Wildcat Invitational Tournament 2: A Cavalcade of Whimsy Results

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

Congratulations to the University of Michigan for winning the second annual Wildcat Invitational, hosted by the University of Kentucky Academic team on March 2, 2002. From a field of 8 teams, Michigan ran the table in the seven-game round robin, the three-round top/bottom four round robin, and two rounds of ladder play to finish with a perfect 12-0 record and their second consecutive WIT championship. Similarly, Illinois once again finished a distant second, with a 7-5 record. The team of Florida Atlantic plus Roger Bhan of Stanford finished third with a 9-3 record. In a splendid display of senility and avarice, all of the above were awarded refaced trophies from past UKAT exploits.

The individual all-star scoring awards, based on the 7 games of round robin play, were:

1st Place: Seth Kendall, playing solo as the University of Kentucky house team
2nd Place: Matt Lafer, playing solo as Michigan B
3rd Place: Roger Bhan, from the Florida Atlantic + Roger Bhan tag team
4th Place: Raj Dhuwalia, from the Florida Atlantic + Roger Bhan tag team
5th Place: Ezequiel Berdichevsky, from Michigan A

As prizes/awards, these players given their choice of a selection of books. We stuck it to Seth by not allowing him to jack a book; instead, Matt Lafer of Michigan B made the first choice, a Dictionary of Art and Artists donated by Seth. Roger Bhan selected After the Funeral, concerning the posthumous adventures of famous corpses. Raj Dhuwalia of Florida Atlantic took Revenge Dramas of Webster and Tourneur. Michigan A's Zeke Berdichevsky then took the New American Desk Encyclopedia, leaving his teammate, 6th place scorer Adam Kemezis, with the Atlas of World History. Additionally, we awarded books of dubious worth gleaned from the free bin of Edward McKay's Books in Knoxville to the top five neg artists. We didn't record exactly who took what, but Cheryl Barkhauskas of WUStL, Eric Douglass of South Carolina, Raj Dhuwalia, Roger Bhan, and Mike "Hairboy" Sorice were stuck with the novelization of Hudson Hawk, UFOs: A Scientific Investigation, a Harlequin romance, Tom Clancy's Ops Center: State of Siege, and Pat Nixon: The Untold Story.

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 7 rounds of round robin. We have also included stats as they existed through rounds 10 and 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

Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Player Statistics - Through Round 12

Spring 2001 Wildcat Invitational Team Statistics - Through Round 12