Kirksville Invitational (2/18/12)

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

Hello all,

Kirksville High School in Kirksville, MO is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a tournament on February 18, 2012. We will be using the Minnesota High School Novice Set, which was written by the University of Minnesota's Academic Team. To officially register, please e-mail me at jacob.orourke.7@gmail.com, or Bob Odzinski at bodzinski@kirksville.k12.mo.us. Spots will be given at a first-come, first-serve basis. Also, if a player has played a national tournament (HSNCT or NSC), they are ineligible to play. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me or Mr. Odzinski.

Our pricing is as follows:

1st Team from a school: $60 per team
Additional Teams from the same school: $55 per team
Buzzer Discount: $5 per working buzzer system (defined as a buzzer system that will let 8 people play a game of 20 tossups/20 bonuses)
Moderator Discount: $10 per competent moderator*

*Defined as someone who can read a game of 20 tossups/20 bonuses in under 30 minutes.

There will be a field cap of 21 teams for this event.

I hope to see you at Kirksville on February 18th.

Sincerely,
Jacob O'Rourke

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

I will be posting the field here as registration e-mails are received.

Current Field (10/18):
Schuyler County (2 teams); [2 buzzers]
Trenton (2 teams); [2 buzzers]
Helias (3 teams); [1 buzzer]
Kirksville (3 teams)

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

More than likely, this will end up being our final field, so barring future registrations, the format is going to be a full round robin between the ten teams, plus finals/tiebreaker games as necessary.

EDIT: Unless someone else wants to register a team, I will be putting in another team from Kirksville and rounding out the field that way. The format would be 2 pools of 6, with top 3 going to a playoff bracket, and Advantaged finals/tiebreakers as necessary.

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

One team has dropped (thank the they didn't wait until Friday to tell me), so I have dropped a Kirksville team from the field. We'll be doing a full round robin over nine rounds, and still offering a tiebreaker/advantage final as necessary.

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

After a very long day of quiz bowl, I am happy to say that this tournament ran very well. I will post full stats later in the week, but I can tell everybody that Kirksville A was first, Helias A was second, and Kirksville B was third. We didn't play an advantage final because Helias had to get back home for something, so both them and Kirksville A agreed to make their round 9 match the match to decide 1st and 2nd.

I'd first of all like to thank Jeff Hill, who came up from Kansas City to read for the tournament. I'd also like to thank my teammates Jared McNett, Kyle Goff, Kevin Robb, Isaac Baumann, and Justin Bayer for staffing, and also Kent Buxton of course. Thanks are also due to the University of Minnesota for writing the set, and Coach Odzinksi for working with me and getting the staff food, and also for giving me a lot of leeway to direct this.

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

Here are the complete stats (incorporating bouncebacks) for the tournament: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/