Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Results

2/10/03: Wildcat Invitational Tournament questions are now available here.

Congratulations to the University of Michigan for winning the first ever Wildcat Invitational, hosted by the University of Kentucky Academic team on March 3, 2001. From a field of 9 teams, Michigan ran the table in both the eight-game round robin (gaining the top seed for playoffs), and the three rounds of playoffs among the top four teams, to finish with a perfect 11-0 record and a shiny blue trophy. The University of Illinois finished second, with an 8-3 record, for which they received also received a shiny blue trophy.

The individual all-star scoring awards, based on the 8 games of round robin play, were:

1st Place: Seth Kendall, playing solo as the University of Kentucky house team
2nd Place: John Nam, playing solo
3rd Place: Matt Weiner, from Pittsburgh
4th Place: Chris Vicich, from Illinois
5th Place: Ezequiel Berdichevsky, from Michigan

As prizes/awards, these players were allowed their choice of five reference books supplied by the UKAT, based on scoring position. Seth Kendall passed on his selection, allowing the 6th place scorer, Cheryl Barkauskus, of Washington University in St. Louis, to take his prize. John Nam chose The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Matt Weiner selected the book What If?, Chris Vicich took away a copy of An Incomplete Education, Zeke Berdichevsky chose The Encyclopedia of World Literature, leaving Cheryl Barkauskus with The Book of Lists.

For kicks and giggles, the top four all-stars and the Michigan team duked it out on the last remaining question packet, with the all-stars narrowly exacting revenge upon Michigan for their previous beatdowns, winning 270-260.

If you use or have access to Microsoft Excel, our individual and team statistical spreadsheets are available to download as a zip file. Please note that individual accolades were based only on the first 9 rounds of round robin. We have also included stats all the way through round 12. The names of the files contained in this zip file indicate which stats (team or individual), and through what round number (either 9 or 12), they account.

The links below load the HTML webpage outputs of our original Excel files into new browser windows.

Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Player Statistics - Through 9 Rounds of Round Robin

Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Team Statistics - Through 9 Rounds of Round Robin

Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Player Statistics - Through Round 12

Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Team Statistics - Through Round 12