"Chicago" A (Litvak, Maddipoti, Teitler, Yaphe) defeated Michigan (Kemezis, Lafer, Berdichevsky, Westbrook), topping a field of 9 teams to win the Illinois Open 2004: The Philosophy of Spite. The full stats are now available at http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/msorice/www/io2004/io2004_teams.html. These include the results of the initial 9-team full round robin, the two 4-team playoff round robins, and the single final game that was required to decide the tournament in "Chicago" A's favor. The various "Unknown" players in these stats result from two rounds in which a room was short a scorekeeper during the playoffs and didn't keep individual stats; I am sorry about these. Anyone with any other questions about these stats or the tournament results can raise them here, and I will do my best to answer them. That dispensed with, I'd like to offer my sincerest thanks to everyone who made this tournament possible, particularly: to Greg Lindsay, for taking an interest in our little backwater of a tournament; to all the teams that came out, for having faith in us, for being polite and gracious about the errors that were made, for warm complements and honest feedback, and for writing a number of outstanding packets; to the members of the ABT who came out to staff the event and/or play on our house team, Adam Janzen, Tom Phillips, Andrew Ullsperger, Brian Ingrassi, Kelly Tourdot, Matt Riebel, Micah Hodosh, and Steve Canning; to our stats people, Tom Phillips and Kelly Tourdot; to our moderating staff, Dom Ricci, Dave Kiang, Matt Cvijanovich, and Sudheer Potru; to Chris Romero of Texas A&M and Juliana Froggatt, Jeff Hoppes, Ray Luo, Paul Reverdy, and Larry Wang of California Berkeley for writing freelance packets (your packets are in the mail;) to the ABT members who wrote a huge number of quality questions, Kelly Tourdot, Dave Kiang, Matt Cvijanovich, Dom Ricci, and Sudheer Potru; and especially to Sudheer Potru, to whose willingness to do what it took the tournament entirely owes its existence and success. I thank you all very much for making this event a success, and I can only hope that next year's event knows such good fortune and friends, whoever's running it. The questions from the Illinois Open 2004: The Philosophy of Spite are now available for sale or trade. Please e-mail me at msorice_at_... if you are interested in purchasing or trading for this set. Mike Sorice Tournament Director, The Illinois Open 2004: The Philosophy of Spite
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