Terrapin

TIT or the Terrapin Invitational Tournament is an annual academic quizbowl tournament held at Maryland. It has been held since 1987, when Emory defeated Georgia Tech in the final. Note: Despite the fact that the 2004-2005 tournament was announced as Terrapin XVIII, and several older announcements confirm that the first tournament happened in the 1987-1988 year, the 2007-2008 tournament somehow became Terrapin XXII when it should have been XXI (the reason being that a file with the packets from the 2007 tournament used to figure out what the current number was had an incorrect label). The below numerals will skip from XX to XXII in accordance with Maryland's own announcements.

Fall 2009 Tournament

This tournament is being edited by Chris Ray, Mike Sorice and others and is being combined with the Illinois Open.

Winter 2009 Tournament

This tournament was edited mainly by Chris Ray.

2008

The 2008 tournament was edited by Jonathan Magin, Mike Bentley, Ray Luo, Eric Mukherjee, Matt Weiner and a few other contributers. It was directed by Mike Bentley and was a mirror of MLK. Brown went undefeated to win the Maryland tournament. It was also mirrored by Georgia, UCLA and Missouri S&T.

2007

The 2007 tournament was edited by Jonathan Magin. Matt Weiner praised the tournament despite chiding teams that felt it was a "packet submission optional" tournament.

2006

The 2006 tournament was edited by Dan Greenstein, and directed by Brittany Clark and Ali Daniels. It was won by Chicago A. A bonus answer in the Masters packet from this tournament incorrectly gave the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine's name as "William Van Orman Quince," and repeatedly referred to "Quince" throughout the rest of the bonus. This mistake was referenced in the answer space of a tossup from the 2009 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament.

Table of results

Terrapin	Date	Champion	Second	Editor	Field size	Notes
Terrapin I	Fall 1987	Emory	Georgia Tech
Terrapin II	Fall 1988
Terrapin III	Fall 1989					College Bowl's attempt to threaten Maryland into canceling this tournament led directly to the formation of ACF.
Terrapin IV	Fall 1990
Terrapin V	Fall 1991
Terrapin VI	Fall 1992
Terrapin VII	November 12-13, 1993	Georgia Tech A
Terrapin VIII	November 11-12, 1994	Georgia Tech A	South Carolina	Vishnu Jejjala, Jesse Molesworth	18	Stats
Terrapin IX	November 3-4, 1995	Harvard	Georgia Tech A	Matt Colvin, Arthur Fleming	19	Stats
Terrapin X	November 1, 1996	Virginia A	Illinois		13	Stats
Terrapin XI	October 31-November 1, 1997	Virginia A	Chicago A		13	Stats
Terrapin XII	October 30-31, 1998	Chicago A	South Carolina		18	Stats
Terrapin XIII	November 5-6, 1999	Maryland A	Chicago	John Nam, Jessie Stevens	14	Stats
Terrapin XIV	October 28, 2000	Michigan A (Division I), Rutgers (Division II)	Virginia A (Division I), Swarthmore B (Division II)	Shaun Hayeslip	23	Stats
Terrapin XV	October 27, 2001	Princeton	Swarthmore		9	Stats
Terrapin XVI	October 26, 2002	Michigan	Rutgers	Adam Fine	12	Stats
Terrapin XVII	October 25, 2003	Chicago	Rochester		11	Stats
Terrapin XVIII	October 23, 2004	VCU	Princeton	Casey Retterer, Dan Goff, et al	11	Brief results blurb
Terrapin XIX	October 23, 2005	Chicago A	Michigan	Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Dan Greenstein	13	Stats
Terrapin XX	January 27, 2007	VCU	Virginia A	Jonathan Magin, Mike Bentley, Casey Retterer, Chris Ray, et al	9	Stats
Terrapin XXII	January 19, 2008	Brown	Princeton	Jonathan Magin, Mike Bentley, Ray Luo, Eric Mukherjee, Matt Weiner, Jeremy Eaton, Greg Peterson, et al	9	Mirrored at Michigan as the MLK, and also at Missouri S&T, UCLA, and Georgia. Stats There was no Terrapin XXI.
Terrapin XXIII	January 31, 2009	Brown	VCU	Chris Ray, Jeremy Eaton, Jeff Amoros	16	Main site stats. Mirrored at Northwestern (Stats) and Mississippi State.