Gladiator Open [MS-09] -- 3/29/14 (Elm Grove, WI)

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Gladiator Open [MS-09] -- 3/29/14 (Elm Grove, WI)

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Dear coaches, players, teachers, and other interested parties:

St. Mary's Visitation is pleased to be hosting the fourth annual Gladiator Open on March 29, 2014, in idyllic Elm Grove, WI. This is an open junior high (up to grade 8) tournament, to be hosted on NAQT's MS-09 set. We will play with NAQT rules, except that rounds will be untimed and instead will consist of twenty tossup-bonus cycles. The top 15% of the field will earn invitations to MSNCT.

Our base fee is $65 per team. Each team after the first gets a $10 discount. Each working buzzer set you bring also gets a $10 discount. I will guarantee that you will play at least 6 games, but, realistically, expect 8 or 9.

I am preliminarily capping the tournament at 16 teams, but I will expand it if I have sufficient staff and buzzers.

SMV is convenient to I-94 and US-45, 15 minutes west of downtown Milwaukee and 90 minutes from the Chicago Loop.

Please let me know if you're interested in bringing some students to play. You can email me at mfalk at stmaryeg dot org.
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Re: Gladiator Open [MS-09] -- 3/29/14 (Elm Grove, WI)

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Field Update (3-20-14)
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Keith Country Day School (Rockford, IL; 1 team)
Bayside Middle School (Bayside, WI; 3 teams)
Plum Grove Junior High (Rolling Meadows; 1 team)
St. Edward (Chicago, IL; 1 team)
St. Anne (Barrington, IL; 1 team)
Quest Academy (Palatine, IL; 2 teams)
Barrington Middle School - Station Campus (Barrington, IL; 1 team)
St. Mary's Visitation (Elm Grove, WI; n teams)
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Re: Gladiator Open [MS-09] -- 3/29/14 (Elm Grove, WI)

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Gladiator Open 2014 happened today at St. Mary's Visitation. The 16 teams were divided into two divisions (American and National), which played a round robin. The stats report from the round robin is here:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

The top two teams from each division (SMV Gold, Station, SMV Blue, Quest Red) met in the championship bracket. The next four met in the second bracket, and so on. Each team had already played one of the three other teams in their bracket. That win or loss carried over into the bracket. At the conclusion of the brackets, Quest Red and SMV Gold were tied with one loss apiece, and Station and SMV Blue had two losses apiece. Those ties were played off at the buzzer for the championship and 3rd place. Final standings:

1. SMV Gold (won the East bracket; won championship game 305-270)
2. Quest Red
3. SMV Blue (won 3rd place game 365-155)
4. Station

5. Bayside A (won the South bracket)
6. Plum Grove
7. Keith
8. St. Anne

9. Quest Black (won the Midwest bracket)
10. SMV White
11. SMV Silver
12. St. Edward

13t. Bayside C (tied for win, West bracket)
13t. SMV Green (tied for win, West bracket)
15t. Bayside B
15t. SMV Red

Leading scorers:
1. Vikas Reddy, Quest Red, 101 ppg
2. James Kearney, SMV Gold, 75 ppg
3. Hari Ramakrishnan, Station, 73 ppg
4. George Carlo Clark, SMV Blue, 67 ppg
5. Aidan Parks, SMV Gold, 59 ppg
6. Patrick Kearney, SMV White, 58 ppg
7. Abraham Holterman, Station, 56 ppg
8. Hugh Quigley, St. Edward, 55 ppg
9. Advay Mahajan, Plum Grove, 51 ppg
10. Gretchen Coleman, Plum Grove, 47 ppg

I appreciate the time and effort it takes to bring a team to a quiz bowl tournament. Thanks to the coaches and players for spending their Saturday with us. Thanks much to my moderators and scorekeepers: Neil McLinden, Michael Enright, Kylie Daemmrich, William Puchner, Melinda Coleman, Paul Grum, Jim Carrig, Tim Carrig, Courtney Falk, Allen Witkowski III, Allen Witkowski Jr., and Burke Seeberg. Thanks also to my co-coaches, Kylie Daemmrich and Burke Seeberg, for all they do. See you in the fall for Gladiator Fall Tournament 2014!
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Played for Iowa State University, 2001-2004
Coaching for St. Mary's Visitation (Elm Grove, WI), grades 6-8, 2010-present
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