UM-Dearborn

amber_sports · Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:37:30 -0800

Normally, I wouldn't post results of a high
school tournament here, but I thought that what happened
today merited discussion...

Anyway, to make a
long story short, we (DCDS) took 2 teams to a
tournament at UM-Dearborn today. The schedule handed out at
the tournament showed a dash as our opponent in the
second round, and we took this to mean that we had a
bye. While watching our B team compete during this
round, the TD came in screaming, saying we should be
playing CC 5 (yes, 5! they brought 5 teams!), and that he
announced as much at the morning meeting. After we're like
"uh, no you didn't", he realizes that he completely
forgot to mention that. So anyway, we head off to play
CC 5, except we've already heard 3/4 of the
questions in that round...so this same TD decides that
he'll just construct a game from the tiebreaker
questions (I did point out to him that he was scheduled to
have a round of 16, but then cut to only having 8
teams break, but he didn't respond...sounds like
someone didn't write enough rounds, but whatever). So he
does as much, though this round only has 5
toss-up/bonus questions instead of the usual 8. Anyway, it was
a very inexperienced team, so it didn't end up
mattering. Later, in the semi-finals, our opponent answered
_Mark Antony and Cleopatra_, when the answer should
have, of course, been just _Antony and Cleopatra_.
After this same TD initally decided to accept their
answer (!), Lafer and others rose to our defense.
However, instead of giving us the points, he read only to
us one of the 2 tiebreaker questions he had
left.

So then it was on to play CC 1 in the final. Down by
45 heading into the final round, (15 tossups at 15
points each) we were down 60 with 4 questions to go...at
which point we answered all 4 of these to come back and
tie the game...

At this point, we all start
laughing hysterically as we realize that he has ONE
question left. Byko, who's moderating, doesn't want to
just read the one question, and i don't think anyone
else wants that either. After a meeting between the 2
coaches, Byko, and the TD, they decide that Lafer and Jeff
Shattock (both UM qb guys who were there moderating) along
with Byko, some other dude, and the TD, will go into
another room to WRITE MORE QUESTIONS!

So that was
that. We sat there for twenty minutes or so, tied in
the final game, while our tiebreaker questions were
written.

I'm relatively new to the scene here, but has this
ever happened before? My team was just amazed at the
hilarity of the whole day (though I don't think CC shared
our emotion)...I'd like to hear of any similar
stories, if they exist...

And oh, we won...we got
Couloumb's law, then they got John Cage, then we won with
Edward the Black Prince.

---Amber, DCDS