GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
GSAC XIX will take place on December 3, 2011 at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School in Richmond, VA. This tournament is being written by members of the Maggie Walker team and will be edited by Saumil Bandyopadhyay and myself. A preliminary field cap of 30 teams have been established. Once we can acquire more staffers, we'll be able to increase the field cap. Feel free to either contact me at gsacdirector AT gmail DOT com or post any questions/comments.
Our distribution is:
4/4 Lit
4/4 Science
4/4 History
3/3 RMP
2/2 Arts
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Trash
1/1 Geography
Registration:
Please send me an e-mail at gsacdirector AT gmail DOT com with:
1. Your school
2. Number of teams/buzzers/moderators you will bring
3. Name, e-mail address, and the phone number of your team’s sponsor/coach
Fee structure:
First team: $60
Each additional team: $50
Functional Buzzer Discount: $10
Travel Discount (200+ miles traveled): $10
Staff Discount (please only volunteer a competent staffer): $10
Minimum fee: $40
Mirrors:
We are also looking for mirrors across the country. The set will contain 12 packets, with the last two rounds being harder in difficulty. The mirror fee is $10 per team. The set will be available from October until the end of the season. Please contact me at gsacdirector AT gmail DOT com or sh4159 AT gmail DOT com if you are interested in holding a mirror.
Current Mirrors:
12/3 @ University of Florida, FL
12/17 @ New Trier, IL
1/14 @ Berry College, GA
1/21 @ St. Joseph’s, NJ
2/19 @ Solon, OH
4/7 @ Cedar Shoals, GA
FIELD (27):
Caesar Rodney (1 team, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Cave Spring (1 team, 2 buzzers)
Clover Hill (1 teams, 2 buzzers, 1 moderator)
Cosby (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Enloe (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Georgetown Day School (1 teams, 3 buzzers)
Guilford (1 team)
New Kent (3 teams, 2 buzzers)
Raleigh Charter (3 teams, 3 buzzers)
Richard Montgomery (2 teams, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Robinson (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
St. Anselm's (1 team, 1 buzzer)
State College (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Thomas Jefferson (3 teams, 2 buzzers)
Tucker (1 team, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Whitman (2 team, 2 buzzer)
Our distribution is:
4/4 Lit
4/4 Science
4/4 History
3/3 RMP
2/2 Arts
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Trash
1/1 Geography
Registration:
Please send me an e-mail at gsacdirector AT gmail DOT com with:
1. Your school
2. Number of teams/buzzers/moderators you will bring
3. Name, e-mail address, and the phone number of your team’s sponsor/coach
Fee structure:
First team: $60
Each additional team: $50
Functional Buzzer Discount: $10
Travel Discount (200+ miles traveled): $10
Staff Discount (please only volunteer a competent staffer): $10
Minimum fee: $40
Mirrors:
We are also looking for mirrors across the country. The set will contain 12 packets, with the last two rounds being harder in difficulty. The mirror fee is $10 per team. The set will be available from October until the end of the season. Please contact me at gsacdirector AT gmail DOT com or sh4159 AT gmail DOT com if you are interested in holding a mirror.
Current Mirrors:
12/3 @ University of Florida, FL
12/17 @ New Trier, IL
1/14 @ Berry College, GA
1/21 @ St. Joseph’s, NJ
2/19 @ Solon, OH
4/7 @ Cedar Shoals, GA
FIELD (27):
Caesar Rodney (1 team, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Cave Spring (1 team, 2 buzzers)
Clover Hill (1 teams, 2 buzzers, 1 moderator)
Cosby (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Enloe (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Georgetown Day School (1 teams, 3 buzzers)
Guilford (1 team)
New Kent (3 teams, 2 buzzers)
Raleigh Charter (3 teams, 3 buzzers)
Richard Montgomery (2 teams, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Robinson (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
St. Anselm's (1 team, 1 buzzer)
State College (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Thomas Jefferson (3 teams, 2 buzzers)
Tucker (1 team, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Whitman (2 team, 2 buzzer)
Last edited by SoHo on Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:11 am, edited 33 times in total.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Discussion about whether or not this is a good idea can be found here.SoHo wrote: with the last two rounds being harder in difficulty. The mirror fee is $10 per team.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Information for registration has been added to the first post. Please email me at gsacdirector AT gmail DOT com with the information requested above to register your team(s).
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
About this: do you mean that the finals questions will have harder answerlines, or that the clues in the questions will be harder?bt_green_warbler wrote:Discussion about whether or not this is a good idea can be found here.SoHo wrote: with the last two rounds being harder in difficulty. The mirror fee is $10 per team.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
GSAC is now a platinum-certified tournament, meaning that the top 25% of the field will qualify for 2012 NSC.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
We're probably coming to this. I'll send a registration e-mail sometime soon.
Mr. Andrew Chrzanowski
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Great! I received the registration e-mail. Thanks, Mr. ChrzanowskiList of villages in West Virginia wrote:We're probably coming to this. I'll send a registration e-mail sometime soon.
Lucas Kim
Maggie Walker, 2013
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
We are going to tentatively set the field cap at 30 teams. We'll be expanding the field once we have a better idea of the moderator situation.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
are there going to be powers in this set?
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
There are no powers in this set.sir negsalot wrote:are there going to be powers in this set?
Also, this tournament is next week, so please sign up if you haven't already!
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Man, this is such a great field at this competition - kinda like our own mini-HFT in the Mid-Atlantic. I hope my kids are up for the challenge! See everyone Saturday.
Mr. Andrew Chrzanowski
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
CRHS quizbowl coach '06-'12
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
One team dropped from the field, leaving us with 28 teams.
A couple more registrations would be very helpful, so if you plan to attend, please register soon.
We'll be closing the field on Thursday.
A couple more registrations would be very helpful, so if you plan to attend, please register soon.
We'll be closing the field on Thursday.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Is it too late for us to register? We managed to find a driver for one team at the last minute and the kids really wanted to go to this one. I sent you the details over e-mail.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
That would be really good if Cave Spring could send a team as we had to drop our 2nd team's registration today (as I have emailed the GSAC coordinators about)
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Just a heads up, The Richmond Christmas Parade will be held tomorrow as well. I'm not sure what roads will be closed but it may have an effect on travel times. I know in the past it has caused my team issues with my team being on time.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Do not plan on being able to cross Broad Street, basically.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
You'll be able to cross Broad Street (before 9am) any place east of Strawberry or (after 9am) after 7th Street (after which you can come up Leigh).Frater Taciturnus wrote:Do not plan on being able to cross Broad Street, basically.
Map of Richmond Christmas Parade (Maggie Walker is at Leigh and Lombardy)
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Stats for the preliminary rounds are posted at http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/15 ... standings/
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Congratulations to St Anselm's Abbey School on their 375-270 victory over Georgetown Day School in the finals of GSAC XIX.
Statistics for the playoffs can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/15 ... _play-off/
Statistics for the playoffs can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/15 ... _play-off/
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
This was a fun tournament. Thanks MW for hosting and doing a decent job running it. The rounds went pretty quickly on what was a good set that we liked.
It was a pleasure to help out. Hopefully we'll be down in Richmond another time this year, perhaps.
It was a pleasure to help out. Hopefully we'll be down in Richmond another time this year, perhaps.
Mr. Andrew Chrzanowski
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
CRHS quizbowl coach '06-'12
http://crquizbowl.edublogs.org
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CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Thanks to all the teams that came out and played yesterday. We didn't have any teams drop at the last second, so that was good. Also, thanks to all the moderators including VCU, alumni, and other various volunteers for helping us out the entire day. I hope everyone enjoyed the tournament.
There are still mirrors out there, so please don't mention any specifics. If you have any feedbacks on the tournament or the set, please let me know via email.
We noticed the missing game between the House Team and Raleigh Charter B, and also noticed the finals of GDS and St. Anselms being posted twice. We will get those fixed on Monday once we return to school. If there are any other mistakes in stats, please let me know.
Here are the top 10 teams in our final standing:
1. St. Anselm's
2. GDS
3. TJ A
4. Cave Spring
5. Richard Montgomery A
6. Guilford
7. Whitman A
8. State College A
9. Raleigh Charter A
10. Enloe
Once again, thanks everyone!
There are still mirrors out there, so please don't mention any specifics. If you have any feedbacks on the tournament or the set, please let me know via email.
We noticed the missing game between the House Team and Raleigh Charter B, and also noticed the finals of GDS and St. Anselms being posted twice. We will get those fixed on Monday once we return to school. If there are any other mistakes in stats, please let me know.
Here are the top 10 teams in our final standing:
1. St. Anselm's
2. GDS
3. TJ A
4. Cave Spring
5. Richard Montgomery A
6. Guilford
7. Whitman A
8. State College A
9. Raleigh Charter A
10. Enloe
Once again, thanks everyone!
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Look at that Andrew Hart Grail for St. Anselm's.
Anyways, I take it that the set was well-received? What do the participating teams have to say about the relative difficulty of this set? I'm pretty interested in that. I'm also interested in how the increased difficulty of the finals packet(s) played out.
Anyways, I take it that the set was well-received? What do the participating teams have to say about the relative difficulty of this set? I'm pretty interested in that. I'm also interested in how the increased difficulty of the finals packet(s) played out.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
The set was noticeably easier than any recent incarnation of this tournament. But, it was largely pretty excellent, aside from formatting/typo things, a couple of semi-repeats, and at least twice (i think) a bonus clue later being the second or third answer in that same bonus series (that was frustrating). The bonuses definitely did a great job of having clear easy, medium, and hard parts most of the time.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
The decrease in difficulty this year was an intentional decision on our part, so as to make it far more accessible to teams.List of villages in West Virginia wrote:The set was noticeably easier than any recent incarnation of this tournament.
We have fixed most of the issues in the set before our next mirror. If you could email us any repeats you remember so that we can make sure we caught them, Mr. Chrzanowski, that would be great.
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Re: GSAC XIX at Maggie Walker (12/3/11) - Seeking Mirrors
Believe me, i'm not complaining; i think this was a good thing. It still did an excellent job of distinguishing between and among the top teams. There were very few buzzer races. The set was great.alinktothefuture wrote:The decrease in difficulty this year was an intentional decision on our part, so as to make it far more accessible to teams.List of villages in West Virginia wrote:The set was noticeably easier than any recent incarnation of this tournament.
I'll see what i can think of. Only one egregious example stands out from the last couple rounds, which you probably fixed, but i'll see if i can recollect anything else. If you personally send a copy of the set to me, i'd be happy to do some more thorough editing if that's okay.We have fixed most of the issues in the set before our next mirror. If you could email us any repeats you remember so that we can make sure we caught them, Mr. Chrzanowski, that would be great.
Mr. Andrew Chrzanowski
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
CRHS quizbowl coach '06-'12
http://crquizbowl.edublogs.org
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
CRHS quizbowl coach '06-'12
http://crquizbowl.edublogs.org