Currier beat Lowell in the other semifinal match.

“Dodgeball is a man’s sport, and when I say man I mean both men and women and not animals, because you need hands to play the game,” said Blickstead. “But the tournament was hard-fought. Some teams were competitive, some were non-competitive, and then there was the deans’ team.”

Council President-elect Matthew J. Glazer ’06 of Winthrop House failed to capture a second victory for the week when his team lost in the first round to Dunster.

“The tournament was a great, great idea,” he said. “It’s awesome.”

Fifteen people played on each team, and IM points were awarded to winning teams. Several times throughout the tournament, organizers of the event threw t-shirts into the crowd, and some faculty members even showed up to cheer on their Houses.

IBM Professor of Business and Government and Dunster House Master Roger Porter watched as Dunster made their way to victory.

“The level of excitement here is extraordinary,” he said.

Despite the enthusiasm, some students complained of minor instances of cheating. In Cabot’s second-round defeat of Kirkland House, Cabot players who had been eliminated reportedly ran behind the Kirkland players and threw the balls back to their teammates.

Still, organizers of the event were impressed with tournament’s turnout.

“The dodgeball tournament is maybe the greatest event Harvard has ever seen,” said Director of Social Programming for the Dean’s Office Zachary A. Corker ’04, who helped organize the event and played on the dean’s team. “It’s a great sport, and takes several important skills: strength, coordination, speed, intelligence and good looks.”

K.C. Cleary ’05, who first came up with the idea for the tournament and was one of its head coordinators, said that he hoped to bring the tournament back. “We’re going to try and do this again in the spring,” he said. “We’re going to make Harvard-Yale look like a picnic.”