The DOE's Forrestal Building hosted the D.C. and Maryland championships for the high school Science Bowl (which is mainly different from regular quizbowl in that nobody asks questions about the Toledo Red Wings or Immanuel Kant). Tossups are worth four points, bonuses are worth ten, and you get four points if someone interrupts with an incorrect answer. D.C. played a full round robin with eight teams. After the round robin, Dunbar, National Cathedral, St. Alban's, and Thurgood Marshall were eliminated (St. Alban's lost out to Sidwell based on their loss to them in the round robin). Double elimination then resulted in Sidwell beat Washington International Georgetown Day beat Banneker Sidwell beat GDS WIS eliminated Banneker GDS eliminated WIS Sidwell 76, 52 GDS So Sidwell is your 2004 D.C. champion. Banneker, for the record, finished 7-0 in the RR before dropping two straight. Maryland had fourteen teams, who played in two divisions of seven. After the RR, Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Bowie, Fort Hill, Richard Montgomery (last year's champ won just once this year), St. Mary's-Ryken and Whitman went home. Then.... Churchill beat J.M. Bennett Wooton beat Centennial Stone Ridge beat Seneca Valley (in OT) Blair beat Landon Wooton beat Churchill Blair beat Stone Ridge Centennial eliminated J.M. Bennett Landon eliminated Seneca Valley Blair beat Wooton Landon eliminated Stone Ridge Wooton eliminated Landon 106-32 Wooton beat Blair 108-64 Thus Wooton needed to beat Blair again. After four minutes, it was Blair 8, Wooton 4. At the half, it was Blair 32-4. Then Wooton caught fire to make the score 40-30 with four minutes left. With around forty seconds left, Wooton had pulled ahead 52-40. Blair got the tossup to make it 52-44, then got the bonus to take a two-point lead. Wooton interrupted with a second left to make a wild guess. They got it wrong. Final - Blair, 58-52.
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