RESULTS: Battle of the 'Burgh V

fluidmosaic6 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:57:58 -0000

On Saturday March 15, 19 teams from 11 high schools came to the 
University of Pittsburgh for our annual spring tournament, Battle of 
the Burgh.

The first segment was a round-robin with two ten-team brackets, one 
of which was a nine-team bracket because one school didn't show up.

Seaborgium Bracket
8-0 Detroit Catholic Central A
7-1 Westmont Hilltop C
5-3 Sewickley Academy
4-4 Guns 'n' Roses (State College B)
4-4 Fisher Catholic B
3-5 Seneca Valley
3-5 Shadyside Academy B
2-6 Westmont Hilltop A
0-8 Rage Against The Machine (State College C)

Yogurt Bracket
9-0 System of a Down (State College A)
7-2 Fisher Catholic A
7-2 Detroit Catholic Central B
6-3 North Allegheny
5-4 Pine-Richland
4-5 Northwest PA Collegiate Academy
3-6 General McLane
3-6 Westmont Hilltop B
1-8 Shadyside Academy A
0-9 State College D

The top four teams from each bracket formed the eight-team 
Altruistic division; the #5-7 teams from each bracket, minus Pine-
Richland who had to leave early to perform in <i>Guys and Dolls</i>, 
formed the five-team Anomistic division; and the #8-10 teams from 
each bracket formed the five-team Egoistic division.

The three teams with winning records in the Altruistic playoff 
received prizes and qualified for NAQT nationals in Myrtle Beach: 

Fisher Catholic A (overall record of 10-3) received lovely Pitt 
flying disks which didn't say "Frisbee(TM)" on them anywhere.
Detroit Catholic Central A (11-1) received lovely Pitt mugs.
State College A (13-0) received lovely stuffed panthers.

Ten players received individual prizes (books):
   Name         Team            points per 22 tossups heard
1. Zach, Westmont Hilltop C            74.68
2. John, State College A               74.09
3. Pete, Detroit Catholic Central A    63.98
4. Sarah, Fisher Catholic A            58.73
5. Joel, Detroit Catholic Central A    48.15
6. Charles, Detroit Catholic Central B 43.98
7. Grant, Shadyside Academy B          37.01
8. Churchill, North Allegheny          33.16
9. Shavo, System of a Down             33.16
10. Evan, Sewickley Academy            32.76

The prize for third-most negs - a copy of "T.J. and the Pirate Who 
Wouldn't Go Home" by Carol Gorman - went to Jim from Catholic 
Central B.  The number 2 neg prize - a copy of the international 
standard rules for fencing - went to Phil from Westmont Hilltop B.  
The top neg prize - a children's biography of Henry Cisneros - went 
to Axl from State College B.  

Prizes for individual negs included a book about the civil war in 
Angola, written in German; a catalog from the Leipzig Art Museum; 
Robert Morris College's 2001 football preview; a paperback copy of 
Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, with all instruments included; a 
copy of Shakespeare's worst and least popular comedy; a compendium 
of all four novellas in Francois Mauriac's "Therese" tetralogy; the 
Golden Field Guide to House Plants; a catalog of summer classes at 
Eastern Kentucky University; a book called "The Revolution in 
Statecraft: Informal Penetration" by Andrew M. Scott; and "You Can 
Profit From A Monetary Crisis" by Harry Browne.

Sarah received the top female scorer prize: a copy of Andre 
Norton's "Sorceress of the Witch World".  John from State College A 
protested that she was in fact female (her teammates were Daron, 
Serj, and Shavo), so she received the emergency reserve top female 
scorer prize: "Desire Me" by Leonhard Frank, which is actually a 
pretty serious Holocaust-era melodrama 
(http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/desireme.htm) but has a cover photo 
of an ecstatic girl being looked at with awe by two attractive men.

A good time was had by all.  Thanks to Mike Baker, Beth Davis, Amie 
Dupin, Jason Hadorn, Dwight Kidder, Rich Nalichowski, Doug O'Neal, 
Alex Richman, Erik Roth, Josh Sokoloski, Troy Sullivan, Will Uspal, 
and Joe Wright for helping.

Here's the final stats.  Warning: clicking on the "College Bowl home 
page" links will not take you to our College Bowl home page.
http://www.pitt.edu/~mld6/pitths/stats.html

Michael Davies
mld6_at_...