Illinois Novice Tournament at UIUC, 11/17/01

Results: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns (NU A)
(Colby Burnett, Robert Flaxman, Kate Rigot, Noah Rothschild)

    Novice tournaments, so far as I know, do not have unified eligibility rules.  In the case of Junior Bird (the Haynes Lee alterna-name for this tournament... now there's a reference no one will get), it was "less than two years of college experience" - so even though I'm a Div I player in NAQT, I could go to this.
    As it turned out, Kate was the only other sophomore there (I'm pretty sure our other six were freshmen... at the very least she was the only other returning member), but Colby's pretty good (I think he finished seventh in scoring in the prelims; I was eleventh, although actually the scoring was screwed up because they had me at 23 and 0 when I was actually at 27 and 1) and with Kate filling in stuff like music and science and Noah playing a pretty admirable fourth for a freshman stuck on the A team at his first tournament, we did pretty well.
    We went 7-2 through the preliminaries, good enough to earn second in the B division (also known as the "Tribe of Bonus-Mining Goblins Division"), although we only went 1-2 in the playoffs (defeating, amazingly, the team that finished second for one of their just two losses on the day), placing us fifth overall.
    Favorite Tossup: Hard to say, as there were actually quite a few I liked.  I guess it'd have to be New York Giants (all that had been read of the question was "Merkle's Boner kept this team from going to the 1908 World Series"), since it would have been a power if they'd existed and I genuinely impressed Hairboy.
    Favorite Bonus: Again, too close to call.  It's between the Simpsons one and the Tintin one, both of which, of course, I 30d the shit out of.  I guess I'd have to go with Tintin, simply because I know so much about it and it's never asked (although it was the answer to the 19th tossup in the finals at TRASH Regionals), even though the answers were "Tintin," "Hergé," and "Captain Haddock," which in Simpsons terms would be like if the answers were "Homer," "Matt Groening," and "Bart."
    Worst Neg: Since I only negged once all day, I guess it'd have to be saying "Mentor" when the answer was really "Nestor," although I think that's relatively legit.

Prelim Rounds (Round Robin)

Round One: Illinois The Ron Turner Show 245, Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 125
Round Two: BYE
Round Three: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 255, DePauw_1 90
Round Four: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 390, Grinnell B 30
Round Five: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 280, Michigan B 125
Round Six: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 280, DePauw_2 40
Round Seven: Chicago Rabbit of Caerbannog 170, Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 165
Round Eight: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 150, Michigan C 125
Round Nine: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 240, Wash U Yoknapatawpha County 120
Round Ten: Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 210, Loyola "S" Words for $200 85
Round Eleven: BYE

Prelims Record: 7-2 (second place, Division B)

Playoffs (re-bracketed round robin)

Round One: #B2 Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 245, #A2 Michigan D 140
Round Two: #A1 Michigan A 295, #B2 Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 120
Round Three: #A3 Chicago Rabbit Named George 135, #B2 Northwestern Galaxy of Prawns 75

Final Record: 8-4

Personal Stats: Questions Answered

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

Round One
Double Indemnity
Nicholas I
House Un-American Activities Committee
Dr. Strangelove (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

Round Three
Heinz Field
Nausea

Round Four
Pete Sampras
Malta
The Princess Bride
Abelard

Round Five
Fiji
The Trial
University of Kansas

Round Six
Huffington
Humphrey Bogart
Mentor (really Nestor)

Round Seven
Symbionese Liberation Army
Yoknapatawpha County

Round Eight
Bremen
Robert Fulton

Round Nine
Finn McCool (or Fionn Mac Cumhail for you Gaels)
Stonehenge
Rat
London dispersion forces

Round Ten
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The Last Supper
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Robert Mapplethorpe

Prelims PPG: 29.4

Playoffs Round One
New York Giants
40 Acres and a Mule
Poisson

Playoffs Round Two
Malagasy
Real Madrid
Miss Havisham

Playoffs Round Three
The Bronze Horseman

Final PPG: 27.9