BASQUE III - BARS I Results

• From: huskersugar
• Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:24:25 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TMA9U9.000BMD2IB.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Here are the results from the Inaugural edition
of BARS (Berkeley Audio Recall
Shindig).

Derivative of tournaments such as Heavy Rotation and K-Tel
Hell, this was probably the first tournament of this
sort to be held West of the
Mississippi.

Anyway, the tournament started with a preliminary written
test, held in the midst of the Berkeley mirror of
Capitol Punishment III, consisting of 40 musical clips,
in order to determine the ten participants in the
buzzer competition. Participants were given 5 points for
naming the artist and 5 points for naming the title of
each song, given a clip.

The top ten scorers of
this preliminary round were:
Jon Pennington...230
points
Joe Wright...170 
Matt Bruce...110
Chris
Mayfield...80
Seth Teitler (aka Snowshoe)...75 
Steve
Jenkins...75 
Maribeth Swiatek...65 
Richard
Mason...60
Amy Fuller...60
Matthew
Kaufman...60

Because I could not hold the buzzer round after the
Berkeley CPIII mirror, I decided that I would hold the
contest on Sunday Morning, during our mirror of the
Herbert Spencer Singles Tournament. Because Amy Fuller
and Matthew Kaufman could not show up for the buzzer
round, Ken Mitchell, who did not take the preliminary
test, and Augustine Kim, who had the next highest
preliminary score of anyone present, took their
places.

For the buzzer competition, participants earned 20
points if they could name the artist and title of a song
in one buzz, 5 points if they could just name the
artist or title after a buzz, -5 points if they buzzed
in before the end of the clip and could not name
either. If either the artist or title of the song was
named, the person who named the other part of the answer
would only earn 5 points. Here are the results of the
buzzer competition:

10th Place...Seth aka
Snowshoe...-5 points
9th
Place...Maribeth...0
8th...Richard...20
7th...Matt...55
6th...Chris...60
4th (tie)...Augustine...65
4th
(tie)...Steve...65
3rd...Ken...75
2nd...Joe...105
1st...Jon...195 

As a result of his victory, Jon won a
copy of American Hi-Fi's self-titled debut disc. All
other participants were able to choose from a borage of
other compact discs that I either received for free or
bought for less than a dollar a piece.

Anyway, I
would like to thank all for participating and would be
interested in running a similar tournament sometime during
TRASH Regionals in November (provided Scripps College
doesn't mind and that I have access to a laptop
computer).

If you would like to see a listing of all songs used
in the tournament, e-mail me at
arwmatt_at_...