A bit behind the times as ever, but here finally are the results winging in from the NAQT IFT GB. Oxford University Quiz Society welcomed 13 teams to St John's College, Oxford for a very long one-day tournament. The first four rounds of matches were random draw, followed then by eight rounds under a fairly arcane power matching system that I dreamt up, and which aged me by about 10 years every time I tried to work it out. Each team played between ten and twelve rounds, and no single contest between two given teams could occur more than twice (hence the rapid ageing). A quick note about the field: two "masters" teams were in attendance, keeping the young whippersnappers in shape. Cambridge played as one university, sending three teams. Oxford partly divided, fielding two college teams, whose players were all university squad members anyway, and then a third (the Oxford Cavaliers) made up of those squad members not playing for the colleges (which made the Cavaliers mostly freshers and 80% female, the cause of much amusement at one stage, as we shall see). London is of course only a university in name, and hence the "colleges" played separately. Anyway, Balliol appeared to be up to their usual tactics - "win everything" - with Ian "Iron Man" Bayley in full flow as usual. Imperial also seemed to be heading for the final (masters teams were not eligible) quite nicely, until a late collapse opened things up again. Cavaliers (the newbies, remember) then livened up proceedings no end by beating Balliol on a tie-break in their second meeting, thereby taking their places for a third and deciding encounter in the final. The results are ordered by percentage of matches won, then by mean points difference per game. I haven't posted the Pd/G, as it still needs checking, but it's close enough not to matter (someone make a Florida joke here): Balliol College, Oxford 10-1 90.9% Oxford Cavaliers 9-3 75.0% Oriel P&P (masters) 7-3 70.0% Imperial College, London 7-4 63.6% Birkbeck College, London 7-4 63.6% Brookes University 6-6 50.0% St John's College, Oxford 5-5 50.0% Cambridge University C 5-6 45.5% Cambridge University A 5-7 41.7% Cross Inn, Cardiff (masters) 4-6 40.0% McMaster University 4-6 40.0% University College, London 2-10 16.7% Cambridge University B 1-11 8.3% After all that excitement (and with a few of our older players visibly flagging), Balliol and Cavaliers met in an all-home-team final, in which Ian Bayley did his stuff and helped them to a convincing 465-165 victory. Many thanks to all the teams who came - the circuit in Britain is slowly getting going, and such a turn-out was great (roughly 80% of all available players in the country, as far as I could tell!). I'd like to thank all the tournament staff, even my assistant TD who managed to read a round out of order having solemnly warned his colleagues pre-tournament not to do so. Final results will be posted on our web site and their existence announced here in a few days' time. Rob Linham, President, Oxford University Quiz Society; Tournament Director NAQT IFT GB 2000. <a href=http://here.is/oxfordquiz target=new>http://here.is/oxfordquiz</a> quiz_at_...
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