Monday, May 2, 2011

Nationals, Third Results for Middle

Propaganda
Awesome People's Team 480 points, 20th place
The Legitimate Walruses 466 points, 21st place
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 464 points, 22nd place

Presidents
Awesome People's Team 628 points, tied for third in the nation
The Legitimate Walruses 562 points, 9th place
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 484 points, 16th place

Individual --
Claire F. 142 points, 2nd in country
Shreya M. 138 points, tied for 6th

Equations
Section A
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 108 1st in division

Section C
Awesome People's Team 112, 1st in division

Section E
The Legitimate Walruses 103, tied for 2nd in division

Playoffs-
Awesome and Bob Lee advanced to the playoffs. Awesome lost in their semi-final by two points to a team from Jefferson Parrish, Louisiana, while Bob Lee advanced to the national championship match, where they lost by four points to a team from Grand Rapids.

Individual-- The following players got perfect scores but were defeated in the playoffs before the final match:
Shreya M.
Shalini L.
Luke C.

The On-Sets final from yesterday is still to be played (Luke C. and Susanne S) and the announcement of the overall sweepstakes winner will come tonight at the awards ceremony.

Nationals, Third Results for Elementary

Today's competitions included the final two rounds of Equtions, Propaganda and Presidents as well as Equations playoffs.

Propaganda
A+ = @ 444 points, 10th place
Rugrats 418 points, 13th place
Duleing Dragons 340 points, 29th place

Presidents
Rugrats 536 points, 3rd place
A+=@ 418 points, 12th place
Duleing Dragons 276 points, 31st place

Individual --
Justin S., 130 points, 2nd in the country
Oliver B. 124 points, 7th in the country

Equations
Sec B
Dueling Dragons 100, 2nd in section

Sec C
Rugrats 111, 1st in section

Sec E
A+ = @ 113, 1st in section

Playoffs -- Rugrats and A+ advanced to the playoffs, where they both won their semi-final matches against teams from Louisiana and Detroit. In the national championship final, Rugrats finished first, a team from Florida finished second, and A+ finished third.

Individuals -- The following students got perfect Equations scores:
Richard Z.
Grace L
Jessica C.

Nationals, Second Day Results for Middle

Here are results for the second day of competitions for the 7th and 8th graders:

Propaganda
The Awesome People's Team 284 points 19th place
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 278 points 20th place
The Legitimate Walruses 258 points, 26th place

On-Sets
Section A
The Legitimate Walruses 83, 5th place

Section B
Awesome People's Team 106, 1st place

Section C
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 108 points, 1st place

Playoffs - Awesome People's Team and Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge advanced to the national championship round where the Awesome People's team won the national championship by two points over Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge, who finished second the country!!

Linguishtik
Section A
Awesome People's Team 120 , 1st place

Section B
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 116 1st place

Section C
The Legitimate Walruses 97, tied for 2nd

Playoffs-- The Awesome People's team both advanced to the national semifinals. Bob Lee's team lost in the semi-final match, while the Awesome People's team advanced to the final where they played one team from Grand Rapids, and one from Indian River County in Florida. In the final, Awesome People's team won easily, 24-20-16 to bring the Middle Linguishtik national championship back to Ann Arbor again!

Individual Playoffs
In the middle division, any player with a perfect 24 in the regular rounds advanced to a multi-level playoff to determine the individual national championship.
In Linguishtik the following players get perfect scores but were eliminated in the first or second round of the playoffs:
Luke C
Shalini L
Shreya M
Conrad P
Susanne S
Topher W

Two players made it to the final , and Claire F finished second in the country, and Shwetha R won the national title in Linguishtik, her first career individual title!

In On-Sets, four players got perfect scores, but due to the length of a semi-final match (14 sudden death shakes) the final was not played tonight.
The following players lost in the semi final matches:
Topher W
Shalini L

The following two players will play tomorrow, along with a student from Grand Rapids, MI for the national championship:
Luke C
Sussanne S

Congrats to all of our students for their great success so far

Nationals, Second Day Results for Elementary

Today we played the first two rounds of Propaganda, and the second two rounds of On-Sets and Linguishtik and team playoffs for both of those games.

Propaganda
Rugrats 276 points 8th place, 8 points back of 7th
A+ = @ 270 points, 11th place
Duleing Dragons 220, 24th place

Linguishtik
Section C
Rugrats 108, 1st place

Section D
A+=@ 98 points, tied for 1st

Playoffs -- Both teams advanced to a six team playoff with three, two-team semifinal matches leading to a three team national championship final. Both teams won their semi-final easily over teams from Jefferson Parrish, Louisiana (near New Orleans) and Palm Beach County Florida. In the national championship final, they played against a team from Indian River County in Florida and finished second (Rugrats) and third (A+), by a score of 22 (IR) to 20 (rugrats) to 18 (A+).
Congrats to our national second and third place teams.

On-Sets
Section A
A+ = @ 107 points, 1st place

Section B
Rugrats 105 points, 1st place

Section C
Dueling Dragons 86 points, 5th place

Playoffs -- A+ = @ and the Rugrats advacned to a three team playoff for the national championship with a team from the Detroit charter school, Plymouth Educational Center, and The Rugrats came out on top with 24 points and A+ finished second with 23 points.
Congrats to our national runners-up and national champions from Clague!!

There are no individual playoffs in the elementary division, but the students with perfect 24s are honored as undefeated players.
The Linguishtik perfect scores included:
Ji Ho H.
Grace L.

The On-Sets perfect scores included:
Livia B-W.
Jesse C.
Richard Z.

Congrats to all of our players for their impressive showing thus far in the national tournament.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Nationals, First Day Results for Middle

First day scores for the 7th and 8th graders:

Linguishtik
Section A
Awsome People's Team 60 (out of 60), 1st place, 9 points up

Section B
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 57, 1st place, 9 points up

Section C
The Legitimate Walruses 42, 5th place, 13 point back

Equations
Section A
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge, 57 points, 1st place, 2 points up

Section C
Awesome People's Team 56 points, 1st place, 9 points up

Section E
The Legitimate Walruses, 58 points, 1st place, 7 points up

On Sets
Section A
The Legitimate Walruses 36, 7th place, 15 points back

Section B
The Awesome People's Team 53, 2nd place, 2 points back

Section C
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 53, 1st place, 5 points up

Presidents
Awesome People's Team 318 (out of 360) 4th place, 2 points back of third, 22 points back of first
The Legitimate Walruses 280, 12th place
Bob Lee's Penguin Refuge 246, 18th place

Tomorrow we play Ling, Prop, OS

Nationals, First Day Results for Elem

The first day of competition is done and the Clague students are once again setting the pace:

Linguishtik
Section C
The Rugrats 52 (out of 60) - 1st place, 2 points up

Section D
A+ =@ 48 points - 3rd place, 1 point back of first


Equations
Section B
Dueling Dragons 52 points, 2nd place, 7 points back

Section C
Rugrats 53 points, 1st place, 9 points up

Section F
A+=@ 58, 1st place, 10 points up

On - Sets
Section A
A+ = @ 55 points, 1st place, 5 points up

Section B
The Rugrats 56 points, 1st place, 11 points up

Section C
Dueling Dragons 40, 5th place

Presidents
Rugrats 276 points (out of 360), 3rd place, 24 points back of 2nd, 46 points back of first
A+=@ 192 points, tied for 15th
Dueling Dragons 162 points, tied for 23rd