ACF Mid-Atlantic Fall Results: team

Viking Squirrel <*geertgen22_at_ratatosk22.yahoo.invalid*> · Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:47:57 -0000

Good evening,

Thirteen teams competed today at the 2003 ACF Mid-Atlantic Regional, 
held in "balmy" College Park, Maryland.  They played a full round 
robin of thirteen rounds... creating the mess you will see below:

Princeton 10-2 (+80 head-to-head point differential)
Virginia A 10-2 (-20 head-to-head pt. diff.)
Rutgers-New Brunswick 10-2 (-60 head-to-head pt. diff.)
Swarthmore B* 10-2**
Pittsburgh A 9-3
Maryland 8-4
Swarthmore A 6-6
Virgnia B* 4-8
Carnegie Mellon* 3-9
Delaware* 3-9
American University* 3-9
Johns Hopkins* 2-10
Pittsburgh B* 0-12

*denotes Division II team.

**Swarthmore B (Will Schriker, Emily Ullman, Micaela Baranello, and 
Scott Blaha) easily won the Division II title by six games over 
Virginia B.  Virginia B (Jason Sacks, Steve "X" Yang, Tareq "The 
Moose" Elikyar, and Serge "The Great Gazoo" Egelman) took home a $10 
Blockbuster gift card for finishing second.  Swarthmore B, for 
winning, took home a $25 Border's Bookstore gift card, a Golden Book 
of Disney's Mother Goose, a spoon, and a dish full of Halloween candy 
for their excellent efforts.

Now you may notice that Swarthmore B had the same record as the other 
three teams.  I made what I now admit may have been a questionable 
decision, in that I declared Swat B the D-II champion and did not 
allow them to compete for the D-I crown.  I simply wanted separate 
champions in each division.  Based on tiebreakers of total points and 
head-to-head, they would have been third either way (1-2 among the 
four teams), and Swat B seemed content with their prizes and going 
home.  In any case, if this caused any harm on Swarthmore B's part, I 
take full blame for it.

So with the remaining three teams, we were left with a true circle of 
death.  I seeded the teams based on head-to-head point differential.  
The #2 and #3 teams, Virginia A and Rutgers respectively, played 
Round 14 for the right to meet Princeton in Round 15.  

Round 14 (2-3 game):  Virginia A 330, Rutgers-NB 165
Stats:  
Virginia A:  Gwen Archard 5-0, S.R. "Joe" Sidarth 4-1, Mrgan Saxby 3-
0, Ben Mudrak 2-0 
Rutgers-NB:  Jason Keller 4-3, Matt Rolnick 1-0, Larry Goldman 1-0, 
Saul Foresta 0-0

Round 15 (championship game):  Virginia A 275, Princeton 260
Stats:
Virginia A:  Gwen 3-0, Joe 2-1, Morgan 3-0, Ben 2-1
Princeton:  Dan Benediktson 0-0, Chris Frankel 5-0, Phil Kidd 3-1, 
Ray Yang 1-1

Note that Princeton, down 35 going into the last toss-up, gets it, 
needs 30 on the bonus, but gets 10.  A very competitive match all the 
way through.

Princeton also earned a $10 Blockbuster gift card for finishing 
second in Division I.  Congratulations to Virginia A (Gwen, Joe, 
Morgan, and Ben) for winning Division I.  For their efforts, they 
earned a $25 Borders gift card, lots of Halloween candy, and 
a "golden bowl" to put it in, complete with a copy of _The Golden 
Bowl_ by Henry James. 

Individual awards and thank yous in the next message...
-Adam