Carleton Undergraduate Tournament, 3.8.03

Results: Northwestern A (Wonder Boys)
(Robert Flaxman, Jan Zasowski)

    Many interesting things happened this weekend at Carleton.  I will now run down some of them in chronological order:
    * Fun trip up with Drew, Shannon, and Mike S., one of the better cars you could ask for.  We thankfully got an Enterprise car so we didn't have to spend seven hours listening to the radio; no one else brought CDs so I got to control the music rundown, which was pretty cool.
    * We stopped at a Culver's in Wisconsin and the guy behind the counter kept teasing me and Mike.  I had my Jaguars shirt on and he was like, "Go back to Jacksonville!"  Then Mike goes up with an NU shirt and the guy goes, "Northwestern?  Even worse."  We later found out the order: Jacksonville is bad, but New Jersey is worse, and Chicago is even worse than that.
    * The one problem with the trip up was the crappy Mapquest directions, which told us to turn onto a road that apparently doesn't exist.  We got all the way to Rochester before we finally decided we'd missed the turn, thus adding about 80 miles onto the trip.
    * Jan, Shannon, Mike and I got free lunches on Saturday because of a generous individual in the dining hall who had a lot of extra meals.  We also screwed around with the comments board; I added one suggesting ostrich eggs and wildebeest meat, and Jan delivered a rant about coffee in response to someone who was complaining about it being too strong.  Still, neither could top the one that was already there, where someone demanded more croutons, adding "Is there really a shortage of stale bread?
    * Jan put up 160 points against Iowa State A... that was just insane.
    * Now, the lamest thing: once again, Jan and I were there as long as anyone else, and once again we finished fourth.  My personal stats were also well down this year, which would have been an easier pill for me to swallow had we won something.
    Favorite Tossup: I guess Patrick Roy.  Basically "An 11-1 loss to Detroit caused him-" *buzz*  I also liked the Ivy League one.  "The oldest of its members was founded in 1636-" *buzz* Not that hard, but kinda fun.
    Favorite Bonus: U.S. territories, things in Australia's Northern Territory, foreign-born NBA players were all good.  I'll go with the one in the last round, though, "Asian bodies of water."  The first two were Caspian Sea and Aral Sea, but the third was "this largest lake in Turkey, a salt lake with no apparent outlet."  When I correctly answered Lake Van, it was another of those moments where everyone in the room sort of stares at you, and I always enjoy that, specifically when it comes to geography.
    Worst Neg: Most annoying neg was "sexual reproduction" for "asexual reproduction."  I buzzed in right after "parthenogenesis," which was pretty early in the question, and said "reproduction."  When I got prompted, I flaked out and said the obviously wrong one.
    Most Ludicrous Power: Probably Antigone.  They had already said that she hanged herself.
    Best Faux Knowledge: You probably won't see me get a lot of music questions, but I got oboe off "it comes from the French for 'high wood.'"  I don't know what everyone else was doing, but I tuned out the rest of the question sounding it out.  "Haut bois?  Haut bois, haut bois, o-bois..." *buzz*
    Most Disappointing Moment: Losing in the third place game for the second straight year... to a team we beat 470-175 in the round robin!   I was pissed about this before because I knew we'd beaten them, but I didn't remember by how much until I just looked at the sheet.  Goddammit.

West Division - Full Round Robin

Round One: Carleton Draupnir 290, Northwestern A 230
Round Two: Northwestern A 415, Northwestern D (Abandon) 150
Round Three: Northwestern A 470, St. Thomas 175
Round Four: Minnesota 455, Northwestern A 175
Round Five: Northwestern A 410, Iowa State C 250
Round Six: Northwestern A 365, Carleton Skidbladnir 275
Round Seven: BYE
Round Eight: Northwestern A 350, St. Olaf A 190
Round Nine: Northwestern A 510, Wisconsin Books 90
Round Ten: Northwestern A 370, The Lyon Kings 125
Round Eleven: Northwestern A 500, Iowa State A 105

Prelims Record: 8-2

Playoffs

Round One: E1) Iowa State B 310, W1) Northwestern A 155
Round Two: W2) Minnesota 350, W1) Northwestern A 265
Third-place game: W3) St. Thomas 290, W1) Northwestern A 250

Final Record: 8-5, fourth place

Personal Stats: Questions Answered

   No one's asking you to care about it.  Powers are in bold, neg-5s are in italics with the real answer following.  Anything in plain text was just ten.

Round One
Niger River
Brett Favre

Round Two
Sierra Leone
Ebenezer
Alhambra
Eliza Doolittle
Black Hawk
Babur

Round Three
Tibet
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Treaty of Ghent
Love's Labours Lost
Ides

Round Four
Aramaic (really Hebrew)
Lleyton Hewitt
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Round Five
Vladivostok
David
General John J. Pershing

Round Six
Antigone
The Sims
Maine
Sexual reproduction (really asexual reproduction)
Nelson Mandela

Round Eight
Nuclear winter
Prophase
Ganges River
The Seagull
Ivy League
Shriners

Round Nine
Othello
Great Salt Lake
Oboe
Easter Island
Treaty of Tordesillas
Pete Maravich
The Call of the Wild
Porifera
Ambrose Bierce (really John Muir)
Achilles

Round Ten
Ernest Hemingway
Switch
Great Pyramid
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Thorium (really strontium)
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Balearic Islands
The Witches (Weird Sisters) from Macbeth

Round Eleven
Seamus Heaney
Theodore Dreiser
John Mayer
Alex Rodriguez

Playoff Round One
Zambezi (really Congo)
Chesapeake Bay
Patrick Roy

Playoff Round Two
Neckline
Giacomo Puccini
Orson Scott Card
Las Vegas
Aaron Burr
Axon

Third Place
King Solomon's Mines
Kirk Gibson (really Benito Santiago)
For Better or For Worse

PPG: 47.31