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 2011

The Fall 2011 iteration was planned but never happened. It was originally to be held on December 3rd, however this proved to be a bad date. Therefore, no packets were submitted. Plans to turn the tournament into a spring or summer event quickly fell through.

Winter 2011

The 2011 iteration of TIT was edited by SteveJon Guth with help from the rest of the Maryland team. Mirrors were held at Toronto, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Yale, and Michigan.

Fall 2009

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

Winter 2009

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 Runner-up 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. Terrapin XXIV January 22, 2011 State College Virginia SteveJon Guth with help from Chris Ray, et al 11 Results Terrapin XXV March 24, 2013 Virginia Penn Ike Jose with help from Brian McPeak, Isaac Hirsch et al 6 Results. Mirrored at Michigan State and WUSTL.