MLK Tournament at U of Michigan, 1/19/02

Results: Northwestern B
(Jordan Burgess, John Etmekjian, Robert Flaxman, Jason Selvey)

    MLK sucked last year because we spent all this time writing a packet which was then quietly discarded in favor of packet after packet of largely unanswerable questions (this is supposed to be mACF, not straight ACF).  In the wake of that debacle, we were promised that our questions would be used this year.
    As it turned out, they largely weren't.  We sent three teams, and only our (NU B) packet was used at all, and even then I counted five tossups, two tossups which sounded like reworkings of bonuses, and four bonuses - only about a quarter of one packet, in other words.
    It also sort of sucked because MLK, being at Michigan and therefore fairly centrally located as far as east of the Mississippi goes, draws a lot of pretty good competition, including Kentucky, Pitt, Chicago, Illinois, and of course the Michiganers themselves, which all translates to "our team went 4-10, and that's after 2-1 in the playoffs."  Probably one of the weirdest notes of the day was the fact that I managed to outscore the team in two separate games - scoring three tossups, 30 points, in our 25-point effort against Ohio State in Round Six, and 60 points in our 55-5 defeat of NU C in the playoffs.
    Favorite Tossup: There were some nice ones, though as you'd expect I got much of the trashy knowledge and not massive amounts else (see below).   I think my favorite was probably Tommy Boy, because I got it off of some lead-in like "the main character takes a history test and fills in the name of a signer of the Declaration of Independence..." and then buzz.
    Favorite Bonus: The problem with these two days of tournaments is that by the time they're done I've forgotten the first one if I didn't write it down.  And I don't write down bonuses, even good ones, so I can't say what my favorite bonus was because I don't remember any.
    Worst Neg: Flora Bloom as Leopold's wife.  It's really Molly, of course - what I've been unable to figure out so far is why the hell I was so convinced it was Flora.

Prelim Rounds (Round Robin)

Round One: Northwestern B 105, Chicago D 75
Round Two: Chicago B 370, Northwestern B 85
Round Three: Pittsburgh A 300, Northwestern B 165
Round Four: Rochester 220, Northwestern B 65
Round Five: Michigan State 300, Northwestern B 100
Round Six: Ohio State 95, Northwestern B 25
Round Seven: Northwestern B 90, Western Ontario 75
Round Eight: Kentucky 420, Northwestern B 25
Round Nine: Illinois A 215, Northwestern B 65
Round Ten: Iowa B 190, Northwestern B 140
Round Eleven: BYE
Round Twelve: Michigan 435, Northwestern B 25

Prelims Record: 2-9 (tenth place, Montgomery Division)

Playoffs (re-bracketed round robin)

Round One: #10M Northwestern B 100, #10B McMaster 50
Round Two: #11B Notre Dame 165, #10M Northwestern B 130
Round Three: #10M Northwestern B 55, #12B Northwestern C 5

Final Record: 4-10 (19th place out of 24 teams)

Personal Stats: Questions Answered

   No one's asking you to care about it.  Powers would be in bold if they existed in mACF, neg-5s are in italics with the real answer following.  Anything in plain text was just ten.

Round One
Costa Rica
Iroquois Confederacy
Osiris

Round Two
Aqualung
Michael Ondaatje
Mikhail Lermontov

Round Three
Lipizzaner stallions
Ned Kelly
Maldives

Round Four
Ig Nobel Prizes
Atacama Desert

Round Five
Danny Elfman
The Magnificent Seven

Round Six
Corey Dillon
The Sting
Mekong River

Round Seven
Rufus (as in Chris Rock's character in "Dogma")
José de San Martin
Diego Garcia

Round Eight
Mike Bloomberg

Round Nine
Flora Bloom (really Molly Bloom)
René François Armand Prudhomme

Round Ten
The Age of Innocence
Lake Chad
Eugene Levy
The Last Supper
Moby

Round Twelve
El Paso (really Austin)

Prelims PPG: 22.7

Playoffs Round One
Jimmy Eat World
Omaha
Io
Tommy Boy

Playoffs Round Two
Madagascar
Budokan
Sturm und Drang

Playoffs Round Three
Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte Isle
Segway
Rhodes
Tammy Faye Bakker
Jasper
Catherine the Great

Playoffs PPG: 43.3

Overall PPG: 27.1