Chicago Open Singles Results

• From: Yo_mikez
• Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:08:54 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TMC196.001KODSVM.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Here are the results of the Chicago Open Singles
tournament, which I believe had the strongest field of any
singles tourney since Minnesota 3 years ago.

This
tournament was played mostly on questions by Matt Weiner,
with some help in later rounds from leftover questions
from Subash. The format was modified from the
traditional Hilleman format in order to allow for double
elimination given the lower # of questions we had available.
(If anyone wants more details, email
me.)

Anyways, on to the results:
 
Kelly Mc (Mac?) Kenzie
beat Andrew by 15 in the finals match in order to
secure a victory after a thrilling losers' bracket final
between Andrew and Adam Kemezis which Andrew won by 5.
(Adam had beaten Andrew by 5 in an earlier
match.)

1. Kelly McKenzie
2. Andrew Y
3. Adam
Kemezis
4. Subash M
5. R. Hentzell
6. Vik Vaz
7.
Eric Hilleman
8. Roger Bhan
9. Dave
Hamilton
10. Chris Borghlum
11. Mark
12. Alice
Chou
13. Jeff Bennett
14. Trey (from Texas)
15.
Zeke
16. Chris Vicich
Tie for 17th: Ed Cohn & Raj
D.
19. Shane (Carleton)
20. Chris Idemmini
21.
Chris Goheen
22. Gabe (Carleton)
23. Nathan
F.
24. Dave Kanon
25. Chris S. (from Texas)
26.
Hair Boy (UIUC)

Dropped out after seeding
rounds because they asked to write some questions for
the finals: Paul, Ben, Noel from Michigan. (Due to
some sort of computer error, we did not use their
questions in the tourney, but they were fun to play on
afterwards!)

Thanks for all who came; I was impressed with both the
strength and the patience (given the format fun in the
morning) of the entire field. Special thanks also to Matt
for providing most of the questions, as well as Sue
(whose last name I can't remember), Mike Altman, Leah
Williams, and others who moderated.

-MZ

P.S.
I have complete Chicago Open results on my computer
but no time now to get the stats out of Statkeeper.
More tomorrow...