BAIT II at Belmont High School (3/30/19)

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Belmont High School is proud to present the second annual Belmont Academic Invitational Tournament (BAIT II). This tournament will take place on Saturday, March 30, 2019, and will be mirroring the Prison Bowl set, written by Hunter College High School.

To register for this tournament, please email [email protected] with the number of teams, functioning buzzer sets, and staffers you are bringing, or by responding in the forum post below. We will confirm your reservation as soon a possible. The current field cap is 18 teams.

This tournament will run on standard quizbowl rules. Teams of 4 with up to 2 alternates; 20 tossups and bonuses per untimed round; 5 point negs; 15 point powers; no computational math. We will break most ties by PPB; top bracket ties in the playoffs will be broken with tiebreaker matches.

Belmont High School is located at 221 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA. We will be providing water bottles during registration, which will take place in our Little Theater. We will not provide lunch for the lunch period, which will be about an hour, but there are many options for lunch in Belmont Center, a 5-10 minutes walk away.

Registration will be from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., and we will aim to start the first round around 9:00 a.m. The tournament should around 5:00 pm with the finals ending a little later.

In terms of fees:
$80 for each team from a school
-$5 for every working buzzer system
-$10 for each experienced moderator
-$15 for teams traveling more than 100 miles
-$20 for new teams (for schools that have not played at a pyramidal quizbowl tournament since September 1, 2018)
Minimum fee for teams: $50
All discounts are from the total cost and are not on a per-team basis.

Please pay by cash or check on the day of the tournament. Checks should be made out to Belmont High School and should include “Belmont Quiz Bowl” written on the memo line. We will collect the fees at registration. If a school completely drops out less than 48 hours before the tournament, you will be still have to pay your registration fee. However, if a school remains registered in the field and would like to add or drop additional teams, you may do so without penalty until 3 PM the day before the tournament, provided there is space in the field to do so.

We will be using paper scoresheets, which will be entered in SQBS in the control room. Morning scores should be up by lunch, and whole day scores should be up by noon the day after. We will be giving out book prizes to the 10 individuals with the highest PPG at lunch.

Feel free to direct any questions to me and Eliana at [email protected].

Hope to see you on March 30.

Field Update (3/8):
BLS (2/2/0)
Lexington (3/0/0)

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Field Update (3/25):
BLS (1/2/0)
Lexington (3/0/0)
Barrington (1/0/0)
Philips Andover (1/2/0)
Plymouth (2/1/1)
AMSA (2/2/1)
Acton-Boxborough (1/0/0)
Hingham (1/0/1)