UKAT Summer 2005
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Administrative Note: A few years ago, it was finally decided to add a "Summer" section to the Statistics page for the most part because that summer a number of then-acive UKAT members were competing in summer tournaments either playing solo or on teams with other UKAT players, such that there was little to distinguish our participation in these events from regular-season events like the Illinois Open or St. Louis Open which had been duly reported on the site. The initial rules called for only those tournaments to be added in which teams consisting entirely of active team members (and Honorary Member Rose) participated. Coalition teams have not counted, and it is for this reason that past summer exploits - such as Seth and Kelly's play at the various Chicago Opens, even the one that they won (arguably the team's greatest accomplishment) - have been omitted, because often these were achieved with the help of non-UKAT players like our good friends Raj Duwhalia and Chris Borglum. However, that rule has been relaxed since its inception and will be further relaxed here; perhaps it will be omitted entirely and those past summer events will be retroactively added. We'll see. For now, however, here is a record of the team's summer participation for 2005.
NaQT High School NCT Mirror at UTC , "Mia Farrow, You A Pharaoh"
| Player |
Games |
Power Tossups |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Chad |
11 |
24 |
39 |
8 |
7.88 |
64.55 |
| Rick |
11 |
12 |
16 |
5 |
5.80 |
29.55 |
| Christopher |
11 |
3 |
11 |
7 |
2.00 |
10.91 |
| Jonathan |
11 |
3 |
6 |
1 |
9.00 |
9.09 |
Having enjoyed themselves last year at this open tournament, the Campbell Co. squad returned (with Chad tagging along) for an encore. They found the competition neither too hot nor too cold -- virtually every match was a thriller. The team went 7-3 in the round robin, losing close ones to the UT alums and a Keller-led hybrid force while being shellacked 390 - 110 by the Emory alums; this earned them fourth place and a playoff match against Emory, which - in the best of UK traditions - they lost by 20. The only real lowlights here were the last 14 tossups of the first Emory game (during which the team scored -15) and Chad's neg on tossup 20 of the rematch; among the many highlights are the All-Stars awarded to Rick and Chad, Rick's amazing 6-1-0 game, the commercials for Pinckley Taurus and Dickens Cider, breaking 400 (and 500), and just getting to play again.
UTC Mix Masters: Muck Masters (Trash) and Moc Masters (Academic)
UTC Muck Masters (Trash): "It's a Violent Pornography"
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Seth |
8 |
43 |
12 |
3.58 |
46.25 |
| Gerald |
8 |
5 |
3 |
1.67 |
4.38 |
UTC Moc Masters (ACF): Especially Cringeworthy
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Seth |
9 |
95 |
9 |
10.56 |
101.56 |
UTC Moc Masters (ACF): Colorless Refuse
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Chad |
9 |
41 |
3 |
13.67 |
43.89 |
| Will |
9 |
24 |
0 |
N/A |
26.67 |
| Nick |
9 |
12 |
7 |
1.71 |
9.44 |
UTC Moc Masters (ACF): Stultum Fortuna Iuvat
| Player |
Games |
Tossups |
Interrupts |
TU/I |
PPG |
| Gerald |
9 |
14 |
12 |
1.17 (!!!!) |
8.89 |
This summer UT-Chattanooga decided to experiment with its traditional two-tournament August weekend by staging the so-called "Mix Masters", wherein teams who competed both in the Trash and in the Academic would have the opportunity to win, not only each tournament seperately, but also united tournament crown based on winning percentages from the combined events. Having determined already to play in the Academic Moc Masters and finding itself in town on some non-tournament business anyway, Gerald and Seth (who had both last touched a buzzer at ACF Nationals, having for various reasons been unable to attend the UTC's MoonPie, its NaQT HS Nationals Mirror, and most tragically the Chicago Open) followed the suggestion of the latter that it would be a good idea to play in the Trash tournament (Seth's first since 1997, and Gerald's first ever), based on the logic that just the basic act of buzzing compeitively no matter what the format might blast off some of the rust. Playing on packets which ranged from the amusing (about the highest stamp of quality to be affixed to a Trash packet) to the dire, the team - Gerald and Seth together for this one, playing as "It's a Violent Pornography", a name taken from the title of an absolutely hysterical System of a Down song - finished something like fifth; among the highlights was Seth's narrow loss in the 1980's music round to his own former teammate Keith Hudson and Gerald's display of his madd Harry Potter and Cooking Show skills, though the event seems to have had the unintended consequence of convincing Gerald that Trash is to be avoided in the future in favor of hardcore ACF. Still, the principal purpose (that of restoring a feel for the buzzer) seemed to have been accomplished, and upon being joined that evening by Will, recent alumnus Chad, and Chad's HS droog Nick, the next day's event were eagerly awaited by the teams.
As it turns out, however, a day spent by Seth wildly buzzing at anything that sounded remotely familiar (no exaggeration: according to the stats which were released, his 12 interrupts in 8 games led the field in interrupts) bled over to the next day's festivities, with the result that in three of the first four rounds he incurred two losses and went 25-8 (averaging just under three interrupts per game and with a TU/I of just over 3). This made the team name he selected - "Especially Cringeworthy" - uniquely prescient, though fortunately he was able to right himself by the second half of the tournament to finish 6-3, good for third place. However, the team name which Gerald (who had split from Seth and was attempting his first tournament playing solo) selected, "Stultum Fortuna Iuvat", proved sadly less prophetic, and a combination of an extraodinarily strong field and rust led him to finish 0-9, to take last place (along the way racking up 12 interrupts to his 14 tossups, amassing what may have been the lowest tossup to interrupt ratio in the team's history); finally, Chad, Will, and Nick, playing as "Colorless Refuse" and replete with costumes to that effect (groan) played well, taking sixth place with a 4-5 record. Lowlights - beyond those mentioned above - were rare at this tournament, while among the highlights were a narrow win over the Mix Masters championship Florida team (congratulations to them) as well as a magnificent narrow loss to the Moc Masters-winning team of Wesley Matthews and Jason Paik (congatulations to them) by Seth, as well as personal scoring decorations for Will, Chad, and Seth, the latter of whom taking MVP for his 101 PPG.
FInally: since this was a united tournament it turns out that of the five teams who participated in both tournaments Seth's team finished second overall at the Mix Masters, and he was named Mix Masters MVP.
So much for the summer, then. On to the fall ...