Penn Bowl mirror @ Northwestern (2/12/11)
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:09 am
Northwestern's mirroring Penn Bowl on 2/12/11.
GETTING HERE
Matches will happen in Kresge Hall. However, check-in will occur in Harris Hall in the Harris auditorium from 8:00 to 8:30.The address is 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL, 60208. Matches will start at 9 or as soon as all teams get there. Once we're in Kresge, tournament central will be room 4-425. Kresge's address is 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208. Please park in the Lakeside Parking Structure, which is located at 1 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208. An interactive map can be found here.
HOTELS
If you're spending Saturday night (or Friday night for that matter) in Evanston, I would recommend the Hilton Orrington, which is within walking distance. The Best Western University Plaza is also within walking distance but a few blocks farther.
FEEEEEEEEES!
Post here with number of teams, number of competent moderators, number of buzzers, and other things that might get you discounts such as miles traveled or your club's poorness. This is the fee structure:
Registration fees and other discounts:
Base fee per team: $120
Functional buzzers: -$10 each (This is limited to two systems, or -$20, per school, but schools should bring as many systems as they can.)
Competent moderators: -$10 each (No limit.)
Travel (per school): -$15 per 200 miles (one-way, determined by Mapquest)
Minimum fee per school (including packet discounts): $40
Checks should be made out to Northwestern Quizbowl and brought on the day of the tournament.
PACKETS
If anyone on a team is a college student who has played college quizbowl before 9/1/09, that team must submit a packet to play. Any team, however, can write a packet and get a discount. So, no, high schoolers don't have to write. Guidelines:
Distribution:
Please note this is slightly different from the usual ACF distribution.
5/5 Literature--1/1 British, 1/1 European 500 CE onwards, 1/1 American, 1/1 World (includes classical), 1/1 Your Choice
5/5 History--1/1 US, 1/1 World, 2/2 European, Canadian, Australian (should include 1 classical and no more than 1 Canadian or Australian), 1/1 Your Choice
5/5 Science--1/1 Biology, 1/1 Chemistry, 1/1 Physics, 1 question Math/CS, 1 question Earth Sci/Astro, 1/1 Your Choice
3/3 Religion, Mythology and Philosophy--1/1 of each; should be different religions, mythologies, and philosophy time periods
3/3 Fine Arts--1/1 non-opera classical music, 1/1 painting, 1/1 other (opera, jazz, architecture, etc.)
2/2 Social science, geography--should include at least 1 question from each category (e.g. 2/1 ss, 0/1 geo or 1/1 ss, 1/1 geo but not 2/2 ss)
1/1 Trash, current events
Total: 24/24
All rules regarding packet submission are pretty much consistent with ACF, so see http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/packe ... p#required for more details. Follow formatting from the ACF website as well at http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php. Please e-mail me if you have any questions. The following are applicable deadlines (by midnight PST on the given date i.e. 3am the next day) with all fees added/subtracted from overall registration fees. Packets should be sent to [email protected] (NOT [email protected] as in the past--we have no way of seeing this if you send it here) upon completion.
Packet by December 26: -$50
Packet by January 9: -$25
Packet by January 24: +$0
Packet by January 31: +$25
Packet by February 6: +$50
For other info, post here or, better, yet, see the actual Penn Bowl thread.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
Everyone is guaranteed 11 matches. The prelims will be a round-robin among the teams in two brackets of nine teams each. The three best teams from each bracket (as determined by win-loss record then points-per-game) will advance to the championship bracket, the next best three teams will go to the consolation bracket, and the next best three teams to the second consolation bracket. Please note that, in the playoffs, you will not replay any teams from your preliminary bracket. Prelim matches against teams from the same prelim bracket will be carried over to the playoffs. In other words, two teams may be starting the playoffs 0-2. There are only 13 non-finals packets. Advancement to the advantaged final will be decided by W-L record in the playoffs then PPG in the playoffs.
REGISTERED FIELD
Auburn|1 team|1 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: n/a
Chicago|4 teams|1 buzzer|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: no penalty, +$90, n/a, n/a
Lawrence|1 team|1 buzzer|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: +$200
Loyola|1 team|1 buzzer|1 staffer| no travel discount|packets: n/a
Michigan|3 teams|3 buzzers|0 staffers|yes travel discount|packets: -$25, +$10, n/a
Minnesota|2 teams|2 buzzers|1 staffers|2 travel discounts|packets: +$100, -$50
NASAT (Malis/Carbery)|1 team|0 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: n/a
UIC|1 team|1 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: +$25
UIUC|2 teams|2 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: +$50, -$25
WUSTL|2 teams|3 buzzers|0 staffers|1 travel discount|packets: n/a
WAIT LIST
TRASH
Northwestern will also be mirroring the Penn Bowl Trash set the following day. For more info, see that thread.
CONTACT
For simple things, like registering, just post here. For other questions, email me at [email protected]. For day-of-tournament emergencies, call me at (847) 915-1013.
GETTING HERE
Matches will happen in Kresge Hall. However, check-in will occur in Harris Hall in the Harris auditorium from 8:00 to 8:30.The address is 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL, 60208. Matches will start at 9 or as soon as all teams get there. Once we're in Kresge, tournament central will be room 4-425. Kresge's address is 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208. Please park in the Lakeside Parking Structure, which is located at 1 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208. An interactive map can be found here.
HOTELS
If you're spending Saturday night (or Friday night for that matter) in Evanston, I would recommend the Hilton Orrington, which is within walking distance. The Best Western University Plaza is also within walking distance but a few blocks farther.
FEEEEEEEEES!
Post here with number of teams, number of competent moderators, number of buzzers, and other things that might get you discounts such as miles traveled or your club's poorness. This is the fee structure:
Registration fees and other discounts:
Base fee per team: $120
Functional buzzers: -$10 each (This is limited to two systems, or -$20, per school, but schools should bring as many systems as they can.)
Competent moderators: -$10 each (No limit.)
Travel (per school): -$15 per 200 miles (one-way, determined by Mapquest)
Minimum fee per school (including packet discounts): $40
Checks should be made out to Northwestern Quizbowl and brought on the day of the tournament.
PACKETS
If anyone on a team is a college student who has played college quizbowl before 9/1/09, that team must submit a packet to play. Any team, however, can write a packet and get a discount. So, no, high schoolers don't have to write. Guidelines:
Distribution:
Please note this is slightly different from the usual ACF distribution.
5/5 Literature--1/1 British, 1/1 European 500 CE onwards, 1/1 American, 1/1 World (includes classical), 1/1 Your Choice
5/5 History--1/1 US, 1/1 World, 2/2 European, Canadian, Australian (should include 1 classical and no more than 1 Canadian or Australian), 1/1 Your Choice
5/5 Science--1/1 Biology, 1/1 Chemistry, 1/1 Physics, 1 question Math/CS, 1 question Earth Sci/Astro, 1/1 Your Choice
3/3 Religion, Mythology and Philosophy--1/1 of each; should be different religions, mythologies, and philosophy time periods
3/3 Fine Arts--1/1 non-opera classical music, 1/1 painting, 1/1 other (opera, jazz, architecture, etc.)
2/2 Social science, geography--should include at least 1 question from each category (e.g. 2/1 ss, 0/1 geo or 1/1 ss, 1/1 geo but not 2/2 ss)
1/1 Trash, current events
Total: 24/24
All rules regarding packet submission are pretty much consistent with ACF, so see http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/packe ... p#required for more details. Follow formatting from the ACF website as well at http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php. Please e-mail me if you have any questions. The following are applicable deadlines (by midnight PST on the given date i.e. 3am the next day) with all fees added/subtracted from overall registration fees. Packets should be sent to [email protected] (NOT [email protected] as in the past--we have no way of seeing this if you send it here) upon completion.
Packet by December 26: -$50
Packet by January 9: -$25
Packet by January 24: +$0
Packet by January 31: +$25
Packet by February 6: +$50
For other info, post here or, better, yet, see the actual Penn Bowl thread.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
Everyone is guaranteed 11 matches. The prelims will be a round-robin among the teams in two brackets of nine teams each. The three best teams from each bracket (as determined by win-loss record then points-per-game) will advance to the championship bracket, the next best three teams will go to the consolation bracket, and the next best three teams to the second consolation bracket. Please note that, in the playoffs, you will not replay any teams from your preliminary bracket. Prelim matches against teams from the same prelim bracket will be carried over to the playoffs. In other words, two teams may be starting the playoffs 0-2. There are only 13 non-finals packets. Advancement to the advantaged final will be decided by W-L record in the playoffs then PPG in the playoffs.
REGISTERED FIELD
Auburn|1 team|1 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: n/a
Chicago|4 teams|1 buzzer|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: no penalty, +$90, n/a, n/a
Lawrence|1 team|1 buzzer|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: +$200
Loyola|1 team|1 buzzer|1 staffer| no travel discount|packets: n/a
Michigan|3 teams|3 buzzers|0 staffers|yes travel discount|packets: -$25, +$10, n/a
Minnesota|2 teams|2 buzzers|1 staffers|2 travel discounts|packets: +$100, -$50
NASAT (Malis/Carbery)|1 team|0 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: n/a
UIC|1 team|1 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: +$25
UIUC|2 teams|2 buzzers|0 staffers|no travel discount|packets: +$50, -$25
WUSTL|2 teams|3 buzzers|0 staffers|1 travel discount|packets: n/a
WAIT LIST
TRASH
Northwestern will also be mirroring the Penn Bowl Trash set the following day. For more info, see that thread.
CONTACT
For simple things, like registering, just post here. For other questions, email me at [email protected]. For day-of-tournament emergencies, call me at (847) 915-1013.