In Region 9, it went like this: After round robin: DePauw 9-0 Notre Dame 8-1 Indiana 5-4 or 6-3 Purdue 4-5 (w/ tiebreaker over Wabash) (1) DePauw defeats (4) Purdue (2) Notre Dame defeats (3) IU (1) DePauw (now 11-0) defeats (2) Notre Dame (now 9-2) (3) IU defeats (4) Purdue (Purdue eliminated) (2) Notre Dame (now 10-2) defeats (3) IU (IU eliminated) Because of double round robin with top 4 teams, DePauw and Notre Dame essentially play a best 2 of 3 with DPU up 1-0, due to earlier play-off victory. (2) Notre Dame (11-2) defeats DePauw (now 11-1) In the final match, DePauw finishes ahead 165-140. Notre Dame protests an answer they gave of "Zaire" for a question relating to the current legal tender of the "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Initially, they had been given a neg (despite a direction to prompt if the answer "Zaire" was given, which was missed by both the moderator and the judge) and DePauw had not gotten the TU correct during the match, so the match continued as normal. CBI National headquarters is called and it is ruled that Notre Dame is to be given the correct answer and have the neg taken away, making the score 165-155. Then they are to be read a TU (for ONLY Notre Dame to answer -- whose answer was "amber", with the final two clues calling it "this fossilized resin" and "important to the plot of Jurassic Park") and given a 30-20-10 bonus (name the NFL team, 30-20- 10, where the 20 pt clue mentioned that Larry Czonka of this team was in the Hall of Fame...), thus declaring Notre Dame the winners. Both teams thereby finish the day with 2 losses and a 2-2 record against one another. What do people think of this procedure?
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