excessively verbose BASQuE results

grapesmoker <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:43:20 -0000

This year's BASQuE took place over the course of Saturday and 
Sunday, and comprised the Chicago Open mirror, the Folly and Glory 
literature singles, and the third Science Monstrosity, which took 
place earlier today. The quick results are as follows:

Chicago Open:
Eight teams participated. In the first round-robin, Berkeley David 
(David Farris and Lev Trubov) went undefeated. Plans for a second 
round-robin were scrapped due to popular demand, and we reverted to 
two four-team brackets. The bottom bracket played 3 games, but I'm 
not sure what the finish order was. In the top bracket, 5 games were 
played, after which point UCLA and Berkeley David were tied for 
first, with Berkeley Paul and Berkeley Jerry tied for third. The 
decision was made to forgo the last game of the round-robin for the 
rest of the teams except for UCLA and Berkeley David, who played 
a "final" match that UCLA won to take the event. Congratulations to 
Steve Kaplan, Charles Meigs, Matthew Sherman, and Brendan Shapiro, 
who played with UCLA yesterday.

Literature Singles:
Twelve people participated in all. Definite results are sadly 
unavailable due to the fact that we were booted out of the building 
at 10. We had time to play something like 4 "rounds" each comprising 
two packets. Instead of a double-elimination scheme, we had a top 
room and a bottom room, with the top two from the bottom room 
advancing and the bottom two in the top room being demoted after 
each round. After some number of iterations of this scheme, David 
Farris led the field, having finished twice at the number one spot 
in the top room. I was next with one top finish and two number two 
finishes, followed by Charles Meigs, Willie Chen, and Brendan 
Shapiro, not necessarily in that order. Again, the finishing order 
in the bottom room may be lost to historical record as we were 
evicted before results could be tabulated.

Science Monstrosity:
Five team participated in today's event. After a double round-robin, 
Paul Lujan and Stephen Lee were undefeated, with Paul leading the 
scoring charts at 92 PPG. Jordan Boyd-Graber and Irene Ying of 
CalTech were next, followed by Ray Luo and Lev Trubov of Berkeley, 
and Jim and Cecilia and Daniel and Si-Hyun, all of CalTech.

Thanks to everyone who participated and helped out, and an enormous 
thanks to Subash Madipoti and Chris Romero, who were kind enough to 
let us mirror their events.

Full results for CO and SM will be available on the Berkeley QB web 
site sometime today or tomorrow.

Jerry