaz (112) and I (101) averaged over 100 points a game, which if not unexampled must surely be uncommon. (Neither of us was playing solo, but my two teammates and his one combined for 8 tossups the whole day. Also, Jeff Johnson, who _was_ playing solo in Division I, and competing in his last tournament AFAIK, averaged 133 PPG or thereabouts.) Vik's team won the division; we went 6-7, making me probably the only player ever to score 100 a game for a team with a losing record. (I don't recommend it.) But perhaps the most interesting game was the head-to-head matchup between us. The final score: Harvard (I don't remember the team name; it was something JFK- Assassination-related): 550 (Vaz: 160) BU Wyclef Jean: 275 (Nielsen: 85) The combined score of 825 is high, but has probably been topped. I am, however, willing to wager that the combined two-player individual score of 245 has not. Erik "Fogey-in-Training" Nielsen --- In quizbowl_at_y..., "bucktowntiger" <jdh22_at_c...> wrote: > This is probably a moot point (and one which won't be highly > regarded), but I thought I would be the first to say it... IMO, a > true "perfect" game would have to be one in which a team got every > tossup *and* thirtied every bonus. Comparing this true "perfect" > game to a twenty-tossup shutout is like comparing a perfect game to a > no-hitter in baseball. > > Josh, the Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat of quizbowl
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