RESULTS: Duke Academic Festival

Durham_Devil · Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:34:35 -0800

You know, I read all these reports about how
people post quick results about their tournaments and
say, "Details to come after I get some sleep", and I
say, "Yeah, sure, it's really that
bad..."

Well, 17 hours after a nap, I'm up again. It IS that
bad.

Duke University held their 9th (!) Annual Academic
Festival yesterday. Twenty-four (!) teams showed up from
sixteen schools in seven (!) states and the District of
Columbia. Following are the results, as near as I have them
copied down:

WASHINGTON DIVISION
1. Southside
(SC) A 5-0
2. Richard Montgomery (MD) 4-1
3.
Walton (GA) B 3-2
4. Decatur (GA) 2-3
5. Sci &
Math (NC) 1-4
6. Hertford (NC) C
0-5

JEFFERSON DIVISION
1. Walton (GA) C 5-0
2. Richmond
(NC) 4-1
3. Lexington (SC) A 3-2
4. Hertford
(NC) A 2-3
5. Collegiate (PA) B 1-4
6. Cannon
(NC) A 0-5

ROOSEVELT DIVISION
1. Hylton (VA)
4-1
2. Hills West (NY) 4-1
3. Duluth (GA) 4-1
4.
Southside (SC) B 2-3
5. Collegiate (PA) A 1-4
6.
Cannon (NC) B 0-5

LINCOLN DIVISION
1. Walton
(GA) A 5-0
2. Gonzaga (DC) 4-1
3. Chapel Hill
(NC) 3-2
4. Curley (MD) 2-3
5. Lexington (SC) B
1-4
6. Hertford (NC) B 0-5

Hylton, Hills West,
and Duluth finished within 100 total points of each
other, but in that order. Hence, that was their seeding.
Also, it should be noted that in the prelims, Walton A
*averaged* 400 ppg. Very few teams put that up in ONE
game.

The top four teams in each bracket made our expanded
playoffs. Here are those results:

ROUND OF
16
(W1) Southside A 400, (J4) Hertford A 75
(R2) Hills
West 295, (L3) Chapel Hill 85
(W4) Decatur 240,
(J1) Walton C 155
(L2) Gonzaga 285, (R3) Duluth
255
(L1) Walton A 385, (R4) Southside B 155
(J2)
Richmond 295, (W3) Walton B 240
(R1) Hylton 370, (L4)
Curley 80
(W2) Richard Montgomery 450, (J3) Lexington
30

QUARTERFINALS
Southside A 275, Hills West 90
Gonzaga 330, Decatur
140
Walton A 350, Richmond 190
Richard Montgomery 390,
Hylton 165

SEMIFINALS
Southside A 245, Gonzaga
235
Walton A 325, Richard Montgomery
275

FINALS:
Round 1 (max 50): Walton 30, Southside 20
Round 2
(max 300): Southside 100, Walton 95
Round 3 (max
240): Walton 100, Southside 80
Round 4 (max 200):
Southside 80, Walton 60

FINAL SCORE
Walton A 285,
Southside A 280

I would recommend to anyone holding
a national tournament that both Walton High School
(Marietta, GA), who won their second straight Duke
University Academic Festival, and Southside High School
(Greenville, SC), who came within Sir Humphrey DavIES of
winning the event, both should get invitations. Like,
now. Congratulations to both teams, and both
schools.

Further congrats to Richmond. North Carolina's quiz bowl
is currently a minor-league deal, especially
compared with the big guns up north. For this team to post
a 5-2 mark is impressive and worthy of
congratulations. Hang in there, guys, you got a great future
ahead.

All in all, I'd like to thank everyone who worked
their tails off all month, all week, and all night to
make this tournament run without a hitch, even though
four guys had pulled all-nighters to do it and a fifth
would have if he weren't coming off a bout of stomach
flu. As we had at the tournament, I wish to thank our
seniors, Navin Sharma, Tennyson Liu, and John Massari, for
helping make this program even half of what it is now.
We'll see you guys soon!

Andy Goss
Duke
University Academic Team