"LUC, I Am Your Father" - Trash at Loyola, 10/18/03

Results: The Full Fine Plus a Small Large Lateness Penalty (Northwestern)
(Mike Bisberg, Colby Burnett, Robert Flaxman, Justin Moles)

    Trash is the only thing we ever have that much of a chance of winning, so when we go to a tournament with only five teams, there had better be some real dinosaurs involved for us not to finish right at the top.  It may sound hubristic, but I would be dishonest if I didn't say that I thought we had an excellent chance to win coming into this tournament.
    And that was, in fact, what happened.  Despite dropping both of the double-round-robin matches to DePauw A, we finished second and rebounded to beat them in the finals.  Pretty sweet deal.  As cool as my last win (2001 TRASH Regionals)?  Well, not quite.  But fun nonetheless.  Hey, I always love Trash - winning is like a cherry on top, if I liked cherries.
    Favorite Tossup: The Dan Brown one in the playoffs was pretty good.  (Give his schooling, and then say "His first novel, Digital Fortress," which only happens to be sitting on my floor.)  I also liked the Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them one, and the Donald Kaufman one.
    Favorite Bonus: My stone-cold answers of Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, and Cary Elwes as the actors who played Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, and Thomas Ince in The Cat's Meow drew a "wow" from DePauw Matt, scorekeeping at the time.  I always like doing that.  However, the best was "For 40 points, you can eat it," and I said "Twinkies."  Forty!  We'd had it done to us before, but never done it.  The 30 was ridiculously easy anyway, but come on.  Forty!
    Worst Neg: Has to be during the TV audio round, when I said "Homeboys in Outer Space" for "Dark Angel."  I actually went 0-for-2 for -10 points in that round, which is probably the worst round ever for someone who managed to still lead the tournament in scoring.
    Most Annoying Moment: After rebounding from a 170-0 deficit after DePauw A nailed the first six tossups in our first game with them, we ended up losing 285-280 when they got the last question and 30d an easy bonus.
    Rule #1: If You See Something The Night Before the Tournament and Think, "That Might Come Up," The Odds are Excellent That It Will: A "Captain Underpants" book was sitting near the checkout at Borders last night, the only way I'd have had any chance in hell of getting that question.
    I Just Don't See That Many: Even though I know random things about a lot of movies, "the complete screenplay" is rarely one of those things.  So I only put up 15 points in the movie audio round (Biz, as I somewhat suspected, steamrolled it, and then absolutely dominated the TV theme song round).
    Apparently I Can Only Do This at Tournaments With Seven Teams or Fewer: Along with 2002 Duck Bowl, this was the second collegiate tournament I led in scoring, with 40.38 in the round robin.  And that's with mediocre-to-crappy performances in the two audio rounds.

Round Robin (double)

Round One: BYE
Round Two: Northwestern 476, DePauw B 0
Round Three (Movie Audio Round): Northwestern 305, Loyola B 220
Round Four: DePauw A 285, Northwestern 280
Round Five: Northwestern 220, Loyola A 110
Round Six: BYE
Round Seven (TV Theme Song Round): Northwestern 380, DePauw B 160
Round Eight: Northwestern 315, Loyola B 85
Round Nine: DePauw A 260, Northwestern 155
Round Ten: Northwestern 470, Loyola A 65

Prelims Record: 6-2 (second place)

Playoffs

Semi-Finals: #2 Northwestern 310, #3 Loyola B 180
Finals: #2 Northwestern 420, #1 DePauw A 146

Final Record: 8-2 (first place out of five teams)

Personal Stats: Questions Answered

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

Round Two
Kate Bosworth
Sam Snead
Wanda Sykes
Captain Underpants
Carolina Hurricanes
Roman Holiday
The Fonz
Newman
Washington Freedom

Round Three - Movies
Chicago (really Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
Lilo and Stitch
Fight Club

Round Four
White Castle
Christian Bale
Lap of Luxury
Laverne and Shirley
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Major League Lacrosse

Round Five
Thought Samantha Morton, then realized I was wrong and didn't say anything (really Kathryn Morris)
In the Year 2000
Getting hit by a pitch
Wagons East!
Said "Pat Carr," meant "Pat Hill," wrong either way (really Mike Bellotti)

Round Seven - TV Themes
Gullah-Gullah Island (really Arthur)
Homeboys in Outer Space (really Dark Angel)

Round Eight
Rock Hudson
Liz Phair - Liz Phair (really Hilary Duff - Metamorphosis)
Kelly Hu
Jim Morris
On the Line
Apolo Anton Ohno
Lyle Lovett
Frank Ormand
Coupling

Round Nine
Maxwell Award
Dennis Farina
Freeway
Crosley Field

Round Ten
Pumpernickel
Donald Kaufman
Fantanas
A Case of Need
The Rules
Ron Obvious

Round Robin PPG: 40.375

Playoffs Round One
Gilda Radner
New York Jets
Gabrielle Union
Dan Brown
McGriddles

Playoffs Round Two
James Lipton
Chick-Fil-A
Elia Kazan
Are You Experienced? (really Electric Ladyland)
1983
Kevin Smith
Scrabble (really Upwords)

Playoffs PPG: 45.00

Total PPG: 44.00