2000 NSC
| 2000 NSC PACE | |
|---|---|
| Edited by | PACE |
| Champion | State College |
| Runner-up | Eisenhower |
| Third | Riverdale and Dorman |
| High scorer | Unknown |
| Site | Furman |
| Field | 16 |
| Stats | |
The 2000 National Scholastic Championship was won by State College, consisting of Jacob Mikanowski, Martin Devecka, Madhury Ray, and Nicole Szacon. The tournament was announced as being held at Furman University on Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4, 2000.
The event was held one week before the HSNCT in Atlanta. Atlanta is less than 150 miles from Greenville and is home to the second-closest major airport (after Charlotte which is about 100 miles away in the other direction). To avoid teams from out of the region travelling to essentially the same place two weekends in a row, Detroit Catholic Central coach Howard Weinberg proposed moving the NSC to the Monday and Tuesday after HSNCT, which was not seriously considered at the time, but perhaps would have been a good idea for attracting more participants.
During the week before the tournament, Furman University announced that major electrical work on the campus would begin on Sunday, June 4 and power would be shut off campus-wide. The Sunday rounds were hastily re-scheduled for Pickens High School about twenty miles west of the campus. The 2000 NSC is the only known national championship tournament held at a high school campus since the end of the National Academic Super Bowl. All other nationals have been held at college campuses, hotels, or TV studios.
Tournament format
The 16 teams were divided into two prelim brackets of eight and played a seven-game round robin on Saturday. Based on prelim finish, four four-team playoff brackets were constructed for Sunday morning, with the winners of the four brackets going to a four-team single-elim championship. This format created three separate points in the schedule at which a team could be eliminated from championship contention with a single loss, and resulted in a 9-1 team finishing fifth.
Tournament results
State College defeated Eisenhower in the final, 315-185. State College and Eisenhower defeated Riverdale and Dorman in the semifinals, respectively.
Incidents
A moderator was banned from staffing the NSC in the future over a pattern of behavior at this tournament, including revealing the fact that a particular answer was coming up in a future packet when a player incorrectly guessed it for a question in an earlier round.
Individual results
Individual stats are unavailable (and likely were not kept). The tournament all-stars, selected by polling teams and staff, were Andrew Malcovsky of Burlington, Martin Devecka of State College, Jacob Mikanowski of State College, Ben Neale of Maggie Walker, Patrick Riser of Riverdale, Kevin Roth of Eisenhower, Paul Schultz of Detroit Catholic Central, and Matt Weiner of Maggie Walker.
External Links
| ||||||||