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Well, what to say about this. We brought 13 players to this event, eight to be on the "regular" Carleton Deep Bench lineup, and five more to be part of a mixed-team "extras" squad. These were six players making their Carleton team debut: Tom Sullivan, Andreas Stoehr, Austin Bell, Michael Servis, Marc Boyce, and Dan Ehrenberg; plus returnees Richard Leavelle, Ted Kuhn, Chris Burke, Emily Kawaler, Nathaniel Snell, Trevor Burnham, and Chris Logel. The tournament, unfortunately, was a bit of bust. Rehashing the details isn't important, but it wound up not in fact being played as a "Deep Bench" at all, as the singles and doubles matches (5/7 of the scoring, in a real Deep Bench tournament) wound up being cancelled. Quads matches were played, excruciatingly slowly. Carleton and the Carleton/Extras won some and lost others, but overall results are hazy, as some days after the tournament it was announced that stats weren't saved nor scoresheets kept. I guess the real season starts later. Postscript: the Carleton squad of Richard, Tom, Ted, Andreas, Chris B., Emilhy, Trevor, and Nathaniel finished 4th of 9.
In a tournament limited to new collegiate players we sent six frosh, playing on two teams of three each. It was a first tournament for three of our six: Larry Rolen, Eli Gold, and Laura Dismore. A team of Austin, Dan, and Larry went 3-3 in preliminary matches in one division, to sneak into the top playoff bracket and finish 5-5 overall. Eli and Laura played with Tom on a team that went 3-4 in the other division, and was relegated to the "consolation" playoff bracket, but won all three games there to finish 6-4 on the day. Tom was the tournament's top individual scorer, with a 98.3 points per game average.
Three Carleton teams in a ten-team field, placing 3rd (Richard, Andreas, Tom, Trevor), 7th (Austin, Nathaniel, Chris B., Nathan White), and 8th (Emily, Michael, Marc, Ted). Richard and Andreas each received book prizes as among the tournament's top individual scorers. It was a late-starting Sunday tournament with matches lasting into the evening, and Carleton's lower-placing teams chose not to stay for further consolation-bracket matches after the full round-robin. Carleton's top team stayed part-way through the playoffs, going 7-3 in games actually played, then forfeiting their final two after deciding it had gotten to be too late and they needed to get back to campus. The two forfeits made no difference in their third-place finish.
Playing "trash" tournaments, unless they're add-ons to an academic tournament we're already attending, is rare for us, but a Carleton bunch did go up to this, and had the requisite fun. Eight teams played full round-robin, then broke into upper and lower brackets for three more games. One of our squads, "Planet Express Corp.," made the upper bracket, finishing fourth, 5-5 overall -- that was Andreas ("Zoidberg"), Nathan W. ("Hubert Faunsworth"), Nathaniel ("Nibbler"), and Tom ("Scruffy"). Finishing 5th (6-4, but in the lower bracket) was "The New Justice Team," of Emily ("Clobberella") playing with Carleton alumni Jack Rousseau '06 ("Captain Yesterday") and Peter Berry '07 ("Super King"). Laura, Trevor, and Will Levine, playing as "Team America," went 2-7 and finished 7th.
Sadly, one of our usual favorite tournaments was scheduled later than ever before this year, and fell during our long Thanksgiving through New Year's winter break, so we could not as a team attempt to "threepeat" as champions. Grrr. However, one of our number, Andreas, nonetheless went as an individual, latching on to a team of Drake players and alumni (hi Quentin!), and instrumentally helped that assemblage finish 3rd in a field of nine. Well done, Andreas.
We entered five teams under "CUT-style" eligibility rules mandating solo appearances for Garrett Ryan and Richard, and a two-person team for Trevor and Ted. Results: Garrett went 7-2 to finish 5th in the field of 20 teams. His two losses were his first two matches, which he dropped by only 30 and 40 points, respectively, after which he swept the table the rest of the way. Garrett finished as the 3rd overall scorer in the tournament. The freshmen - Andreas, Austin, and Marc - tied for 6th with Richard playing solo, both finishing 6-3. Richard was the tournament's #5 scorer overall, and Andreas #9. Chris B., Emily, and Nathan W. went 4-5, tieing for 10th, and Ted and Trevor went 2-7, a four-way tie for 14th.
Results: In Div. I, Garrett, Richard, Ted and Trevor went 11-1 in round robin and playoff matches to clinch the undergrad championship outright and reach the overall final versus Iowa needing to win only once to claim the overall title, but Iowa won back to back matches to relegate us to 2nd overall. Garrett was the #4 individual scorer. (#1 was 2007 Carleton grad Pat Hope, now in law school at the University of North Dakota.) Div. II play culminated in an all-Carleton final, with the team of Andreas, Austin, Tom, and Michael (12-0 on the day) beating Nathaniel, Emily, Chris B., and Marc (10-2). Andreas was the #2 individual scorer in Div. II, while teammate Austin was #6. Farther down the standings, the team of Dan, Nathan Lysne, and Eli went 4-7 and finished 8th, while Rebecca Palmer, Nathan W., Chris L., and Will had a winless 0-11 day.
This wasn't quizbowl, but the quizbowl team did send eight team-associated people to attend a dinner and world geography/intenational current events trivia contest at the Macnamara Alumni Center. Eric, Richard, Garrett, Chris B., Francesca Chubb-Confer, Andreas, Austin, and Eli placed 13th in a field of 45.
In a small tournament limited to novice players in their first two years of collegiate competition, details are a little sketchy, but apparently The Sorrows of Young Carleton (Andreas, Austin, Dan, Larry) finished tied for 4th, and The Unbearable Lightness of Carleton (Emily, Marc, Nathan, Nathaniel) finished 6th. Andreas was 4th in individual scoring.
We entered four house teams in the tenth annual CUT, with these results: Carleton Choler (Garrett) and Carleton Blood (Austin, Michael, Andreas) both went 7-3, to finish in a three-way tie for 3rd place with Minnesota A. Tied for 9th with St. Olaf B was Carleton Phlegm (Marc, Chris B.), whose final record, including matches in the lower-bracket split, was 5-4. Carleton Phlegm (Trevor, Ted) finished 2-7, which was a three-way tie for 11th.
OUR FROSH WON THE DIVISION 2 TITLE! And Garrett won the individual undergraduate scoring title in Div. 1. These were the highlights of a fun weekend. Andreas, Austin, Michael and Tom reached the D2 championship finals with a 12-1 record and one game advantage over Western Ontario for the championship. It did take two games, but the frosh prevailed, winning the decisive one decisively, 310-170. Austin and Andreas finished with the same 40.77 ppg. scoring average to lead the team through the tournament, but in the title game it was Tom (16.12 ppg. avg.) who stepped up in a timely fashion to lead the way with 5 tossups, 2 for power. Highlights for this team along the way included drubbing Canada's Carleton University in a match where it was suggested that rights to the name might be at stake, and beating MIT on the last question of one match where the answer was "calculus." Also in D2, Carleton B (Chris, Emily, Marc, Nathaniel) finished in the top half, tied for 14th. In D1, the team of Garrett, Richard, Ted, and Trevor finished 6th among the undergrad teams, 15th overall. Garrett grabbed some individual glory as the top undergrad scorer, 4th overall behind some graybeard grad students. Following the frosh's win all three teams, plus Eric, team alumni Peter Berry and Neal Schuster, and Richard's mother and brother all enjoyed a memorable celebratory victory banquet at Landry's Seafood House. Yum.
