Brainal Leakage (11/17/07) @ Truman State
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Brainal Leakage (11/17/07) @ Truman State
Brainal Leakage III: Buzzer Rock Invitational----- November 17, 2007
Question format has not been decided on for sure but we will be writing them over the summer. There will almost certainly be 24 questions per round and we are leaning toward writing them at NAQT DI level or ACF Fall... somewhere in that region so as to make them accessible to multiple levels of competition.
Pricing is thus:
$60 for first team
$50 for all additional teams
$-5 per buzzer set
$-10 per 100 miles over 150 miles (as determined by google maps)
$40 minimum
That's right. It is pretty cheap. With those prices, how can you resist making the trip to the middle of nowhere known as Kirksville ?
The official e-mail will be coming soon from ecks (Christopher Stone), the tournament director. I'm just throwing that date out there now. Hopefully it won't conflict with anything.
Cheers,
Kent Buxton- Question Editor
Question format has not been decided on for sure but we will be writing them over the summer. There will almost certainly be 24 questions per round and we are leaning toward writing them at NAQT DI level or ACF Fall... somewhere in that region so as to make them accessible to multiple levels of competition.
Pricing is thus:
$60 for first team
$50 for all additional teams
$-5 per buzzer set
$-10 per 100 miles over 150 miles (as determined by google maps)
$40 minimum
That's right. It is pretty cheap. With those prices, how can you resist making the trip to the middle of nowhere known as Kirksville ?
The official e-mail will be coming soon from ecks (Christopher Stone), the tournament director. I'm just throwing that date out there now. Hopefully it won't conflict with anything.
Cheers,
Kent Buxton- Question Editor
Re: Brainal Leakage (11/17/07) @ Truman State
I'm waiting until ACF Fall is announced for the official date, because we don't want to conflict with that.Kentb426 wrote:The official e-mail will be coming soon from ecks (Christopher Stone), the tournament director. I'm just throwing that date out there now. Hopefully it won't conflict with anything.
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The questions will be more like packet-submission length than NAQT length.theMoMA wrote:This is going to be a centrally produced house set? Are the questions going to be shorter like NAQT or typical packet-submission circuit length?
Good to see teams in the midwest hosting written tournaments.
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Yep, I have made it a requirement that everyone on the team write one packet over the summer for this tournament. I have also contacted a couple of freelance writers in order to make sure we have enough questions rolling in.
They will be packet submission length or at least that is the plan and the breakdown is very similar to that of the Elvis tournament at Wisconsin.... I'll try to keep El Cid questions to a minimum but I can't promise anything because I think he is cool (see profile pic for a supposed image of the legend).
They will be packet submission length or at least that is the plan and the breakdown is very similar to that of the Elvis tournament at Wisconsin.... I'll try to keep El Cid questions to a minimum but I can't promise anything because I think he is cool (see profile pic for a supposed image of the legend).
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Some new developments!
The date: November 17th, 2007, for sure.
This tournament will be mirrored with PARFAIT at Princeton University (and apparently a couple other schools). They will be providing the central editing. The distribution will obviously be the same as PARFAIT, but I'll paste it here for convenience:
Literature [5/5] (At least 1/1 American, 1/1 British, 1/1 European, 1/1 World)
History [5/5] (At least 2/1 or 1/2 American, 2/1 or 1/2 European, 1/1 World)
Science [5/5] (1/1 Bio, 1/1 Chem, 1/1 Physics, 1/1 math, 1/1 Astro/Earth/Computer)
Religion/Mythology/Philosophy [3/3] (1/1 each)
Fine Arts [3/3] (at least 1/1 Art, 1/1 Music)
Social Sciences/Geography [2/2] (at most one geography question)
Choice [1/1] Cross-category questions are encouraged; must be academic.
Trash [1/1]
Our original prices still stand.
You can also check out our website: http://aco.truman.edu/bleakageiii.php
The date: November 17th, 2007, for sure.
This tournament will be mirrored with PARFAIT at Princeton University (and apparently a couple other schools). They will be providing the central editing. The distribution will obviously be the same as PARFAIT, but I'll paste it here for convenience:
Literature [5/5] (At least 1/1 American, 1/1 British, 1/1 European, 1/1 World)
History [5/5] (At least 2/1 or 1/2 American, 2/1 or 1/2 European, 1/1 World)
Science [5/5] (1/1 Bio, 1/1 Chem, 1/1 Physics, 1/1 math, 1/1 Astro/Earth/Computer)
Religion/Mythology/Philosophy [3/3] (1/1 each)
Fine Arts [3/3] (at least 1/1 Art, 1/1 Music)
Social Sciences/Geography [2/2] (at most one geography question)
Choice [1/1] Cross-category questions are encouraged; must be academic.
Trash [1/1]
Our original prices still stand.
You can also check out our website: http://aco.truman.edu/bleakageiii.php
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As mentioned in the thread for PARFAIT, this tournament will be a mirror of Princeton's to be held on the same day.
We will honor the prices we have already announced and will be submitting what I understand to be three packets of our own.
With the low price and hopefully high quality questions, I hope to see a lot of teams come out to enjoy this event.
*oops .. I didn't see the Christopher had already posted that PARFAIT affiliation.... my bad* ... well ignore this post :-P
We will honor the prices we have already announced and will be submitting what I understand to be three packets of our own.
With the low price and hopefully high quality questions, I hope to see a lot of teams come out to enjoy this event.
*oops .. I didn't see the Christopher had already posted that PARFAIT affiliation.... my bad* ... well ignore this post :-P
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Some sort of field update as of Friday 10/19:
Rolla (1 or 2)
Drake (1 or 2)
Minnesota (1 or 2)
Kansas State (1? 2?)
Illinois (if Trygve can get people to come while over Fall break... 1 team)
Chicago (still undecided)
WashU (2-3 teams according to Sean Phillips)
and of course the invitation has been extended to Jason Mueller
Rolla (1 or 2)
Drake (1 or 2)
Minnesota (1 or 2)
Kansas State (1? 2?)
Illinois (if Trygve can get people to come while over Fall break... 1 team)
Chicago (still undecided)
WashU (2-3 teams according to Sean Phillips)
and of course the invitation has been extended to Jason Mueller
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As of 11/7:
Rolla (1 or 2)
Drake (1 or 2)
Minnesota (1 or 2)
Kansas State (1 or 2)
Illinois (2)
WashU (3)
Also, if you haven't yet e-mailed me but want to come, do so soon, as we're running out of rooms to put teams in and will need to reserve some more.
Rolla (1 or 2)
Drake (1 or 2)
Minnesota (1 or 2)
Kansas State (1 or 2)
Illinois (2)
WashU (3)
Also, if you haven't yet e-mailed me but want to come, do so soon, as we're running out of rooms to put teams in and will need to reserve some more.
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As of 11/15, here's a final-ish field:
Confirmed by e-mail:
Rolla - 1 Team
KState - 1 Team
Drake - 1 Team
Illinois - 2 Teams
WashU - 3 Teams
Minnesota - 2 Teams
Confirmed by e-mail:
Rolla - 1 Team
KState - 1 Team
Drake - 1 Team
Illinois - 2 Teams
WashU - 3 Teams
Minnesota - 2 Teams
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In case you didn't get the e-mail or want an alternative place to find the infos:
Registration will be from 8:15-8:50, with games starting at 9:00. We’re going to have about 10 teams at this tournament, so we’re going to do a full round robin and, depending on the time and the records, go from there.
For information on how to get to Kirksville and getting a campus map,
you can go here: http://tour.truman.edu/directions/
Tournament central will be in Violette Hall 1010; we’ll post signs on
the doors outside the building so you know you’re (generally) in the
right place. There are a couple hotels near campus, but you can drive
and find parking pretty easily – if not directly in front of Violette,
then the area between Grim and Ryle Halls works pretty well too.
Registration will be from 8:15-8:50, with games starting at 9:00. We’re going to have about 10 teams at this tournament, so we’re going to do a full round robin and, depending on the time and the records, go from there.
For information on how to get to Kirksville and getting a campus map,
you can go here: http://tour.truman.edu/directions/
Tournament central will be in Violette Hall 1010; we’ll post signs on
the doors outside the building so you know you’re (generally) in the
right place. There are a couple hotels near campus, but you can drive
and find parking pretty easily – if not directly in front of Violette,
then the area between Grim and Ryle Halls works pretty well too.
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Quick and Dirty results:
Results:
1st: Illinois A (9-0) (Mike Sorice)
2nd: Drake (8-1)
3rd: Minnesota B (7-2)
Individuals:
1st: Mike Sorice at 120 ppg
2nd: Brendan Byrne
3rd: Andrew Hart
More complete results will come from Christopher later but we played a 10 team round robin and people were ready to go after that.
Results:
1st: Illinois A (9-0) (Mike Sorice)
2nd: Drake (8-1)
3rd: Minnesota B (7-2)
Individuals:
1st: Mike Sorice at 120 ppg
2nd: Brendan Byrne
3rd: Andrew Hart
More complete results will come from Christopher later but we played a 10 team round robin and people were ready to go after that.
So ends my maiden voyage as Tournament Director. There were significant issues with the questions (including easily fixable problems like grammatical awkwardness, repeats, questions that started out with non-uniquely-identifying clues, etc.) but I'm sure that will be discussed in the "discussion" section when the Alabama mirror gets over.
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves, some bad questions aside; it seems as though they did, as several teams said they were planning on coming to our Penn Bowl Mirror. Anyway, thanks to all who came and to those who staffed.
If you have any helpful/constructive criticism, or even more caustic criticism, PLEASE e-mail me at cstone -at- truman -dot- edu. I will certainly appreciate feedback from the teams who came today.
Anyway, what you all REALLY care about are the stats, which you can find here.
Thanks again for coming!
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves, some bad questions aside; it seems as though they did, as several teams said they were planning on coming to our Penn Bowl Mirror. Anyway, thanks to all who came and to those who staffed.
If you have any helpful/constructive criticism, or even more caustic criticism, PLEASE e-mail me at cstone -at- truman -dot- edu. I will certainly appreciate feedback from the teams who came today.
Anyway, what you all REALLY care about are the stats, which you can find here.
Thanks again for coming!
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I don't intend to be nitpicky but just for accuracy's sake Drake's round against Minnesota A is missing individual stats for both teams. Our team's points per game is still the same, but our ppg, Quentin's ppg, and Stacy's ppg would be higher, and our overall bonus conversion would be lower (about 19.5 pp/bonus). Minnesota A would have the same points per game overalll, and the players who scored points that game would have higher ppg averages as well. If any of you were wondering how Drake averaged more points per bonus than both Stanford A, and Chicago A, we didn't.
Minnesota A is listed as playing WashU B twice, and KState zero times. Drake is listed as playing KState twice, and WashU B zero times. None of this affects the places that each team got.
The tournament ran very smoothly and Truman State did a really good job, especially since it was the first tournament their current players had won. Also, congrats to Mike Sorice for his impressive performance in winning the tournament.
Minnesota A is listed as playing WashU B twice, and KState zero times. Drake is listed as playing KState twice, and WashU B zero times. None of this affects the places that each team got.
The tournament ran very smoothly and Truman State did a really good job, especially since it was the first tournament their current players had won. Also, congrats to Mike Sorice for his impressive performance in winning the tournament.
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Er, woops. I guess putting stats up so quickly does have its drawbacks. I'll re-do them and post the revised stats when I get the chance, thanks for pointing that out to me.bjb87 wrote:I don't intend to be nitpicky but just for accuracy's sake Drake's round against Minnesota A is missing individual stats for both teams. Our team's points per game is still the same, but our ppg, Quentin's ppg, and Stacy's ppg would be higher, and our overall bonus conversion would be lower (about 19.5 pp/bonus). Minnesota A would have the same points per game overalll, and the players who scored points that game would have higher ppg averages as well. If any of you were wondering how Drake averaged more points per bonus than both Stanford A, and Chicago A, we didn't.
Minnesota A is listed as playing WashU B twice, and KState zero times. Drake is listed as playing KState twice, and WashU B zero times. None of this affects the places that each team got.
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I also thought that Truman State did a great job running the tournament. I'm really looking forward to coming back for Penn Bowl in January.
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If you get the chance, could you enable "round reports" in the stats too? It would be interesting to see conversion based on packets.ecks wrote:Er, woops. I guess putting stats up so quickly does have its drawbacks. I'll re-do them and post the revised stats when I get the chance, thanks for pointing that out to me.bjb87 wrote:I don't intend to be nitpicky but just for accuracy's sake Drake's round against Minnesota A is missing individual stats for both teams. Our team's points per game is still the same, but our ppg, Quentin's ppg, and Stacy's ppg would be higher, and our overall bonus conversion would be lower (about 19.5 pp/bonus). Minnesota A would have the same points per game overalll, and the players who scored points that game would have higher ppg averages as well. If any of you were wondering how Drake averaged more points per bonus than both Stanford A, and Chicago A, we didn't.
Minnesota A is listed as playing WashU B twice, and KState zero times. Drake is listed as playing KState twice, and WashU B zero times. None of this affects the places that each team got.
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I'll second that, Trygve. It was a smooth tournament. :)millionwaves wrote:I also thought that Truman State did a great job running the tournament. I'm really looking forward to coming back for Penn Bowl in January.
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I've updated the stats, and they should be accurate this time around. Well, at least as accurate as my scoresheets are. If there are still errors, please let me know.
As per Andrew's request, I also put round/packet reports, although it should be noted that the stats for Berkeley A's packet are slightly schewed, as one moderator read the Sophs packet rather than the Berkeley packet (I'm not sure that SQBS has the power to distinguish that, though). All the other rounds were the same packet, though.
As per Andrew's request, I also put round/packet reports, although it should be noted that the stats for Berkeley A's packet are slightly schewed, as one moderator read the Sophs packet rather than the Berkeley packet (I'm not sure that SQBS has the power to distinguish that, though). All the other rounds were the same packet, though.
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