Penn-ance
| Penn-ance | |
|---|---|
| Competition season | 2012-13 |
| School(s) | Penn |
| Head editor(s) | Eric Mukherjee |
| Difficulty | College regular |
| First mirror | October 20, 2012 |
| Announcement | link |
| Packets | link |
Penn-ance was a 2012 regular-difficulty tournament written by Penn, to make up for the disastrous 2012 iteration of Penn Bowl. It was generally well-received and (re-)established Penn as a reliable producer of quality sets. It was head-edited by Eric Mukherjee; edited by Saajid Moyen, Dallas Simons, and Patrick Liao; and written by the Penn team as a whole, with the assistance of Mike Cheyne, Auroni Gupta, and Jerry Vinokurov.
Penn-ance set the new precedent that annual Penn-written sets would be played in October rather than January, continued by its successor, 2013 Penn Bowl
Results
| Region | Host | Date | TD | Winner | Runner-up | Individual high scorer | Stats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | Toronto | October 20, 2012 | Michael Wainberg | Toronto | Ottawa | Jordan Palmer | Stats |
| Mid-Atlantic | Penn | October 20, 2012 | Saajid Moyen | Virginia | Maryland A | George Berry | Stats |
| North | Carleton College | October 20, 2012 | Max Henkel | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | Andrew Hart | Stats |
| Northeast | MIT | October 20, 2012 | Olivia Murton | Harvard A and Yale A* | Brown B | Matt Jackson | Stats |
| Southeast | Alabama | October 20, 2012 | Jonathan Thompson | Georgia Tech A | Alabama Order | Dargan Ware | Stats |
| Lower Midwest | WUSTL | October 27, 2012 | Sean Phillips | Illinois A | Illinois B | Ike Jose | Stats |
| Midwest | Ohio State | October 27, 2012 | Gerard Louis | Michigan | Ohio State | Will Nediger | Stats |
| Northwest | Washington and Online | December 1, 2012 | Mike Bentley | Rice A | Washington C | Henry Gorman | Stats |
*MIT mirror
The preliminary results of the MIT mirror of Penn-ance saw an MIT team of Cory Smith, Joshua Alman, Neil Gurram, Max Timmons. and Anderson Wang win first after clearing the field. This performance saw sophomore Alman lead the field in powers with a 31/5/2 statline - this immediately raised suspicions, especially as Alman had been suspected of cheating at the 2012 ICT. However, this strong performance was Alman's first performance after the previous ICT and it seemed in-line with his recent improvement.
In March 2013, it was revealed that a security oversight in NAQT's Ginseng software allowed collegiate writers to view questions in collegiate sets; in particular, this allowed them to view SCT and ICT even if they were eligible. Alman was confirmed to have taken advantage of this to cheat at the 2012 ICT, and was soon after heavily implicated in having obtained the packets for Penn-ance beforehand. MIT vacated their win and it was split between Harvard A and Yale A, who were tied by record.