The TRASH Times and Other Stuff Monday, January 09, 2006: With results from the Mid-Atlantic Regional, here's Brad Houston!Full Results for Mid-Atlantic TRASH Regionals can be found at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~bhouston/quizbowl/TRASH%20Regionals%202005_standings.html . Death Cab for Cutie put on a commanding performance at today's events, running the table to take home the championship. Close behind was College Park Retirement Castle: Older and Krustier, whose only loss came at the hands of Death Cab (They split a game with eventual 3rd-place team Carnegie Mellon Shuffle in their first match). As noted in the above post, The "Dummy team" was not a competing team but a prop used to make SQBS count games for the 8-team bracket teams but not for the 9-team bracket teams, in those matches in which those teams played. Ranking was based on overall record, followed by head-to-head and finally PPG. (Happily I did not have to break any circles of death, which may be a first in tournaments I've run.) There was a mild snafu in rebracketing when a scoresheet that I entered incorrectly affected the placement of George Washington Georgetown Rejects into the higher bracket and UNC Mount Shasta McNasty into the middle one; both teams were consulted and determined that they were happy with their bracket positions, so the mixup was allowed to stand. Thank you to everybody who attended and/or staffed; this literally could not have happened without you all. I was especially gratified at the number of people who stepped up to read/scorekeep and am massively grateful for the help. Finally, I would like to offer commendations to the anonymous players whose amusing negs as reported to me offered much entertainment to an otherwise dreary stats room (I won't specify which ones as I am not sure if any regionals are going on). I salute you, good sir(s) or madam(s). James // 4:59 PM ______________________
With results from the Mid-Atlantic Regional, here's Brad Houston!Full Results for Mid-Atlantic TRASH Regionals can be found at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~bhouston/quizbowl/TRASH%20Regionals%202005_standings.html . Death Cab for Cutie put on a commanding performance at today's events, running the table to take home the championship. Close behind was College Park Retirement Castle: Older and Krustier, whose only loss came at the hands of Death Cab (They split a game with eventual 3rd-place team Carnegie Mellon Shuffle in their first match). As noted in the above post, The "Dummy team" was not a competing team but a prop used to make SQBS count games for the 8-team bracket teams but not for the 9-team bracket teams, in those matches in which those teams played. Ranking was based on overall record, followed by head-to-head and finally PPG. (Happily I did not have to break any circles of death, which may be a first in tournaments I've run.) There was a mild snafu in rebracketing when a scoresheet that I entered incorrectly affected the placement of George Washington Georgetown Rejects into the higher bracket and UNC Mount Shasta McNasty into the middle one; both teams were consulted and determined that they were happy with their bracket positions, so the mixup was allowed to stand. Thank you to everybody who attended and/or staffed; this literally could not have happened without you all. I was especially gratified at the number of people who stepped up to read/scorekeep and am massively grateful for the help. Finally, I would like to offer commendations to the anonymous players whose amusing negs as reported to me offered much entertainment to an otherwise dreary stats room (I won't specify which ones as I am not sure if any regionals are going on). I salute you, good sir(s) or madam(s). James // 4:59 PM
