The Quizbowl Resource Center

The University of Iowa will be hosting the Midwest mirror of Penn Bowl in Iowa City on January 24th, 2009. Penn Bowl is a "regular" difficulty, packet-submission event to be edited under the guidance of Matt Weiner. A fuller tournament announcement can be found at viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6122 . If you are interested in attending the Midwestern site, please contact me at [email protected] . The fee structure, along with packet discounts, is as follows:

Base Fee: $100 per team

Buzzer Discount: $10 for each functioning system (max 1 per team)
Staff Discount: $10 per competent moderator (with my consent)
Travel Discount: $5 for every 100 miles beyond the first 100 (one way, as determined by Yahoo! Maps)

Packet Discounts/Penalties (packets due 11:59 PM Eastern on the given Saturdays)
November 30: -$50 deadline for required packets
December 14 -$25 deadline for required packets, -$50 deadline for optional packets
December 28: No-penalty deadline for required packets, -$25 deadline for optional packets. No optional packets will be accepted after December 28.
January 4: +25 deadline for required packets.
January 11: +50 deadline for required packets. Last day to submit a packet and be guaranteed a spot in the field.

Minimum fee: $50 per team

Please send your packets to Matt Weiner at [email protected] . Any questions about your packets should also be addressed to him, including whether you team falls into the "optional" or "required" category. For a comprehensive question-writing guideline, both for formatting and distribution, see the ACF guidelines at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acf/acf.html .

Minnesota will bring at least one, probably two, possibly three teams to this, I would imagine.

Illinois will certainly try to play this, and will probably bring from two to four teams.

Truman State will also endeavor to bring at least one, possibly two teams to this event.

Missouri S&T is interested in coming as well.

Bumping this thread up, seeing as the no-penalty packet deadline is next Sunday.

As of now, we have the following field:

Carleton 2
Illinois 2
Iowa (house) 1
Minnesota 2
Missouri S&T 1
Truman State 1-2

Once again, if you'd like to register teams, post here or e-mail me at [email protected] .

EDIT: Updating team numbers.

There's a possibility that Missouri State will bring one team to this.

I've noticed that hardly anybody from our site has submitted a packet, according to Matt's list on the main Penn Bowl page. If people are planning on attending with a different number of teams than what is listed above, let me know ASAP because I need to nail down how many rooms we will need sometime this week.

Illinois is going to have its packet in awfully soon, and any other teams that we're bringing shouldn't need to submit one. I think we'll probably have two for this, rather than any more, though.

Minnesota will have two teams there (one of which is required to write a packet, which we hopefully have turned in as of this morning).

theMoMA wrote:Minnesota will have two teams there (one of which is required to write a packet, which we hopefully have turned in as of this morning).

Not so much. I did give you the $10 one-day extension, so hopefully I'll see something within the next 4 hours and 10 minutes. I've also been in contact with Illinois about an extension for their packet.

If there's any non-novice players on Truman State or Carleton, then I need to hear from those teams quite soon about their plans.

Carleton has recently let me know that their teams will be entirely first and second year players. On the other hand, I've had no contact with Truman State since before winter break.

Missouri State will not be coming.

I'm sorry to say that Michigan will not be coming.

Here's a synopsis of the tournament announcement that I e-mailed to participants yesterday, along with a final field update:

Carleton 2
Illinois 1
Iowa (house) 0-1
Minnesota 2
Missouri S&T 1
Ragab/Soderholm 1

As for the tournament set-up, with likely run a double round robin (12 rounds per team on 14 packets), with a finals being held in the case of a tie.

The tournament will be held entirely in MacLean Hall (MLH), with registration taking place in MacLean 105. The tourney schedule is as follows:

8:00-8:45 AM Registration in 105 MLH
8:45 AM Gameplay begins

Street parking in downtown Iowa City on Saturdays is NOT free. I suggest parking in the Old Capital Mall Ramp, which is located a block south of MacLean Hall (and an entrance to which can be found on Capital near the intersection of Capital and Burlington).

Brief Results:

7 teams played a double round robin, with Minnesota A (Andrew, Rob, Brendan, Mike) clearing the field at 12-0. Illinois came in second at 10-2, with the two-game differential meaning that a finals round was not played. Top individual scorers were Mike Sorice and Gautam.

Full stats should be posted sometime in the next couple days.

Full results can be viewed here:
http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

Thanks to everyone who came-- I hope you all had a good time.

I think some of the stats for Carleton A got mixed up, but none of the problems seem all that significant. Thanks to Iowa for running a tournament that was enjoyable and ran on time.

Good tournament--Paul Drube made the trains run on time and I approve of being done by 6:30 with still a lot of solid quiz bowl.

Cheynem wrote:Good tournament--Paul Drube made the trains run on time and I approve of being done by 6:30 with still a lot of solid quiz bowl.

Yes, this tournament was excellently run. The tournament building was wonderfully convenient as well, close to parking, close to food. It was great. Thanks Paul, Q, et al.!

I had a good time. I'll take 12 rounds of quiz bowl any time :)

Gautam

Thanks very much to Paul, Quentin, and all the other guys at Iowa for running a really solid tournament. We had a good time.

I'll chime in as well and agree that Iowa did a great job hosting. We also had a good time.