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This website maintained by Daniel Greenstein. This page was last updated 30 July 2001.
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1996-97 Season Statistics MAQT Stats 1996-7These are the final stats for the season.
Tennessee MastersWe sent one team to Tennessee Masters, the yearly tournament where the quiz bowl canon expands faster than William Conrad at an all-you-can-eat buffet. As the "Neg-erzz with Attitudez," we finished with a 7-5 record, including a win over the Legion of Superheroes. Matt Colvin was "MC Neg," David Hamilton was "Grandbiscuit B," Dave Goodman was "Ice Queef," and Arthur Fleming was "Dr. A".
Philly Experiment IIIThe Fine ArthursThe Fine Arthurs placed third at Philly Experiment with a 17-3 record, despite abandoning their original team name, "Arthur 4: On the Buzzers." Instead of the usual specious all-Dave team, we gave in to the minority with the all-Arthur team. Dave Goodman was "Artarino," Dave Hamilton was the "Artinator," Dave Vacca was "Art-o-rama," and Arthur Fleming was the "Artmeister."
She Blinded Me with Colvin ScienceConsisting of Matt Colvin, Adam Fine, and Georgia Tech's Jason Hong, the team finished with a 7-13 record.
Randolph-Macon Harvest BowlI said in the Upcoming Events page that this was guaranteed to be the most interesting tournament of the season, and I was right for the wrong reasons. The harvest was quite lean this year at Randolph-Macon. The moderators were below average, and it was painfully evident that they had not been trained to handle the difficulties of switching formats. The declining quality of the questions during the tournament was explained after lunch when it became evident that most of the remaining tournament questions had not been written. At this point, the tournament broke down faster that Lithium 5, as much of the field packed up and left. Statistics from this tournament will not be counted as official, so I won't even bother putting them up. The high points of the tournament were the free lunch at R-M's dining hall, and Maryland's impromptu game of fruitball played during one of the long waits we had. Fruitball is very similar to baseball, except it is played with a tree branch and an unidentified unripe, rough-skinned green fruit that explodes on contact with a hard object. A Randolph-Macon team member thought that they were persimmons, but this identification is doubtful. Before all our fruits were destroyed, Dave Goodman and RG both got one hit, and Arthur Fleming had two.Here is another commentary on Harvest Bowl.
Johns HopkinsThe questions were decent at JHU, and anything had to be better after the first tournament of the year. The first team won, and the second team lost in the semifinals to GWU 270-255.
MD Ecto-1
Maryland Speed BuggyThe B team placed second in their round-robin bracket with a record of 10-3.
Maryland Mystery MachineThe C team finished with a 4-8 record.
Maryland Mach-5The D team finished with a 2-10 record.
Terrapin Invitation TournamentWrath of Khon (Khon and scrub team)
Penn State Nittany LionThe questions here varied from acceptable to weird to bad. A good rule of thumb derived from this tournament is that starting a packet with five history questions is generally not a good idea, especially when it is the first packet of the tournament. Things got better after that minor Pickarillo, until the semifinals, where we lost to Ohio State, composed of former MAQT player Michael Starsinic and his impressive teammates.
MD A-TeamThe A team decided to call itself the A-team, much to my chagrin. Let's look at the casting:
MD X-Men
MD Fantastic 4
MD SuperfriendsMy Superfriends knowledge is kind of sketchy, but I don't think there was a guy named Cygnus, unless he was that nerdy dude who could speed read.
PrincetonThe first team won. That's about all I can tell you, since I didn't go.
MD A
MD B
Georgia Tech MLKOur team placed second here. The questions were very good, especially considering the relative lack of good ACF questions this year.
NAQT NationalsMaryland AMaryland A placed fifth overall, according to the final standings (which are of dubious value). The questions ranged from bad college bowl to find-your-ass, with only a few gems in between. The bonus difficulty varied more than sin(1/x) near 0, but we did appreciate the kick-ass visual bonuses. Anyway, here's the stats.
Maryland BMaryland B racked up an impressive 43 negs, of which roughly 3/4 were due to Colvination. They placed 21st, and were the highest finishing B team in the field.
Maryland CMaryland C won three games at NAQT nationals. Due to the "improved" Swiss pair format, they got to play SUNY Stonybrook three times, and thrice showed their complete dominance.
George Washington JCVMaryland AThe A team finished 6-6, losing a lot of close games. Dave Goodman amassed 24 negs in 12 games, but this was not surprising considering the overall quality of the questions at the tournament.
Maryland BThe B team lost twice in the prelims, to Georgetown B, and to Maryland C. After beating JHU in the semifinals, they won a close match against the Princeton/Delaware team to win the tournament. This is the second year in a row that the winning Maryland team has incurred a loss to Georgetown B.
Maryland CMaryland C was first after the round robin, with only a loss to the TJ high school team, and were beaten by the Princeton/Delaware team in the semifinals.
Georgetown Cup IVMaryland AAhh, Georgetown Cup. Probably the closest thing that we ivory-tower hardcore-ACF Marylanders get to the dark underworld that is CBI. Once again, we made the trek to DC to experience the worst questions of the year. Maryland A went undefeated in the round robin, and beat all the other teams in the playoffs by at least 200 points. We promptly lost in the semifinals to GWU, so Maryland could not defend its title. We would give our trophy from last year to Princeton if we had gotten one. At least we learned some Scottish mythology while we were there.
Maryland Run-UMCPMaryland Run went 6-6 in the round robin to finish in seventh place overall.
Maryland Young-UMCPAn all-freshman team, Maryland Young went 10-2 to finish second in the round robin. Due to the highly scientific single-elim playoffs, they were knocked out of contention by Princeton in the semifinals.
ACF RegionalsMaryland AMaryland A had only one loss during the round robin, to Virginia B, and emerged from the playoffs with the best overall record to win the tournament.
Maryland BThe Maryland B team finished with a 4-9 record.
Wahoo War of the MindsMaryland AThis team roared through the prelims, going undefeated at 11-0 and slaughtering John Sheahan's one-man "Lincoln Tech" team. Alas, they met questions by the inheritor of the Tom Joint, Andrew Yaphe, in the playoffs, losing two low-scoring games to Georgia Tech by ten points each and finishing second to Tech overall.
Maryland BWith the defection of Julie to the Penn State "Llamaspotting" team, Maryland B called on its resident Cincinnatus, Dave Vacca, to bring it respectability. After three rounds, it was sucking all kinds of bad, as the B team won a forfeit over Princeton but was crushed by Georgia Tech and Illinois. However, Vacca did not disappoint, as Maryland B closed by winning 11 of its last 12 games, finishing 5th overall, including a 150-point, last-seven toss-up comeback against Martin Poteralski's UNC team.
Maryland CNormally a team with Khon as its captain would not induce fear in many opponents. However, this weekend Khon proved to be "The Enforcer," as he had back-to-back career games of 5-0 and 4-0 in dispatching Methodist 195-0 and Virginia Tech B. A victory over the Virginia frosh in the playoffs gave Maryland C a 3-11 record overall.
In addition, Julie went 83-3 for 54.3 PPG on the Penn State team. Swarthmore QOTCMaryland Wilde MausAll three team names were for roller coasters you would find at Busch Gardens, where the MAQT went the day after Wahoo. Wilde Maus (named after the kiddie coaster) featured the dominance of David Hamilton, who had a 14-0 game on Adam's packet. Its only two losses were to Princeton A, both by 40 points or less, the second time in the semifinals.
Minnie Mouse is Michelle, Die Fledermaus is David H., Mighty Mouse is Khon, and Danger Mouse is Mark T.
Maryland Big Bad WolfThis team had a devastating one-two doubleteam punch in Arthur and Julie, the 2nd and 3rd scorers of the tournament. Only a surprising loss to Penn kept Big Bad Wolf from going undefeated. Sadly, they met the asslucky champion Pitt the Elder team in the semis, who won on the last toss-up.
Maryland AlpengeistThe third Maryland playoff team, at 10-2 its losses in the prelims were to Princeton A and Pitt A by a combined 50 points. Having a chance to exact revenge on Pitt in the quarterfinals, they fell short by only 10 points when Joe Wright purposely ran out the clock with an incorrect buzz.
RMC Larvae BowlMaryland Bogus JourneyIn the aftermath of the Harvest Bowl disaster, Randolph-Macon started to return to respectability by hosting a five-team freshman/sophomore tourney, with R-MC, UMBC, and UMCP. Bogus Journey proved to be the dominant team of the tournament, going undefeated and winning the $100 first prize. Its wins over the 2nd place team, UMBC A, included a thrilling 200-195 comeback and a 480-10 thrashing.
Maryland Excellent AdventureFinishing third at 4-4, this was a solid all-freshman team led by Mark and Josh.
ACF NationalsMaryland AWith Dave Goodman unable to attend the Illinois trek because of GRE's, the A team relied on Matt Colvin to pick up some of the slack. All things considered, Maryland A played well, losing only to Illinois in the prelims and finishing third overall behind Virginia and Chicago.
Maryland BPresented the schedule from hell on Night One, the B team fell to Illinois B, Virginia A, and Iowa State A before pulling a stunning upset over Cal-Berkeley to keep Cal from the playoffs. The win was on the last toss-up, when Adam pulled a science question on Gauss! Maryland B recovered from a 1-4 first night to finish 7-7 overall, good for 15th place.
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