Los Angeles hosted, and used a powerful comeback to defeat Houston 34-28 in the Championship Match of an incredible tournament held at the historic Ivar Theatre in Hollywood.

The Champ team was composed of Chris Tallman, Lauren Pritchard, Kurt Scholler and Natasha Arnold. Houston, led by Dianah Dulany, cruised to a 15-0 lead in the first half before LA began grinding away at the visitors.  Featured second half games were a team on team Shakespeare and a team on team Musical Comedy - both brilliant, with the latter featuring the CSz band, led by Alan Simpson on guitar and Bob Remstein on keyboards.

20 teams competed in the Tournament over 3 days, with impressive debuts by Minor League teams from Dallas, New Orleans and New York.

2004 ComedySportz World Championship

August 3 - August 7, 2004
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A powerful, veteran Minneapolis team kept hanging with the host Milwaukee team, pulled away in the final 2 rounds, and fought off a furious Cheezehead comeback to upset the hometown favorites, 28-27. The Minnesotans featured Nancy McBride, Jill Bernard, Doug Nethercott and Kevin Gilbertson.

Milwaukee debuted its brand spanking new 180-seat arena for the CWC, and it's a gem.  Every seat is good and the field is a blast to play on. The Milwaukee staff (Jennifer, Lynna, Mandy, Michele, Jer and many many more) were amazing.

Other features of the week included the US debuts of Dublin, Ireland and Chorley, Lancs, UK; both played Milwaukee teams in a special set of matches (reffed by the legendary Bob Orvis) to wildly enthusiastic crowds.  Eugene played an entire match with one audience volunteer. LA and Chicago played a memorable rematch of the 2001 finals; this time LA won on the strength of a new game called Turtle Sundae (Kurt Scholler ran out to McDonald's to buy a fan an ice cream sundae while his teammates, Lauren Pritchard, Natasha Arnold and Mark McConnville, played a scene with Lauren in turtlemotion).

Most historic was an Old Timer's Match, with nearly 200 years of CSz experience on the field (counting the ref and keyboardist).  The Old Team featured Dave Gaudet (Chicago), Chris Tallman (LA), Ruth Jenkins (Portland) and James Bailey (LA).  The Older Team was captained by CSz-Founder Dick Chudnow along with Brian Green & Rosie Frydman (Milwaukee) and Jeff Kramer (San Jose).  The ref was Joe Cortese of Milwaukee, who punctuated the match by throwing Chudnow, his longtime boss, out of the game.
 

2003 ComedySportz National Tournament

July 29 - August 2, 2003
Washington, DC

ComedySportz DC and the DC Improv hosted the 2003 Tournament, with special guest Greg Proops of Whose Line Is It Anyway? The final show pitted the DC team against players from 5 teams in the Mid-West (Chicago, Indianapolis, Madison, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee). It was a close match, but the home team pulled it out in the last game of 185, to take home all the marbles.

ComedySportz DC's winning team hoists "all the marbles" as champs of the 2003 Tournament.

2002 ComedySportz National Tournament

July 30 - August 3, 2002
Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa

Madness and mayhem ensued as the Monsters of Comedy attempted to take over the stage. We don't remember much about what happened, but it was fun and amazing.  TV's Brad  Sherwood (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) played a bunch of shows with a bunch of teams on Thursday night, August 1, and it rocked.  Hard.

2001 National Tournament

August 7-11, 2001
Chicago, IL

Chicago defeated Los Angeles 24-20 to win the championship for the first time since their founding in 1987. The Bosses threw several powerful and talented teams at the competition through the week, but their Saturday night team of Katherine Gotsick, Dave Gaudet, Dr. Jim McDonnell and captain Randy Smock were too much for LA's team to handle, though it was close until the final round of World's Worst.

Congratulations to Chicago, and many thanks to their staff for hosting an outstanding tournament!

Prior National Tournaments: 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997

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