Trash Regionals @ U of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 11/10-11/01

Results: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland (Northwestern)
(Lauren Arestie, Robert Flaxman, Tyler Johnson, Andy Seputis)

    Un.  Be.  Lievable.  That's the only way I could describe this tournament, in which we basically made like the 2001 Bears before Sunday or the 2000 Northwestern team before the Alamo Bowl.
    After going 9-3 in the regular rounds and securing the second seed (including an amazing 300-195 win after trailing 165 to -5 in round fourteen) for the playoffs, we somehow managed to win the tournament, winning both our semifinals and finals matches on the very last question.
    I take you now to Room 115 in Blegen Hall on the U of M Twin Cities campus.  It's the semifinals of TRASH regionals, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland has just tied Jason, Dan, Dana et al at 200 on the nineteenth tossup.  The twentieth tossup involves "the Church of Satan" and is not answered by either team, although one of JDDEA comes up with it a few seconds too late.  We move on to the 21st tossup - sudden death.  A neg loses it, a tossup wins it.
    "It's not Varsity Blues, but it did star James van der Beek and Ali Larter.  It's not American Pie, but it did star Jason Biggs and Shannon-" Buzz.  It's me, and it's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.   Boy, did I enjoy that - we move to the finals.
    Now we're up against Tia and the Trashmen, Minus Tia (don't ask, I don't know either), a team we'd already lost to twice.  Two questions left, we're down 70 points.  I get tossup 19, Tintin (how long have I been waiting for that to come up?); we 30 the bonus.  Now it's 210-180 on the 20th tossup.  Tyler gets it, Morris the Cat.  We need 20 to tie, 30 to win - and we'd been getting shitty bonuses all round.  This, however, is a sports bonus - it's about the Braves' win in the 1991 NLCS.  Francisco Cabrera, Sid Bream, Javy Lopez - good night, game over, drive home safely.
    We won!  We won!  We won!  But, uh, unfortunately, since I bet on the other team, we won't be going out for pizza.
    Favorite Tossup: Obviously Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
    Favorite Bonus: Had to be the Braves bonus, just because that won us the tournament.
    Worst Neg: As usual, none were awful although a couple were sort of dumb on my part.  South Florida for Troy State takes the cake because I knew Troy State two words later.
    (Oh by the way, we got an automatic bid to TRASHionals thanks to this.)

Prelim Rounds (Double Round Robin)

Round One: Tia and the Trashmen, Minus Tia 325, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 185
Round Two: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 255, Minnesota 110
Round Three: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 245, Weekend at Yasmine Bleeth's 100
Round Four: BYE
Round Five: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 170, South Dakota 110
Round Six: Shelby Foote Soldiers 235, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 160
Round Seven: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 285, Jason, Dan, Dana et al. 170
Round Eight: BYE
Round Nine: Tia and the Trashmen, Minus Tia 230, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 175
Round Ten: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 320, Weekend at Yasmine Bleeth's 120
Round Eleven: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 250, Jason, Dan, Dana et al. 210
Round Twelve: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 315, South Dakota 75
Round Thirteen: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 245, Minnesota 175
Round Fourteen: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 300, Shelby Foote Soldiers 195

Prelims Record: 9-3 (second place)

Playoffs

Semifinals: #2 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 210, #3 Jason, Dan, Dana et al. 200
Finals: #2 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wasteland 220, #1 Tia and the Trashmen, Minus Tia 210

Final Record: 11-3 (first place)

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.

Round One
Bikini
Gilligan's Island (really McHale's Navy)
Pong
Rollerball

Round Two
The Wild Things
Casablanca
Peppermint Patty

Round Three
Spike
Rio Bravo
Dig Dug
LaDanian Tomlinson
Ba-Da-Bing

Round Five
Bordello of Blood
Boy Crazy
Necrophilia

Round Six
Big Pimpin'
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
FoxTrot
Russ Hodges (really Ernie Harwell)

Round Seven
Kathleen Turner (really Linda Gray)
Technicolor
Tom Emanski

Round Nine
The Dawn Treader
Randy Johnson
Tom Green (really Ten Dollars, some Ed reference)

Round Ten
Steve Smith
Jolt
Angie
Richard Donner

Round Eleven
Chan Ho Park
Stairway to Heaven
Bo Derek

Round Twelve
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
Bruce McCulloch
Reverend Jim Ignatowski
Scott Skiles
Jennifer Tilly (really Katherine Heigl)
Cannibal: The Musical
Maus
Million-dollar questions on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (really Kevin Olmstead)

Round Thirteen
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Diet Rite

Round Fourteen
South Florida (really Troy State)
Ocean's Eleven
The Frighteners
Dilbert
E.T.
Erection
Timeline

Playoff Semifinals
Red Meat
The Temptations
Dan Patrick
Will and Grace
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Playoff Finals
David Lean
Caddyshack
Brian Billick
The Pledge
Zorro (really Elfego Baca)
Tintin

PPG: 34.29