Results: This Tournament Goes to Eleven VI: Lick My Love Pump (2004)

Fittingly enough, 11 teams converged on Iowa City last weekend for the sixth installment of This Tournament Goes to Eleven. 32 Packets were played over 16 rounds in 2 days, and there were very few bumps in the road.

After--what else--eleven rounds of play on Saturday, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lead the pack with 108 points, followed by DePauw with 73. Minnesota, Carleton, Michigan State, Northwestern, and Iowa State all scored between 48-64 points; Truman State, Grinnell, Drake, and Oklahoma University rounded out the group.

On Sunday, DePauw put up some amazing numbers to make a storied comeback, ending up with 106 points--just 6 points shy of Illinois tournament-winning 112. In third place was Minnesota, followed by Michigan State, Carleton, Northwestern, Iowa State, Truman State, Grinnell, Drake, and Oklahoma University.

Congratulations UIUC!

In addition to winning the team competition, UIUC's Mike Sorice won the singles competition, followed by UIAQC alum (playing with Minnesota) Aaron Twait, and St. Thomas' Paul Drube.

Hopefully, a good time was had by all and even more teams will come next year.

Results:

Packet List:

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to…OH! A New Video Game!
Subject: Videogames and videogaming in the modern era. If you’re waiting for some Atari or Colecovision tossups, you’d be better off waiting for Mario to appear in a game pantsless. This packet, like life, is for the living.

Africa - Guns, Germs, and More Guns
Subject: Africa.

Anime Round
Subject: Anime! There are no powers. Why? Do you really want to power these questions?

Carleton’s Mystery Theme
Theme: It’s a mystery. The theme isn’t ‘mysteries’; the theme is a mystery. Got that?

Children’s Literature
Subject: Children’s literature, covering works written for the preliterate, the beginning reader, and the early-to-late adolescent.

Clothes, Fashion, & Style
Subject: Um, this packet is about clothes, fashion, and style. It’s about 25/75 academic/TRASH.

Crappy Cinema of the New Millennium
Subject: Movies released since January 1st, 2001 that Andrew R. Juhl—maybe not you—but Andrew R. Juhl considers utter crap-o-la. And he knows, as he’s seen every movie mentioned in this packet.

Fab Fours
Theme: Some say good things come in threes. Some say bad things come in threes. This packet proves that good and bad things can come in fours, as well. Who’s up for a ménage à neuf?

Final Bows
Subject: This packet concerns the colorful deaths and burials of some of the most famous people to ever be interred in American soil.

Football! It’s What Separates Us from the Europeans
Subject: Football, in all of its glorious, amazing, tear-bringing (if I weren’t so manly) forms.

I am Bob Ross of Borg; Happy Trees are Futile.
Subject: Art. Art History. Bob Ross? Nope, no Bob Ross.

I Subscribed to Maxim and All I Got Was This Lousy Packet
Theme: All information herein was found in the fifth volume of Maxim (issues 61-75). Owning a subscription to Maxim probably won’t help you; being a chauvinistic jackass might.

If all the World’s a Stage, Then What are You Doing Playing Quizbowl?
Subject: Plays! Playwrights! Huzzah!

J.R.R. Tolkien
Subject: J.R.R. Tolkien. If a question relates only to the movies or only to the books, it will be stated as such; otherwise, assume the question relates to both.

NOT Poetry
Subject: Literature that’s not poetry.

Old Physics Teachers Never Die - They Just Cancel Out
Subject: Physics.

Questions on Questions
Theme: Would you phrase that in the form of a question please? And don’t just change the inflection of your voice. Answer these questions with the confidence that they are questions for answers.

Pasty White European History
Subject: European history.

Poetry
Subject: Poetry, “The Raw and the Genuine.”

See the USA Through the Majesty of Song (Audio)
Subject: This is an audio round of song clips, wherein the song titles all mention a specific American location.

Starcraft
Theme: This is a balanced packet, wherein all the answers are related to the Starcraft videogame franchise. No prior knowledge of Starcraft is needed; any prior knowledge of Starcraft will be—at best—marginally advantageous.

The Incredible Mr. Whedon
Theme: This is [mostly] a TRASH packet where all of the answers are linked—either directly or as a reference to—the works of television and move writer/producer/director Joss Whedon. Knowledge of Mr. Whedon’s repertoire is not required to answer most questions, but fans of Whedon will have a definite advantage.

The Judiciary: Roughly 33% of Our Thrice-Branched Government!
Subject: It’s a packet about the Judicial Branch. Now, stop dawdling and get playing.

The Life and Times of Andrew R. Juhl (Part II)
Theme: Things relating—in some way—to the packet’s author (Pooky). No knowledge of the packet author is required beforehand, and too much knowledge of the author will be known afterwards. At this point, if Matt Larson is your moderator, he will tell you how much he hates self-referential packets.

The Year Poker Came Home to Roost
Theme: A multidisciplinary packet concerning the events to date of the year 2004.

Theory Heads
Theme: Every team has that person who cries out in disbelief, "Where are the questions on Feminist Theory," or "What about post-colonial studies?" Well, this packet was designed with that person in mind, a series of questions designed to fill in the blanks left behind by many packets in the areas of Minority Studies and various theoretical sciences. However, after working on it for a while, we decided we could bend the rules and accept any question with the word "Theory" in it somewhere. Oh, and there was some drinking involved. If you like ACF Nationals, this is the thing for you, dog.

This Packet is Linked in Some Way
Theme: Each tossup has a corresponding bonus that asks for information about the same field of study or interest. Warning: this packet is a little science heavy; mainly 2 people wrote it, and those 2 people have 3 B.S.s between them. So basically, these questions are B.S.

This Packet is Linked in Some OTHER Way
Theme: The tossups in this round relate to one another in different ways. Most of the links are tenuous at best, but prior answers will give clues to future answers. The bonuses, however, are all German. They’re not in German, mind you; they’re just about Germany. Get this, though: they were written by a German. So, 2 things: (1) really efficient intros and (2) if you wanna protest, you’re probably S.O.L.

The Visual Bonus Round
Theme: Every bonus in this round is a visual bonus. Because visual bonuses are a real time sink, all tossups in the round have been designed to be attainably answerable.

War, It’s Fan-tastic!
Subject: War! It’s fantastic, by the way.

When did Mötley Crüe Become Classic Rock?
Subject: Classic rock and classic rockers. The answer to the packets title: it didn’t.