Hi all, Berkeley ran Science Masters I last Saturday evening. As far as I can tell this was the first all-science quiz bowl tournament. Hopefully there will be more. 11 2-person teams competed in two brackets, a 5-team bracket and a 6- team bracket. Each bracket played one full round robin. The tournament started and ended much later than I'd hoped; after the 5 rounds of round-robin play we decided to stop for the night. Three teams were declared tied for 1st place: Mike Usher and Jon Pennington had a 4-0 record in the 5 team bracket, Richard and Maribeth Mason had a 4-0-1 record in the 6 team bracket, and Grant Gavranovic and Chris Sewell also went 4-0-1 in the 6 team bracket. High scorers included: Mike Usher, 87.5 PPG Richard Mason, 56 PPG Paul Lujan, 47.5 PPG Kevin Costello, 46 PPG Joel Kamnitzer, 42 PPG Chris Sewell, 42 PPG Prasun Ray, 41.25 PPG Nick Meyer, 38.75 PPG Abhishek Roy, 38.33 PPG Stephen Lee, 37.75 PPG Grant Gavranovic, 37 PPG David Farris, 35 PPG Eok Ngo, 35 PPG Maribeth Mason, 33 PPG I would like to thank my fellow writer/editors Jason Paik, Kirsten Chevalier, and Jerry Vinokurov for all their work. Many thanks are also due to the following people: Devang Parekh, Paul Lujan and Stephen Lee, Richard and Maribeth Mason, Mike Usher, and David Farris, who all submitted portions of packets; Evan Koop, Roger Bhan, and Aashoo Tandon, who helped proofread and edit biology questions; Zach Teitler, who helped proofread and write some math questions; Juliana Froggatt, Steve Kaplan, Ross Ritterman, Ray Luo, and Winston Teitler for helping staff the tournament. Since we only played 5 rounds, there are 3 rounds that are blind to everyone on the West Coast, and it is possible that we will try to play some of them sometime soon. Therefore, I ask people not to publicly discuss the questions. I do welcome comments and criticism--let me know what you think about the questions at satelite_at_... (satelite_at_ uclink.berkeley.edu) The questions will probably be made publicly available in a few weeks. -Seth
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0: Sat 12 Feb 2022 12:30:46 AM EST EST