2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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The University of Minnesota Quizbowl team is excited to announce the Gopher Spring Tournament on Saturday, March 13th, 2021. The tournament will be an online high school mirror of the LONE STAR question set held over Zoom. This is a rescheduling of the UMN Fall Tournament which was cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.

Question Set
LONE STAR is a high school regular difficultly house-written question set. This means that the set will be very similar to last year's WAIT and RAFT sets, (both of which were mirrored in Minnesota) in terms of question matter and difficulty. Additionally, this set will be of comparable difficulty to a NAQT Invitational Series (IS) set, which are commonly used in Minnesota.

Eligibility
This tournament is open to any school in the Midwest as well as schools that are located in regions that have already had an online LONE STAR mirror. Teams that are not located within a region that has already had a LONE STAR mirror are free to inquire about an exception to play this mirror; however, any authority regarding resolving such a request rests solely with the Lone Star editing team.

Payment
The tournament will take place entirely online and have a fee of $60/team. Payment will be accepted in the form of mailed check. Checks should be made out to “University of Minnesota Quizbowl Team” and mailed to: UMN Quizbowl Team Student Activities Office 300 Washington Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Roster Size
There will be a maximum of 6 players per team. We recommend that teams that have more than 4 players consider splitting into multiple teams.
Due to the large amount of planning and setup for online tournaments, any team cancelling after 11:59 PM CT on Wednesday, March 10th, will be expected to pay full tournament dues.

Registration
To register please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/TT9v9h5fhrZZcEeJA. There will be an initial field cap of 16 teams that we will expand if there is interest.

Feel free to contact suacb AT umn DOT edu for any concerns that you may have. We hope to see you on March 13th!
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Re: 2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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Will this tournament be played through Zoom or Discord?

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Re: 2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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Current Field:

Carmel (3)
Champaign Centennial (2)
Dublin Scioto (1)
Eden Prairie (2)
Mounds View (1)
Northfield (2)
Roeper (1)
Troy (1)
Wayzata (3)

Teams: 16/16
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Re: 2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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aycheun wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:23 pm Will this tournament be played through Zoom or Discord?

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It will be held over Zoom and I will be updating the original post to reflect this.
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Re: 2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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The initial field cap of 16 has been met and additional teams will be placed on a waitlist.
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Re: 2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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Will we be using Zoom chat to buzz or is it an external website like buzzin.live?

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njoshi1 wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:27 pm Will we be using Zoom chat to buzz or is it an external website like buzzin.live?

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An external website will be used.
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Re: 2021 Gopher Spring Tournament [LONE STAR] (March 13th)

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This happened. Wayzata ran the table going a perfect 9-0 with Mounds View taking second and Carmel and Eden Prairie finishing third and fourth respectively. Full stats can be found here. Thanks to everyone who played this tournament, it was a lot of fun to run!
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