2011 Arizona NAQT State Championship @ Ariz St Univ 4/2/11

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2011 Arizona NAQT State Championship @ Ariz St Univ 4/2/11

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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.

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We are pleased to announce the second-ever NAQT State Championship for the State of Arizona, to be held on April 2, 2011 on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University.

The Arizona NAQT State Championship will be a standard-difficulty high school tournament using the NAQT IS-105 packet set.

The top 15% of teams will qualify to the NAQT High School National Championship held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 27-29, 2011.

------- Full announcement below -----

Date: April 2, 2011

Location: Arizona State University, Tempe campus, Physical Sciences, A-wing
Maps of the ASU campus can be found here: http://www.asu.edu/map/interactive/ (click on "Tempe" to access the correct campus map)

Schedule (tentative):
8:00 - 8:30am - Registration (in PSA 118 for <15 teams, or PSH 150 for 15+ teams)
8:30 - 9:00am - Rules meeting to go over the rules and tournament format and answer questions.
9:00am - Morning rounds (1-6)
Lunch will be after Round 6
1:00pm - Afternoon rounds (7-12)
5:00pm - Individual awards
5:30pm - If no tiebreakers necessary, finals followed by team trophies; otherwise, dinner break followed by tiebreakers/finals from 6-8pm

The tournament should take about 12-14 rounds and will run until early evening. If there is an uber-complex finals situation (e.g. 3+ teams tied for either 1st or 2nd place), all ties *will* be played off - this is an official State Championship we're talking about here, so no ties for second place!

Tournament format: Depending on the number of teams, either a full round-robin or a system of round-robin pools. Each team will be guaranteed several matches (our goal is at least 12 matches to take advantage of NAQT's additional provided packets). All matches will consist of 20 tossups and bonuses, with tiebreakers as necessary. Tossups will have "powers" (correct interrupts before a predetermined point receive extra credit) and bonuses will not rebound (e.g. if the designated team for a bonus fails to answer a part, neither team receives the points), as in standard NAQT format matches. The prize for the winning team includes an exhibition match with our tournament staff using any leftover questions if time permits.

Parking: The closest parking to the Physical Sciences building is directly to the west, where there are open-air parking lots along Mill Avenue (northwest corner area of campus). Parking may also be found at the southwest corner of campus around Gammage Auditorium, directly to the south in the Apache Blvd. Parking Structure, or on the east edge of campus in the Rural Rd. Parking Structure.
A parking map can be found here: http://asu.edu/parking/pdf/asu_map_temp ... arking.pdf

Lunch options:
1) north central area of campus directly across University Drive to the north - Devil's Diner, Manzy Square residential dining hall buffet
2) north and west of the tournament site (cross University Drive, go west to College Ave, then look north of Fulton Center) - Panda Express, Smashburger, Port of Subs, Subway
3) south and west of the tournament site in the ASU Memorial Union - Papa John's, Pitchforks residential dining hall buffet, Einstein Bros, Taco Bell, Burger King (last two may be closed on Saturday though; the other aforementioned places are open)
4) north and east of the tournament site, on northeast corner of University Drive and Rural Rd.
5) southeast corner of campus - Subway, Hassayampa residential dining hall buffet, Barrett Honors College residential dining hall buffet (the infamous "Hogwarts cafeteria")
6) further south from Barrett Honors College complex, across Apache Blvd., there is a Jimmy Johns sub shop ((480) 839-5200) and a Domino's Pizza ((480) 968-5555). Delivery can be ordered from both of these locations.

Teams may also choose to bring their own lunches.

Eligibility: All K-12 students can compete in this tournament, as can nontraditional students who will be no older than 18 years of age as of July 31, 2011. Full NAQT eligibility rules may be found here: http://www.naqt.com/hs/high-school-eligibility.html

Registration fee: The base registration fee for each school will be $50 for the first team (at most 4 students play at a time for each team) and $45 for each team after the first with the following discounts for each school:
-$5 for each fully-functional buzzer system (at least 4 working buzzers each side)
-$5 for each team from schools located outside the Phoenix metropolitan area (we'd like to see more teams from the rest of Arizona)
-$10 for each team from schools which have never played any kind of quizbowl before (as an incentive for less-established programs)

Please make all checks payable to "Sun Devil Quizbowl Club".

In order to encourage schools to enter multiple teams, we are now giving discounts for B, C, D teams etc.

To register: E-mail [email protected] with the following information:
1) School name
2) Coach name and contact information
3) Number of teams you are entering
4) Number of buzzer systems you can bring
If your team has any working buzzer systems, please bring them; ASU Quizbowl has only one buzzer system. We will offer a $5 discount from your school's total registration fees for each buzzer system.

Feel free to e-mail [email protected] with any questions.

We look forward to seeing lots of new and old teams in our high school quizbowl world soon!
Kenneth Lan, ASU '11, '12, UIC '17
The University of Illinois at Chicago
-stranger in a strange land (2013-)
The Sonoran Desert quizbowl ecosystem
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The Arizona State University Quizbowl Club
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Re: 2011 Arizona NAQT State Championship @ Ariz St Univ 4/2/11

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Field update: (Amazing, just amazing!! Thanks to all teams for joining us this Saturday)
Millennium - 2
Desert Vista - 4
Verrado - 3
Mountain Pointe - 1
Brophy - 3
Tri-City Prescott - 2
Scottsdale Preparatory Academy - 1+
BASIS Scottsdale - 1
TOTAL: 17+ teams

Buzzer systems:
Millennium - 1
Desert Vista - 1
Brophy - 4
Tri-City Prescott - 2
Scottsdale Prep - 1
Verrado - 1
BASIS Scottsdale - 1
TOTAL: 11 buzzersets

Expressed interest:
Dobson
Westwood
Hamilton
Mesquite
Red Mountain
Kingman Academy
South Mountain
Mountain View Mesa
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Kenneth Lan, ASU '11, '12, UIC '17
The University of Illinois at Chicago
-stranger in a strange land (2013-)
The Sonoran Desert quizbowl ecosystem
-activist/advocate (2010-2013)
The Arizona State University Quizbowl Club
-elder statesman (2011-2013)
-coach (2009-2011)
-club president (2008-2011)
-founder (2007-)
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Re: 2011 Arizona NAQT State Championship @ Ariz St Univ 4/2/11

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Shockingly, by increasing our recruitment efforts from almost zero to above zero by actually going out and talking to coaches at the State Academic Decathlon competition, we have many more schools interested in quiz bowl.
In addition to the schools that have already come to quiz bowl tournaments, the following schools are interested.

Dobson
Westwood
Hamilton
Mesquite
Red Mountain
Kingman Academy
South Mountain
Mountain View Mesa

A mass e-mail will also be sent out to all schools that competed at Academic Decathlon State.
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Unfortunately only one of the Academic Decathlon schools (Mountain Pointe) has signed up, but this is still on pace to be our biggest tournament ever (as long as BASIS Scottsdale brings their usual two teams and/or some of the AcaDec schools show up after all). Things are looking good so far, a new era has begun for quizbowl in the Valley of the Sun.
Kenneth Lan, ASU '11, '12, UIC '17
The University of Illinois at Chicago
-stranger in a strange land (2013-)
The Sonoran Desert quizbowl ecosystem
-activist/advocate (2010-2013)
The Arizona State University Quizbowl Club
-elder statesman (2011-2013)
-coach (2009-2011)
-club president (2008-2011)
-founder (2007-)
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Re: 2011 Arizona NAQT State Championship @ Ariz St Univ 4/2/11

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Hey, this might be a longshot, but could someone from ASU share the doc of Arizona contacts with me? I'm trying to invite schools to our Nats qualifier/warmup on the 23rd and am wondering if we can score one of these teams or two.
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Auroni, send me an e-mail, I can e-mail you the string of text with all the coaches' e-mails we have.

Hoping one or three more team(s) sign(s) up so we don't have a 17 team tournament...
Kenneth Lan, ASU '11, '12, UIC '17
The University of Illinois at Chicago
-stranger in a strange land (2013-)
The Sonoran Desert quizbowl ecosystem
-activist/advocate (2010-2013)
The Arizona State University Quizbowl Club
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-coach (2009-2011)
-club president (2008-2011)
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Re: 2011 Arizona NAQT State Championship @ Ariz St Univ 4/2/11

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All teams involved chose to play a 17-team schedule with more byes rather than either condense to 16 teams or split to 18 teams.

After these preliminary rounds, teams were rebracketed for crossover playoffs. BASIS Scottsdale then took home 3rd place, and following a dinner break, Brophy 1 defeated Desert Vista's Team Rocket in a one-game final for the 1st place trophy. Tri-City College Preparatory, as the only eligible small school in attendance, took home the first-ever NAQT Small School title in the state of Arizona. A big thank you to all of the teams which turned out for our second NAQT State Championship in Arizona.
Kenneth Lan, ASU '11, '12, UIC '17
The University of Illinois at Chicago
-stranger in a strange land (2013-)
The Sonoran Desert quizbowl ecosystem
-activist/advocate (2010-2013)
The Arizona State University Quizbowl Club
-elder statesman (2011-2013)
-coach (2009-2011)
-club president (2008-2011)
-founder (2007-)
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