ACF West Coast Newsletter
volume IV issue 6 editor Gaius Stern
Hello everyone.
This issue contains details of recent and long ago tournaments and a brief
rundown of the upcoming Nationals. Next issue will have more non-results
info. and more on Nats. This issue contains
Stanford Cardinal Classic (Feb)
WSU Freeze Your Buzz (March)
some ACF Regionals results
a few corrections on team web pages
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STANFORD CARDINAL CLASSIC 8 RESULTS
This year fourteen teams played at Stanford's Eighth annual Cardinal
Classic. The regular Western teams from UC Berkeley x3, Stanford x2,
Caltech, and BYU x2 were joined by many distant teams: Carleton,
Georgia State, and Vanderbilt. Also the much welcome return of UC Davis
x2 to tournament play. Also in attendance was a Master's Team called St.
Valentine's Day Massacre.
As with many other Tournaments in the West, the top faring team was the
Masters Team consisting of R. Hentzel, Eric Hilleman, Katy Beebe, and
Steve Jenkins. Second place was won by a Berkeley team with a non-student
player. The top College team was again Vanderbilt, who has won two other
CCs in the last four years (1997, 1995).
Tournament Director Sarah Kline reports:
The field was divided into two divisions: Division I was open to anyone,
including masters, and Division II was restricted to players with less
than 2 years experience. First, the 9 Division I teams played a single
round robin, and the 5 Division II teams played a double round robin.
After round 9, the 9th place Division I team (Georgia State) shifted to
Division II. Then each division played another full round robin.
Here are the win-loss standings after the round robins:
Division I Teams Division II Teams
SVDM 12 3 Berkeley C 12 1
Berkeley B 11 4 BYU B 8 5
Vanderbilt 9 6 Stanford B 7 6
Berkeley A 8 7
After round 16, the top 4 Division I teams played a single-elim semi-final
in which SVDM beat Berkeley A, and Berkeley B beat Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt
was the only college team (i.e. all of their players were current
students) to make the playoffs; both Berkeley teams included non-students.
SMVD then battled Berkeley B for the Division I title, and quite a battle
it was, with a final score of 370 - 360.
In Division II, the top 2 teams also played a final match. Berkeley C
played a tense game against BYU B, in which BYU was up 165 - 85 after
the 14th tossup. But Berkeley caught on fire at the end of the game,
answering 5 of the last 6 tossups, and pulling out the win, 215 - 200.
Division I champion: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
College champion: Vanderbilt
Division II champion: Berkeley
ACF WEST COAST REGIONALS and UNABUZZER GOES TO JAIL
Berkeley held ACF Regionals a week after most other sites. There
were ten teams from Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Caltech, and BYU. In
addition was an open team of mixed non-players which ran neck and neck
with Stanford the whole tournament. As usual, unoffical CAL food
director Fred Carpenter ensured that there was a lavish breakfast complete
with a mystery spread for the bagels. To the surprise of many the mystery
spread was actually good and got finished off before the morning ended.
After the round-robin, Stanford was two games ahead of all other
college teams and the open team was one win ahead of Stanford. It was
agreed that these two teams would play a best 2/3 giving the open team the
first victory. Stanford won match 2 and the Open team won the final
match. Stanford was declared the College champion and awarded a placque,
the open team was granted bragging rights and the Open Team trophy.
Stanford has emerged from a team reluctant to play ACF in 1994 to
become the 1997 and 98 West Coast ACF Regional champion. This is all the
more impressive considering three of last year's regional championship
team members did not play this year.
Congratulations to all who played.
Following ACF Regionals on Saturday (3/7), Berkeley held Unabuzzer 5:
Unabuzzer Goes to Jail, a trash tournament. Bay Area resident Tom
Galloway reasserted his position as leader of the wasted life by finishing
first in the individual statistics and leading his Ambiguously Gay Trio
(composed of Tom along with Ace (Oz) and Gary (Pat) of UCLA) to victory.
The other teams in the small but extremely strong field were the 2nd Place
Spice Girls (from Stanford), and Berkeley's two teams: We Don't Know Yet
(which actually had more points per game than any other team); and Alex
Trebek is a Tijuana Crack Whore.
The tournament consisted of seven rounds plus a final: the first four were
played using packets submitted by the participating teams; the team that
wrote the packet read and the other three teams played all together. The
following three rounds were all standard two-team rounds and made up a
round robin, and for these rounds we used a packet submitted by UC Davis
(which couldn't make it to the tournament) and packets acquired by trade
from Anthony de Jesus of CWRU and from the previously-held TrashMasters
tournament.
SOUTHWEST AND MIDWEST ACF REGIONALS
Sorry my details are so limited here. Perhaps someone can write in
to tell us more of the story. For the Southwest region, Regionals moved
back to Normon, OK from Tx A&M (where it ran for a few years). Six teams
participated in a double round-robin:
1. Oklahoma A 10-0
2. Wichita State 7-3
3. Oklahoma B 7-3
4. Arkansas 3-7
5. Texas 3-7
6. Okla Baptist 0-10
The "Great Lakes" or Midwest regional was held at Univ. Chicago
and was remarkable for the parity amongst the top teams. The tourney
featured a full Round Robin, followed by a playoff RR between the top 6
teams and the bottom 6 teams. (UIC didn't show, and MSU was Rip Kamath
playing alone.) Finally, the top 2 teams played a "best 2-of-3,"
with the team with the better record entering with a 1 game advantage.
The top two teams in the finals were Carleton (14-2) and Chicago A
(13-3). In the playoff, Chicago won the first playoff game 295-110, and
the won with a protest on the last question, 205-175 to take the Regional
title.
Congratulations to the Chicago team of Steve Wang, Rob Chenault, Rob
Getz, and Nitin Pagedar, the 1998 ACF Midwestern champions.
Prizes went to Rob Getz award for highest TU/I ratio, min 10PPG:
and Helen Takade, ISU. All stars included
Ravin, Mich A 42.2
Mike, Mich B 42.0
Karl, Ill. A 39.7
Andy, Carle. 35.9
OKLAHOMA WINS WSU FREEZE YOUR BUZZ OFF II
The Wichita State University Academic Challenge Club hosted Freeze Your
Buzz Off II, an ACF-style tournament, on Saturday, March 14, 1998.
Results are as follows:
W L
Oklahoma 10 0
Missouri 7 3 *
Wichita St A 7 3
Bowling Green 3 7
Furman 2 8
Wichita St B 1 9
An individual lightning round was held, in which the results were:
1st Eric, Oklahoma
2nd Emily, Oklahoma
3rd Henry, Wichita St A
4th Darrah, Furman
Other Finalists:
Ryan, Furman
Kiley, Missouri
Dan, Oklahoma
Stephen, Oklahoma
Damo, Bowling Green
INDIVIDUAL STATS
NAME TEAM T I TOT GP AVG
Eric OU 66 3 645 10 64.5
Henry WSU A 65 4 630 10 63.0
Scott MU 33 6 300 10 30.0
Vic WSU B 12 2 110 4 27.5
Emily OU 25 1 245 10 24.5
Darrah Furman 30 13 235 10 23.5
UPDATE ON QUIZBOWL WEBPAGES
Whatever I said last time about BYU's webpage, the new version
is under construction at http://erdos.math.byu.edu/~cahille/collegebowl/
Also Eric Hilleman from Carleton reminds me that Carleton has a webpage at
http://public.carleton.edu/~ehillema/aqt.html
Next issue will have a better list of teams with webpages.
ACF NATIONALS TO BE HELD AT U-MD COLLEGE PARK
The Academic Competition Federation will hold its Nationals at U-MD CP on
the weekend of 25 April. For more information as to the size limitations
and qualification process, please contact Nationals Tournament Director
John Sheahan <jsheahan@midway.uchicago.edu> especially since the early
deadline has passed and the ACF staff would like to get a good idea of
turnout. Traditionally the top three finishers at each regional are
granted invitations as well as numerous other teams who placed in any ACF
approved event.
More information si also available at the ACF webpage:
http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/98acfnat.html
Gaius Stern
newsletter editor
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