RESULTS: Tobacco Bowl v1.1

• From: Durham_Devil
• Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 16:11:32 -0800
• Message-ID: <000T7P7HK.00125ML2L.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Tobacco Bowl v1.1 was just completed on the
campus of Duke University. After much confusion, it was
figured out that there were seven teams
playing:

North Carolina A
North Carolina B
George
Mason
George Washington
Furman
Wake Forest
And a
house team

The house team contained on it Julie
Singer as well as Shaun Hayeslip of Maryland (who stayed
for the first of two RRs). Therefore, it was declared
an exhibition team.

As inferred before, the
tournament was a double-RR. It was decided that if there was
a tie, the two teams tied would square off for a
one-game final. If there wasn't a tie for first, the
first-place team would be declared the winner outright. Of
course, this is the house team notwithstanding; led by
the superpower of Julie, they swept the tournament.
:)

The final results of the double round-robin
were:

1. Duke 12-0
2. North Carolina A 8-4
3. Furman
8-4
4. George Washington 8-4
5. George Mason
3-9
6. North Carolina B 2-10
7. Wake Forest
1-11

As you can see, we had a small problem. THREE teams
tied for "first". On top of that, UNC swept Furman,
who swept GW, who swept UNC. So things were looking
ugly when I realized something: there were few enough
people on the three teams put together that we could
squeeze them onto one buzzer system. None of the teams
had a problem with it, so a three-way final
erupted.

After 20 questions, Furman and George Washington each
had 130, and North Carolina A had 75. The final
tossup was snagged by Furman, allowing them to win the
first ever Tobacco Bowl!

So, congratulations to
Ian Jeffress, Michael Precht, and Tricia Southard for
winning Tobacco Bowl v1.1. Congrats also to Edmund
Schluessel, who WAS George Washington and darn near won the
whole thing by himself.

All-Stars were Julie
Singer of Duke, Edmund Schluessel of George Washington,
Ian Jeffress of Furman, and Ryan Ong of North
Carolina A. More complete individual and team stats will
be handled by my colleagues soon.

I want to
thank everyone who came out to play. I want to thank
the people at Duke who showed up: players Julie
Singer, Mike Miller, and Valerie Ogonor; and fellow
officials Darren Abernethy, David Mermin, John Massari, and
Andrew Feist.

And now, dinner is arriving and I
gotta eat, then get ready for a pool shootin session
with David and Julie later on. Comments about it from
those who were there (positive and negative) would be
nice... y'all know my email.

YALL COME BACK NOW
YHEAR?

Andy Goss
Duke Academic Team