The Quizbowl Resource Center

The University of Chicago is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of Penn Bowl on Saturday October 28th, 2017. I, Jason Zhou, will be the tournament director.

Details:
Penn Bowl is a regular difficulty set, so any and all teams are encouraged to register. More information about the tournament can be found in the global announcement. Thus, this tournament is open to all college and high school teams that are interested.

The tournament will be capped at 20 teams.

Cost:
$120 per team

Discounts:
Buzzer systems with at least eight functional buzzers: -$5 each
Buzzer systems with fewer than eight buzzers: -$0 each
Competent staffers: -$10 each No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled one way

Registration:
Please register by contacting me at [email protected]

Field (18)
Chicago (6)
Loyola (1)
Michigan (2)
MSU (2)
Northwestern (1)
OSU (1)
UIUC (2)
WUSTL (3)

The field is now closed at 18 teams. I will send out a logistics email in the next couple of days.

All teams should have received a logistics email. Please email or PM me if you did not receive it.

Prelunch stats are up:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4547/

Congratulations for OSU (Chris Ray, Enoch Fu, Clark Smith, and Aakash Singh) for winning this tournament by defeating Chicago B (James Lasker, Tamara Vardomskaya, and Matthew Lehmann) in a one-game final.

Thanks to all of our staffers for their amazing help today: Athena Kern, Samir Khan, Andy Huff, Dylan Minarik, Tejas Raje, Alex Damisch, Sam Winikow, Ryan Rosenberg, and Nikhil Manglik. Special thanks to Samir for the invaluable extra help he provided to me both before and during the tournament.

I hope all teams had fun, and please contact me if you have any questions. Stats will hopefully be up tomorrow.

Just want to drop a note to say: this ran really smoothly. Thanks a ton to Chicago for a well-run tournament (and congrats to OSU again)!

Thanks to anyone who helped run this tournament! Everything basically went according to plan. I would've liked to get out earlier, but hey this is quizbowl I shouldn't have expected that. So thanks for the experience!

A third shout-out to Jason and Samir––this tournament went a bit long, and some of the seeding was a little unwise. However, when we had a "circle of death" situation in the B bracket, Jason took input from the teams involved without being a doormat, and he and Samir re-did the playoffs schedule relatively quickly and calmly (they apparently had announced before the tournament how they were going to break ties, which is also commendable). Well done, all.

Thanks for the kind words!

All of the stats are now available here. Please feel free to contact me with any corrections.