RESULTS: VCU Last-Minute Tournament 2/23/08 @ Collegiate
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:57 pm
This is the general announcement for the VCU Last-Minute Tournament, a high school academic quizbowl tournament to be operated by the quizbowl team of Virginia Commonwealth University and held at The Collegiate School in Richmond on Saturday, February 23 from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. This is an event for those teams who were interested in attending the canceled Cavalier Open at UVa and now need another tournament on that weekend. It may also serve as a suitable warm-up for VHSL States on the following weekend.
This tournament will use NAQT IS-74. In accordance with NAQT policy, it is your responsibility to consult http://naqt.com/assigned-packet-sets.jsp and make sure that you have not played IS-74 at any prior events and do not plan to play it in any future events.
The top 15% of the field will qualify for the May 23-25 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament in Chicago. The tournament will also be affiliated with the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence, and provide an opportunity for between two and four teams to qualify for PACE's National Scholastics Championship, which will occur at George Mason University on May 31 & June 1.
The tournament is, however, open to everyone--teams who are not interested in attending nationals, and teams who have already qualified for nationals, are welcome to participate alongside those schools attempting to qualify.
We will not be using clocks; rather, we will read the first twenty tossups of each packet with bonuses. We will be using all other NAQT rules, including power tossups.
LOCATION, DIRECTIONS, PARKING: The tournament will take place at the Collegiate School. The room to meet in will be announced shortly. Registration will begin at 8:30, and the first round will begin as soon as possible after that. Please arrive by 8:30 to guarantee that you do not miss the start of gameplay.
-You can use "103 North Mooreland Road" for your map software, or use the directions page linked above. Park in the school lot.
FIELD SIZE: Because of the short notice for this tournament, which impacts our ability to gather staff, we are initially capping the field at 16 teams. Teams beyond the A and B team from a single school will be put on a waitlist along with teams beyond the 16th who wish to register. If we do not get enough A and B teams to fill the field, or if we are able to expand the field size by recruiting more staffers, we will allow waitlist teams to join the field in the order that they were placed on the waitlist.
FORMAT: If we use a 16-team field, the tournament format will be three rounds of card-passing swiss pair, which will create two evenly strong brackets of eight, who will engage in seven rounds of bracketed games. The champions of each bracket will play in a final of up to two games. The format will be adjusted for larger field sizes.
Rounds will proceed from shortly after 8:30 until the end of the tournament at about 3:30, and there will be a 60-minute lunch break midway through the day.
REGISTRATION AND FEES:
-The fee structure is as follows:
Base fee: $70 per team (i.e., $70 if you are bringing one team, $140 if you are bringing two teams).
Buzzer discount: $5 off school's total fee for each fully functional system (control box and eight activators all work)--no limit to # of systems you can bring
Staff discount: $15 off school's total fee. This could be a coach, parent, student who is not playing, etc. Team-provided staffers will keep score for various games not involving the team with which they are affiliated. Volunteer staffers must stay through all the games in order to receive credit for their school. There is no limit to the number of staffers you can bring.
Minimum fee: The minimum fee is $0 (you can bring enough buzzers and staffers to eliminate your entire fee via discounts, but you cannot have a "negative fee.")
-The registration deadline is February 20.
-To register, post in this thread or mail me at weinerm @ vcu dot edu with the number of teams, buzzers, and staffers you want to bring, and an email address where you can be contacted with details. Feel free to forward this announcement to any schools that you think would be interested in attending. Because of the short notice, there will be no snail-mail announcement for this event; e-mail and this board will be the only methods of communication.
METHOD OF PAYMENT: To pay your registration fees for this tournament, please bring either cash, or a check (institutional or personal) made out to Andrew Alexander, who is the Quizbowl at VCU treasurer. Do not bring checks made out to Matt Weiner, to VCU, to "quizbowl," etc. We cannot use them and you may be asked to pay out of pocket if you bring an unusable check. Because of the short notice on this tournament, it is not possible to deal with purchase orders in time for you to bring payment to the event. If your school absolutely requires that you use a purchase order, please contact me and we will work out how to proceed.
DELINQUENT PAYMENT: Teams who still owe us money from last May's tournament will need to bring a check for the total amount owed, PLUS this tournament's entry fee, if they are to participate. Other teams who do not pay on the morning of the tournament, and have not cleared this with me in advance, will be charged a $25 penalty and will have two weeks to pay their total amount before we start mailing letters to your school about it.
TEAM & ROSTER SIZE: There may be a maximum of six players on one team's roster, though only four may play at one time. There is a substitution opportunity at halftime of each game.
-Each player may appear on only one team's roster throughout the day--no switching from the B team to the A team, etc.
-Teams may also play shorthanded with only three players. Teams consisting of one or two players may not play without my express prior permission.
FOOD: Neither breakfast nor lunch will be provided by the tournament. We will provide a list of suggested eateries for the lunch break.
Post here or mail me if you have any further questions. I'm looking forward to seeing this tournament happen on February 23.
Matt Weiner
Tournament Director, VCU Last-Minute Tournament
[email protected]
Registered Teams so far (last updated 2/18):
Cave Spring
Clover Hill
Collegiate A
Collegiate B
Dorman A
Dorman B
Douglas Freeman
Georgetown Day A
Georgetown Day B
Gonzaga
JR Tucker
Maggie Walker A
Maggie Walker B
Rappahannock
Thomas Jefferson A
Thomas Jefferson B
This tournament will use NAQT IS-74. In accordance with NAQT policy, it is your responsibility to consult http://naqt.com/assigned-packet-sets.jsp and make sure that you have not played IS-74 at any prior events and do not plan to play it in any future events.
The top 15% of the field will qualify for the May 23-25 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament in Chicago. The tournament will also be affiliated with the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence, and provide an opportunity for between two and four teams to qualify for PACE's National Scholastics Championship, which will occur at George Mason University on May 31 & June 1.
The tournament is, however, open to everyone--teams who are not interested in attending nationals, and teams who have already qualified for nationals, are welcome to participate alongside those schools attempting to qualify.
We will not be using clocks; rather, we will read the first twenty tossups of each packet with bonuses. We will be using all other NAQT rules, including power tossups.
LOCATION, DIRECTIONS, PARKING: The tournament will take place at the Collegiate School. The room to meet in will be announced shortly. Registration will begin at 8:30, and the first round will begin as soon as possible after that. Please arrive by 8:30 to guarantee that you do not miss the start of gameplay.
-You can use "103 North Mooreland Road" for your map software, or use the directions page linked above. Park in the school lot.
FIELD SIZE: Because of the short notice for this tournament, which impacts our ability to gather staff, we are initially capping the field at 16 teams. Teams beyond the A and B team from a single school will be put on a waitlist along with teams beyond the 16th who wish to register. If we do not get enough A and B teams to fill the field, or if we are able to expand the field size by recruiting more staffers, we will allow waitlist teams to join the field in the order that they were placed on the waitlist.
FORMAT: If we use a 16-team field, the tournament format will be three rounds of card-passing swiss pair, which will create two evenly strong brackets of eight, who will engage in seven rounds of bracketed games. The champions of each bracket will play in a final of up to two games. The format will be adjusted for larger field sizes.
Rounds will proceed from shortly after 8:30 until the end of the tournament at about 3:30, and there will be a 60-minute lunch break midway through the day.
REGISTRATION AND FEES:
-The fee structure is as follows:
Base fee: $70 per team (i.e., $70 if you are bringing one team, $140 if you are bringing two teams).
Buzzer discount: $5 off school's total fee for each fully functional system (control box and eight activators all work)--no limit to # of systems you can bring
Staff discount: $15 off school's total fee. This could be a coach, parent, student who is not playing, etc. Team-provided staffers will keep score for various games not involving the team with which they are affiliated. Volunteer staffers must stay through all the games in order to receive credit for their school. There is no limit to the number of staffers you can bring.
Minimum fee: The minimum fee is $0 (you can bring enough buzzers and staffers to eliminate your entire fee via discounts, but you cannot have a "negative fee.")
-The registration deadline is February 20.
-To register, post in this thread or mail me at weinerm @ vcu dot edu with the number of teams, buzzers, and staffers you want to bring, and an email address where you can be contacted with details. Feel free to forward this announcement to any schools that you think would be interested in attending. Because of the short notice, there will be no snail-mail announcement for this event; e-mail and this board will be the only methods of communication.
METHOD OF PAYMENT: To pay your registration fees for this tournament, please bring either cash, or a check (institutional or personal) made out to Andrew Alexander, who is the Quizbowl at VCU treasurer. Do not bring checks made out to Matt Weiner, to VCU, to "quizbowl," etc. We cannot use them and you may be asked to pay out of pocket if you bring an unusable check. Because of the short notice on this tournament, it is not possible to deal with purchase orders in time for you to bring payment to the event. If your school absolutely requires that you use a purchase order, please contact me and we will work out how to proceed.
DELINQUENT PAYMENT: Teams who still owe us money from last May's tournament will need to bring a check for the total amount owed, PLUS this tournament's entry fee, if they are to participate. Other teams who do not pay on the morning of the tournament, and have not cleared this with me in advance, will be charged a $25 penalty and will have two weeks to pay their total amount before we start mailing letters to your school about it.
TEAM & ROSTER SIZE: There may be a maximum of six players on one team's roster, though only four may play at one time. There is a substitution opportunity at halftime of each game.
-Each player may appear on only one team's roster throughout the day--no switching from the B team to the A team, etc.
-Teams may also play shorthanded with only three players. Teams consisting of one or two players may not play without my express prior permission.
FOOD: Neither breakfast nor lunch will be provided by the tournament. We will provide a list of suggested eateries for the lunch break.
Post here or mail me if you have any further questions. I'm looking forward to seeing this tournament happen on February 23.
Matt Weiner
Tournament Director, VCU Last-Minute Tournament
[email protected]
Registered Teams so far (last updated 2/18):
Cave Spring
Clover Hill
Collegiate A
Collegiate B
Dorman A
Dorman B
Douglas Freeman
Georgetown Day A
Georgetown Day B
Gonzaga
JR Tucker
Maggie Walker A
Maggie Walker B
Rappahannock
Thomas Jefferson A
Thomas Jefferson B