BAAL Guy Fawkes tournament (Berkeley, November 5th)

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The Bay Area Academic League and Berkeley Quiz Bowl are pleased to announce the 2011 Guy Fawkes quizbowl tournament.

Location: This tournament will take place in Dwinelle Hall, UC-Berkeley, on November 5, 2011. Registration will be at 10:30 AM.

Questions: We will be using NAQT Invitational Series #107. There will likely be separate varsity and JV divisions, assuming sufficient demand.

Qualifier opportunities:

The top 15% of the field will qualify for NAQT's 2012 High School National Championship Tournament to be held Memorial Day weekend.

This tournament is affiliated with PACE; the top 15% of the field will qualify for the 2012 NSC to be held June 9-10, 2012.

BAAL will recommend teams that perform strongly at this tournament for the November 12th taping date of Quiz Kids.

Fees:

Base fee: $100 per team

Discounts:

-$20 trained moderator

-$10 scorekeeper

-$10 working buzzer

-$25 second or subsequent team from the same school

-$10 schools whose quizbowl programs are new or recently reactivated for fall 2011

Please make checks payable to Gaius Stern, BAAL PM. and mail to:
Gaius Stern
2640 Dwight Way #401
Berkeley, CA 94704

How to register:

Please contact Gaius Stern (gaius [at] berkeley.edu), indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staffers your school plans to bring.

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Field update (11/3, final):

Registered: (9)

Bellarmine (3)
Bentley
Castro Valley
Henry M. Gunn
Hillsdale
San Leandro
South San Francisco

[nadph]

Official communication will come soon about this, but I know we have at least two teams, maybe a third. Not sure how the varsity-JV split will work if there is one.

[bt_green_warbler]

The field is now closed with nine teams. Because there are only nine rather than ten, we will not be running separate varsity and JV divisions- all teams will play a full round-robin.

Registration is at 10:30 am in 183 Dwinelle Hall.

[bt_green_warbler]

At the lunch break:

Hillsdale 3-0
Bellarmine B 3-1
Bellarmine A 3-1
Bellarmine C 3-1
Castro Valley 2-2
San Leandro 1-2
Bentley 1-3
Gunn 0-3
South SF 0-3

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Congratulations to Bellarmine A, which defeated Bellarmine B 185-115 in the first game of an advantaged final to win the 2011 BAAL Guy Fawkes tournament! Complete stats are available here. Special thanks to TD Gaius Stern and all of the coaches and Berkeley players who moderated and kept score today.