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Round 2

Team A (0-1) vs. Jasper B (0-1)

Tossup 1 - Jasper beats us to a History question and gets 1 bonus. 0-20
Tossup 2 - Grady powers an astronomy question (his favorite subject) and we get 2 bonuses. 35-20
Tossup 3 - Jasper gets a myth question and 2 bonuses. 35-50
Tossup 4 - Matt picks up a current events question and we add 1 bonus. 55-50
Tossup 5 - Matt negs a Fine Arts question and Jasper gets it, plus 1 bonus. 50-70
Tossup 6 - 9 - 4 tossups in a row that neither team gets. We neg on two of them. 40-70
Tossup 10 - Adhav gets a geography question and we convert 2 bonuses. 70-70
Tossup 11 - Adhav negs and Jasper converts, but they miss all three bonuses. 65-80
Tossup 12 - Matt is able to get a Literature tossup at the end, but we miss all three Lit bonuses. 75-80

Halftime - Neither team playing great, but we are in it.

Tossup 13 - Neither team gets the Fine Arts question.
Tossup 14 - Jasper gets the tossup and 1 bonus. 75-100
Tossup 15 - Jasper powers a literature question and adds 1 bonus. 75-125
Tossup 16 - Grady gets us back in it with power on science. We add 1 bonus. 100-125
Tossup 17 - Adhav gets another geography question and we are lucky to get Geography bonuses, converting 2 of them. 130-125
Tossup 18 - Neither team gets the history question and I cringe.
Tossup 19 - Jasper gets it and converts 1 of the trash bonuses. 130-145
Tossup 20 - Grady gets a fine arts question. We add 1 bonus. 150-145
Tossup 21 - Matt gets a science question and we convert 2 bonuses. 180-145
Tossup 22 - Jasper negs. We could put it away, but cannot find the answer on a literature question. 180-140
Tossup 23 - Last question as time runs out. Adhav is aggressive on the buzzer and negs. Jasper gets it right. They need all three bonuses to win, but can only get 1 of them and we pick up our first win at Nationals.

Final Score - Innovation Academy A 175, Jasper B 160


Team B (0-1) vs. West Point (0-1)

Tossup 1 - Jacob gets the first tossup and we convert 1 bonus. 20-0
Tossup 2-9 - We neg three times and get none of these tossups. West Point converts 6 of them to take a huge lead. 5-120
Tossup 10-11 - We show some life by getting 2 in a row. 45-120
Tossup 12-15 - 2 of these go dead, but West Point convers the other two to extend their lead. 45-170
Tossup 16-17 - Jack gives us a fighting chance by getting two in a row, one of them a power. 90-165
Tossup 18-19 - West Point gets the next two and stall out the clock for the victory.

Final Score: West Point 195, Innovation Academy B 90