The Illinois Open 2003: Transfigured Spite Brief Results and Thanks

• From: Michael Angelo Sorice <msorice_at_theinfamoushairboy.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:05:13 -0000
• Message-ID: <bp6m0p+rnbo_at_...>

Results:
   After thirteen rounds of competition, Chicago A (Ferrari, 
Maddipoti, Reece, Yaphe) defeated a field of nine teams to win The 
Illinois Open 2003: Transfigured Spite. Second place was garnered by 
Michigan A (Berdichevsky, Heller, Lafer, Litvak), while Kentucky 
(Kendall, McKenzie, Money, Osborne) gleaned a third-place finish. 
Wesley Matthews of Indiana, as is his wont, was the leading scorer. 
Full stats, both team and individual, will be posted here shortly, 
with a link to fuller and better (i.e. SQBS, which program is 
synonymous with good) stats shortly thereafter.

Thanks:
   My thanks go out to all teams who showed-up for showing-up; to 
everyone who encouraged me or (especially) gave me good advice (and I 
want to say these were the only type of comments that I recieved); to 
Brad Huston of Grinnell for guest moderating; to Nick Rothfuss and 
Dave Kiang of the UIUC ABT for making stats possible; to everyone 
else from the ABT who staffed, wrote questions, and got together to 
make a house team on short notice when one became necessary; and 
especially to Matt Weiner for mirroring our event and providing many, 
many quality questions.
   My deepest thanks, however, must be reserved for my co-editors 
Sudheer Potru and "The A-Train" Andrew Thomas Ullsperger, without 
whose hardness of core this tournament would have failed entirely. 
Their willingness to devote probably over a hundred workhours each to 
this tournament is the only reason for its success.

Michael Angelo Sorice
Chief Editor and Tournament Director
The Illinois Open 2003: Transfigured Spite