UKAT 1999-2000 ACF
Back to Statistics Page
Season Totals
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
54 |
446 |
87 |
5.13 |
74.54 |
| Robert |
20 |
70 |
13 |
5.38 |
31.75 |
| Neal |
54 |
136 |
28 |
4.86 |
22.59 |
| Thomas |
33 |
70 |
7 |
10.00 |
20.15 |
| Steven R. |
34 |
73 |
14 |
5.21 |
19.41 |
| Scrotch |
46 |
51 |
4 |
12.75 |
10.65 |
| Michael |
64 |
84 |
34 |
2.47 |
10.47 |
| Kim |
35 |
38 |
10 |
3.80 |
9.43 |
| Dana |
11 |
5 |
1 |
5.00 |
4.09 |
| Lou |
23 |
11 |
7 |
1.57 |
3.26 |
Chattanooga Center of the Known Universe II, Team Mirthless Laughter of the Damned
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
10 |
64 |
15 |
4.27 |
56.50 |
| Robert |
10 |
31 |
4 |
7.75 |
29.00 |
| Michael |
10 |
9 |
5 |
1.80 |
6.50 |
| Lou |
10 |
7 |
5 |
1.40 |
4.50 |
Chattanooga Center of the Known Universe II, Team Goat Porn
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Steven R. |
11 |
34 |
10 |
3.40 |
26.36 |
| Neal |
11 |
25 |
7 |
3.57 |
19.55 |
| Scrotch |
11 |
11 |
1 |
11.00 |
9.55 |
| Dana |
11 |
5 |
1 |
5.00 |
4.09 |
Wow! What a way to open the year! The A team consisting of Kelly, Robert, Michael, and
Lou managed to take 2nd place, falling only to Maryland in full round robin field play. Our
B team also excelled, finishing with a 6-5 record. We are very pleased, given that we had
two rookies and one inexperienced player under Neal's guidance, and that the team was very
unbalanced with regard to subject material. Kelly roped in a fourth place Div I
all-star award, while Steven Richardson received the Rookie award for being the highest
scoring player attending his first ACF tournament. Some of the highlights of this tournament
include Neal's awesome CD-R recordings, the suspicious happenings in a BP bathroom ("Someone
else is in here!"), seeing the NADS infomercial, John Nam's interrupt answer of "Crapper," and
obviously, our excellent finish. Lowlights are few in number, including a sudden string of
incompetence and stupidity by Robert and Kelly, and the poor performance in subjects lacking
on each team. In the "Weird Stuff" column we can mention Scrotch's smoking brakes,
apparently because of a bad spindle, that required him to stay overnight in the northern
Tennessee hamlet of Caryville while the seven remaining members piled into Neal's battleship
of a car for the ride home. What a way to start the year...
Georgia Tech Heinrich Bowl
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
9 |
85 |
13 |
6.54 |
87.22 |
| Neal |
9 |
11 |
2 |
5.50 |
11.11 |
| Michael |
9 |
7 |
4 |
1.75 |
5.56 |
Due to schedule conflicts and money problems, a pared-down team consisting of Michael,
Neal, and Kelly travelled to Georgia Tech to take part in Heinrich Boll, finishing in a
tie for 2nd with Cornell at 12-2 (although we would have won the tournament if not for a
blatent hose in our match with Cornell). Congratulations are in order for the Georgia Tech
team for a well-run tournament, featuring (in our opinion) the best cast of readers in the
country. Highlights include Kelly's 2nd place All-Star award, the universal praise heaped
upon our packet, getting to hang out with Matt Colvin (a treat for any hardcore ACFer), and
listening to Neal bake in the back of Michael's car. The only real lowlights were the
aforementioned hose and an "ACF" packet which was conspicuously low on academic content.
UT-Chattanooga Sword Bowl 2000, A Team
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Thomas |
10 |
37 |
1 |
37.00 |
36.50 |
| Neal |
10 |
35 |
7 |
5.00 |
31.50 |
| Steven R. |
10 |
28 |
1 |
28.00 |
27.50 |
UT-Chattanooga Sword Bowl 2000, B Team
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Michael |
11 |
25 |
9 |
2.78 |
18.64 |
| Kim |
11 |
22 |
5 |
4.40 |
17.73 |
| Scrotch |
11 |
20 |
1 |
20.00 |
17.73 |
The Academic Team was fortunate enough to have many new members this year making this
"junior bird" tournament immensely enjoyable. Thomas, Neal, and Steven R. made it to the
playoffs where they defeated the University of the South but lost a shootout to the same team,
leaving them in third place (but not before another shootout and an unpleasant encounter with
an individual who can only be described as too friendly for her own good). Lowlights:
Extremely foul weather on the way home caused a car accident and we experienced some rare
(who are we kidding) bickering amongst ourselves. Highlights: Feats of Strength.
ACF Regionals at UT-Chattanooga
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
10 |
70 |
11 |
6.37 |
64.50 |
| Robert |
10 |
39 |
9 |
4.33 |
34.50 |
| Thomas |
10 |
5 |
2 |
2.50 |
4.00 |
| Michael |
10 |
3 |
1 |
3.00 |
2.50 |
This tournament showed a lot of promise of being the most rewarding experience of the year,
but the manner in which it ended really sucked. The preliminary rounds were standard,
old-school ACF and we greatly enjoyed them. But for some reason the playoff rounds were
written by Wichita State and Case Western Reserve. Wichita packets are known for being a
little bit cheesy, but they managed to put together an acceptable packet for the purpose.
CWR's packet totally sucked, however. We congratulate them on wasting everyone's time. Every
playoff team was furious over this incident (and rightly so). Just another in a long, sad line
of bad CWR question sets. We managed to take third place (read: got screwed out of first), and
Kelly got the third place all-star and was the highest scorer outside one-man teams.
Highlights include the non-playoff games, listening to Chris Rock tell it like it is,
repeated conversations about a certain someone, and Thomas' emergency pants surgery using a
paper clip. Lowlights: the coat hanger abortion ending of the tournament and
Kelly getting called a prick by someone angry over his "biased" packet (A packet that was
praised by the national editor and tournament director, so squirt us some tears, old dude).
Washington University KICK:ASS, Kentucky Skullduggery (Div I)
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
13 |
113 |
22 |
5.14 |
78.46 |
| Steven R. |
13 |
11 |
3 |
3.67 |
7.31 |
| Scrotch |
13 |
8 |
1 |
8.00 |
5.77 |
| Lou |
13 |
4 |
2 |
2.00 |
2.31 |
Washington University KICK:ASS, Kentucky Jejune (Div II)
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Thomas |
13 |
28 |
4 |
7.00 |
20.00 |
| Neal |
13 |
28 |
7 |
4.00 |
18.85 |
| Michael |
13 |
15 |
6 |
2.50 |
9.23 |
| Kim |
13 |
5 |
2 |
2.50 |
3.08 |
The UKAT fielded a Div I and Div II team for their first trek to St. Louis. In Div I, where
Kelly was kept company by the Steven Richardson, Scrotch, and Lou, the team performed very
well, finishing in second place at 12-2, with both losses coming to recent NAQT National
Champs Illinois. In Div II, the team of Neal, Thomas, Michael, and Kim started the day very
well, knocking off some experienced Div I teams. However, the second half of the tournament
did not go as well due to a series of packets which did not go their way, and they eventually
ended up losing the Div II championship match for a second place finish. The highlights were
Roger and company's excellent questions and reading corps, the aforementioned second place
finishes, Kelly's MVP award, the first recorded utterance of "I hate Lou!", Michael's virtuoso
skill with directions (for example, the realization that when looking for your hotel, you
should make sure you are in the right state), a downed Cessna, and "The Mighty Mo." Lowlights
include a series of mumblings from a certain back seat passenger and one of Lou's interminable
jokes which seemed to involve at least 13 different characters.
Tennessee-Chattanooga Moon Pie Classic 2000, Div I
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Kelly |
12 |
114 |
26 |
4.38 |
84.17 |
Tennessee-Chattanooga Moon Pie Classic 2000, Div II
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Neal |
11 |
37 |
5 |
7.40 |
31.36 |
| Michael |
11 |
25 |
9 |
2.78 |
18.64 |
| Scrotch |
11 |
12 |
1 |
12.00 |
10.45 |
| Kim |
11 |
11 |
3 |
3.67 |
8.64 |
Five members of the UKAT put their priorities in proper order and travelled to UTC to play in
an ACF tournament on the weekend before finals. Unfortunately, Charlie Steinhice became quite
ill the week of the tournament and was unable to perform his usual editing chores, leading to
the use of about a half-dozen unedited packets from teams with little or no packet writing
experience, resulting in a rather uneven tournament (but to UTC's credit, they held the
tournament together nonetheless). To allow the Div II players to all compete together, Kelly
braved Div I as a one player team, and went undefeated on the good packets early in the day.
However, a combination of bad packets and tough competition later in the day led to a 7-5
finish. The Div II team of Neal, Michael, Kim, and Scrotch also had an up and down day,
finishing up (I think) 6-5. Highlights include Kelly's MVP award, a nearly disastrous toss of
a Moonpie, Neal's chemistry jokes, and an incredibly accurate Hangman answer, while lowlights
included the previously mentioned string of unedited packets and forgetting who Sibyl Vane is
on tossup 20 of a 5-point game.