Vancouver Estival Trivia Open 2003 results

Fifth Annual
Vancouver Estival Trivia Open
July 19, 2003

The fifth annual Vancouver Estival Trivia Open (VETO) was held on Saturday, July 19, 2003, at the Harbour Centre Campus of Simon Fraser University in downtown Vancouver, B.C.

This was a guerrilla-style tournament, meaning that all questions were written by members of the participating teams, and there was no central editing. Question packets were shared with a mirror tournament (VETO Escapes to Toronto Ontario) being held the same day in Toronto. All staff were drawn from the participating teams during their bye rounds.

Questions are available for free download! (saved on the Stanford Packet Archive)

We had eight teams, with a total of 30 players. In reports of VETO from its first four years, we used to note the observation that that year's VETO either matched or broke the records for both number of teams and number of players at a quiz bowl tournament in Western Canada. This year, we cannot make the same claim, because we had fewer teams and fewer players than last year. We did not have any visitors from farther away than Maple Ridge or Tsawwassen this year, except "Rusty", a recent graduate of the SFU quiz bowl team.

However, if you consider VETO and its mirror, if any, in Ontario (Waterloo in 2000, London in 2001, Toronto in 2003) to be one tournament — a reasonable idea, because both "brackets" played on the same packets, and the top teams from the two brackets even played each other — every VETO + mirror has either matched or exceeded its predecessor in both number of games and number of teams. Most importantly, the 15 teams and 59 players made this year's installment, by both measures, the largest quiz bowl tournament ever held in Canada.

Teams in Vancouver were:

B2B — Brock, Bruce, Victoria, Meghan
SFU Junta Reunion Tour 2003 (last year's winners) — Hanson, Sarah, "Casey", "Rusty"
FARSIDE — Peter
Feast of Maximum Occupancy (SFU grad students) — Mason, Tara, Idris, Herre
Very Stretched-Pebble Conglomerate (Maple Ridge alumni) — Greg, Julianna, Nicole, Neal
University of British Columbia — Grace, Luka, Mike, Lavan, James
Fresh Meat (SFU Orientation leaders) — Ross, Ciara, Hai, Mark
Maximum Rogue Entropy (SFU undergrads) — Dean, Shaun, Joanne, Mischa

Round-Robin Results

First we played a single round-robin. Rounds were untimed, with 20 tossups in each. Power tossups were not used. Each team supplied one packet, except for B2B, which generously supplied two, both written by Brock! The Junta team also moderated on a packet written by the Holy PHUT team in Toronto.

We used the following schedule for teams to be labelled A through H:

      game rooms
    2235 2250 2520 : packet, other byes
 1.  BH   CG   DF  : E       A
 2.  EF   DG   CH  : A       B
 3.  FG   EH   AC  : B       D
 4.  AG   BF   CE  : D       H
 5.  CD   BE   AF  : H       G
 6.  BC   AD   FH  : G       E
==================================  40-minute lunch break
 7.  GH   AE   BD  : C       F
 8.  AB   DH   EG  : F       C
 9.  DE   CF       : other   ABGH
10.  BG   AH       : other   CDEF

The actual matching of letters to teams was not made until VETO morning, because this being a guerrilla tournament, circumstances would likely arise that would require us to shift things around. The assignments were made pseudo-randomly based on the following constraints:

Since the two "other" packets were B2B's second packet and the Holy PHUT packet obtained by the Junta, one of these two teams would have to be assigned a letter in ABGH, and the other assigned a letter in CDEF.
The team consisting of one person who insists that he plays well without others would need two additional moderators for the other game rooms.
One team hadn't yet printed out copies of its packet, so that team's round was to be set for late in the day.

Despite the 8 a.m. start, everyone arrived more or less on time. So we didn't have to shift the schedule around to fit in late-coming teams. We also didn't need to modify the schedule because of problems of availability of equipment. The only special equipment required was a tape player for one round, and Meeting and Event Services had supplied one for every room.

Here are the scores for the games in the round-robin.

# winning team score score losing team question authors other byes

1 FARSIDE 240 60 Fresh Meat UBC VSPC

Junta 125 20 MRE
FOMO 155 105 B2B

2 UBC 100 90 FOMO VSPC Fresh Meat

B2B 160 75 Junta
FARSIDE 185 35 MRE

3 Junta 185 110 FOMO Fresh Meat B2B

FARSIDE 310 80 UBC
VSPC 165 85 MRE

4 Junta 190 125 VSPC B2B FARSIDE

FOMO 225 100 Fresh Meat
UBC 140 125 MRE

5 B2B 220 145 MRE FARSIDE Junta

UBC 325 45 Fresh Meat
FOMO 285 95 VSPC

6 Fresh Meat 135 115 MRE Junta UBC

B2B 200 85 VSPC
FOMO 165 80 FARSIDE

7 FARSIDE 340 115 Junta MRE FOMO

UBC 200 65 VSPC
B2B 210 90 Fresh Meat

8 Fresh Meat 185 125 VSPC FOMO MRE

B2B 300 190 FARSIDE
Junta 285 105 UBC

9 B2B 160 135 UBC Holy PHUT Junta, VSPC, Fresh Meat, FARSIDE
FOMO 135 45 MRE

10 Junta 265 10 Fresh Meat B2B MRE, UBC, FOMO
FARSIDE 180 15 VSPC

No games went into overtime.

Team statistics

Here are the team stats for the round-robin. Teams are ranked primarily by win-loss record, secondarily by average normalized points per game. The normalized score in a particular game is the game score divided by the average score of all teams that played on the same packet. A team's average normalized points per game is the average of the normalized score over all games played by a team. We chose to break ties by average normalized points per game in an attempt to reduce the skew arising from the variation in difficulty levels of packets. Guerrilla tournaments, more than any other kind, can be expected to have packets that vary widely in difficulty, and that was also the case here as shown in the Packet Statistics section.

W: Wins
L: Losses
ANPPG: Average Normalized Points Per Game
PPG: average Points Per Game
+10: number of tossups answered correctly
-5: number of incorrect interrupts
BAvg: average points per bonus
PA: average Points Against
Diff: average score Difference (= PPG - PA)

Rank Team W L ANPPG PPG +10 -5 Bavg PA Diff

1 B2B 6 1 1.31 194 66 14 11.6 125 69
2 FARSIDE 5 2 1.55 218 63 9 14.9 110 108
3 Junta 5 2 1.23 177 58 10 12.2 124 53
4 FOMO 5 2 1.18 166 58 10 10.9 101 65
5 UBC 4 3 0.99 155 48 12 13.9 154 1
6 Fresh Meat 2 5 0.57 89 35 4 8.4 215 -126
7 VSPC 1 6 0.60 96 34 7 10.9 189 -93
8 MRE 0 7 0.56 81 32 6 8.8 158 -76

Finals

The top two teams from the round-robin, B2B and FARSIDE, faced off in a best-of-three series, in which the round-robin game counted retroactively as the first game in the series. Since B2B had won that first game, FARSIDE would have to win two more games, but B2B would have to win only one. Results:

winning team score score losing team question authors
FARSIDE 370 105 B2B Luke Perry and the Bojanglo-Tones
B2B 240 110 FARSIDE Rico's Roughnecks

Congratulations to B2B for winning the fifth Vancouver Estival Trivia Open!

Here are individual tossup results (+10/-5) and team bonus averages for the final two games.
B2B: Bruce 7/5 (22.5 PPG), Brock 5/1 (22.5 PPG), Victoria 2/0 (10.0 PPG), Meghan 0/0 (0.0 PPG); Bonus average 16.8.
FARSIDE: Peter 21/3 (97.5 PPG); Bonus average 13.6.

B2B went on to play in the Trans-Canada Championship Match against some players in Toronto.

Individual player statistics

For the round-robin portion only. This table shows, for each player, the number of tossups answered correctly, the number of incorrect interrupts, and the number of tossup Points Per Game.

The last four columns indicate in which of the four previous VETOs the person played (Y if yes, or M if in the mirror in Waterloo in '00 or in London in '01).

Rank Player Team +10 -5 Games PPG '99 '00 '01 '02

1 Peter FARSIDE 63 9 7 83.6 Y Y Y Y
2 Bruce B2B 33 8 7 41.4 Y Y Y Y
3 Greg VSPC 29 6 7 37.1 - Y Y -
4 Brock B2B 27 5 7 35.0 Y Y Y Y
Idris FOMO 25 1 7 35.0 - - - Y
Ross Fresh Meat 25 1 7 35.0 - - - Y
7 Luka UBC 25 5 7 32.1 - - - Y
8 "Casey" Junta 24 4 7 31.4 - - M Y
9 Herre FOMO 19 2 7 25.7 - - - Y
10 Hanson Junta 16 4 7 20.0 - - Y Y
"Rusty" Junta 14 0 7 20.0 - - - Y
12 Lavan UBC 12 2 7 15.7 - - - -
13 Shaun MRE 13 5 7 15.0 - - Y Y
14 Mischa MRE 7 0 6 11.7 - - - Y
15 Joanne MRE 7 1 7 9.3 - - - -
16 James UBC 7 3 6 9.2 - - - Y
17 Tara FOMO 8 4 7 8.6 Y Y Y Y
18 Dean MRE 5 0 7 7.1 - - - -
Mark Fresh Meat 5 0 7 7.1 - - - -
20 Mason FOMO 6 3 7 6.4 - - - -
Victoria B2B 5 1 7 6.4 - Y - Y
22 Mike UBC 3 1 4 6.3 - - - -
23 Sarah Junta 4 2 7 4.3 - - Y Y
24 Neal VSPC 3 1 7 3.6 - Y Y Y
25 Ciara Fresh Meat 3 2 7 2.9 - - - -
Nicole VSPC 2 0 7 2.9 - - Y -
27 Hai Fresh Meat 2 1 7 2.1 - - - -
28 Meghan B2B 1 0 7 1.4 - - - -
29 Grace UBC 1 1 4 1.3 - - - Y
30 Julianna VSPC 0 0 7 0.0 - - Y Y

For leading the individual scoring, Peter retains the title of West Coast Dominatrix of Relevant Knowledge (WC-DORK).

Packet statistics

For every packet, this table shows the number of games played and the minimum, median, and maximum of the total score, number of tossups answered, number of incorrect interrupts, and average bonus points (over all bonuses answered by either team) for all games played on the packet.

We show two lines of stats for each packet: The first line gives results in Vancouver, and the second line gives results on the same packet in Toronto. For completeness, the end of the table shows stats for two additional packets that were used in Toronto but not in Vancouver. As you might guess from glancing at the table, the packets were played in a completely different order in Toronto.

Round Total points TUs answered -5's Bonus average

# Games min med max min med max min med max min med max Packet authors

1 3 145 260 300 9 13 14 1 2 3 7.2 9.6 13.5 UBC
1 280 12 5 15.4
2 3 190 220 235 9 10 13 2 2 3 9.2 12.2 13.0 VSPC
3 125 155 225 7 8 10 1 2 3 10.0 10.6 13.0
3 3 250 295 390 12 12 14 3 3 4 12.1 15.8 19.3 Fresh Meat
3 345 375 410 14 16 17 3 5 7 15.0 15.0 17.1
4 3 265 315 325 16 16 17 0 1 2 7.2 9.1 10.0 B2B
1 310 14 4 13.6
5 3 365 370 380 16 18 19 1 2 4 10.3 11.4 13.8 FARSIDE
0 not used in Toronto
6 3 245 250 285 13 14 15 2 4 8 9.0 10.8 11.1 Junta
3 225 320 420 13 16 18 4 4 8 8.8 11.3 15.6
7 3 265 300 455 11 14 17 0 2 3 11.4 15.0 17.6 MRE
0 not used in Toronto
8 3 310 390 490 15 16 19 1 2 2 11.3 14.7 16.3 FOMO
3 390 405 480 16 18 19 1 3 4 12.1 14.7 17.8
9 2 180 238 295 10 11.5 13 5 5.5 6 10.5 12.8 15.0 Holy PHUT
3 245 285 310 11 13 14 2 3 6 12.9 13.6 14.2
10 2 195 235 275 14 14.5 15 0 2 4 5.4 6.8 8.3 B2B
3 230 350 430 14 16 18 2 3 3 7.5 10.3 17.5
F1 1 475 18 3 17.2 Luke Perry and the Bojanglo-Tones
3 355 370 550 16 17 18 1 4 7 12.9 14.4 20.8
F2 1 350 17 6 12.4 Rico's Roughnecks
3 275 370 405 15 18 19 2 2 6 9.0 11.1 12.9
- 0 not used in Vancouver Kurt Busiek's Atro City
3 235 325 335 13 15 17 1 3 5 8.5 11.2 12.7
- 0 not used in Vancouver Squirrel of Strife
3 260 305 350 12 13 16 1 1 2 12.1 12.5 13.8

Prizes

Some players received prizes. Unless otherwise indicated, honourees were selected by the sponsor of each prize.

Honour honouree reason prize sponsor

Early bird prize for first team to show up Junta team "Casey" was found sleeping outside the meeting room at 7:50 a.m. a bag of Gummy Worms Peter

Best question written by Bruce Bruce some of his questions from last year, because he didn't write any this year an issue of GAMES Magazine Peter

Best audio question withheld nobody else supplied audio questions a tape of FARSIDE team's audio questions Peter

Most übermenschlich buzz Idris "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman," from a description of circumstances of the quotation a "Will to Power" Bar Peter

Best religion question Ross tossup on United Church of Canada Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean by Luis Martinez-Fernandez Brock, but selection by vote of participants

Best Canadian literature question not having anything to do with Margaret Atwood Ross bonus on "not Atwood" Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Brock

Best Canadian question Brock for multiple questions Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Bruce

Best science question Peter bonus on brain parts a giant blue star Bruce

Most flamboyant neg Tara "MasterCard" Howard Stern's biography Brock

Best pop question Carlos Bohemian Rhapsody bonus book about Judy Garland Brock

Best pop cultural reference in a non-trash question Idris Botticelli tossup that referred to the Simpsons popcorn Hanson

Brock Stephenson Memorial Award for Excellence in the field of Negging ? ? ? Hanson

First person wanting to leave Ciara wanting to leave SFU Bookstore bag Brock

Team with the most females tie between B2B and VSPC having two female players a book for women Brock

"Worst" question, if you know what I mean ? ? ? Hanson

Best reference to a bodily function Brock urine tossup The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino Hanson

Best wrong answer ? ? ? Hanson

Dirtiest question (19+) Nicole a question with the word "cleavage" in it a selection of, um, risqué advertisements culled from walks up and down the Las Vegas Strip Carlos and Tara

Competitor best displaying the spirit of Vegas "Rusty" being paper-hatted, sunglassed, and hung over Vegas sampler pack, including a Tropicana T-Shirt, a deck of Tropicana playing cards, a Whiskey Pete's post-card, and a Vegas Fun Book (over $100 value!) Carlos and Tara

Best Food Question Peter eggplant tossup (web page also has links to recipes!) Krispy Kreme hats Carlos and Tara

Best Sports Question (non-Canadian) Hanson African soccer bonus book on the 2002 World Cup Brock

General observations and lessons learned

All teams showed up, and all had complete packets. We also had five packets from Toronto, but we needed only three. The others were available as backup packets in case of a mishap that didn't occur.
Thanks to Berkeley and Maple Ridge for lending us buzzers. Together with SFU's, we had three working buzzer systems, enough for every room.
This time, all the tape players worked.
The schedule was just right for eight teams. We started at 8 a.m. If we had started at 9 a.m., as we used to do, then we would have run out of time. We were hoping to finish the finals by 5 p.m., but we took another half hour, so we didn't start the Trans-Canada Championship until about 5:30. The building closed at 6 p.m.
Eight teams seemed like the perfect size. Any more teams and we wouldn't have been able to do a full round-robin and two-game final and Trans-Canada Championship Match, at the rate we were going. We might have been able to accommodate a ninth team if we'd had some extra staff.
An inevitable problem of any guerrilla tournament is questions with clues that are repeated from earlier packets in the tournament. This year, participants were more diligent in removing such repeat questions from their packets before play. Still, there were a few that were not pulled. The most common answer of the day was probably "Liberia."
The packet statistics show that most question packets were a bit too hard. On three packets, the maximum number of tossups answered correctly was only 13 or 14. This means that in every room where these packets were played, at least 30% of the tossups went unanswered. Our guidelines suggest that two good teams should leave fewer than 20% of the tossups unanswered in a game. Bonuses were also a bit on the hard side, with teams averaging from a low of 8.4 to a high of 15.9 on 30-point bonuses over the whole round-robin. The Canadian director of the Michigan MLK tournament recommends that the average points per bonus for the average team should be about 14; for a top team, about 21; and for a bottom team, about 7. Of course, the whole point of asking people to write easier questions is the idea that players will have a more enjoyable time if they end up answering a few more questions. If VETO participants didn't think the questions they played on were a bit hard, then there's no need to try to make them easier next time.
It's not completely clear whether Average Normalized Points Per Game is a good tie-breaker to use. It took us several minutes to compute for the three 5-2 teams. Average (un-normalized) points per game would have been quicker to calculate, and the results above show that for this tournament, the rankings by PPG and by ANPPG are exactly the same. However, using regular PPG as a tie-breaker gives participants a perverse incentive to write packets that they know will score low. If anything, there should be incentives for writing higher-scoring packets. Our next tie-breaker, which we didn't need to use, would have been a vote (one team, one vote) on who had supplied the better packet. If we had used this as our first tie-breaker, it might have encouraged people to improve their questions, but it might equally have led to bribery and other forms of corruption.
We still consider Harbour Centre to be the most attractive, intelligent, and convenient location for a quiz bowl tournament in Vancouver, and we hope to have the sixth VETO there next year.

"Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" — famous last words

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#	winning team	score	score	losing team	question authors	other byes
1	FARSIDE	240	60	Fresh Meat	UBC	VSPC
	Junta	125	20	MRE
	FOMO	155	105	B2B
2	UBC	100	90	FOMO	VSPC	Fresh Meat
	B2B	160	75	Junta
	FARSIDE	185	35	MRE
3	Junta	185	110	FOMO	Fresh Meat	B2B
	FARSIDE	310	80	UBC
	VSPC	165	85	MRE
4	Junta	190	125	VSPC	B2B	FARSIDE
	FOMO	225	100	Fresh Meat
	UBC	140	125	MRE
5	B2B	220	145	MRE	FARSIDE	Junta
	UBC	325	45	Fresh Meat
	FOMO	285	95	VSPC
6	Fresh Meat	135	115	MRE	Junta	UBC
	B2B	200	85	VSPC
	FOMO	165	80	FARSIDE
7	FARSIDE	340	115	Junta	MRE	FOMO
	UBC	200	65	VSPC
	B2B	210	90	Fresh Meat
8	Fresh Meat	185	125	VSPC	FOMO	MRE
	B2B	300	190	FARSIDE
	Junta	285	105	UBC
9	B2B	160	135	UBC	Holy PHUT	Junta, VSPC, Fresh Meat, FARSIDE
9	FOMO	135	45	MRE	Holy PHUT	Junta, VSPC, Fresh Meat, FARSIDE
10	Junta	265	10	Fresh Meat	B2B	MRE, UBC, FOMO
10	FARSIDE	180	15	VSPC	B2B	MRE, UBC, FOMO

Rank	Team	W	L	ANPPG	PPG	+10	-5	Bavg	PA	Diff
1	B2B	6	1	1.31	194	66	14	11.6	125	69
2	FARSIDE	5	2	1.55	218	63	9	14.9	110	108
3	Junta	5	2	1.23	177	58	10	12.2	124	53
4	FOMO	5	2	1.18	166	58	10	10.9	101	65
5	UBC	4	3	0.99	155	48	12	13.9	154	1
6	Fresh Meat	2	5	0.57	89	35	4	8.4	215	-126
7	VSPC	1	6	0.60	96	34	7	10.9	189	-93
8	MRE	0	7	0.56	81	32	6	8.8	158	-76

Rank	Player	Team	+10	-5	Games	PPG	'99	'00	'01	'02
1	Peter	FARSIDE	63	9	7	83.6	Y	Y	Y	Y
2	Bruce	B2B	33	8	7	41.4	Y	Y	Y	Y
3	Greg	VSPC	29	6	7	37.1	-	Y	Y	-
4	Brock	B2B	27	5	7	35.0	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Idris	FOMO	25	1	7	35.0	-	-	-	Y
	Ross	Fresh Meat	25	1	7	35.0	-	-	-	Y
7	Luka	UBC	25	5	7	32.1	-	-	-	Y
8	"Casey"	Junta	24	4	7	31.4	-	-	M	Y
9	Herre	FOMO	19	2	7	25.7	-	-	-	Y
10	Hanson	Junta	16	4	7	20.0	-	-	Y	Y
10	"Rusty"	Junta	14	0	7	20.0	-	-	-	Y
12	Lavan	UBC	12	2	7	15.7	-	-	-	-
13	Shaun	MRE	13	5	7	15.0	-	-	Y	Y
14	Mischa	MRE	7	0	6	11.7	-	-	-	Y
15	Joanne	MRE	7	1	7	9.3	-	-	-	-
16	James	UBC	7	3	6	9.2	-	-	-	Y
17	Tara	FOMO	8	4	7	8.6	Y	Y	Y	Y
18	Dean	MRE	5	0	7	7.1	-	-	-	-
18	Mark	Fresh Meat	5	0	7	7.1	-	-	-	-
20	Mason	FOMO	6	3	7	6.4	-	-	-	-
20	Victoria	B2B	5	1	7	6.4	-	Y	-	Y
22	Mike	UBC	3	1	4	6.3	-	-	-	-
23	Sarah	Junta	4	2	7	4.3	-	-	Y	Y
24	Neal	VSPC	3	1	7	3.6	-	Y	Y	Y
25	Ciara	Fresh Meat	3	2	7	2.9	-	-	-	-
25	Nicole	VSPC	2	0	7	2.9	-	-	Y	-
27	Hai	Fresh Meat	2	1	7	2.1	-	-	-	-
28	Meghan	B2B	1	0	7	1.4	-	-	-	-
29	Grace	UBC	1	1	4	1.3	-	-	-	Y
30	Julianna	VSPC	0	0	7	0.0	-	-	Y	Y

Round		Total points			TUs answered			-5's			Bonus average
#	Games	min	med	max	min	med	max	min	med	max	min	med	max	Packet authors
1	3	145	260	300	9	13	14	1	2	3	7.2	9.6	13.5	UBC
1	1	280			12			5			15.4			UBC
2	3	190	220	235	9	10	13	2	2	3	9.2	12.2	13.0	VSPC
2	3	125	155	225	7	8	10	1	2	3	10.0	10.6	13.0	VSPC
3	3	250	295	390	12	12	14	3	3	4	12.1	15.8	19.3	Fresh Meat
3	3	345	375	410	14	16	17	3	5	7	15.0	15.0	17.1	Fresh Meat
4	3	265	315	325	16	16	17	0	1	2	7.2	9.1	10.0	B2B
4	1	310			14			4			13.6			B2B
5	3	365	370	380	16	18	19	1	2	4	10.3	11.4	13.8	FARSIDE
5	0	not used in Toronto												FARSIDE
6	3	245	250	285	13	14	15	2	4	8	9.0	10.8	11.1	Junta
6	3	225	320	420	13	16	18	4	4	8	8.8	11.3	15.6	Junta
7	3	265	300	455	11	14	17	0	2	3	11.4	15.0	17.6	MRE
7	0	not used in Toronto												MRE
8	3	310	390	490	15	16	19	1	2	2	11.3	14.7	16.3	FOMO
8	3	390	405	480	16	18	19	1	3	4	12.1	14.7	17.8	FOMO
9	2	180	238	295	10	11.5	13	5	5.5	6	10.5	12.8	15.0	Holy PHUT
9	3	245	285	310	11	13	14	2	3	6	12.9	13.6	14.2	Holy PHUT
10	2	195	235	275	14	14.5	15	0	2	4	5.4	6.8	8.3	B2B
10	3	230	350	430	14	16	18	2	3	3	7.5	10.3	17.5	B2B
F1	1	475			18			3			17.2			Luke Perry and the Bojanglo-Tones
F1	3	355	370	550	16	17	18	1	4	7	12.9	14.4	20.8	Luke Perry and the Bojanglo-Tones
F2	1	350			17			6			12.4			Rico's Roughnecks
F2	3	275	370	405	15	18	19	2	2	6	9.0	11.1	12.9	Rico's Roughnecks
-	0	not used in Vancouver												Kurt Busiek's Atro City
-	3	235	325	335	13	15	17	1	3	5	8.5	11.2	12.7	Kurt Busiek's Atro City
-	0	not used in Vancouver												Squirrel of Strife
-	3	260	305	350	12	13	16	1	1	2	12.1	12.5	13.8	Squirrel of Strife

Honour	honouree	reason	prize	sponsor
Early bird prize for first team to show up	Junta team	"Casey" was found sleeping outside the meeting room at 7:50 a.m.	a bag of Gummy Worms	Peter
Best question written by Bruce	Bruce	some of his questions from last year, because he didn't write any this year	an issue of GAMES Magazine	Peter
Best audio question	withheld	nobody else supplied audio questions	a tape of FARSIDE team's audio questions	Peter
Most übermenschlich buzz	Idris	"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman," from a description of circumstances of the quotation	a "Will to Power" Bar	Peter
Best religion question	Ross	tossup on United Church of Canada	Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean by Luis Martinez-Fernandez	Brock, but selection by vote of participants
Best Canadian literature question not having anything to do with Margaret Atwood	Ross	bonus on "not Atwood"	Surfacing by Margaret Atwood	Brock
Best Canadian question	Brock	for multiple questions	Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms	Bruce
Best science question	Peter	bonus on brain parts	a giant blue star	Bruce
Most flamboyant neg	Tara	"MasterCard"	Howard Stern's biography	Brock
Best pop question	Carlos	Bohemian Rhapsody bonus	book about Judy Garland	Brock
Best pop cultural reference in a non-trash question	Idris	Botticelli tossup that referred to the Simpsons	popcorn	Hanson
Brock Stephenson Memorial Award for Excellence in the field of Negging	?	?	?	Hanson
First person wanting to leave	Ciara	wanting to leave	SFU Bookstore bag	Brock
Team with the most females	tie between B2B and VSPC	having two female players	a book for women	Brock
"Worst" question, if you know what I mean	?	?	?	Hanson
Best reference to a bodily function	Brock	urine tossup	The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino	Hanson
Best wrong answer	?	?	?	Hanson
Dirtiest question (19+)	Nicole	a question with the word "cleavage" in it	a selection of, um, risqué advertisements culled from walks up and down the Las Vegas Strip	Carlos and Tara
Competitor best displaying the spirit of Vegas	"Rusty"	being paper-hatted, sunglassed, and hung over	Vegas sampler pack, including a Tropicana T-Shirt, a deck of Tropicana playing cards, a Whiskey Pete's post-card, and a Vegas Fun Book (over $100 value!)	Carlos and Tara
Best Food Question	Peter	eggplant tossup (web page also has links to recipes!)	Krispy Kreme hats	Carlos and Tara
Best Sports Question (non-Canadian)	Hanson	African soccer bonus	book on the 2002 World Cup	Brock

Fifth Annual Vancouver Estival Trivia Open July 19, 2003