DePauw DUCK Bowl, 2.8.04

Results: Northwestern A
(Colby Burnett, Robert Flaxman, Justin Moles, Alma)

    Alma came down for the weekend in large part because I asked her to play Duck Bowl with us, since neither Bisberg nor Anthony could be there and I didn't have much sense for the Trash prowess of anyone who was going.  So even though I say "Northwestern A" above, we were not entirely Northwestern.   That said, Duck Bowl was a fun time, obviating my concern that theme packets were going to mess us around.  As it happened, I was the #2 scorer at the tournament with better than 100 points per round, and we came within a question of beating the Keenan/Gerbil super-team in both our matches against them (and within three questions total, one in each of three rounds, of winning the tournament outright).  It should be explained that theme packets work differently.  First, they're all tossups, no bonuses.  Then, for a standard four-person team, two people play on one packet in a given round.  The scores from the two packets are then combined and we see which team won based on total points.  This has made my normal work of depicting scores below kind of a bitch (I'm only going to show total scores on the round-by-round scores page), but I think my solution will work out.  Five people are going to read this anyway and at least one of them was there.
    Favorite Tossup: Quite a number, as usual.  Getting Steven Spielberg in the directors round off a list of films he made when he was 12 was pretty fun; guess that Spielberg class paid off, eh?
    Favorite Bonus: For the first time ever, this section is obsolete.
    Worst Neg: The thing about theme rounds is you can sometimes anticipate an answer going in.  I did this and managed to neg on two of them, psyching myself out of A Few Good Men in the Christopher Guest round (I said Malice, his other 1992 drama) and confusing the lyrics to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road with those of Honky Cat in the 1973 songs round.  The former was more annoying because had I gotten it and everything else gone the same, we would have won that round.
    Most Disappointing Moment: The three times we came within one question of winning, two of which were due to negs of mine.  I was disappointed at our behavior after the second Keenan/Gerbil round, though; Alma and I had taken down one half of them, 155-60, and when we came out Colby said he and Justin had lost by 80.  Wild celebration began, at which point it was discovered that they had lost 120-20, not 100-20, and thus we had in fact lost by five.  I'm pretty happy we got so close to that team both times, but I was kind of embarrassed at the way we acted, especially since it turned out that we had lost.
    Holy Crap: I already mentioned that I was the #2 scorer; this was helped in no small part by the first three playoff rounds, in which I put up a total of 49 tossups (more than a third of my total points in all 13 rounds).   The highlight of the day, and what might have been the highlight of my Trash career were it not for top five at nationals last year and outright winning the 2001 regional, was the film directors round, in which I converted 23 of 24 tossups, with only Otto Preminger falling dead, to win 230-0.  To be fair, I was playing only against Mike Philpy, and things might have been different with more of a team on either side, but I still think I would have put up double digits on that packet against anybody.   Besides, I shouldn't have to apologize for the format.
    Quotes of the Day: Philpy, coming into the room, announced that this game should be called "Philpy Goes Down," to which Amanda, moderating, replied "Is that like Igby Goes Down?"  Philpy then idly wondered who directed that - I thought for a second and answered "Burr Steers."   This got slight stares.  An even better quote came in the previous round, with Matthew Marjan announcing, "Okay, we're doing 'Your Mom,'" the packet being about people with famous parents.  Best quote, though, came after the directors round, when Philpy walked into the hall and told the members of his team who had played the other packet, "I hope you won by 235."

Prelim Rounds (Round Robin)

Round One (Christopher Guest): Indiana 130, Flax/Alma 105
Round One (24 Sports): Colby/Justin 85, Indiana 75
Round One (Total): Indiana 205, Northwestern A 190
Round Two (Sex and the City): Flax/Alma 130, Cincinnati A 10
Round Two (Chocolate): Colby/Justin 110, Cincinnati A 30
Round Two (Total): Northwestern A 240, Cincinnati A 40
Round Three (Olympics): Flax/Justin 95, Cincinnati B 40
Round Three (Saturday Morning TV): Alma/Colby 140, Cincinnati B -5
Round Three (Total): Northwestern A 235, Cincinnati B 35
Round Four (Sports - JDs and DJs): Flax/Colby 150, Monmouth B 30
Round Four (Musicals): Alma/Justin 135, Monmouth B 10
Round Four (Total): Northwestern A 285, Monmouth B 40
Round Five (I Love the 80s): Flax/Alma 115, Michigan 100
Round Five (I Love the 70s): Colby/Justin 100, Michigan 65
Round Five (Total): Northwestern A 215, Michigan 165
Round Six (Cheerleaders): Flax/Justin 130, Wash U 70
Round Six (Hip-Hop): Alma/Colby 160, Wash U 25
Round Six (Total): Northwestern A 290, Wash U 95
Round Seven (Songs of 1973): Flax/Colby 125, Pete 30
Round Seven (Songs of 2003): Alma/Justin 85, Neil/Kate 55
Round Seven (Total): Northwestern A 210, Northwestern B 85
Round Eight (Edward Norton): Flax/Alma 135, Monmouth A 60
Round Eight (Weird Al Songs): Monmouth A 115, Colby/Justin 85
Round Eight (Total): Northwestern A 220, Monmouth A 175
Round Nine (Sitcoms): Keenan/Gerbils 90, Flax/Alma 75
Round Nine (Nintendo): Colby/Justin 60, Keenan/Gerbils 55
Round Nine (Total): Keenan/Gerbils 145, Northwestern A 135

Prelims Record: 7-2 (second place out of ten teams)

Playoffs (Round Robin against Top Five Teams)

Round One (Freddie Prinze): Flax/Alma 155, Keenan/Gerbils 60
Round One (Sports on ESPN2): Keenan/Gerbils 120, Colby/Justin 20
Round One (Total): #1 Keenan/Gerbils 180, #2 Northwestern A 175
Round Two: BYE
Round Three (Your Mom): Flax/Justin 135, Indiana 50
Round Three (I'm With the Band): Indiana 180, Alma/Colby 45
Round Three (Total): #3 Indiana 230, #2 Northwestern A 180
Round Four (Directors): Flax/Justin 230, Michigan 0
Round Four (Fox Cartoons): Michigan 80, Alma/Colby 50
Round Four (Total): #2 Northwestern A 280, #5 Michigan 80
Round Five (Family Guy References): Flax/Alma 125, Wash U 65
Round Five (Football): Colby/Justin 145, Wash U 20
Round Five (Total): #2 Northwestern A 170, #4 Wash U 85

Final Record: 9-4 (third place out of ten teams)

Personal Stats: Questions Answered

   No one's asking you to care about it.  Powers would be in bold except there weren't any, neg-5s are in italics with the real answer following.  Anything in plain text was just ten.

Round One - Christopher Guest
A Mighty Wind
The Sweetest Thing
Orange County
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Dairy Queen
Malice (really A Few Good Men)
Small Soldiers
A Night at the Roxbury
Get Over It
Sudden Death

Round Two - Sex and the City
The Way We Were
Skipper
Vibrator (really Rabbit)
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Krispy Kreme
Kyle MacLachlan
Carrie Fisher
Golden showers

Round Three - Olympics
Izzy
International Olympic Committee
Chariots of Fire
1972
Australia
Vladislav Tretiak
Turin
Black September
Winning a medal in both the summer and winter games

Round Four - JDs and DJs
Dr. J
Dick Jauron (really Jake Delhomme)
John Dillinger
Derek Jeter
Dexter Jackson (really Jamie Duncan)
Davey Johnson
Johnny Damon
D.J. Dozier
Jelena Dokic
Joe DiMaggio

Round Five - I Love the 80s
Gedde Watanabe
Joe Isuzu
Pictionary
Funky Cold Medina
Mike Tyson
Disorderlies
Mookie Wilson
Weekend at Bernie's
Colecovision

Round Six - Cheerleaders
George W. Bush
Aaron Spelling
Jimmy Stewart
Kirk and Michael Douglas
Steve Martin
Daria
But I'm A Cheerleader!
David Hasselhoff
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Mena Suvari
Grease
Kelly Kapowski
Die Cheerleaders Die

Round Seven - 1973 Songs
Live and Let Die
Honky Cat (really Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Free Ride
Ramblin' Man
Hello, It's Me
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree

Round Eight - Six Degrees of Edward Norton
Jason Statham
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Drew Barrymore
Mad Love
Ashley Judd
Someone Like You
John Mahoney
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Elizabeth Hurley (really Emily Watson)
Gosford Park
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Angela Bassett

Round Nine - Sitcoms
Maris Crane
Dick van Patten
Colonel Klink
Caroline in the City
Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place
Good Morning, Miami (really Wake Up, San Francisco)
Balki Bartokomous
The Flying Nun

Prelims PPG: 83.89

Playoffs Round One - Freddie Prinze
Head Over Heels
Monica Potter
Selma Blair
Matthew Lillard
Sugar Ray
Alicia Silverstone
Excess Baggage
To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Honey
Claire Forlani
Antitrust
Dangerous Beauty
Love Actually

Playoffs Round Three - Your Mom
Kate Hudson
Maya Rudolph
Jane Jetson
George Clooney
Brandon Lee
June Cleaver
Natalie Cole
Drew Barrymore
John Ritter
Lily Munster
Paris Hilton
Brett Hull
Stifler's Mom

Playoffs Round Four - Directors
Paul Thomas Anderson
Elia Kazan
M. Night Shyamalan
David Cronenberg
Francis Ford Coppola
John Sayles
Peter Jackson
Sam Peckinpah
Nora Ephron
Clint Eastwood
Federico Fellini
Woody Allen
Steven Spielberg
Penny Marshall
Ridley Scott
Ron Howard
Jean-Luc Godard
Sergei Eisenstein
Christof
Bobby Bowfinger
Orson Welles
Fritz Lang
Roberto Benigni

Playoffs Round Five - Family Guy References
Chumbawamba
The Incredible Hulk
Benjamin Disraeli
Lando Calrissian
Mia Farrow (Karen Black)
Optimus Prime
Mary Worth
Benetton
Mentos
One Day at a Time
God

Playoffs PPG: 146.25

Overall PPG: 103.08