Results of Late Spring 2008 Tournaments

It's time to update the old blog again. Here are results from five tournaments in which OAT participated at the end of the spring 2008 semester.

First, OAT sent a team, consisting of Sydney Ashby, Robert Hayes, Matthew King, and Brian Morrow to Tulsa Open Academic Spring Tournament 2, a mirror of the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament, at the University of Tulsa on March 29. After finishing with a 9-1 record, OAT won! Brian also finished in fourth place in individual competition with 50 points per game, and Matt was fifth with 34 PPG. Results are at http://orgs.utulsa.edu/academicbowl/tournaments_files/TOAST%20II_standings.html.

Afterward, OAT remained in Tulsa on March 30 to participate in a mirror of the RC Cola Classic, a trash tournament at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Only four teams competed: one from Tulsa, another from Oklahoma State, and two from Oklahoma. The Underdogs (David Gagne, Robert Hayes, Matthew King, and Brian Morrow) tied for first with Tulsa with a 5-3 record but lost in a rather unorthodox tiebreaker: a match of rock-paper-scissors. The Exiles on Main Street (Sydney Ashby, Cliff Marroquin, Daniel Page, and Ted Swang) tied for third place with a 3-5 record. Results are at http://orgs.utulsa.edu/academicbowl/tournaments_files/RC%20Cola%20Mirror%202008_standings.html.

Later, OAT was able to send a Division I team, consisting of David, Matthew, and Brian, to the NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament at Washington University at St. Louis on April 11-12. Unfortunately, OAT finished thirty-first out of thirty-one teams in Division I. However, all three team members finished in the middle tier in individual statistics. Results are available at http://www.naqt.com/Results/2008-ict-results.html.

One week later, Robert, Matthew, and Brian represented OAT at Rollapalooza 9, one of the last collegiate tournaments to use the NAQT Invitational Series, at Missouri University of Science and Technology on April 19. OAT finished sixth out of seven teams. Brian was the fifth-best individual scorer with 37.92 PPG. Results are available at http://web.mst.edu/~cbowl/hosting/0708/rollapalooza08_standings.html.

Finally, OAT hosted Boren Cup 24 on April 26. Eight high school teams competed, and Edmond Santa Fe A won the round robin and the playoffs. Results for the round robin are at http://www.ou.edu/student/okacf/results/bc24_standings.html.

OAT looks forward to another great year of competition in the 2008-2009 season, which begins with hosting Route 66 Classic 14, a mirror of Early Fall Tournament 3 at Brown, on October 4.