TRASH Regionals Midwest Results

• From: jp_lien <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:42:26 -0000
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13 teams competed today in TRASH Regionals Midwest here at UIUC. 
Missouri went 9-1, and was proclaimed the champion.  Second place
went to Northwestern A (6-3), and third to UIUC (6-3).  A note about how the ordering was determined is below.

Matt from Iowa B led the tournament in scoring, followed by Mark from
Mizzou, Tyler (Northwestern A), Erik (Iowa A), and Mica (Indiana). 
The five individual prizes were highlighted by a copy of the Kelly
Clarkson single that I found in the 99c bin at Record Service.

Thanks to everyone who came out, to TRASH for a great set of
questions, and, once again, to my faithful staff who gave up yet
another day of their weekend.  Stats will be available on our web
page soon.  I'll be posting here again when that happens.

There were three-way circles of death in both prelim brackets,
causing a great deal of confusion as to how to award second through
seventh place.  The two brackets had an uneven number of teams (owing
to the failure of that punk, Andy Wang, to show up), thus making the
question even more difficult.  Since the top 4 teams from both
brackets made it into the top flight of the playoffs, this wasn't a
problem until the final standings. I chose to resolve the dispute
NFL-style, by forming a conference of the 6 teams with 6-3 or 6-4
records.  This conference contained two CODs, 3 3-2 teams, and 3 2-3
teams.  I then resolved these by using point differential.  The order
of the 2-7th place teams was: NW A, UIUC, Wash U, Indiana, Iowa B,
Iowa A.  All of these teams were extremely strong, and no way of
ranking them seems adequate, but this way struck me as fairest.

J.p.