Hockey East Jeopardy 2001 Game Thread

Chuck Murray · 05-20-2001, 11:27 PM

Welcome college hockey fans to the opening round of the inaugural, soon-to-be-annual USCHO College Hockey Jeopardy tournament!!

This event is brought to you by your friends at WIS Productions of Newfields NH, with the assistance of countless volunteers without whose help this idea would have never stood a chance at getting off the ground.

A Brief History

The inspiration for this tournament lies in an experiment we tried two years ago here on the old USCHO message boards. Organizing a game between the 3 Boston-based "Beanpot" schools - BC, BU and Northeastern - we ran a game over the course of a full week, based as closely as possible to the Jeopardy game format as seen for years on TV, except using categories based on Hockey East-related topics. The game was called "Hockey East Jeopardy", and after a hard-fought battle, Team BU emerged as the Hockey East champion.

The Dream of a National Tourney

In the aftermath of HE Jeopardy in '99, we tried to piece together an approach for a national tourney at USCHO. Unfortunately, due to a number of limitations and outside factors, it was just not meant to be at that time. The concept was put on hold until we had more favorable conditions to work with. Hopefully that time is now ...

What We're Going To Do This Year

The plan is to play three (3) first-round games involving three (3) teams each from the major D-1 conferences - the CCHA, the WCHA, and Hockey East. The winners of each of these first-round games will eventually meet in the College Hockey Jeopardy Finals, with the winners being crowned as National College Hockey Jeopardy champions!!

How the Teams Were Selected

In Hockey East, the defending HE Jeopardy champions Team BU were invited back in order to defend their '99 title. Since BC and NU participated last time around, we excluded them this time around to give two new teams a chance. After soliciting for interest in this year's game, teams from Merrimack and UNH eventually stepped up to the challenge. It is hoped that IF there is a "next time", other schools may try to field a team to challenge this year's champions!

We are also thrilled to point out that the WCHA Jeopardy game is pretty much filled out with teams and rosters finalized. Although progress with CCHA Jeopardy has been slower to develop, it is anticipated that we should fill out those teams shortly. If you would have interest in participating, please respond to the "Coming Soon" thread here in the USCHO Community forums!

What the Future Holds?

My sincerest apologies to those fans whose D-1 teams are in either the ECAC, the MAAC or CHA. In a perfect world, we'd have the time and resources to get your conferences in on the fun. It's our hope that in the future, we may be able to expand this tourney so as to include your teams and conferences, too.

A Plea For Sanity

It's taken a lot of work to get this idea to the point where we are now. The idea is to have fun, while fostering some competition of a friendly nature between folks who have adverse rooting interests on the ice during the regular season. I realize this can lead to flames and conflicts at times, but in the interests of having a fair, playable game, I'd ask any non-players to please refrain from jumping into the Game Threads while the game is in play. Thanks!

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Having said that, all of the preliminaries are almost complete. Here are the six (6) Hockey East Jeopardy categories, each of which will contain five (5) semi-related questions, with point values ranging from 10 pts. to 50 pts. at 10 pt. intervals:

Fables, Fairy Tales & Flamewars!!!
The ECAC
Hockey Downeast
The Show
Prehistoric Hockey East
For The Record

As mentioned earlier in game preparations, I will run a test question tomorrow at midday to give the players a chance to see how the "warning message" and answering will be handled during the actual game. Once that's done, I will wait for Team BU to select the first question from one of the categories listed above. Projected first question to be posted to this thread at approx. 9:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday, May 22, 2001.

Good luck to all the teams and players, and may the best team win!!!

It's finally game time!!!

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GO UNH!! WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR!!

Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 11:01 AM

The "practice" question will be posted here approx. noontime EST. I'll be sending out the "warning" e-mail message to all players about a minute prior to posting the question.

Once we run the test, I will ask Team BU to select the first question, which we'll try to post at 9:00 a.m. EST tomorrow ...

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GO UNH!! WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR!!

Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 12:00 PM

PRACTICE QUESTION - ZERO (0) POINTS
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Who is the current men's head hockey coach for UMass-Amherst?

butchr · 05-21-2001, 12:03 PM

don "toots" Cahoon

butchr · 05-21-2001, 12:04 PM

ok.. it works for me.
(although i think i may have been the only putz to actually reply)

05-21-2001, 12:04 PM

Who is Don Cahoon

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DavidB · 05-21-2001, 12:05 PM

I am alittle late, but its Toot Cahoon

Piels25 · 05-21-2001, 12:10 PM

****....pretty easy to see why BU is the defending champ given that response.

Never fear....team UNH is just trapping you into a false sense of security.

Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 12:14 PM

As always, the emcee should wait for the full 5 minutes to give the answer, and to sort out the scoring. This will not "tip" any of the other players on whether the earlier answer(s) may be right or wrong.

In this case, butchr's first answer for Team BU was indeed correct - Toot Cahoon.

All of the answers up through 11:05 a.m. on the time stamp would be timely, so if it got as far as Babbitt's answer, then that would have been a timely answer. 11:06 would have been a minute late and wouldn't count.

This also allowed me to synchronize my time clock here with the USCHO time stamp, so I hope I'll be pretty close to posting these questions as timely as possible tomorrow!

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Team BU - you have between now and tomorrow a.m. to post your selection for the first question of the game, which I will post at 9:00 a.m. EST (or 8:00 a.m. CST as shown on the Game Thread's time stamp).

Scheduling note for tomorrow - we will have to break for lunch at 1:00 p.m. EST due to a commitment I have here. It's possible that could go past 2:00 p.m. but I will try to keep you posted on my status via e-mail.

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Murray · 05-21-2001, 12:20 PM

Uh, Schweppie actually said "Toots" not "Toot" so he should be banned from the board.

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Jack Murray, '70
Go Eagles!

Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Murray:
Uh, Schweppie actually said "Toots" not "Toot" so he should be banned from the board.

Jeopardy Rule #1949(b)(c) used to prevent me from being this ticky-tack and anal with the Jeopardy answers, Jack.

Unfortunately that rule was recently changed by Jeopardy Rule #2001(d)(1) which means all answers submitted by BC alums are correct with no exception.

Sorry Schweppie ... Jack says you're out, so you're out. But thanks for playing!!

DavidB · 05-21-2001, 12:31 PM

I am sure Freud might have something to say about Schweppie saying "toots" instead of "toot".

Scarlet · 05-21-2001, 02:52 PM

I'll be playing along at home like I do with regular Jeopardy, but I have a question - will all answers need to be in the form of a question, like on real Jeopardy?

05-21-2001, 03:24 PM

I don't think we did that last year, did we chuck?

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a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the
bar."

Murray · 05-21-2001, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chuck Murray:
Sorry Schweppie ... Jack says you're out, so you're out. But thanks for playing!!

Actually Chuck, I said he should be banned from the board, not the game.

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Jack Murray, '70
Go Eagles!

Bomber · 05-21-2001, 03:58 PM

Well, It seems clear that team BU is Schweppie, Christina, and DaveB. - Who is representing the challengers?

Go BU!

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Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Scarlet:
I'll be playing along at home like I do with regular Jeopardy, but I have a question - will all answers need to be in the form of a question, like on real Jeopardy?

Nope. Can't do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Murray:
Actually Chuck, I said he should be banned from the board, not the game.

Harkening back to Rule 2001(d)(1) again, you are of course correct, Jack ...

Chuck Murray · 05-21-2001, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bomber:
Well, It seems clear that team BU is Schweppie, Christina, and DaveB. - Who is representing the challengers?

Go BU!

I think the rosters are on the "Coming Soon" thread, but maybe I'll post them again here before we get started tomorrow a.m. ...

butchr · 05-21-2001, 04:25 PM

but then there's rule 1971 Subsection 1972 subparagraphs 1978 and 1995 sub line 22 beanpots that clearly states that if a spelling error is one letter or less off, and is questioned by a member of a school or college not participating in this seasons jeopardy game, their board privleges are revoked for not less than 15 days.

Sorry Jack...

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