Somewhere Among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes (Litvak, McElroy, Vinokurov, Yaphe) defeated Michigan (Kemezis, Rapaport, Turner, Haddad), topping a field of 11 teams to win the Illinois Open 2005: Spite, Death and the Devil. The full stats for this tournament are now available at http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/msorice/www/io2005/io_2005_standings.html. These include the results of the initial 11-team full round robin, but not the two rounds of finals; these can be produced if there is demand for them. Anyone with questions about these stats or the tournament results can raise them here, and I will do my best to answer them. That dispensed with, I'd like to offer my sincerest thanks to everyone who made this tournament possible, particularly: to all the teams that came out, for having faith in us, for being polite and gracious about the errors that were made, for warm complements and honest feedback, and for writing a number of outstanding packets; to our mirror sites at BU and Wake Forest for mirroring this event and for their patience with the various foibles of getting the packets out; to the members and alumni of the ABT who came out to staff the event and/or play on our house team, Sulee Cao, Micah Hodosh, Eddie Ruan, Micah Rumsey, Mark Sieklucki, John Smiley, Donald Taylor, Andrew Ullsperger, and Chris Vichich; to our stats dude, Scott Green; to our moderating staff, Steven Canning, Tom Phillips, Sudheer Potru, and special guest Leah Williams; to Ray Luo and Dwight Wynne of UCLA for writing an outstanding freelance packet (your packets are in the mail) and to Matt Weiner of VCU for contributing a great packet as well; to the ABT members who wrote a number of quality questions for use at this event, Tom Phillips, Sudheer Potru, and Micah Hodosh; and especially to Sudheer Potru and Kelly Tourdot, who were outstanding assistant editors. I thank you all very much for making this event a success, and I can only hope that next year's event knows such good fortune and friends, whoever's running it. The questions from the Illinois Open 2005: Spite, Death and the Devil are now available for sale or trade. Please e-mail me at msorice_at_... if you are interested in purchasing or trading for this set. Mike Sorice Tournament Director, The Illinois Open 2005: Spite, Death and the Devil
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