ACF Regionals Northeast at Brown (2/18/2012)

[ieppler]

Brown will be hosting the Northeast mirror of ACF Regionals on Saturday, February 18th, 2011. The tournament will be held in Wilson Hall. Registration will begin at 8:30, and the tournament will begin at 9.

Fees and discounts:
Base fee: $120/team. $120 for one team from a school, $240 for two teams from a school, etc.
Buzzer systems : -$5 each. No discount for broken buzzers; no maximum.
Staffers: -$10 each. No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each. Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled. -$10 for travelling over 200 miles (one way), -$20 for travelling over 400 miles, etc.
International: -$20. For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.
New ACF teams : -$25. For schools who did not send a team to ACF Fall, Regionals, or Nationals between September 2009 and August 2011, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
New quizbowl teams : -$75. For schools who did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament since September 2009, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school. May be combined with new ACF team discount for a total new-team discount of $100.
Plus or minus any applicable packet discounts/penalties as described in the above table.
Buzzer, staffer, laptop, travel, and international discounts apply to your school’s total fee, not to each individual team’s fee. The minimum total fee for a school is $0.

Packet deadlines and fees:
January 8, 2012: -$25 (-$50 for optional packets)
January 22, 2012: no penalty (-$25 for optional packets)
January 29, 2012: +$25
February 5, 2012: +$50
More information on packet requirements

To register, email me at ian_eppler@brown.edu. The field is currently capped at 20 teams.

[ieppler]

Field (updated 2/15/12):
RPI (1)
Dartmouth (2)
Yale (3)
Columbia (1)
NYU (2)
McGill (2)
Harvard (1)
MIT (2)
Total: 14

Expressed interest:

[Ondes Martenot]

RPI will definitely have one team, with the possibility of 1-2 more

[Tower Monarch]

Dartmouth will have 1 team that will have a packet submitted and may manage a second team of new players.

[The Predictable Consequences]

Ardsley (most likely me solo) is expressing interest in this.

[ThisIsMyUsername]

Yale is bringing three teams, and hopefully at least one buzzer. Something has cropped up that has made it nearly impossible for me to come and moderate, as I had originally hoped. I'll keep you posted, though, if this changes.

[1971 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season]

NYU would like to bring one team, one buzzer, one laptop and one moderator. We will only be bringing players who are not required to submit packets, since we didn't submit one.

[Ondes Martenot]

RPI is bringing one team with a submitted packet, and one buzzer.

--Nimit

[Tower Monarch]

Just wanted to confirm 2 teams for Dartmouth.

[t-bar]

The tournament will be held in Wilson Hall.

To clarify: is this the Wilson Hall on the College Green, as opposed to the J. Walter Wilson Building slightly farther north where MAGNI was?

[nimit]

Where can one park closest to Wilson Hall?

[ieppler]

The tournament will be held in Wilson Hall.

To clarify: is this the Wilson Hall on the College Green, as opposed to the J. Walter Wilson Building slightly farther north where MAGNI was?

That's correct.

Where can one park closest to Wilson Hall?

Parking information is available at http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Finance_and_Admin/transportation/parking/visitor.htm

[ieppler]

Stats are being updated on the Tournament DB.

[ieppler]

Playoffs are underway. The top bracket consists of Yale A, Harvard, MIT A, Yale B, and Columbia. Complete prelim stats are available on the Tournament DB, and playoff stats will be uploaded as they become available.

[Martha Dreyer]

I find it awfully hard to believe that graham and david went 1/9 and 6/9 respectively vs columbia

[ieppler]

I find it awfully hard to believe that graham and david went 1/9 and 6/9 respectively vs columbia

You're correct. Fixed.

[marnold]

19 negs and still winning by 500 is a key skill of top teams.

Also, just out of idle curiosity, what's the deal with the bracketing here? Did you think Aaron was coming or something?

[ieppler]

Yeah, we weren't told he wasn't coming.

[ieppler]

Yale A won the tournament in the first game of an advantaged final against Harvard. Stats are on the tournament DB. There are a bunch of 0-0 ties in the 12th round; a bunch of teams surprised us by leaving to catch public transportation, so I marked games in which both teams left as ties.

[Pilgrim]

Stats are on the tournament DB.

Link for the lazy.