Report on CUT 10, March 8, 2008


13 teams competed in CUT 10, the tenth annual Carleton Undergraduate Tournament, held on Saturday, March 8, 2008. For this tournament using NAQT novice-level questions, various criteria were used to limit certain schools/players to competing as two-person teams, while novices and some others were allowed to compete as foursomes.

Drake's Brendan Byrne won this playing solo, decisively defeating a duo of Eden Prairie High School alumni, Minnesota's Gautam Kandikar and Carnegie Mellon's Trevor Davis, in a single game final, 555-160.

Final results for all teams:

1. 9-2 Drake A (Brendan Byrne)
2. 8-3 Eden Prairie Alumni (Trevor Davis, Gautam Kandikar)
3. (tie) 7-3 Carleton Choler (Garrett Ryan)
3. (tie) 7-3 Carleton Blood (Austin Bell, Michael Servis, Andreas Stoehr)
3. (tie) 7-3 Minnesota A (Andrew Bockover, Mike Parks)
6. 6-4 Iowa A (Tom Brantseg, Bryan Leppert, Martin Whitman)
7. 5-5 Iowa B (Dan Hogan, Josh Modrick, Peter Montag, Wes Hottel)
8. 3-7 St. Olaf A (Danny Able)
(upper/lower bracket split) 9. (tie) 5-4 St. Olaf B (Joseph Jarell, Stefan Poikonen, Caleb Eboch, Dan Pullman)
9. (tie) 5-4 Carleton Phlegm (Marc Boyce, Chris Burke)
11. (tie) 2-7 Drake B (Stacy Meyers, Derek Olson)
11. (tie) 2-7 Minnesota B (Daniel Weispfenning, Meredith Johnson)
11. (tie) 2-7 Carleton Bile (Trevor Burnham, Ted Kuhn)

(The records include a total of ten technical wins over a team that cancelled after the match schedule had been drawn up, included to make the total number of games even across the two divisions.) Special thanks to all who helped as moderators: Paul Drube, Ezra Lyon, David Niles, Emily Pike, Jack Rousseau, and Neal Schuster

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