Duke Academic Festival X Results

• From: Durham_Devil
• Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:32:29 -0800
• Message-ID: <000U6U21D.001NGFJ1D.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

No way is Tom gettin' this in first.

48
teams from 31 schools in seven states and the district
convened at scenic, kudzu-infested Duke University (motto:
"What Do You MEAN Security Never Unlocked the Doors?")
for the 10th Quasiannual Duke University Academic
Festival. We split em all up into eight groups of six and
played round-robins. The top two teams in each group
advanced to the hastily-rearranged playoffs.

You
see, basically, we were going to have the sixteen
playoff teams play a Playoff RR (4 pools of 4) before the
knockout phase. However, thanks to the utter stupidity of
our administration, we scrapped that phase. The
result is that the eight 1 seeds and eight 2 seeds were
arranged using a somewhat arbitrary principle into a
bracket. No rematches could happen until the semis. I
think. ANYway, the remaining 32 teams dropped into the
consolation knockout tournament. The consolation finals were
Spotswood and NC Science & Math. Spotswood won 240-220 in
overtime to claim the consolation title.

Meanwhile,
in the playoffs:

St. John's TX d. Walton GA
"B"
Walton GA "A" d. Fort Mill SC
Riverdale TN d. Henry
County GA
T. Jefferson VA "B" d. Georgetown Day
DC
Cookeville TN d. Banneker DC "B"
T. Jefferson VA "A" d.
Gov. School VA "B"
Gov. School VA "A" d. St. Anne's
VA "A"
Brookwood GA d. T. Jefferson VA
"C"

All upper seeds beat the lower seeds. Then things got
interesting.

St. John's TX d. Walton GA "A"
Riverdale TN d. T.
Jefferson VA "B"
T. Jefferson VA "A" d. Cookeville
TN
Brookwood GA d. Gov. School VA "A"

St. John's TX d.
Riverdale TN
T. Jefferson VA "A" d. Brookwood
GA

So, Thomas Jefferson VA and St. John's TX met in the
final, a final won by Thomas Jefferson by the score of
300-275. Congratulations to Thomas Jefferson on a
hard-fought victory over some tough competition, and to St.
John's for a well deserved second place. I'd say the top
four teams have earned bids to PACE, but I think they
all had bids already sewn up. In fact, 13 of the 48
teams were PACE-eligible.

It should be noted, of
course, that a good time appeared to be had by all.
Further, all the teams showed tremendous sportsmanship and
ethics, partiuclarly in telling us of any problems they
had rather than holding them in and blasting out
behind our back or in a public forum. As far as we
know.

More information from Tom when he returns to sanity. I
may be in the chatroom tonight if I'm not
comatose.

Andy