FOGHAT Results

• From: OneEyed_Squirrel
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:37:24 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SUVJ04.0006FUSKK.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Congratulations to Battleplanet! in Spaaaace!!!,
winners of FOGHAT (Face-Off Gaging High Achievement in
Trash), which was held at the University of
Missouri-Rolla on October 15th. Chris "Partho" Taylor and I
wrote the very trashy 13-packet question set which is
now available for purchase ($15 - e-mail
jmwhite_at_... for details). The tournament consisted of a round
robin followed by double-elimination playoffs. The
details...

Team Standings:

1. Battleplanet! in
Spaaaace!!!
Roster: Ben Lea, Dave Murphy, Stephen Gill and Adam
Mitchell
Record: 5-1 RR, 3-1 Playoffs
Prize: Each player
received Foghat's _Slow Ride and Other Hits_ compilation
CD and the team was awarded the "Fog hat", a hat
ordered from www.foghat.com that has the word "Fog"
embroidered on it.

2. Dr. T & the Gerbils
Roster:
Greg Sorenson, Chris Rosenberg
Record: 6-0 RR, 2-2
playoffs
Prize: Each received swimmies with Dolphin graphics that
they can wear while playing their new Shamu and
Friends Save the Ocean board game.

3. The Fake
Slim Shadies
Roster: Jason Schwengler, Brandon
Chapman, Mike Raska, J Live
Record: 4-2 RR, 1-2
playoffs
Prize: Each were each given a Star Wars Episode 1 super
ball to add to their collective trophy, the inflatable
Queen Amidala doll...I mean, chair.

4.
Psychedelic Pussycat (Wichita State) 3-3 RR, 0-2
playoffs
5. Defenstrators in Training (Missouri-Rolla) 2-4
RR, 2-0 consolation rounds
6. Team Kaga (Oklahoma)
1-5 RR, 0-2 consolation rounds
7. Totally
Skelebones Kung Fu Death Squad (Oklahoma) 0-6 RR, 1-1
consolation rounds


The various other award
winners...

Leaders of Individual Scoring in the Round Robin:
1.
Greg Sorenson, Dr. T & the Gerbils (won a Foghat Live
CD)
2. Jason Schwengler, The Fake Slim Shadies (won the
Godzilla Street Stompin' game)
3. Ben Lea,
Battleplanet! in Spaaaace!!! (won a Gatorade towel)
4. Chris
Rosenberg, Dr. T & The Gerbils (won The Nightmare on Elm
Street Companion)
5. David Murphy, Battleplanet! in
Spaaaace!!! (won the Fotonovel of the Donald Sutherland
remake of Invasion of the Body
Snatchers)

Punt-Blocking Award
Dr. T & The Gerbils (won a Monday Night
Football Interactive Card Game)

Rookie Award (given
to highest scorer playing in first trash
tournament)
Bob Gray, Defenestrators in Training
 
Thanks
are owed to:
The University of Missouri-Rolla ACO
for helping staff the tourney and arranging for the
facilities and to Ilene Morgan, Matt Crook and Malcolm Hays
who provided excellent moderating, stat compiling and
scorekeeping.

Jeremy White
Engineer, Quaker Oats R&D, Barrington,
Illinois
Self-Proclaimed President UMR ACO Alumni Association