MUT Mirror @ Waterloo (03/17/12)

[p-vs-vp]

The University of Waterloo Quiz Bowl Club will be hosting a mirror of MUT 2012 on Saturday, March 17th 2012.
The original thread for this tournament, including packet distribution, can be found here.

The tournament will begin at 10 am on the fourth floor of the Mathematics and Computing building (denoted MC on this map).
Please aim to arrive by 9:30 am.

To register, please respond to this thread, or email quizbowl-owner AT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca.

Fee Structure
Base fee: $120
Fee for subsequent teams: $10 lower for each team (ie, $100 + $90 + $80 for three teams)
Staffer: -$5 each
Functional Buzzers: -$10 each
Distance: -$10 for greater than 200 miles traveled
High Schools: -$25
New to Quizbowl: - $50
Shorthanded: -$10 per missing player

Field
Waterloo
Buffalo
Cornell
McMaster
Michigan
Ottawa

[MathMusic]

You will probably see at least 1 team from Buffalo on this date, but this is over our Spring Break. We probably could bring 2-3 teams if this was another weekend.

[itsthatoneguy]

Michigan is interested in attending with 1-3 teams and can bring 3 buzzers.

[adosreme]

Unless something else comes up, put me down for moderating this event.

[Madagascar Serpent Eagle]

I'm pretty sure we're coming to this with a number of teams greater than zero and less than four.

[MathMusic]

Any update on the fee structure? I need to put in requests to finance soon, and to do that I need a price. We'll only be bringing one team from Buffalo, with 1-2 buzzers.

[eliza.grames]

Just a note about eligibility that we finally put up on the main site:

This tournament is for undergraduates. You can be any year in playing as an undergraduate as long as you are in a typical degree-earning program. By undergraduate, I am defining as "have not earned a bachelor's degree" or the equivalent of such (i.e., you can have played five years of college quizbowl and still be an undergraduate).

You can play if you are a high schooler.

You cannot play if you are not in school at all. If you graduated like in the fall, you can play--that's cool.

You cannot play on an open team. You must play for your college or educational institution (obviously if you need to "go rogue" as a high schooler that's okay). We are aware that occasionally field sizes may require some flexibility here--please contact us if this is something that needs resolved.

You cannot play if you are a graduate student. I am aware that there are occasional gray areas here, so I would urge all TD's to run any potential "question mark" eligibility cases with the MUT editors. If we determine there is a bad faith example of eligibility gaps being broken, we will not be amused.

[cruzeiro]

One Ottawa team, one set of buzzers.

[adosreme]

I will be coming to this as a moderator. I will check with U of T tonight to see whether or not we will be fielding any teams.

[itsthatoneguy]

Can we get a field update? We are probably just bringing one team.

[adosreme]

U of T will not be fielding a team for this.

[alexander]

McMaster will bring one team, and one moderator.

[p-vs-vp]

Apologies for the delay; the first post has been updated with the current field, along with fee, time, and location info.

Please confirm any discounts you intend to claim either here, or by emailing Jj Li at the address in the first post.

[Madagascar Serpent Eagle]

We'll register two teams. Also, we're 250 miles away.

[MathMusic]

One Buffalo team, one buzzer.

[itsthatoneguy]

We currently have five people going. I think we would like to split into two teams, but if that does not work well with the schedule then we can keep it at one team.

[Madagascar Serpent Eagle]

Hey, can we get confirmation that you have us registered and got the E-mail I sent you yesterday? Also, can you take payment in checks in American money from American banks?

[adosreme]

I don't know about any rules that your school may have about payment methods, but if you bring cash then I would be happy to exchange it for Canadian money, which I will bring to the site. I could use the American dollars for ICT.

[nobthehobbit]

This tournament is currently in progress. Statistics for the preliminary round-robin can be found here.

[nobthehobbit]

The preliminary round-robin has finished and final statistics for it can be found at the link above. Statistics for the playoffs can be found here.

[nobthehobbit]

Congratulations to Michigan State A for winning Waterloo's mirror of 2012 MUT.

[Cheynem]

I'll see about a private forum for discussion but for now, please direct specific feedback to me or Gaurav.

[Madagascar Serpent Eagle]

This tournament was fun, despite issues relating to us not being the same school as Michigan.

I also liked the questions - the only ones that I had issue with were the physics, and everything else was some of the best we've played this year.

[Madagascar Serpent Eagle]

Hey, I send you an E-mail about this a few days ago, but can someone please send me an invoice for Michigan State for this tournament? I paid $210 for our two teams, I think.

[Muriel Axon]

Hello! I would be appreciative if someone could correct my last name in the database.

[nobthehobbit]

Hello! I would be appreciative if someone could correct my last name in the database.

This should be corrected now. Please let me know about any other errors.

[alexander]

Could I also get a receipt for McMaster? We had one team of two people plus a moderator.

[MathMusic]

I still need a receipt/invoice as well for Buffalo.

[Cheynem]

Hey: I hope you guys are sending out these receipts because you still haven't paid us yet or responded to e-mails about payment.