Terrapin

The Terrapin Invitational Tournament, sometimes formerly referred to as TIT, is an academic quizbowl tournament held at Maryland. It was first held in 1987, when Emory defeated Georgia Tech in the final.

Before 2019 Terrapin in Spring 2019, Terrapins were traditionally numbered with Roman numerals. However, the writers of the January 2008 tournament inadvertently skipped the number XXI, calling their tournament Terrapin XXII. To compensate, the November 2009 collaboration with Illinois was occasionally referred to as Terrapin XXI.

Year by year

2005 (XIX)

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.

2007 (XX)

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.

2008 (XXII)

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.

Winter 2009 (XXIII)

This tournament was edited mainly by Chris Ray and hosted in January 2009.

Fall 2009 (XXI)

This tournament was edited by Chris Ray, Mike Sorice and others as a combination with Illinois Open at "Regionals-plus" difficulty. It was generally well-received, though 10-line tossups and 3-line bonus parts were routine throughout the set.

Winter 2011 (XXIV)

The January 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 2011 (cancelled)

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.

2013 (XXV)

After a year's hiatus, a spring 2013 iteration was planned, to be edited by Arun Chonai, Chris Manners, and Brian McPeak. After many logistics, scheduling, and packet-submission snafus (documented here), a tournament materialized around submitted packets edited by Ike Jose, with help from Brian and Isaac Hirsch. A 6-team main site occurred, which UVA-sans-Bollinger won over Penn; relatively open mirrors were held at WashU, Michigan State, and Skype (Mike Bentley directing).

2014–16

Between 2014 and 2016, Terrapin was replaced by collaborations between Maryland and other schools, such as 2014's SUBMIT (with Berkeley), 2015's STIMPY (with Yale), and 2016's MYSTERIUM (also with Yale).

2016 (XXIX)

The 2016 iteration of Terrapin, head-edited by Jordan Brownstein, was widely praised as one of the best regular difficulty tournaments to date.

2019 (XXX)

Terrapin returned in 2019, for a slightly easier (EFT-difficulty) tournament head-edited by Weijia Cheng.

Table of results

Terrapin	Date	Champion	Runner-up	Editor(s)	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	Stats Mirrored at Michigan as the MLK, and also at Missouri S&T, UCLA, and Georgia.
Terrapin XXIII	January 31, 2009	Brown	VCU	Chris Ray, Jeremy Eaton, Jeff Amoros	16	Stats Mirrored at Northwestern and Mississippi State.
TIT/IO ("Terrapin XXI")	November 14, 2009	Carnegie Mellon	Penn	Chris Ray and Mike Sorice	14	Stats
Terrapin XXIV	January 22, 2011	State College	Virginia	SteveJon Guth with help from Chris Ray et al.	11	Stats
Terrapin XXV	March 24, 2013	Virginia	Penn	Ike Jose with help from Brian McPeak, Isaac Hirsch et al.	6	Stats Mirrored at Michigan State and WUSTL.
Terrapin XXIX	November 19, 2016	Penn	Duke	Jordan Brownstein and Billy Busse	19	Stats Results from other mirrors available here.
2019 Terrapin	March 2, 2019	Virginia	Johns Hopkins A	Weijia Cheng et al.	16	Stats