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Dan-Don

Bumping this. There are currently 11 teams in the field, with 2 more expressing interest. That means there are 5-7 spots left, so register soon if you haven't.

Dan-Don

Dear Scholastic Bowl coach, Northwestern University is hosting a novice-level scholastic bowl tournament called Wake-Up Call II for high schoolers on October 1, 2011 . We are also hoping to run a small, separate tournament for high-caliber middle school teams at the same time using the same questio...

Dan-Don

Just a heads up: I'll be sending out the official invitation email to coaches this evening or tomorrow morning. There are currently 13 spots left in the field, with 3 teams expressing interest.

Dan-Don

Barrington MS Station Campus would be interested in entering two teams, but you need to give me until after Labor Day to firm up anything (for reasons apparent to anyone following my FB...). I'll wait to add Station until I make the announcement for the middle school division sometime in late Augus...

Dan-Don

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Dan-Don

Who will be the TD in charge of this? I'll assume it will not be the same one responsible for last year's mess. If my assumption is correct, IMSA will likely bring 2 teams and some staffers. After the "mess" that was last year's FNT mirror, I've taken over as Tournament Director for all e...

Dan-Don

alexdz wrote:
Dan-Don wrote:Teams should park
Good to know.

yeah i'll put that back in there when i actually know where it will be

Dan-Don

Northwestern University will be hosting our second high school novice tournament, Wake-Up Call II , on October 1, 2011 . We'll be mirroring the 2011 Fall Novice Tournament . I, Dan Donohue, will be serving as Tournament Director. This tournament will be an excellent opportunity for new, inexperience...

Dan-Don

The FNT people accepted our bid, so I can confirm that Northwestern will be hosting Wake-Up Call II on October 1 on the 2011 Fall Novice set. Announcement post will be coming shortly.

Dan-Don

Our novice event would be on 10/1 now that UMich is hosting MOO on 10/8.

Dan-Don

We'd like to host another novice event (Wake Up Call II) on 10/8. I'm waiting to hear from George about FNT, but if we don't get FNT, I'll make a bid for this just-announced Minnesota novice event.

Dan-Don

We have the game rooms until 9:00 pm. So you should be fine to run this event in whatever game room you choose.

Dan-Don

I think all of Bryce's scores are now entered.

Dan-Don

Are finals starting now? Or is there still a lunchbreak until 1:30?

Dan-Don

Chicago Christian left after the prelims, and the teams elected to do playoff brackets of 4 and 2 instead of a 6-team RR in order to get to trash quicker.

Prelim stats.
Playoff stats.
Overall stats.

Dan-Don

I'll update the stats after every round. We're running a full RR among 7 teams then rebracketing into 4/3.

Dan-Don

I may be able to staff. I'l confirm by Tuesdayish.

Dan-Don

Due to lack of interest, this is canceled. If anybody is interested in staying and playtesting 9 packets (please stay for all 9 packets), Jeremy White and some Northwestern guys will stick around to do that. Please indicate to me sometime before Saturday or on Saturday morning if you'd be interested...

Dan-Don

If more interest doesn't materialize for this in the next day or two, this will probably be canceled. So, if you want to play FOGHAT, let me know by posting here sooner rather than later.

Dan-Don

French horn comes to mind. Is there no way in Ginseng just to quickly open up the page for shared tossups and see if the packet numbers match? Hah. I wish. I'll go check up on that French horn tossup. There wasn't even a French horn tossup in Division II. Are you thinking of the English horn tossup...

Dan-Don

Unless that bonus was written with the assumption that every reader at ICT would be competent in math, it really should explicitly say "accept _golden mean_" instead of the very general "accept other words in place of ratio." That seems like lazy answer-line editing to me. If th...

Dan-Don

Having just glanced through both sets, it seems like a lot of the tossups that were shared between divisions appear in different rounds but use a lot of the same clues. I think that's kind of an issue. This should not have happened (all shared questions are supposed to be in the same rounds). (For ...

Dan-Don

Unless that bonus was written with the assumption that every reader at ICT would be competent in math, it really should explicitly say "accept _golden mean_" instead of the very general "accept other words in place of ratio." That seems like lazy answer-line editing to me. If th...

Dan-Don

I had a good time on the D2 set. It was good. But there were a few things I was wondering about. How did a "pencil and paper ready" bonus get into this set? (Packet 11, Bonus 8). An archaic list bonus in the finals packet is pretty bad, but surely things like this just aren't allowed at th...

Dan-Don

Is there any particular reason "phi" isn't outright acceptable for "the golden ratio"? I was prompted on it and gave the correct answer, but I just wondered. Sometimes capital phi is used for 1/phi, but I don't think that usage is all that common; also, I tend to dislike accepti...

Dan-Don

Ben Chametzky has joined our field as the 7th team. If we could get to 8, that would be preferable.

Dan-Don

Trash will indeed be on Saturday. Details here.

More teams should register for Prison Bowl.

Dan-Don

Due to lack of interest, this is canceled. If anybody is interested in staying and playtesting 9 packets (please stay for all 9 packets), Jeremy White and some Northwestern guys will stick around to do that. Please indicate to me sometime before Saturday or on Saturday morning if you'd be interested...

Dan-Don

Have powermarks been added to the set since it was first played?

Dan-Don

The field has been updated. Jeremy White has graciously allowed us to mirror FOGHAT, a trash tournament, this weekend. Fees would probably be small, with $10 per team being donated to Matt's Buzzers. If you're interested in playing, please let me know by selecting one of the options from the new pol...

Dan-Don

What are people's thoughts about computing bouncebacks as the number of bounceback points earned divided by the number of individual bonus parts that a team had the opportunity to bounceback? This was the method suggested by the SQBS guide I have.

Dan-Don

Charbroil wrote:
Dan-Don wrote:Why are the numbers of bonuses heard in the thousands?
Bonuses are out of total possible bonus points in each game rather than total points per bonus cycle to accomodate bouncebacks.

Oh. Is there a reason for not tracking bouncebacks the proper way?

Dan-Don

Why are the numbers of bonuses heard in the thousands?

Dan-Don

drose4prez wrote:Just out of curiosity, what would this tournament's policy be in terms of intentionally hosing its participants?

The real question is whether the editors of BLASTOISE or whatever trash set this tournament would be using would be ok with having their set edited without permission.

Dan-Don

bcarbery wrote:Could someone mirror a trash tournament or a hybrid tournament like BLASTOISE? I'd definitely be interested in playing that and is there a chance of trash4strophe happening? Either date works for me.

I could staff or play a trash tournament on either day.

Dan-Don

All right, we're going to go ahead and have this on 4/16. We're not making any guarantees that the tournament will finish in enough time to for anyone to get to the IHSSBCA banquet. Do not register if you plan to leave the tournament early to attend the banquet. Only register if you intend to play t...

Dan-Don

Yeah, I just realized I also agreed to staff MSNCT. So I'm gonna rule 5/7 out. 4/30 is literally an impossibility: there is not a single room to be had on campus. I guess I'll add a poll to check interest in 4/16. (We're not attending nats.)

Dan-Don · Re: Prison Bowl mirror @ Northwestern (5/7/11) Would 4/16 work better?

Would 4/16 work better?

Dan-Don

Bumping this.

EDIT: I guess there's some kind of pentathlon happening on campus on 4/30, so this will now occur on 5/7.

Dan-Don

Prelim stats. Playoff stats. Combined stats. Just to explain a couple weird things about the stats: the reason Rhodes appears in the stats is because Rhodes canceled a week or so ago, but the email didn't get through to me. We erroneously believed that they had checked in with us yesterday morning ...

Dan-Don

So, I'm in the process of correcting the scoresheets/salvaging the stats. I just finished the prelims. A more comprehensive tournament wrap-up post will be coming. Stats corrections are welcome.

Oh, and, in response to Abid, I think Washington only had 7 players.

Dan-Don

Moving Day wrote:Any last minute updates?

The kids can't wait.

The field is now up-to-date, and the set is being finished tonight. We finally wrangled enough staffers. We're pretty excited about the tournament too.

Dan-Don

5. Ben from Carbondale HS attended the tournament as a one-man team, and his coach Mrs. L also attended to help staff. While she was a decent moderator (despite her frequent side-comments between questions), a mistake made by her cost us a game against Illinois which we should have easily won. Spec...

Dan-Don

Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:What set is the Northwestern Wildcat tournament running on?

Prison Bowl.

Dan-Don

It appears that the link to the Combined Stats actually only goes to Playoff Stats. Also, "Soel" on our team is "Joel Muskin-Pierret." Is anyone else having this problem? When I click the combined stats link, I'm being brought tot he combined stats. I guess I fixed Joel's name i...

Dan-Don

The above stats are complete. Colby and Minnesota elected not to play a final. Big thanks to Eliza Grames for reading, Rom for bringing drinks, and UIC/Delano/Nick for agreeing to combine and then being willing to play with Northwestern people.

Dan-Don

We condensed into a 6 team field, which will play a double round-robin. The scab team consists of Rom and Mike from UIC, Nick from UW-Madison, Delano Barnes, and various rotating Northwestern people. (Five people are playing at a time for them.) Stats are here.

Dan-Don

Stats: Prelims only Playoffs with carried-over matches. (These represent final standings.) Combined Minnesota A cleared the field to win. EDIT: Thanks to Mike Laudermith, Matt Laird, Mike Cheyne, Colby Burnett, and Guatam Kandilikar for taking the time to moderate. Remember: this set is not cleared ...

Dan-Don

These are the playoff stats, which include the carried-over prelim matches.

Dan-Don

Playoffs are starting. Prelims stats are available at the above link. Top Scorers: Andrew Hart, Greg Peterson, Kurtis Droge, Charles Hang, Rob Carson, Nolan Winkler, Lloyd Sy, Bryan Berend, Selene Koo, Kevin Malice. Playoff brackets: Minnesota A/Michigan A/Chicago B/Chicago A/Auburn/Team Illinois, L...

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