Congratulations again to Florida A (Div. I), Emory B (Div. I undergrad), and Florida C (Div. II) for their wins at yesterday's NAQT Midsouth Sectionals at UTC. Full individual stats and corrected team stats will follow in a separate post. But first... GRATITUDE Thanks go to UTC's stats goddess Dorothy Morisch, who handled superbly the extra demands of NAQT (more stats to keep and shorter rounds in which to enter them); to Wally Edmondson and the UTC team for the fastest buzzer setup I can ever remember; and to house officials Edmondson, Shannon Moore, John Kilby, Keith Hudson, Phil Groce, Dren Rollins, Gail Celio, Alysia Vrailas, Dave Leach, Toby Walter, Mark Dawson, James Quintong, and Steve Taylor, who also served as assistant TD. And as always, thanks to John Miles and the staff at Provino's for making available the standard bribe we used to secure the services of said officials. Thanks go to NAQT for providing fine questions and clear instructions, and also for their indulgence on one key point. Since UTC hadn't originally planned to host this sectional, we'd looked forward to giving our mostly-freshman team their first chance to play NAQT. We pulled our Division I team to help officiate, but NAQT graciously waived the rule prohibiting house teams when the host didn't provide two full-time officials for each room. Between that and the willingness of bye teams to provide us the two extra timekeepers we needed, not only was UTC able to play, but one of the people this freed up (David Moore) had the tournament of his life and finished 2nd in Division II in individual scoring. INDIVIDUAL HONORS & DISTINCTIONS We were able to award All-Star honors to the top 6 players in each division: DIVISION I Raj Dhuwalia, Florida A (MVP) Chip Thomas, North Florida Rob Fernandez, South Florida Jay Bohren, South Florida Andrew Moore, Georgia A Michael Precht, Furman DIVISION II Lee Henry, Athens State (MVP) David Moore, UTC B David Fitzgerald, Georgia B Irena Li, Florida C Chad Money, Kentucky Tim McMahon, Florida B Emory A's Jake Armstrong had the most power tossups (11), followed by South Florida's Bohren with 10 and Florida A's Dhuwalia and Robin Richards of Georgia A (9 each.) Lee Henry and Chip Thomas tied for the most negs (24 each) but still finished 2nd and 3rd in scoring. As you may know, at UTC we like to track "bragging rights" -- when only one player at a given tournament answers a particular tossup. It's a bit different for NAQT because not every room hears the same number of tossups. So we have only noted those where a tossup was heard in half or more of the rooms: Rob Fernandez, South Florida (Dungeons & Dragons modules -- power) Mark Franklin, Georgia A (Cherenkov radiation -- power) Jeff Ledford, Georgia B (Onto or surjective) James Li, Clemson (big-endian and little-endian) Andrew Moore, Georgia A (Liberty Party) Ahmed Ragab, South Florida (ligands) Avi Schwartz, Emory A (Megawati) Gerry Tanzey, Emory A (Spring Symphony) But Florida A's Raj Dhuwalia (again) was the lead dog with bragging rights on 6 different tossups -- Pennines, balance of payment, Helmholtz free energy, Heinrich Heine, Berbers, principle of least action. Noted as the best speed buzz: Ajay Malshe, Florida C, got Al Michaels on 7 words. We only recorded a few gloriously wrong answers.... Wrong: Coca-Cola. Right: Absinthe. (North Florida) Wrong: Rudy Giuliani. Right: McCroy from Law & Order. (Chris Foster, Clemson) Wrong: Champs Elysee. Right: Tenochtitlan. (in a practice match held concurrently with the playoffs -- not sure who said it)
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