The Brandy Award

This prestigious award is given to that participant who achieves the lowest score, or as the award states, for “Horrendously Bad Guessing.” The winner is given a free entry in the following year’s competition. Christened in 1996, the award is so named in honor of the immortal Brandy Stout, who scored what is believed to be an unattainable score of 30 points. To achieve this ignominious feat, Brandy somehow managed to pick only 12 of the first 32 games correctly, 2 in the second round and was completely out of the competition by the time the Sweet Sixteen teams were established. According to crack mathematician, Numlock Salmon, the odds of achieving a score this low are 3.2 million to one.

 YEAR  WINNER POINTS  
2024Tom Roche (The first four-time “winner”)59
 2023 Jeff Baum 49 
 2022 Tom Roche (The first three-time “winner”) 54 
 2021 Maluri Fernandez 47 
 2020 Pandemic – No Tournament — 
 2019 Sonia Tripolitano 44 
 2018 Gerald Eggink (Also the 2019 Overall Winner) 60 
 2017 Ron Cushing (Also the 2012 Overall Winner) 76 
 2016 David Ditlevsen 35 
 2015 David Ditlevsen 76 
 2014 David Ditlevsen 57 
 2013 Bill Levitan 61 
 2012 David Ditlevsen 64 
 2011 Wen Tong 33 
 2010 Robert Sheppard 58 
 2009 Gordon Bjorkman III 65 
 2008 Donna Riley 70 
 2007 Derek Maruyama 79 
 2006 Ali “Bud” Linder 53 
 2005 William LeBoeuf 21* 
 2004 Shelly Smith 39 
 2003 Brandy Stout ?!?! 38 
 2002 Karen Taylor 46 
 2001 Tom Roche 54 
 2000 Tom Roche 54 
 1999 Karen Taylor 65 
 1998 Bill “Random” Malloch 45 
 1997 Michael Coyne 79 
 1996 Brandy Stout (Award is given its current name, “The Brandy Award”) 30 
 1995 Nina Bonds (Remarkably attains both the highest overall score and the lowest) Lost to antiquity 

*Believed to be intentional