The 14th Annual Elvis Aaron Presley Memorial (?) Invitational Tournament was held at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on February 2nd and 3rd, 2001. On fairly blustery winter days, 12 teams showed up to have some fun, try to answer a few questions, and win some cool (and cheap) prizes. Congratulations to Michigan, which came a fair way and walked off with the team trophy. Ben Heller, Ryan McClarren, Paul Litvak and Mark Calaguas played very well through all the various question subjects (and skill levels), to win with an impressive scoring average and balance (I do not have personal and team stats immediately, but they are available and will be posted within a few days). They won the round-robin play (a full round-robin followed by three brackets of four teams which played a round within themselves) with a 12-2 record, and won the single, simple final to cement their championship. Also showing strong was out second-place finisher, Iowa State (TAANSTAFL), who finished with an 11-3 record. Paul Tomlinson, Mark Cvijanovich, Josh Kortbein and Aubrey Da Cunha played tough in the final, fighting back from a hundred point deficit to make it close over the last few questions of the match. Josh Kortbein also won the individual scoring title, complete with "Elvis King" plaque. Results below are not in order of finish, which will be posted with full stats. Also finishing in the top 4 were Carleton Africanus Major and Iowa (The Best of Sade). The second four were Chicago (Flesh for Lulu), Chicago (Sisters of Mercy), Wisconsin (People of Jordan) and Minnesota (Is All This Gin Bad for My Baby?). The third bracket had Minnesota (Deadhorsebeaters), Carleton Africanus Minor, Wisconsin (Boring People Named Smith) and Wisconsin (Might Kushal Has Struck Out). Forgive me if my memory is not quite up to snuff, but other top individual scorers and winners of tacky but dear Elvis prizes were Mike Altman (Lulu) from Chicago Flesh for Lulu, St. Jude the Obscure (real name I dont have at the moment) from (I believe) Chicago Sisters of Mercy, Shane Ewert from Carleton Africanus Major, and Frank Swoboda from Iowa (The Best of Sade). Full stats will be available shortly. Paper or electronic copies of the questions submitted for our tournament (but not including those we traded for, which we leave to their source tournaments to market) are available for $15 or a trade for an equal number of packets we dont have. Email me if you are interested. All teams attending the Elvis get complimentary copies of all the packets we used, which will be emailed to you shortly. (continued...)
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