UKAT 2000-2001 ACF
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University of Michigan Kleist Memorial 2000, Team A
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
8 |
42 |
7 |
6.00 |
48.13 |
| Seth |
8 |
21 |
3 |
7.00 |
25.63 |
| Robert |
8 |
15 |
3 |
3.00 |
16.88 |
University of Michigan Kleist Memorial 2000, Team B
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Neal |
8 |
10 |
4 |
2.50 |
10.00 |
| Thomas |
8 |
6 |
3 |
2.00 |
5.63 |
| Kim |
8 |
4 |
1 |
4.00 |
4.38 |
| Steven G. |
8 |
3 |
0 |
-- |
3.75 |
Because, due to a tactical mishap, directions to the tournament site had been left in
Lexington, the UKAT found itself wandering through Ann Arbor on the morning of the tournament,
upset and directionless. This would prove prophetic for how the team would do in actual
tournament play: after wandering around confused and aimless (victimized by packets whose
questions were barely canonical and unusually distributed), the "A" team finished third, and
the "B" team finished second. Not the most auspicious start of starts to the year, sad to say:
highlights (there were a few) include the "A" team's handily beating eventual tournament
victor Michigan and "getting to know you" sessions in the cars; lowlights include the "Hot
Thomas" (don't ask).
NOTE: the official tournament stats were not released by Michigan; the above are culled from
stats kept by team members. They are subject to slight changes if we notice any obvious
mistakes.
Chattanooga Center of the Known Universe III, Team A
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
11 |
74 |
18 |
4.11 |
59.09 |
| Robert |
11 |
51 |
6 |
8.50 |
43.64 |
Chattanooga Center of the Known Universe III, Team B
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Seth |
11 |
74 |
11 |
6.72 |
62.27 |
| Neal |
11 |
19 |
1 |
19.00 |
16.82 |
Chattanooga Center of the Known Universe III, Team C
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Thomas |
11 |
56 |
9 |
6.22 |
46.82 |
| Steven R. |
11 |
23 |
1 |
23.00 |
20.45 |
| Christopher |
11 |
23 |
8 |
2.88 |
17.27 |
| Kim |
11 |
15 |
0 |
-- |
13.64 |
The easy but mostly well-written questions supplied by Steinhice and crew provided the
UKAT the opportunity to field three teams for this event, of which far and away the most
successful was the Division II "C" team, which, quarterbacked by Thomas Reimel (aided by Kim,
Steven Richardson, and Christopher), won the Division II title. The "A" team of Kelly and Bob
finished third after a shootout victory over South Carolina, while the "B" team of Neal and
Seth, while not faring nearly so well (8th place) still manged to have fun. Highlights include
the excellent conversations in Neal's battleship, tournament All-Stars secured by Seth, Kelly,
Thomas, and Robert (who appeared in that order in the stats), the excellent play of the Div.
II team, and the "idiot" comment; lowlights include the Mandlebrotastic spelling packet (B
team), a loss to Georgia because of misidentification of futurism (A team), and the knowledge
that the by staying together, the full-strength Division I squad probably would have won the
tournament.
Washington University St. Louis Open II, Team A, "Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company"
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
12 |
67 |
14 |
4.79 |
50.00 |
| Seth |
12 |
44 |
4 |
11.00 |
35.00 |
| Robert |
12 |
28 |
8 |
3.50 |
20.00 |
| Neal |
12 |
10 |
3 |
3.33 |
7.08 |
Washington University St. Louis Open II, Team B, "The Other"
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Thomas |
12 |
30 |
5 |
6.00 |
22.92 |
| Steven R. |
12 |
17 |
2 |
8.50 |
13.33 |
| Kim |
12 |
9 |
1 |
9.00 |
7.08 |
| Elizabeth |
12 |
1 |
0 |
-- |
0.83 |
After a trying week, the UKAT eagerly anticipated playing on excellent, well-written questions
written by Roger Bhan and were not disappointed; the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company (whose
name was submitted by Kelly as the "Youngstown Sheet and Siding Company";
just
wrong) cruised to a perfect 12-0 record and defeated Illinois in overtime to capture
the win, while the Division II team acquitted itself nobly as well, taking the Div. II
title. Highlights include irritating everyone by endless quotation of Saturday Night Live's
Celebrity Jeopardy!, All-Stars for Kelly and Seth (due to an enlightened decision on Roger's
part to award 8; Kelly was fourth and Seth seventh, respectively), Nathan Freeburg's TU/I
(less than two), and the "Usual Suspects" bonus which might well have given us the victory;
Lowlights include an apparently psychotic episode on the part of one of the Division II team
members and one less-than-splendid moderator.
NOTE: Washington University has not yet released its official stats from the tournament; the
above were taken from the stat sheet posted on the wall and swiped, as is his custom, by Seth.
They are subject to slight changes if we notice any obvious mistakes.
After the conclusion of the SLO, Kelly and Seth stayed at Washington University to compete
in the TADD Bowl singles tournament, where, from a field of sixteen, Kelly finished second and
Seth third, respectively.
The Washington University tournaments were excellent, both in questions written and the actual
running of the events. Our congratulations and thanks go out to them.
ACF Midsouth Regionals at Tennessee-Chattanooga
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
10 |
65 |
16 |
4.06 |
57.00 |
| Seth |
10 |
37 |
7 |
5.29 |
33.50 |
| Robert |
10 |
25 |
4 |
6.25 |
23.00 |
| Neal |
10 |
8 |
3 |
2.67 |
6.50 |
Since 1997-8, the first full season of the current incarnation of the UKAT, the team has
managed to find nothing but near-misses and frustration at ACF Regionals, coming in third in
1998 (despite being the only team to defeat eventual tournament champions Georgia Tech),
second in 1999 (despite defeating tournament winner South Carolina, against whom a lack of
packets prevented a playoff game), and third in 1999 (due to weird bracketing and bad luck).
Even more heart-breaking has been its luck at UTC events: second at COTKU 1998, second at
MoonPie 1999, second at COTKU 1999, and third at COTKU 2000. So when the team lost to
Vanderbilt by five points in the round-robin of Regionals 2001 (due to a ridiculous lack of
prompting on a Dubliners tossup, which earned Kelly a -5 with "Clay" even though that
story was part of Dubliners and the clues pointed right to it), the double curse of
Regionals and Chattanooga seemed sure to result in a second place finish again. However, due
to a round-robin defeat of its own, Vanderbilt and the team had tied and went to fist it out
in a playoff in which Vanderbilt's one game advantage proved no match for Kelly's magnificent
play and the team's excellent bonus conversion, and when the dust settled the UKAT at last
found itself ACF Regionals champion.
Other highlights pale in comparison to this long-overdue accomplishment, but some of them
include: Kelly's second place all-star; the team's average of 390 points per game; two 500
point games; and the Loverman; lowlights include the "Clay" hose; the dreadful Wangfest
against one of UTC's teams; the absence of Adam Humphries; Neal's speeding ticket on the
return trip through Knoxville; and Mase. None of these servied to harsh too much the buzz of
the win, however.
Sword Bowl at UT-Chattanooga
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Thomas |
11 |
63 |
7 |
9.00 |
54.09 |
| Steven R. |
11 |
61 |
4 |
15.25 |
53.63 |
Some unusual cimcumstances led to the UKAT fielding only a two-man team for this year's Sword
Bowl at UT-Chattanooga. Thomas and Steven made this a one-day round trip, either driving or
playing in the tournament for approximately 24 continuous hours. They performed wonderfully;
dig the balance in scoring and the fantastic tossup-to-interrupt ratios. They captured second
place overall, dominating most of their competitors. Neither player has contributed a
customary post-tournament write-up and summary; look for that to replace this paragraph soon.
Congratulations, guys.
Wildcat Invitational at the University of Kentucky
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Seth |
8 |
79 |
3 |
26.33 |
96.88 |
Playing as a one-man team to provide participants with more games, Seth had doubts about how
well he'd do in such a competitive field, but after practicing on the first packet during his
bye round and answering all twenty of the tossups in it, he had a good idea that he'd have fun
on Kelly's questions. Nor was he disappointed; playing on what were easily the best questions
of the year, Seth ended the round-robin in fourth place, a position he would retain after the
playoffs, and led the field in scoring with 96.88 points per game. There are simply too many
highlights to mention here, but a few of them include: defeating Michigan in the All-Star
game; pulling off a black magic victory over Illinois with his wife looking on (albeit while
distractedly reading the newspaper); and leading the field (after the round robin) in
Tossup-to-interrupt with a ratio of 26.33 (Note: The statistics mentioned in the
write-up and in the table above are all derived from the round-robin; both PPG and TU/I ratio
would be diminished after the playoffs). Lowlights (to the extent that there were any) include
the presence of a certain someone; the lapse in concentration in the Michigan playoff game;
and losing four games and winning one on the last tossup.
In all aspects, the Wildcat Invitational was a complete triumph, and Kelly deserves all the
praise he has accrued and more for his excellent packets. Congratulations also to Michigan for
their commanding play, easily towering over the rest of the field.
ACF Nationals at Michigan
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
11 |
60 |
16 |
3.75 |
47.27 |
| Seth |
11 |
28 |
3 |
9.33 |
24.09 |
| Robert |
11 |
24 |
6 |
4.00 |
19.09 |
| Thomas |
11 |
6 |
2 |
3.00 |
4.55 |
It might be just as well to be brief in the account of this year’s Nationals; there was much
that was not to the team’s liking in terms of content of the packets and especially in
logistics of the tournament, but ranting and raving about it does little to make things
better, and it would probably serve everyone best merely to remember the lessons learned,
but put the sour times behind us. The team itself finished fourth overall, and Kelly’s
performance earned him a second-place All-Star award; official statistics will follow when
-ha ha- if they are made available.
Moon Pie Classic at Tennessee-Chattanooga
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
10 |
51 |
13 |
3.92 |
44.50 |
| Robert |
10 |
42 |
9 |
4.67 |
37.50 |
| Seth |
10 |
29 |
3 |
9.67 |
27.50 |
| Steven R. |
10 |
6 |
2 |
3.00 |
5.00 |
In the season's final outing the team, represented by Kelly, Robert, Seth, and Richardson made
the trip to Chattanooga and played on questions that were somewhat disappointingly easy and
trash-filled against a field that was decidedly not the strongest that could have been drawn
from the region (missing were such standouts as Vanderbilt, Florida Atlantic, and Florida, as
well as Adam and Martin from South Carolina). The principal highlight of the trip was the win,
secured by going unbeaten throughout the tournament, while others include All-Stars for Kelly
and Robert, an excellent raiding expedition at the
god-damned bookstore, hanging out with Washington St. Louis, and the Northwestern game, in
which we scored 605 points; lowlights include missing the grail in the aforementioned game
(on a neg by Seth, of all people!), not getting to say goodbye to Adam and Martin, and having
to say goodbye to Ken from Washington and Victoria from Georgia, who are moving on. Thanks to
all of you for making our experiences with you so enjoyable.