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Sun Devil Student

Bump to let all California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico teams know that the University of Arizona absolutely does possess a quizbowl team now. I think it is likely we can persuade them to come here.

Anyone else interested now that it's not just the ASU house team? Let me know!

Sun Devil Student

So we hope U of A has two teams (either their own or someone else's) otherwise it's going to be an unwieldy three-team tournament. I just spoke with the TD, who confirms the existence of one U of A house team and estimates a 95% chance of a second. Excellent. I also heard back from him earlier toda...

Sun Devil Student

Reporting that we were not able to recruit an additional Division II team and that due to members' absences we will have only two teams coming to Tucson. So we hope U of A has two teams (either their own or someone else's) otherwise it's going to be an unwieldy three-team tournament. That U of A tea...

Sun Devil Student

Thanks for the feedback. It is highly likely now that ASU will host something on March 19. However, we have a new question for all our California comrades: Would you be interested in a MUT mirror, instead of/in addition to a Sack of Antwerp mirror? Depending on interest from U of A (which is impossi...

Sun Devil Student

There's a possibility (very slight, but still there) that I might be going to a summer program at the mathematical and theoretical biology institute at Az St. Do you run practices over the summer? Ask me later during the semester. I will have graduated, but as of last summer, we now have summer pra...

Sun Devil Student

Now if only you were coming to Arizona instead of Colorado, we could talk.

See if UC-Boulder has anything for you. A former member of the ASU team was from Boulder and once mentioned something about a friend at UC-Boulder trying to start a team.

Sun Devil Student

Any word on when the questions themselves will be e-mailed out? Time is getting a little short.

Sun Devil Student

Field update:

Confirmed:
Arizona State Sun Devils - 1 house team; can provide 2nd house team if field is small; 1 buzzer system

Expressed interest:
Arizona Wildcats - 0-2 teams; unknown buzzer systems
Possible 3rd house team from ASU if field is small and interest high

Sun Devil Student

On behalf of the ASU Quizbowl Team, I am excited to announce the first-ever ACF Regionals in the State of Arizona! Many thanks to Rob Carson and his ACF editing team for bringing us this wonderful opportunity for some desert quizbowl. Please see this post for detailed information about packet submis...

Sun Devil Student

Good news for your Div. 1 teams, I've been officially allowed to join your field, so you have your fourth Div. 1 team from ASU. At the moment, it looks like there will be a Div. 2 SCT at Tucson after all, so ASU's Div. 2 teams will be staying home to help build that circuit. Thanks for hosting, see ...

Sun Devil Student

The following teams have submitted requests to the committee: Arizona State (SCT at Caltech) January 8th. Still deliberating our case, I take it? Bump with resolution to the above now that U of A has confirmed the existence of a house team. Thanks Jeff! Now I just hope that U of A house team actual...

Sun Devil Student

I just happened to notice the ASU mirror of Fall Novice from 11/20 isn't listed? I thought we had affiliation for that tournament.

Sun Devil Student

Can you confirm just two things:
1) that you received ASU's house team packet, sent last night for the -25 deadline;
2) that the ASU mirror has been approved, so I can put up an official announcement?

Thanks!

Sun Devil Student

To all quizbowlers south of the 42nd Parallel and west of the Rio Grande: ASU Quizbowl is planning to host a delayed mirror of Univ. of Chicago's Sack of Antwerp tournament on one of three possible dates. Would anyone like to attend this tournament and if so, what date(s) would you prefer: March 5, ...

Sun Devil Student

I've heard nothing from Southern California schools. If anybody from those places wants to host, please say so ASAP. Let's say if I don't have interest from anyplace there for February by Tuesday night (1/11), ASU can do it in March. I take it ASU has clearance to host Sack of Antwerp sometime in M...

Sun Devil Student

The following teams have submitted requests to the committee: Arizona State (SCT at Caltech) January 8th. RIT (SCT at Moravian) January 8th. Approved January 9th. Still deliberating our case, I take it? At this point, I'm truly starting to think there won't even be an SCT in Region 13, unless you k...

Sun Devil Student

I apologize if I sound impatient here; this seems like a really simple hosting bid and I don't know what could possibly be holding us up. Some people are still on break and a subset of those people work over break. I'm sure they'll get to your bid before the tournament takes place elsewhere in the ...

Sun Devil Student

As I still have no answer for my team's hosting bid submitted last year (ok, last month), and was hoping to be able to announce it soon in order to allow time for other teams to possibly make travel arrangements, I would like to know if anything in particular is holding up my hosting bid and what, i...

Sun Devil Student

In the event that Southern California (and the West Coast generally) does not show interest in holding this tournament, my team at ASU would like to host a delayed mirror sometime in March, understanding the risk that our field size may be reduced by spring breaks conflicting with our own. If it fal...

Sun Devil Student

We also happen to be closer to some of the South California schools than the Bay Area is, so we might save certain teams some driving time. And we can try to get Region 13 SCT teams into it, too. Nothing against the ASU bid, but I just want to dispel the notion that the Bay Area circuit is prohibit...

Sun Devil Student

Some time ago I put in a hosting bid for an additional mirror to be located at ASU. Any word on this? If you approve an ASU mirror quickly, we will also be able to give you a packet by the -$25 deadline. We also happen to be closer to some of the South California schools than the Bay Area is, so we ...

Sun Devil Student

Field Update
ASU 2-3 teams (8 people will play and 2-4 will staff in any given round; will rotate constantly) + 1 buzzer system

Expressed Interest:
UCLA (1?)
UCSD (a while ago; may no longer be the case)

Sun Devil Student

Due to a rather shocking lack of interest from the actual "West Coast" proper (perhaps caused by circumstances of which we are unaware), the Arizona State University quizbowl team will now be hosting the "West Coast" mirror of Maryland's Terrapin Invitational Tournament. Although...

Sun Devil Student

This announcement reposted here on the off-chance that anyone on these boards knows any Arizona high schoolers who could be persuaded to come to our tournament. ------------------------------- We are pleased to announce our next tournament, A Still Unnamed* Invitational, to be held on February 12, 2...

Sun Devil Student

We would love to see all the West Coast teams come out to this event. If there is anything I or the club can do to help make your trip more feasible, please don't hesitate to contact me! I am sorry to say I can't share your hopes on this - ASU has put in a bid to host ACF Regionals as well, as we d...

Sun Devil Student

Any answer on ASU's offer to host the West Coast mirror? We are not actually near the coast but none of the teams closer to the coast than we are have materialized, and time is running out for my team from a logistics standpoint. I have information from UCLA that they are not able to host but are in...

Sun Devil Student

Thanks very much!

Sun Devil Student

EDIT: No, I'm wrong. For house teams, you do not owe the editors anything and the teams are not required to write packets. However, you have an option of writing a packet for the house team to save money: If your house team (or any combination of your house team and the people staffing the tourname...

Sun Devil Student

Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Are you on the West Coast mailing list? For whatever reason a lot of people in California don't regularly check the boards, so you might have more luck pestering someone on there.

I'd heard of something like this before but I thought it was outdated. How can I get on this list?

Sun Devil Student

I have attempted by e-mail and forum post to get a clear yes/no on a proposed California mirror. In the meantime, any word about a modified packet schedule for that region? In the event that California teams are truly disinterested in this tournament, ASU will put in a bid to host, since ASU teams n...

Sun Devil Student

I've heard rumblings that TIT might happen at UCI, but no confirmation yet. I'm hoping someone from the club can tell us right now if they're holding it, because we do want to submit a packet for a discount. Any word on this? Seriously, I can't believe this. I don't know if it's a winter break issu...

Sun Devil Student

Just to clarify: House teams are still not required to submit packets, right? I will be submitting a hosting bid for ACF Regionals soon, since there is currently no mirror within driving distance of ASU (and we assume South California is not hosting, since North California is). This does mean that A...

Sun Devil Student

Just a heads-up, you might be getting up to 3 Division II teams from ASU if the planned Region 13 SCT at Univ. of Arizona falls through. We don't know if this will happen (hopefully not) but if it does, the three ASU teams are going to be dumped on you at the last minute with potentially less than 4...

Sun Devil Student

Frater Taciturnus wrote:please, please please post stats as it makes my job a lot easier.

If hosting is the problem you can certainly email the file(s) to me.

Done.

Sun Devil Student

Might it be useful to have regional calendars for each region showing the high school and college tournaments together? I think it would make planning easier since it could show delayed mirrors in various regions and/or help schools to work high school tournaments around college ones.

Sun Devil Student

regular difficulty--so say about a notch or two short of Minnesota Open. I fear you may be doing it wrong, my friend! Hey, I like the sound of this! Unless your notches are, like, extremely widely spaced notches. So what exactly is this difficulty going to be, then? Is this going to be a Regionals-...

Sun Devil Student

Just an idea. The "nationwide" calendar doesn't show delayed mirrors, so each region presumably has slight variations. Of course, my main interest here is to see how the California circuit is looking this February. Supposing UCI does host on Jan. 22, you then have tournaments on 1/22 and 2...

Sun Devil Student

Will anyone host Terrapin Invitational (Jan. 22) in Southern California?? Also, it would be really nice if there was a Southern California mirror of the Feb. 19 tournaments (either Penn Bowl or Sack of Antwerp), to take the place of ACF Regionals which ASU can't afford to travel to this year. Edit: ...

Sun Devil Student

To me, this demonstrates the insanity of the spring calendar in that there are too many tournaments, not enough open weeks that take into account things like high school tournaments/spring break, and the need for prompt, timely announcements. I would suggest that the problem is not too many tournam...

Sun Devil Student

See if y'all can recruit a few new teams (Arizona? New Mexico? Northern Arizona? University of Phoenix? UTEP?) and we'd definitely be up for a once-a-semester roadtrip. Not nearly as far as the Bay Area for us and with lots more fascinating geology on display. There's also an amazing breakfast/sand...

Sun Devil Student

There have been TONS of tournaments so far. THUNDER is this weekend. Please go to the already existing ones. THUNDER will be reg dificulty, and SCT and Regionals aren't far from it. Oh no, the fall semester has been just fine (from ASU's standpoint), the only suggestion I could make would be having...

Sun Devil Student

Is there any possibility that we can work out a modified packet schedule for the west coast site? We definitely want to come to TIT but we've been unable to start on a packet because we don't know where it will be or even if it will happen. It's up to SteveJon, but I imagine we'll come up with some...

Sun Devil Student

The leading members of the ASU team are currently desperately in need of some "regular difficulty" tournaments with non-novice fields to get some more experience before SCT/Regionals time, and would thus like to know whether either of the January tournaments will be mirrored in the West Co...

Sun Devil Student

Any word on a West Coast mirror?

I have two ASU teams working on packets for this, but if there's not going to be a mirror within driving distance of ASU, then we'd probably rather submit our packets to a tournament that we can attend, hopefully in time to get the discount for that.

Sun Devil Student

Really good teams get that way because they actually read a lot of books, not just plot summaries and Wikipedia articles. Doing so takes longer and requires more work. I recall seeing a couple threads on here once (at least one by a certain Ryan Westbrook, I think) that seemed to suggest differentl...

Sun Devil Student

There's an unfortunate conflict here: A group of Arizona high school coaches (largely organized by Brophy) had agreed to schedule the NAQT Arizona Championship on April 2, in complete ignorance of this event that would undoubtedly be quite appealing for any Brophy A-team and indeed even for the ASU ...

Sun Devil Student

This tournament, of course, already happened, but as our website's behind schedule I thought the quizbowl world might enjoy some good news from our remote and otherwise obscure island in the desert. A total of 9 teams competed (1 dropped the morning of the tournament) in a full round robin. Brophy r...

Sun Devil Student

Over a month later, our stats are still not up, as ASU Quizbowl webmaster Greg is still behind on the website. In the meantime, quick results from this tournament: Brophy won the tournament and placed all four of their teams in the top bracket. Desert Vista took home 2nd place and BASIS Scottsdale 3...

Sun Devil Student

It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that ASU will not be sending anyone to this tournament. I had very much hoped to attend but my finals situation turns out to be impossible. At most one or two of my team members were able to go and did not feel it was worth the exertion of traveling with mo...

Sun Devil Student

Ian, I'm not worried about you or the rest of our second-year D2 players. You guys aren't baby seals anymore by this analogy (teenage seals, maybe?). And ASU's first-year players are already ahead of most of the region as SCT would be their second tournament, not their very first. The ones I'm worri...

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