MIT Beaver Academic Tournament, 3/1/08 (Cambridge, MA)

[The Logic of Scientific Disco]

The MIT Quiz Bowl Team is pleased to announce MITBAT IV, to be held March 1, 2008 at MIT's architecturally unique Cambridge campus. As in past years, we will use our popular real-time Swiss pairing system through 6 guaranteed rounds of preliminary play, before playing some form of single-elimination (including at least the top 16 teams) for the championship. This tournament will use NAQT's IS-72 set.

The fee structure is as follows:
+$80 first team from a school ($60 for a school playing their first pyramidal tournament)
+$55 each subsequent team
-$10 early registration (by January 25) [per school, not per team]
-$10 per working buzzer system
+$10 to purchase the questions

We will be mailing out invitations in a week or two and posting a registration form online, but you can feel free to claim a spot (or spots) early by emailing bowladmin AT mit DOT edu. We are currently very tentatively capping the field at 32 teams.

See you in March!

-MIT Quiz Bowl Team

[The Logic of Scientific Disco]

We have about 10 teams signed up so far, and we just sent out email to everyone we have contacts for; mail will be going out later this week. Regardless, we'd love to have more teams (still shooting for ~32).

I'll sweeten the offer (well, sort of) by adding that an invitation and reg form are now available on our website, and we are officially a PACE qualifier. If you have any questions or you want to register, please email mitbat at mit dot edu (NOT bowladmin as stated in the first post).

[The Logic of Scientific Disco]

I'm not sure if any of the teams coming to this tournament read the board, or if anyone interested reads it, but I have a field update regardless. We have 24 teams so far:

TW Andrews (2)
St. Andrews
Simsbury (2)
Suffield
Norwich Free (2)
Concord-Carlisle (2)
Champlain Valley
Smithtown East (2)
Smithtown West (3)
Northampton (2)
Burlington
James Island
Dunbar
Portsmouth Christian
E. O. Smith (2)

Currently tentatively capping the field at 32, so register soon!

[SHP Pirate]

This is Seton Hall Prep from New Jersey ... we were hoping to register three teams for this Saturday's tournament. I sent an e-mail about a week aho but it bounced back. (I re-sent yesterday.) If someone could let me know if there are spots still available, I would greatly appreciate it.

[First Chairman]

Also for Chris... did we PACE-affiliate this event?

[The Logic of Scientific Disco]

Seton Hall--we're in the midst of figuring out whether we have space for you; it looks like yes, but I'll wait and let the TD confirm that for you.

Dr. Chuck--I believe we did PACE-affiliate.

[SHP Pirate]

If not three teams ... how about two?

[kcommo]

Do you guys have an idea what your final field is going to look like? We (Burlington) really wanted to come, but unfortunately, our Winter/Town Meeting Day vacation made it impossible.

-Kevin Commo

[The Logic of Scientific Disco]

Final field update:

TW Andrews (2)
St. Andrews
Dexter Southfield (2)
Suffield
Norwich Free Academy (2)
Concord Carlisle (2)
Champlain Valley
Smithtown East (2)
Smithtown West (3)
Northampton (2)
James Island Charter
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Portsmouth Christian
E. O. Smith
Preston
Emma Willard
Williston Northhampton
North Babylon (2)
Westfield
Seton Hall (3)

For anyone counting, that's 31 teams. Unless someone has another team they're desperately hoping to bring, we'll round the field out with a chimera to reach the magical 32, which makes for very happy Swiss pairing.

[SHP Pirate]

Any thoughts about the tournament considering the impending snow? We (Seton Hall) are planning to drive up tomorrow afternoon. However, should the weather become an issue, we will not be able to come.

Does anyone from MIT have any thoughts or are any other teams in a similar situation?

[pray for elves]

Any thoughts about the tournament considering the impending snow? We (Seton Hall) are planning to drive up tomorrow afternoon. However, should the weather become an issue, we will not be able to come.

Does anyone from MIT have any thoughts or are any other teams in a similar situation?

I'm not from MIT (I'm from Brandeis), but the snow is not supposed to start until well after midnight tomorrow night, and it's not supposed to accumulate (forecast says "little to no accumulation"), so it really shouldn't be a problem (especially for you if you're driving up tomorrow afternoon).

[The Logic of Scientific Disco]

Quick results:

Out of an original field of 32, 18 hardy teams braved the cold, snowy, slushy Boston weather (and roads) to make it to MITBAT. After 6 rounds of our patented Swiss pairing/laptop system, James Island emerged as the top seed, and we went on to an 8-team double elimination playoff. James Island survived an early close game with #4 seed Concord-Carlisle to finish the playoffs and the tournament undefeated. The teams finished up as follows:

1. James Island
2. Champlain Valley Union
3. P. L. Dunbar
4. Concord-Carlisle

Individual scoring awards went to the top 3 scorers from the prelims, who were:

1. Travis, James Island, 55.83 ppg
2. Eliza, Champlain Valley Union, 51.63 ppg
3. Lance, Smithtown West C, 44.17 ppg

A much more detailed rundown of results and statistics can be found at this site. Thanks to everyone who came out!