{"id":17260,"date":"2010-03-04T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/04\/peapod-squad-wins-3rd-beanpot-improv-title\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:23:26","slug":"peapod-squad-wins-3rd-beanpot-improv-title","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/04\/peapod-squad-wins-3rd-beanpot-improv-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Peapod Squad wins 3rd Beanpot improv title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><body><\/p>\n<p>The Clark University Peapod Squad took first place at the 2010 College Beanpot Improv Tournament, held Feb. 24-27 at ImprovBoston.<\/p>\n<p>Peapod competed against eight other area college improv teams to win first place, the third Beanpot title for the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Peapod Squad are Andrew Ninnemann &lsquo;10, Kaylie Curran &lsquo;10, Sarah Jette &lsquo;10, Milo MacPhail &lsquo;11, John Nolan &lsquo;11, Danny Zeliger &lsquo;11, Ian Michaels &lsquo;11, Julian Kronick &lsquo;12 (of Leominster), Laura Flynn &lsquo;12, and Vicki Grogan &lsquo;10. Individually, MacPhail won the Breakout Player award.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is conducted in a Theater Sports-style competition, with teams going head-to-head, being scored individually according to Story, Skill, and Entertainment. This year&rsquo;s tournament featured a &ldquo;Goon&rdquo; judge, who was allotted 15 points per round to give out as they saw fit, according to things they liked about the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Peapod won the competition in the final round against Fairfield by playing a long-form version of a game (with the working title of &ldquo;The Morality Game&rdquo;) created by the Squad, in which the team went through the scenario of the way a character&rsquo;s life would pan out if they made one moral decision over another. The team received a perfect score for this final game, bringing in the win.<\/p>\n<p>Peapod was coached at this year&rsquo;s tournament by Impro Boston cast member Jenna O&rsquo;Brien of Flaming Awesome, an IB house team.<\/p>\n<p>This year&rsquo;s other contestants included Fairfield University; Northeastern University; MIT; WPI; Brandeis University; Boston University; Boston College; and Gordon College.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clark University Peapod Squad took first place at the 2010 College Beanpot Improv Tournament, held Feb. 24-27 at ImprovBoston. Peapod competed against eight other area college improv teams to win first place, the third Beanpot title for the squad. Members of the Peapod Squad are Andrew Ninnemann &lsquo;10, Kaylie Curran &lsquo;10, Sarah Jette &lsquo;10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"story_color":"#525250","story_headerImg":-1,"section_label":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"displayed_author":[455],"featured":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-17260","story","type-story","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","displayed_author-clarknews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peapod Squad wins 3rd Beanpot improv title | ClarkU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/04\/peapod-squad-wins-3rd-beanpot-improv-title\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peapod Squad wins 3rd Beanpot improv title\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Clark University Peapod Squad took first place at the 2010 College Beanpot Improv Tournament, held Feb. 24-27 at ImprovBoston. 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