ACF Southeast Regionals 2003 was held at UTC on Feb. 15. Congratulations again to Florida for their skin-of-the-teeth victory in a very competitive tournament. Full details follow, but first there are some people to thank, starting with UTC's stats goddess Dorothy Morisch (see previous post.) Thanks also go, of course, to Subash Maddipoti for the Herculean task of editing ACF Regionals. We were blessed with a fine crew of experienced moderators: Stephen Taylor, Mark Dawson, Keith Hudson, Scotti Whitmire, Markus Iturriaga, and Jim Dendy (welcome back, Jim!) Dren Rollins, Toby Walter, and Jason Paik also joined the crew for parts of the day. Thanks also to the many players from bye teams who volunteered to read or keep score, thus letting our moderators take turns playing on an exhibition team for the first eight rounds. And even more thanks than usual go to John Miles and the staff at Provino's, who for the third time in the past 5 years kept the kitchen open longer just to accommodate us. Now to those results... TEAM RESULTS The field was divided into two brackets, each of which had eight eligible teams plus one exhibition team. For stats purposes we did not count the exhibition matches, but we did track individual stats for the exhibition teams' players just for the fun of it. We had a nine-round round robin followed by three rounds of cross-bracket matches determined by modified Swiss pairings; however, the early departure of two teams after round 9 made us reshuffle the lower seeded matches a bit. Here were team results after round 9, which determined seeding for the modified Swiss section: Team Name Division Win Loss Points Opp Pts Diff/GM Vanderbilt Badminton 7 0 1910 690 174.29 Indiana Badminton 6 1 1755 665 155.71 Emory A Badminton 5 2 2115 575 220.00 Georgia Tech B Badminton 4 3 865 1050 -26.43 Kentucky Badminton 2 5 680 1360 -97.14 North Florida Badminton 2 5 485 1155 -95.71 UTC A Badminton 1 6 235 1490 -179.29 South Carolina B Badminton 1 6 275 1335 -151.43 Florida Tennis 7 0 2890 275 373.57 South Carolina A Tennis 6 1 2395 630 252.14 Emory B Tennis 4 3 1170 1185 -2.14 Georgia Tech A Tennis 5 2 1040 1125 -12.14 Emory C Tennis 3 4 815 1190 -53.57 Tennessee Tennis 2 5 360 1425 -152.14 Berry Tennis 1 6 285 1560 -182.14 UTC B Tennis 0 7 120 1685 -223.57 After Round 12, team standings looked like this: Team Name Division Win Loss Points Opp Pts Diff/GM Vanderbilt 10 0 2625 1195 143.00 Florida 9 1 3685 820 286.50 Indiana 8 2 2405 1415 99.00 Emory A 7 3 2890 1010 188.00 South Carolina A 7 3 3135 1240 189.50 Emory B 6 4 1720 1545 17.50 Georgia Tech A 6 4 1390 1655 -26.50 Georgia Tech B 5 5 1215 1660 -44.50 Kentucky 4 6 1200 1575 -37.50 Emory C 4 6 1230 1835 -60.50 North Florida 3 7 700 1575 -87.50 South Carolina B 3 7 520 1635 -111.50 Tennessee 2 5 360 1425 -152.14 UTC A 2 8 435 1770 -133.50 Berry 1 6 285 1560 -182.14 UTC B 0 10 245 2125 -188.00 (I'd like to add in UTC B's defense that they were initially given a win, which was overturned on a protest upheld by... their own coach.) As announced at the beginning of the tournament, the top 4 teams by record would advance to playoffs, with a play-in in the event of a tie for 4th (which of course we had.) Playoff results were as follows: Shootout for 4th playoff berth: South Carolina A 75, Emory A 70 Semifinals: Florida 310, Indiana 110 Vanderbilt 295, South Carolina A 85 Finals: Florida 245, Vanderbilt 230 Florida 75, Vanderbilt 65 (shootout) When a tournament literally is decided on the last tossup of the last round, you know it was a close one. Hats off to all the playoff teams for a fine showing. INDIVIDUAL HONORS AND STATS All-Star awards went to the top five scorers, not counting those from exhibition teams. The MVP for ACF SE Regionals 2003 was, ironically, a player who was planning to attend a different region till the 11th hour. Bad weather forced Indiana's Wesley Mathews to change his plans and come south instead, where as a one-man team he earned a remarkable 3rd place finish at top scorer honors with 98 points per game. Even that high a score barely won, as Florida's Raj Dhuwalia finished #2 with 92.5 PPG. Other All-Stars were Vernon Davenport of South Carolina A, Robert Trent of Vanderbilt, and Jonathan (last name not supplied) of Georgia Tech B. Condolences to Emory, which just missed the hardware as its three teams provided scorers #6 through #10. We also tracked "bragging rights," where a given tossup is answered by only one person at the tournament. Vanderbilt's Robert Trent had two (Pierre Menard and George Gissing); one each went to Vandy's Matt Keller (Dead Christ), South Carlina A's Vernon Davenport (Malenkov), Indiana's Wesley Mathews (The House of Bernanda Alba), and Emory B's J.T. Fetter (battle of Plataea). It should also be noted that only one tossup went unanswered in all rooms (the Puranas.) It's a tribute to the editing job Subash did on the tossups that we had only one bagel for the day. Full individual stats were as follows: Player Team 10 -5 Points Rounds PPG Wesley Mathews Indiana 105 14 980 10 98.00 Raj Dhuwalia Florida 98 11 925 10 92.50 Vernon Davenport South Carolina A 74 16 660 10 66.00 Robert Trent Vanderbilt 66 16 580 10 58.00 Jason Paik UAB/South 49 10 440 8 55.00 Stephen Taylor Mystery Team 23 3 215 4 53.75 Jim Dendy Mystery Team 33 6 300 7 42.86 Jonathan Georgia Tech B 43 4 410 10 41.00 Steve Bahnaman Emory A 38 6 350 10 35.00 Lakedra Pam Emory C 36 2 350 10 35.00 Jake Armstrong Emory A 30 3 285 10 28.50 Gerry Tanzey Emory A 29 2 280 10 28.00 Marcus Ballenger Emory B 28 4 260 10 26.00 Saurabh Vishnubhakat Georgia Tech A 34 17 255 10 25.50 Jack Challis Kentucky 32 14 250 10 25.00 Donovan Chene North Florida 26 6 230 10 23.00 Toby Walter UAB/South 20 5 175 8 21.88 Keith Hudson Mystery Team 7 1 65 3 21.67 Stephen Webb Georgia Tech A 22 1 215 10 21.50 Jeff Zahnen Florida 21 1 205 10 20.50 Mark Dawson Mystery Team 10 4 80 4 20.00 Jason Scoggins Emory C 20 3 185 10 18.50 Avi Schwartz Emory B 21 6 180 10 18.00 David James South Carolina A 21 6 180 10 18.00 George Nelson Vanderbilt 21 6 180 10 18.00 Will Kirkland Kentucky 19 2 180 10 18.00 Jeremy Lee North Florida 19 2 180 10 18.00 David Moore UTC A 19 3 175 10 17.50 Joe Stanton South Carolina B 19 4 170 10 17.00 Matt Keller Vanderbilt 19 4 170 10 17.00 Laura White Emory B 18 2 170 10 17.00 J. T. Fetter Emory B 17 3 155 10 15.50 Eric Douglas South Carolina A 18 7 145 10 14.50 Billy Carver Tennessee 10 0 100 7 14.29 Eugene Georgia Tech B 16 4 140 10 14.00 Christopher "Manker" Kentucky 16 6 130 10 13.00 Richard Hatcher Tennessee 13 8 90 7 12.86 Peter Clericuzio Emory A 14 3 125 10 12.50 Erick Bousman South Carolina B 17 11 115 10 11.50 Dave Jackson Berry 8 0 80 7 11.43 Scotti Whitmire Mystery Team 5 1 45 4 11.25 Alysia Vrailas Emory C 13 4 110 10 11.00 Nick Bradshaw UTC B 14 7 105 10 10.50 John Allan Florida 10 2 90 10 9.00 J.R. Fennell South Carolina A 9 1 85 10 8.50 Shae Georgia Tech A 10 4 80 10 8.00 Josh Georgia Tech B 8 0 80 10 8.00 Gavin Georgia Tech A 8 1 75 10 7.50 Mike Napier Florida 9 3 75 10 7.50 Paul Setzer Berry 8 7 45 7 6.43 Nathan Coulombe Kentucky 6 1 55 10 5.50 John Kilby UTC A 6 1 55 10 5.50 Eric Fox UTC B 5 1 45 10 4.50 Brad Daviet UTC B 5 1 45 10 4.50 Katy Peters Vanderbilt 5 1 45 10 4.50 Jamie Coble Tennessee 3 0 30 7 4.29 Zack Pease Berry 5 4 30 7 4.29 Jarrett Edwards South Carolina B 5 2 40 10 4.00 Tom Georgia Tech B 1 0 10 10 1.00 Nikki Poarch UTC A 2 2 10 10 1.00 Billy Farlik South Carolina B 1 1 5 10 0.50 Robby Trail UTC A 1 2 0 10 0.00 Vinny A. North Florida 0 1 -5 10 -0.50 Dren Rollins Mystery Team 0 1 -5 2 -2.50 --
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