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Tanay · Re: BELLICOSE (4/10/2011) **Field** MSJ (3) Harker (2) Bellarmine (3)

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MSJ (3)
Harker (2)
Bellarmine (3)

Tanay

This is a preliminary announcement for BELLarmine’s Intellectually Challenging Open (Spring Edition!), or BELLICOSE, a tournament scheduled for Sunday, April 10, 2011 at Bellarmine College Preparatory's campus in San Jose, California. The tournament will run from approximately 9 am to 5 pm. A more d...

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More foreign quiz bowl (with the most intense scoring prizes EVER):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8312447.stm

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I guess I'll get this one started, mostly because I was confused about one of the bonuses in the set. 11. George Akerloff posed this example to explain why the owners of good used cars would be unable to sell them at a fair price. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this situation in which buyers’ unc...

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Also, any updates on the hosting situation?

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Can someone help us with a place to stay for WCI? The finances aren't looking fantastic right now.

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The first post in this thread has been updated with some dates from the NAQT website. Expect Bellarmine to claim one weekend in March or April to host another tournament, likely on the BATE set.

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I played this tournament (my first since nationals) yesterday and thought it was a good one. This was generally a standard-level set with a good distribution that covered all facets of history. The questions weren't perfect, but were overall very good, and I'd recommend this tournament to anyone int...

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Secretary of Bobcats wrote:4/23 seems to be the vastly preferable (in regards to being able to show up) date for the forming Illinois contingency.

This. Several of our players have similarly indicated difficulties in attending on the 30th.

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At this point, it looks like there are enough available sets of appropriate difficulty that people should be able to play D2 SCT at their local sites (WCI, Midwest, etc) without having to worry that this tournament would lack usable sets.

Tanay

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...

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We have one team writing a packet for this, as well as two buzzers.

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Also, my preseason rankings: 1. Bellarmine 2. MSJ 3. Harker 4. Mills 5. M-A 6. Gunn 7. Menlo 8. Bell B 9. MSJ B 10. San Mateo 11. Lynbrook All of these teams will or will have a shot at qualifying for nationals. So, halfway through the year, some of these schools have played no quizbowl, others are...

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I can say for sure that this date would work better for our team but will reserve any official declaration that this is the case until I've contacted my coach.

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Bellarmine would like to come to this, and our coach likes the idea too, but the current date conflicts with the West Coast Invitational, which could prevent more than just our team from attending.

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Is it closer to Kenzaburo "oy" or Kenzaburo "o-way"?

EDITED: Never mind! Found it.

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drno wrote: Haha, I love how our school officials can't spell the names of countries correctly. That is, actually, an e-mail from our Vice President for Advancement and is eerily reminiscent of an article on our school's website.

Except the school website didn't misspell things.

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This was fantastic. I hope more people join and that this idea catches on.

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And it makes for a good article too: http://www.benzinga.com/press-releases/10/12/b689996/bellarmine-college-prep-quiz-bowl-team-leads-globally I should clarify that our quiz bowl team doesn't consist just of the people listed in the article, though it's phrased as such at the end. There are many o...

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We like playing quizbowl, want to show up to college tournaments, have a more flexible budget than we did last year, and are willing to write packets. Please host things, colleges.

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Team A gets 75% TU conversion against team B and averages 20 PPB. Team B gets 25 % conversion against Team A but gets 30 PPB. This scenario is incredibly rare, almost to the point of being unfathomable. In HFT's elite field, only five teams averaged 75% tossup conversion over the course of prelims,...

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Having the two primary factors be points per bonus and powers per game seems like it would strike the correct balance between evaluating a team's depth of knowledge and its ability to get tossups against teams of similar caliber. To an extent, the number of powers per game is also affected by the st...

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To not be tongue in cheek, what was the deal with the MSJ & Bellarmine teams at this? I have no clue how meaningful any of it is, other than the general idea of "these schools have good players." I don't know how/why MSJ divides its good players among teams. In general, we avoid doing...

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Bellarmine won't be attending THUNDER. Wednesday is better.

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Bellarmine is interested in attending this, pending some logistical stuff. We tend to have two buzzers.

Edit: I should clarify, though, that when I say "some logistical stuff," I mean a good amount.

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nadph wrote:A team or two from Bellarmine might be able to attend this if we ignore final exams, the lack of a budget that permits this, and the inevitable transportation problems that would ensue. Very uncertain, though.

Fixed.

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Stats are here: http://results.scobo.net/Bellarmine/BELLEROPHON Brackets have been adjusted so that they're appropriate. Note that Phil was 4-1 in prelims but was dropped to moderate and ensure even brackets for the rest of the tournament after lunch. Also, MSJ is even deadlier than stats would sugg...

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This happened. MSJ "C" and MSJ "E" were our finalists, with "E" winning the title in an advantaged final in which "C" had the advantage. The top scorer was "Aaron Rowand" (Phil Yakushev) from the house team Phil Fills for Mills. Stats will be up with...

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cvdwightw wrote:The second is that even if you want to do two prelim brackets, a far better format is to advance six teams to the top playoff bracket and either play a full round robin again or play the top three teams in the other bracket.

This made a lot of sense and we decided we would do it. Thanks.

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Wouldn't it be better to do a round robin and break ties at the end? That's interesting, but I don't understand why it would be better (besides the obvious "having 11 prelim rounds" thing). We designed this format so that teams could play teams of similar strengths after lunch, but I gues...

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Two more teams signed up over the weekend. The field now consists of twelve teams and is final. This tournament will begin with two randomized brackets of six teams each that will play a round robin before lunch, followed by a record-based round robin consisting of three brackets of four teams each....

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The field for this tournament has been finalized and will consist of the ten teams listed in the initial post. We look forward to seeing everyone on the 30th.

EDIT: This post was less final than the next.

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Though I couldn't compete today, I want to thank Jeff and the rest of Berkeley for hosting this tournament. We don't often see IS-sets, especially this early in the year, and having talked to the rest of my team, they said it was well-run and a pleasure to attend.

Tanay · Re: BELLEROPHON (10/30/2010) Bumping this to note several updates in the field.

Bumping this to note several updates in the field.

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The Debate Team at my high school has begun to constantly trash our quiz bowl team, saying that it is all about "learning and regurgitating useless facts." The trashing has gotten so persistent that my best player (who has devoted much of his 3 years of high school to learning for quiz bo...

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It looks like the Bee is a one-on-one competition.

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After some deliberation, it's been decided that this tournament will likely be run on a HSAPQ set. The BATE set will instead be used for a tournament to be held at Bellarmine in the spring.

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laserphaser wrote:I feel that you, Tanay, should contact Stanford about getting their email list to get the word out about Bellerophon.

We'll be trying to get a few mailing lists for sure. This year, we're aiming to increase attendance from traditional Quiz Kids teams as well.

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learning about issues of actual historical import. I think many people will appreciate a tournament that also brings in the history of the arts, sciences, religion and philosophy, and even a small amount of sports and entertainment history I don't think these views are mutually exclusive. In fact, ...

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Using a clue about, say, Beatles' song lyrics to describe a historical figure instead of clues about that figure's accomplishments and actions is not important and not historical. I'd like to add that it's infinitely harder to learn this way. If I wanted to study about Egypt to get things on the le...

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I really hope someone familiar with modern, pyramidal quizbowl joins and cleans up issues like these questions from the practice round (found at http://www.historybowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010-2011-National-History-Bowl-Practice-Round.pdf ): Which president shared his actual first name with a sai...

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Can anyone from Stanford comment on when Cardinal Junior Classic will be this year?

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sir negsalot wrote:NOOOOOOOOO This conflicts with the Colbert rally on the mall

And Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" as well.

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I have been informed that, barring any changes in format, this tournament will meet standards for PACE affiliation.

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AlphaQuizBowler wrote:Is there a deadline for this?

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We anticipate having a house team or two for this tournament.

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Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast wrote: Bellarmine - Everyone?

Yes. Everyone.

Tanay

This is a preliminary announcement for BELLarmine’s Eminently Reputable Official Pre-Halloween Obstacle (New!), or BELLEROPHON, a tournament scheduled for Saturday, October 30, 2010 at Bellarmine College Preparatory's campus in San Jose, California. The tournament will run from approximately 9 am to...

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It's a little like asking for the name of a character who only appears briefly The tossup on the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man from Saturday's set seemed to fit this description. Close to everything from that tossup can be found within a few pages of The God of Small Things here , and there are at lea...

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If we get well-run tournaments from both Berkeley and Stanford, which we should, I predict a revived interest in quizbowl in our region. This would just be the best. Not trying to be demanding here, but it would totally be cool if we could play tournaments on non-A-level sets In related news, we ju...

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