Results: 1999 Nittany Lion Invitational

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• Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:00:02 -0700
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The 1999 Penn State University Nittany Lion
Invitational was run on Saturday, October 23rd.
Congratulations to University of Pennsylvania "A" who went 11-1
(9-1 among non-masters teams) in convincing fashion.
We are, however, not declaring this team to be the
champions of the tournament due to significant and
result-damaging plagiarism of their submitted packet. Hence, we
awarded prizes to the top non-masters team, which also
happened to be a high school team: State College Area High
School "A", who went 9-3 (8-2 vs. non-masters). Second
place went to the Cornell Team - who left before we
could award them their prize (we will deliver it ASAP).
State College "A" is also the top novice team at the
tournament (team comprised solely of players in their first
(or less) year of intercollegiate competition). It
was an experiment to recognize and encourage (through
waiving the packet submission requirement) novice teams
at this tournament. I hope the other novice teams
are not discouraged by the results, there were some
very good teams at this tournament. State College "A",
and especially Jacob Mikanowski, are simply
unbelievable. Jacob is a senior - start getting your
scholarships ready if you want to win national championships
in the next few years.

Individually, there
were some errors in the initially reported statistics
from Saturday afternoon - for which I apologize, and
hope to have corrected here. Congratulations to Dwight
Kidder (playing as Xanahara) who amassed 86.4 ppg and
Fred Bush (54.17 ppg) but are ineligible for prizes as
masters players. The top four non-masters players
are:
Jacob Mikanowski State College "A" 77.08ppg
Matt
Colvin Cornell 54.17ppg
Felicia Wu Carnegie Mellon
"A" 49.58ppg
Adam Fine Johns Hopkins
45.52ppg

I incorrectly gave the second place award to
Felicia, when it should have gone to Matt. My apologies.
Matt also stated that the award, should he receive it,
should go to the next highest undergrad player. That
would be Peter from Swarthmore "A" at 43.75 ppg. We
will deliver another prize as soon as possible -
Felicia is still very much deserving of recognition. The
top four novice players (not necessarily on novice
teams, hopefully we got everyone) are:
Jacob
Mikanowski State College "A" 77.08ppg
Bryan Johns Hopkins
29.58ppg
Katie Penn "B" 15.0 ppg
James Penn "A" 15.0
ppg

Matt Colvin is also the "Neg Award" winner. We will
have to deliver his prize (a book entitled "Caligula,
The Corruption of Power") at a later date. Full
results follow below. 

Thanks to all the teams who
attended, and those who submitted packets but were unable
to attend. Thanks to the teams who filled in at the
last minute. Many thanks to the guest moderators (Doug
O'Neal, Tim Young). A huge thanks to Subash Maddipoti of
Illinois who traded packets with us, allowing that 13th
round, and a replacement round. I apologize for the
delays during the tournament, and for the repeats in
some of the questions. 13 packets of NAQT-style
questions are available for purchase in electronic form (or
about 4 hard copies, first-come-first-served) for $15
each.

Rob Knobel