NATSSO Preliminary Results, congratulations and thanks

Stephen Webb <*sdwebb91984_at_sdwebb91984.yahoo.invalid*> · Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:31:17 -0000

After braving some early morning rain in the Atlanta area, eight 
teams competed in the first annual North Avenue Trade School Summer 
Open:

Bill Bixby's Big Ass Communist 18-Wheeler
Giovanna Deformata
GT Alums
Florida (who at a time too late to change renamed themselves the 
Jayhawk Martyrs Squad)
Seth Kendall
Pac-Men
Screaming Monkey Stick
North Florida

At the end of the initial nine round double bye round robin the ranks 
stood thus:
1. BBBAC18W (7-0 436.43 ppg)
2. Florida (5-2 252.14 ppg defeated Giovanni Deformata head to head)
3. Giovanni Deformata (5-2 350.71 ppg lost to Florida head to head)
4. GT Alums (4-3 293.57 ppg)
5. Seth Kendall (3-4 272.86 ppg defeated Pac-Men head to head)
6. Pac-Men (3-4 230 ppg lost to Seth Kendall head to head)
7. Screaming Monkey Stick (1-6 78.57 ppg)
8. North Florida (0-7 54.29 ppg)

The Golden Chicken award for best tossup to neg ratio went to Seth 
Kendall, with a ratio of 9.33. For his accuracy he received a 
cookbook, 2001 Chicken Recipes. Congratulations Seth.

Also at the end of the prelims the top five players on individual 
score received books as a prize.

1. Kelly McKenzie BBBAC18W 90.7 ppg (The Essential Guide to Art Deco)
2. Seth Kendall Seth Kendall 75.7 ppg (The Quark and the Jaguar)
3. Raj Dhuwalia Giovanni Deformata 62.1 ppg (Grun's Timetables of 
History)
4. Kevin Comer Florida 50.7 ppg (Undaunted Courage)
5. Jason King GT Alums 37.9 ppg (The Works of Plato)

Now for what you're all interested in, the final results.

After the prelims the teams were bracketed into upper and lower 
divisions and played out a three round round robin, carrying over 
records from the prelims with the restriction that a lower bracket 
team could not outrank an upper bracket team. At the end of this we 
had:

1. BBBAC18W (8-2 407 ppg 1-1 v. Giovanni Deformata)
2. Giovanni Deformata (8-2 348 ppg 1-1 v. BBBAC18W)
3. GT Alums (6-4 303.5 ppg)
4. Florida (5-5 233 ppg)
5. PAC-Men (6-4 283 ppg)
6. Seth Kendall 5-5 (5-5 291 ppg)
7. Screaming Monkey Stick (2-8 94 ppg)
8. North Florida (0-10 62.5 ppg)

With the potential disaster of a four way tie for first place averted 
in the final round of regular play, we found ourselves in a two-way 
tie between Giovanni Deformata and Bill Bixby's Big Ass Communist 18-
Wheeler. We then proceeded to a tiebreaker round, which concluded 
with Bill Bixby coming out on top 370-275 in a match that was tied at 
250 going into tossup 17. For Kelly McKenzie and Robert Osborne, a 
$30 gift certificate to Amazon.com, for Raj Dhuwalia, Amy Harvey, 
Elissa Caffery and Mitch Alday, $15 gift certificates for their 
second place finish.

I would now like to thank Chris Moody, Andrew Moore, Scott Buckley 
and Robin Richards for moderating and Erik Webb for keeping up with 
the stats. Despite a bizarre cosmic confluence of Oedipus at Colonnus 
repeats, I feel that this tournament has been successful and 
everybody seemed to enjoy themselves.

More in depth statistics will at some point soon be available at the 
Georgia Tech team website:

www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/quizbowl

Many thanks for those who came out to play and weather all the 
problems inherent to a first-time tournament director, and 
congratulations.

Stephen Webb
TD
NATSSO I: Presumptuous Numbering