NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, 4/6-7/01

Results: Northwestern (Clark Division)
(Robert Flaxman, Mike Henninger, Shad Laws, Jan Zasowski)

    How we even got to play at Nationals is a story in and of itself, having to do with sneaking in as a wild card due to our inability to play a full set of rounds at Sectionals due to the Iowa Spin-Out.  But we'll leave that story, if for some reason you don't already know it, for another day.
    Our team played in Division II.  Next year, because of this, we'll all have to play Division I, meaning we're more or less screwed for the rest of our careers.
    The Div II teams were separated into two 12-team divisions: Lewis and Clark.  We played in Clark.  The eleven-match round robin began Friday night and finished before lunch on Saturday.  The playoff rounds, which matched the top four teams, middle four teams, and bottom four teams in each division in a four-match round robin, were held after lunch on Saturday.
    I'm not actually sure where we finished (hopefully I will find out soon), though I can tell you we finished 8-7.  But then I'm sure you could have figured that out by reading the results, which appear below.
    April 12: Well, here's your update.  We finished in a tie for tenth with Occidental at 8-7, but we beat them, so in my opinion we're tenth alone.  We did manage to finish ahead of three teams that beat us, but what we were doing losing to them in the first place I don't know.  Particularly Yeshiva, who handed us our most lopsided loss and proceeded to finish 4-11.  But if you consider that, in terms of records at Sectionals, we weren't even supposed to be here, I think this was a strong showing.
    Also, I finished #14 in overall scoring in Div II.  The leaderboard looked strangely the leaderboard at last year's HSNCT.  Pitt's Matt Weiner, who was #9 last year at Governor's School (VA), finished first; Princeton's Jacob Mikanowski, who was #2 last year at State College (PA), finished second; and Stanford's Vinita Kailasanath, who was #4 last year at Eleanor Roosevelt (MD), finished seventh.   Let us also not forget that I was #10 last year.
    You can check out everyone's individual stats (which if mine are any indication are probably messed up, since I had 53 tossups but was only credited with 50) and team stats at the NAQT website.

Round One: Georgetown 225, Northwestern 155
Round Two: Northwestern 225, Michigan 60
Round Three: Northwestern 240, New York University 205
Round Four: Northwestern 235, University of Southern California 145
Round Five: Chicago 220, Northwestern 95
Round Six: Florida 230, Northwestern 150
Round Seven: Northwestern 225, Maryland 100
Round Eight: Northwestern 205, Missouri-Rolla 85
Round Nine: Yeshiva 290, Northwestern 95
Round Ten: Stanford 205, Northwestern 175
Round Eleven: Emory 255, Northwestern 190

Through regular rounds: 5-6, 5th place Clark Division

Playoffs (Warner Division)

Round One: #5C Northwestern 325, #8L Brandeis 110
Round Two: #7L Yale 205, #5C Northwestern 170
Round Three: #5C Northwestern 155, #6L Occidental 145
Round Four: #5C Northwestern 185, #5L Sewanee 175

Final Record: 8-7, place currently unknown

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
Steve Guttenberg
Phil Garner
Snake River

Round Two
Mayo County, Ireland
Sigmund Freud
Notah Begay III
Mr. Holland's Opus
Corsica

Round Three
The Flying Nun
Ottawa
The Alchemist
Lobo

Round Four
Guyana
Pecos River
1980 U.S. Hockey Team

Round Five
"Carmen" (really Aida)
University of Toledo
Bight
Paper Tiger

Round Six
Jacques Cartier
"New York Knights" (really Iowa Barnstormers)
White Mountains
"Lopanto" (really Adrianople)

Round Seven
Holly Golightly
Ra
Battle of Puebla
Bahrain and Qatar
Topeka
Hugo Chavez

Round Eight
Champs-Elysees
Kingston
Budweiser

Round Nine
Puget
Atlanta Braves
Dhaka

Round Ten
"Mid-American Conference" (really CCHA)
Puerto Rico
Gary Larson
Foot-and-mouth disease

Round Eleven
Sperm cells
Alice B. Toklas
Coca-Cola

Playoff Round One
Marty McSorley
Obadiah
Cris Collinsworth
Dominica

Playoff Round Two
Vanuatu
Adam (@home)
Mali and Burkina Faso

Playoff Round Three
Traffic circles
Seattle Slew
En passant
Jacob Riis
Czech Republic

Playoff Round Four
Texas Tech
Anais Nin
Katharine Hepburn
Lake Nicaragua

PPG: 35.00