Congratulations (and mad, mad respect) to Vanderbilt A for their 12-0 run to win ACF Fall Southeast, held at Shorter College on November 4, 2007; congratulations to Alabama B, who defeated Mississippi State in a playoff to in Shorter's first ever collegiate tournament, a CUT- style tournament, the very previous day. For ACF Fall SE, Vanderbilt's first-place team was Matt Keller, Paul Gauthier, and Jack Hartz. Second place was awarded to Georgia A (Chris Chiego, Steven Etheridge, Jon Okon, and Nick Rolater), third to Georgia B (Noah Mink, Stephen Hanley, Jay Ivey, Cullen Timmons), and fourth to FSU Garnet (Billy Beyer, Matt Alford, Lea Bielland, and Laura Adams). Special commendation to Georgia Tech (Taylor Kulp and Amy Varallo), who missed the final round-robin but finished "best of the rest" with an 8-4 overall record. Top individual scorer was Jacob Vannucci of UTC, who averaged 74.6 ppg. Top scorer in the championship flight was Matt Keller of Vanderbilt A, with 56.25 ppg (and right behind him was Paul Gauthier, also of Vanderbilt A, with 55.4; if the two of them hadn't been swapping off eight-to-ten tossup games, I could have seen either clearing 100 ppg). The rest of the top ten, in order, were: Jake Sundberg, UL-Lafayette Amy Varallo, Georgia Tech Matt Alford, FSU Garnet Billy Beyer, FSU Garnet David Flowers, FSU Gold Alesis Turner, Oakwood (in Oakwood's first ACF appearance!) Joey Montoya, South Carolina For the previous day's NAQT CUT-style (using IS-70), Alabama B was the one-man juggernaut of Jonathan Thompson. Alabama B and Mississippi State (Harry Nelson, Paul Kimbrough, Taylor Clark, Jacob Cundiff) finished with identical 8-1 records; Alabama B won the playoff by a score of 350-115. Berry College (Greg Weinstein, Joe Thornton, Annie Shattuck, Molly Nelson, Joel Cox) finished third with a 6-3 record. Special commendation to UTC B, which competed as an open team (because the team did not meet CUT standards) and finished with an 8- 2 record. Matches against UTC B were recorded for individual stats, but did not count in the team standings. Scoring individual stats for a CUT-style tournament is always a flaky affair, because if a one-person team wins the tournament the winner is almost certainly going to be the top scorer as well, but in the interest of completeness (and prizes for the top 7), here's the top- 10 scorers list: Jonathan Thompson, Alabama B Amy Varallo, Georgia Tech Andrew Santi, Alabama A Zod Johnson, Alabama D* Kivin Childers, Clanton et Kivin Joel Cox, Berry Joseph Montoya, South Carolina Rishabh Shah, UTC A Paul Kimbrough, Mississippi State Harry Nelson, Mississippi State (Once again, it should be noted that Jacob Vannucci would have finished second in this table for UTC B were his team not playing open.) Full stats for both tournaments are available. For the NAQT CUT-style, the stats can be found: http://www.chuck- pearson.org/shorterab/sab_cutstyle07/sab_cutstyle_standings.html For ACF Fall, we have stats for the group stage... http://www.chuck- pearson.org/shorterab/acffall_se2007/acffall_se2007_prelim_standings.h tml ...for the championship round-robin... http://www.chuck- pearson.org/shorterab/acffall_se2007/acffall_se2007_champs_standings.h tml ...and for all games played... http://www.chuck- pearson.org/shorterab/acffall_se2007/acffall_se2007_standings.html ...as well as a summary of how we ran the tournament, in case anybody ever has to deal with 21 teams in their tournament and doesn't mind making an 11-hour day of it. http://www.chuck- pearson.org/shorterab/acffall_se2007/acffall_se2007_format.html Thanks to our outside readers and staff - first, the incomparable Erskine Thompson, who is my "partner in crime" in local quiz bowl and who has never minded waking up way too early to help out. Thanks to Eric Douglass and Bryn Reincke from South Carolina, Rennae Elliot from Oakwood, Chela Canler from Alabama, and Josh Clanton from Clanton Quiz-Bowl Tech for their invaluable help, assistance and fellowship. (Bonus credit to Taylor Kulp from Georgia Tech, who helped out with the reading on Saturday.) Thanks to the Shorter students who contributed both days - Morgan Elizabeth Collins, Heather Michot, Celestia Price, and Tiffany Lambert - for the love and the support they provide me, in word and in action. Special thanks to Stewart Orr, a local homeschooled student who threw in a key assist. Big ups to Chris Gilstrap, who no longer attends Shorter but is still Shorter Academic Bowl's First Man. And, last but never least, thanks to the students who make up Shorter Academic Bowl, who put so much of their heart and soul into making this weekend work the way it did. Whitney Richert, Jill Davis, A.J. Hopkins, Ashleigh Watts, Clint Higginbotham, Mack Freeman, Catie Eisel, Krystin Fain - I love each and every one of you, and the lot of you astound and amaze me week in and week out. We were deliriously talking to one another after everybody left on Sunday night - "You know what I think we just did? I think we hosted ACF Fall..." But I have to be honest. THOSE are the guys - not me - who hosted ACF Fall, and for such a young program, I really marvel at the quality of hosts they were. There's no way I could have expected as glitch-free of a tournament as we had, and since I was holed up in HQ most of the day, it came down to them. And they were amazing. We'll throw open our doors again. Come back. We loved having you. chuck
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