Congratulations to the University of Arkansas for their win over the University of Tulsa in the best-2-out-of-3 finals to win the N.U.T.S. event hosted at Wichita State University on Saturday, March 8th. Here's how it all broke down: The teams initially played a single round robin and the result was a perfect distribution with: Tulsa (6-0) Arkansas (5-1) WSU A (aka, "4 Drunk Hobbits") (4-2) WSU B (aka, "No Consultation")* (3-3) Buena Vista A (2-4) Cloud County Community College (aka, "Cloud Burst")(1-5) Buena Vista B (0-6) * indicates solo "bastard" team The field was then divided into a top bracket of four teams and a bottom bracket of three. This would have been accomplished neatly except for that fact that we didn't allow WSU B to qualify for the top bracket due to it consisting of a solo "bastard" player that has not yet enrolled at WSU. Thus, Buena Vista A qualified for the top bracket and WSU B was relegated to the bottom bracket and given the 7th seed. Each team then played a single round robin within its new bracket. This segregation of the brackets accounts for the differences in final records, total games played, and the correspondingly-adjusted rankings. Also, we placed the WSU B team/player at the bottom of each of the final team standings and individual standings given its status as a "bastard team". Here are the final team standings: Team W L Pct PPG PAPG Mrg 10 -5 TUH PPTH BHrd BPts P/B Ark 8 1 0.889 302.2 70.0 232.2 104 26 181 15.03 104 1810 17.40 Tulsa 8 1 0.889 178.9 103.9 75.0 76 12 181 8.90 76 910 11.97 WSU A 5 4 0.556 145.6 122.8 22.8 67 10 181 7.24 67 690 10.30 BVA 2 7 0.222 54.4 171.1 -116.7 33 5 180 2.72 33 185 5.61 Cloud 2 6 0.250 55.6 170.0 -114.4 35 11 161 2.76 35 150 4.29 BVB 0 8 0.000 23.8 138.8 -115.0 16 0 161 1.18 16 30 1.88 WSU B*5 3 0.625 94.4 105.0 -10.6 46 24 161 4.69 46 415 9.02 *Not yet enrolled at WSU, "bastard" 1-player house team Here are the final individual stats (not counting the "finals"): Player Team GP 10 -5 TUH P/TU Pts PPG Josh Hill Arkansas 9 49 13 181 2.35 425 47.22 Granite Grant Tulsa 9 41 2 181 2.21 400 44.44 Frodo 4 Drunk Hobbits 9 37 3 181 1.96 355 39.44 Phillip Reason Arkansas 9 31 2 181 1.66 300 33.33 Agile Angelo Tulsa 9 30 5 181 1.52 275 30.56 Pippin 4 Drunk Hobbits 9 24 7 181 1.13 205 22.78 Taylor Ladd Arkansas 9 22 10 181 0.94 170 18.89 Tony Tebow Cloud Burst 8 16 3 161 0.90 145 18.12 Scott Sargent Buena Vista A 9 16 0 180 0.89 160 17.78 Trent Steel Buena Vista A 9 9 1 180 0.47 85 9.44 Jordan Cairns Cloud Burst 8 10 7 161 0.40 65 8.12 Kevin Graver Buena Vista B 8 6 0 161 0.37 60 7.50 Neil Wieland Cloud Burst 8 6 0 161 0.37 60 7.50 Lotho 4 Drunk Hobbits 9 6 0 181 0.33 60 6.67 Jewels Tunney Buena Vista B 8 5 0 161 0.31 50 6.25 Amanda Pierce Buena Vista A 9 5 1 180 0.25 45 5.00 Roxy Vaske Buena Vista B 8 3 0 161 0.19 30 3.75 Lori Ratliff Cloud Burst 8 3 1 161 0.16 25 3.12 Stark Arlo Tulsa 9 5 5 181 0.14 25 2.78 Kelly Olson Buena Vista B 8 2 0 161 0.12 20 2.50 Dave Marrs Arkansas 9 2 1 181 0.08 15 1.67 Max Power Buena Vista A 9 3 3 180 0.08 15 1.67 Rosie 4 Drunk Hobbits 6 0 0 121 0.00 0 0.00 Jeremy Vaughn* No Consultation 8 46 24 161 2.11 340 42.50 *Not yet enrolled at WSU, "bastard" 1-player house team After the intrabracket play was complete, the top two teams were Arkansas and Tulsa, each with 8-1 records. A best-2-out-of-3 finals was then played and here are the results: Game 1: Tulsa: Grant 1-0, Angelo 2-1, Arlo 0-1 Arkansas: Phillip 3-0, Josh 8-0, Taylor 3-0, Dave 0-0 Final Score: Tulsa 50 - Arkansas 395 Game 2: Tulsa: Grant 4-1, Angelo 3-1, Arlo 0-0 Arkansas: Phillip 4-2, Josh 3-0, Taylor 4-0, Dave 0-0 Final Score: Tulsa 190 - Arkansas 245 1st place team trophy: Arkansas 2nd place team trophy: Tulsa The medals for individual points scored per game were: 1st place: Josh Hill - Arkansas 2nd place: Granite Grant - Tulsa 3rd place: David Press - Wichita State Complete final stats will soon be available at: http://webs.wichita.edu/quizbowl/tournaments/nutsresults.html Congratulations to all teams. Vic D'Amico
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