Week Three of the Philly Varsity Math League:

In the third week of the Varsity Math League, defending champions and current leaders George School start their attempt of the Friends League title defense as they take on Abington Friends. George School will take on two other schools in the Friends League, Shipley and Westtown later in the season. Of course, in addition to the Friends League, the Philly League also contains many schools from the Inter-Academic League. We currently have one confirmed Inter-AC match: Agnes Irwin vs Penn Charter. (Fun fact: The original MATES spoke about Varsity Math like it was soccer. Guess what Inter-AC soccer match is supposed to happen? CLEARLY, this was planned, nah, not really. Unfortunately, the FSL one is about two weeks later...). This is also the Match of the Week. Meanwhile, between the two leagues, Episcopal Academy will face Westtown, a rematch from the 2021 Varsity Tournament. Additionally, The Hill School faces Baldwin, and Shipley faces Haverford. According to the Haverford Index, this match didn't happen at the Varsity Tournament last year, so I won't talk about that match that clearly happened.

Meanwhile, George School is playing in Math Madness starting this week, with a non-league match against St. Mark's School of Texas.

The picture above was taken outside of the Quad, which contains three college houses at UPenn.

George School vs Abington Friends: George School wins with 40.

George School: 8+8+8+8+8

Westtown vs Episcopal Academy: EA wins 36-32.

Westtown: 7+7+7+6+5

Episcopal Academy: 8+8+7+7+6

The Hill School vs Baldwin: The Hill School wins with 38.

The Hill School: 8+8+8+7+7

SCHA vs Germantown Friends: GFS gets 27, SCHA score unknown

Shipley vs Haverford: Shipley wins 34-30

Shipley: 8+8+

Haverford: 8+

George School vs St. Mark's School of Texas: St. Mark's School of Texas wins 34-33

George School: 7+7+7+6+6

St. Mark's School of Texas: 8+7+7+6+6

Match of the Week:

Agnes Irwin vs Penn Charter: Penn Charter wins with 30

Penn Charter: 7+7+6+5+5

Shoutouts:

Disclaimer: Some information here comes from the team captains, not the coaches. MATES in Philly will consider this information to be official unless proven otherwise. Additionally, Math Madness scores are automatically considered official.

Requested by George School: CONGRATULATIONS to the George School Varsity Math Team on their FIRST NORMAL TYPE SHUTOUT SINCE 2020 (excluding the Varsity Tournament)!!! George School has not gotten a perfect score in the regular season since winning 35-15/35 in the 2020 Philly League. Additionally, GS got six perfect scores, which has only happened once before in the Philly League (winning 35-24/35 in 2019). Also, SHOUT OUT TO TED XIA FOR HIS PERFORMANCES ON GSVMT SO FAR THIS YEAR!!! Note RISING STAR super soph Kevin Gong!

Requested by Penn Charter: While Jack and Harrison each made a careless mistake to ruin getting 8's, they both did well again. Shout out to junior boys Vikram Verma and Marko Vucetic for each getting 4's.

George School again: We were distracted by the accidental software event (students could not discern if they got an answer right or not)

EA's perspective: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjWfc-SpWoN/