Congratulations again to Betty White Zombie, winners of ACF Detox 2003. Full results and stats follow below, but first... GRATUITOUS PLUG The questions from ACF Detox 2003 are now available for sale, $15 per set. If you're interested in getting them without actually paying money, we will accept other tournaments in trade, or an original round for us to use in our upcoming high school tournament. (E-mail me for packet specs and other details.) GRATITUDE Thanks go one last time to UTC's departing stats goddess, Dorothy Morisch. Thanks also to house readers Laura K. White, Phil Groce, Stephen Taylor, and Toby Walter -- not only for coming from far-flung points to read, but also for graciously yielding when packet authers were dying to read their own rounds. Also, thanks go to a legion of freelance question writers: Jason Horn, Allen Kolko, et al. from Tulane; Ryan Blay of Michigan, Allison Manzuk of Case Western, Rober Craig and Rob Tribbett of Delaware, Brock Stephenson of Simon Fraser U., Stan Jastrzebski et al. of DePauw, Sharlene Lee of UCLA, Robert Flaxman and Colby Burnett of Northwestern, Miguel Ruiz (formerly of Arizona State) and Anthony DeJesus (formerly of Case Western.) TEAM RESULTS We held a full round robin followed by playoffs that included all teams but gave the higher seed a one-game advantage, so that if the lower seed won the tie would be broken by a 20-tossup shootout. Amazingly, though, the higher seed held serve in every playoff match: ROUND ROBIN STANDINGS Team Name Win Loss Points Opp Pts Diff/GM Betty White Zombie 6 0 2260 835 237.50 Hot Carls For Everyone 5 1 1430 1451 -3.50 You Shank My Jengaship 3 3 1376 1170 34.33 (#3 seed by head-to-head) TPS Gestapo (Playing with lots of flair!) 3 3 1505 1485 3.33 Sweet Chin Music of the Night 2 4 1385 1295 15.00 (#5 seed by head-to-head) We'll Never Tell 2 4 1156 1495 -56.50 Splinter Cell Anemia 0 6 580 1961 -230.17 QUARTERFINALS #2 Hot Carls for Everyone! 315, #7 Splinter Cell Anemia 75 #3 You Shank My Jengaship 230, #6 We'll Never Tell 66 #4 TPS Report Gestapo 150, #5 Sweet Chin Music of the Night 126 #1 Betty White Zombie bye SEMIFINALS Betty White Zombie 430, TPS Report Gestapo 130 Hot Carls for Everyone! 397, You Shank My Jengaship 140 THIRD PLACE MATCH You Shank My Jengaship defeated TPS Report Gestapo (scoresheet AWOL) CHAMPIONSHIP Betty White Zombie 495, Hot Carls for Everyone! 90 Betty White Zombie was therefore awarded an Osmosis Jones T-shirt as a team trophy, along with 4 glow-in-the-dark figurines of the ghosts of historical figures (the most sought after being Anne Boleyn, both because she was holding her head in one arm and because her name was misspelled.) For their 2nd place finish, Hot Carls for Everyone! received 4 paperbacks of movie novelizations (among them Rocky IV) and an Osmosis Jones ball cap. For 3rd, You Shank My Jengaship won a set of 4 wind-up toy brains and another Osmosis Jones ball cap INDIVIDUAL HONORS The top 10 scorers (see below) chose prizes from such videos as "The Making of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Behind the Shells." Numerous players earned bragging rights as the only person to answer a particular tossup. Since a whole lotta people are planning to practice on these questions, I won't list all the answers, but those so honored were: Lance Storm (Jake Armstrong) of Sweet Chin Music of the Night Lawrence (Chris Walker) of TPS Report Gestapo Peter (Mark Dawson) of TPS Report Gestapo Loose Cannon (Joe Grimes) of Hot Carls for Everyone! Marzipan (Gail Celio) of You Shank My Jengaship Rose Nylund (Keith Hudson) of Betty White Zombie Sydney Barrenger (David Moore) of Splinter Cell Anemia PBS Pledge Enforcement Officer (James Quintong) of Betty White Zombie (2) R.M.A.R.C. (Robert Trent) of We'll Never Tell (2) Jimmy Gator (John Kilby) of Splinter Cell Anemia (3) For his 3 bragging rights on very different answers (Harlan Pepper, Devil May Cry 2, and Joey Lawrence's "Nothing My Love Can't Fix"), Kilby received a copy of William Shatner's autobiography _Get A Life!_ Another copy of _Get a Life!_ went to Mark Franklin of You Shank My Jengaship for the scariest speed buzz -- he got NY Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz from just the fact that he designed his own college degree at Indiana -- *before* the name of that major was read. The Dren Rollins Award for Excellence in Negging went to Dren Rollins of TPS Report Gestapo. Gail Celio of You Shank My Jengaship was named Title IX All-Star, for which she received Ashley Montagu's book _The Natural Superiority of Women_ (a prize, ironically, she had donated earlier to the Prize Closet of Doom collection.) A copy of _A Very Brady Guide to Life_ went to the player with the most gloriously wrong answer, Brian Jenkins of You Shank My Jengaship: Wrong answer: Gone in 60 Seconds Right answer: My Mother the Car. Other gloriously wrong answers, on tossups on or 30- or 20-point bonus clues: Wrong answer: Roger Moore Right answer: Michael Moore (Robin Richards, You Shank My Jengaship) Wrong answer: recorder Right answer: air guitar (Wally Edmondson, Splinter Cell Anemia) Wrong answer: Furby Right answer: Zamboni (bonus answer) Wrong answer: Rick Springfield Right answer: Ice-T (bonus answer) Wrong answer: Curtis Mayfield Right answer: Lawrence Welk (bonus answer) FULL INDIVIDUAL STATS Player Team 10 -5 Points Rounds PPG R.M.A.R.C. (Robert Trent) We'll Never Tell 28 5 255 6 42.50 Jose Lothario (Steve Bahnaman) Sweet Chin Music of the Night 28 6 250 6 41.67 PBS Pledge Enforcement Officer (James Quintong) Betty White Zombie 26 5 235 6 39.17 Rose Nylund (Keith Hudson) Betty White Zombie 20 0 200 6 33.33 Mr. Sark (Jeff Zahnen) Hot Carls For Everyone 20 2 190 6 31.67 Strong Bad (Mark Franklin) You Shank My Jengaship 17 0 170 6 28.33 Milton (Dren Rollins) TPS Gestapo 20 9 155 6 25.83 Homsar (Brian Jenkins) You Shank My Jengaship 16 3 145 6 24.17 Samir (Chris Hendry) TPS Gestapo 15 2 140 6 23.33 Sue Ann Nivens (Joseph Dion) Betty White Zombie 14 3 125 6 20.83 Sydney Barrenger (David Moore) Splinter Cell Anemia 11 2 100 5 20.00 Marzipan (Gail Celio) You Shank My Jengaship 12 0 120 6 20.00 Loose Cannon (Joe Grimes) Hot Carls For Everyone 12 2 110 6 18.33 Grihulda (Scotti Whitmire) We'll Never Tell 12 3 105 6 17.50 Mrs. Alan Ludden (Stacey Helton) Betty White Zombie 12 4 100 6 16.67 Peter (Mark Dawson) TPS Gestapo 11 3 95 6 15.83 Jimmy Gator (John Kilby) Splinter Cell Anemia 10 2 90 6 15.00 Dawn Marie (Alysia Vrailas) Sweet Chin Music of the Night 8 0 80 6 13.33 ( ) (Mike Napier) Hot Carls For Everyone 9 3 75 6 12.50 Lance Storm (Jake Armstrong) Sweet Chin Music of the Night 9 3 75 6 12.50 Gentleman Chris Adams (Gerry Tansey) Sweet Chin Music of the Night 8 1 75 6 12.50 The Cheat (Robin Richards) You Shank My Jengaship 8 1 75 6 12.50 Trogdor The Burninator (Tim McMahol) Hot Carls For Everyone 8 3 65 6 10.83 "Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith (Wally Edmondson) Splinter Cell Anemia 7 3 55 6 9.17 Casanova Frankenstein (Markus Iturriaga) We'll Never Tell 5 0 50 6 8.33 Lawrence (Chris Walker) TPS Gestapo 5 2 40 6 6.67 Frank T. J. Mackey (Robby Trail) Splinter Cell Anemia 0 0 0 1 0.00
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