Count Chocula's Toilet Bowl IV took place on July 23, 2005 at SFU Harbour Centre with 6 participants from SFU, UBC, Boston University and local trivia aficionados. Questions were from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga's 2005 RC Cola tournament. It was agreed that with so few players, the tournament would be run as a singles tournament, but with full tossup-bonus cycles. Since 3 packs had questions from Boston University students, those were not used. 4 preliminary rounds were played between the 6 players, each round consisting of 2 packs, followed by a 1 pack final between the winners of those 4 preliminary rounds (and a wildcard). It was also agreed that rather than stopping at the 20th tossup of each pack, all the tossups in each pack would be read. Due to limited numbers of bonuses (and the possibility of everyone laming and getting many tossups) bonus lames were not used. Players: Carlos Hernandez-Fisher Hanson Ho Brendan Newton Jack Brounstein Bruce Lin Dean Morrison Round 1 Packs by UTC and Charlie Steinhice 45 tossups Player 10/-5 Total points Carlos 12/2 265 Hanson 9/3 150 Brendan 6/0 145 Jack 8/2 140 Bruce 3/1 45 Dean (25 tossups) 0/0 0 Round 2 Packs by Lords of Alacrity and Shorter College 46 tossups Player 10/-5 Total points Brendan 9/0 175 Carlos 7/2 165 Jack 8/2 160 Hanson 8/2 95 Bruce 4/3 45 Dean 0/0 0 Round 3 Packs by Pitt and Indiana Alumni 45 tossups Player 10/-5 Total points Jack 10/1 220 Carlos 12/6 215 Brendan 8/1 160 Bruce 4/2 60 Hanson 4/3 55 Dean 1/0 10 Round 4 Packs by Great Percussionists' Council and License to IL 46 tossups Player 10/-5 Total points Carlos 12/3 295 Jack 9/1 220 Brendan 9/1 160 Hanson 2/3 35 Bruce 2/0 30 Dean 2/0 21 So Carlos, Brendan and Jack all qualified for the final. Hanson was given a wildcard spot with the consent of the aforementioned trio. Final Pack by Daniel Boylan and others 23 tossups Player 10/-5 Total points Jack 6/1 135 Hanson 6/2 100 Brendan 1/1 15 Carlos 2/2 10 Congratulations to Jack Brounstein for winning Count Chocula's Toilet Bowl IV. Full stats (PP20TH applies only to tossup points) Player 10/-5 Tossups heard Bonus points PP20TH PPB Total points Carlos 45/15 205 575 36.6 12.8 950 Jack 41/7 205 500 36.6 12.2 875 Brendan 33/3 205 340 30.7 10.3 655 Hanson 29/13 205 210 22.0 7.2 435 Bruce 13/5 182 75 11.5 5.8 180 Dean 3/0 162 1 3.7 0.3 31 Final ranking: Jack Brounstein Hanson Ho Brendan Newton Carlos Hernandez-Fisher Bruce Lin Dean Morrison Thanks to everyone who showed up for making this a fun tournament, to Hanson Ho for bringing a buzzer system and to Brock Stephenson for booking a room for us. Daniel Pareja, tournament director, Count Chocula's Toilet Bowl IV
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0: Sat 12 Feb 2022 12:30:48 AM EST EST