Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
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Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Caltech Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the TECHNOPHOBIA JR high school tournament.
DATE: Saturday, November 14th, 2009
LOCATION: Baxter Hall
PARKING: On the California Lot of Caltech
SCHEDULE:
7:30 A.M. – 8:30 A.M.: Registration Period (All teams must be accounted for by 8:30 A.M. PST)
8:30 A.M. – 9:00 A.M.: Rules Meeting / Moderator Meeting
9:00 A.M.: Tournament Play
FOOD:
Breakfast: We will feed you.
Lunch: Lunch is available at Lake Avenue.
ELIGIBILITY: Anyone who pays the entrance fee is eligible to play in this tournament. All players and substitutes-alternates must be high school students (9th-12th grade).
FORMAT: NAQT Invitational Set IS-88, untimed rounds will be played.
PRICING STRUCTURE:
Team Discounts
Base fee = $100 per team
-$5 for a fully-functional buzzer system (Must have four working buzzers on both sides)
-$10(n-1) multiple team discount, where n is the number of teams from
your school, for all n (-$10 second team, -$20 third team, etc.)
School-wide Discounts
-$20 New School Discount (must not have played in any competition sanctioned by NAQT between the current date and July 1, 2005.
-$10 for a moderator or staff member (The TD has the right to accept or reject the moderator and also reserves the right to withdraw the discount retroactive to payment.)
Minimum fee (per team) = $75
If you have difficulties paying for the tournament, please contact me. Also, please make all checks payable to “Caltech Quiz Bowl”.
REGISTRATION:
The TD for TECHNOPHOBIA JR is Alan Lin ([email protected]). You may also contact me, Marino Di Franco ([email protected]).
If you are planning to come, please e-mail either one of us with:
1) Your school's name
2) Coach (or adult representative) name and e-mail address
3) The number of teams you are bringing
4) The number of buzzer systems and any other discounts you wish to validate
If you have any questions, please e-mail us.
DATE: Saturday, November 14th, 2009
LOCATION: Baxter Hall
PARKING: On the California Lot of Caltech
SCHEDULE:
7:30 A.M. – 8:30 A.M.: Registration Period (All teams must be accounted for by 8:30 A.M. PST)
8:30 A.M. – 9:00 A.M.: Rules Meeting / Moderator Meeting
9:00 A.M.: Tournament Play
FOOD:
Breakfast: We will feed you.
Lunch: Lunch is available at Lake Avenue.
ELIGIBILITY: Anyone who pays the entrance fee is eligible to play in this tournament. All players and substitutes-alternates must be high school students (9th-12th grade).
FORMAT: NAQT Invitational Set IS-88, untimed rounds will be played.
PRICING STRUCTURE:
Team Discounts
Base fee = $100 per team
-$5 for a fully-functional buzzer system (Must have four working buzzers on both sides)
-$10(n-1) multiple team discount, where n is the number of teams from
your school, for all n (-$10 second team, -$20 third team, etc.)
School-wide Discounts
-$20 New School Discount (must not have played in any competition sanctioned by NAQT between the current date and July 1, 2005.
-$10 for a moderator or staff member (The TD has the right to accept or reject the moderator and also reserves the right to withdraw the discount retroactive to payment.)
Minimum fee (per team) = $75
If you have difficulties paying for the tournament, please contact me. Also, please make all checks payable to “Caltech Quiz Bowl”.
REGISTRATION:
The TD for TECHNOPHOBIA JR is Alan Lin ([email protected]). You may also contact me, Marino Di Franco ([email protected]).
If you are planning to come, please e-mail either one of us with:
1) Your school's name
2) Coach (or adult representative) name and e-mail address
3) The number of teams you are bringing
4) The number of buzzer systems and any other discounts you wish to validate
If you have any questions, please e-mail us.
--Marino Di Franco
--Caltech Quiz Bowl
--Caltech Quiz Bowl
Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
dude, SAMO's in (A Team definitely, probably at least a B Team too)...
EDIT: Check that, we're throwing in a C Team too, just for good measure
EDIT: Check that, we're throwing in a C Team too, just for good measure
Last edited by warpoet on Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
Max Stivers
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Arcadia's interested.
Alex Wang
Arcadia High '10
UCLA '14 or so
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Rancho Bernardo's in. In all probability, we'll be sending one team. It's looking like that team will involve only one player... are there any discounts for that?
Lucas Brown
Rancho Bernardo 2011
Caltech 2015
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Rancho Bernardo 2011
Caltech 2015
Every day is finals day.
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." --Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
The current field is:
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Torrey Pines (1)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Polytechnic (1)
Arcadia (3)
We would like to conduct timed rounds, so we are offering an additional -$5 discount for each timer. In addition, we are still looking for more experienced moderators, so the moderator discount has been increased to -$20.
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Torrey Pines (1)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Polytechnic (1)
Arcadia (3)
We would like to conduct timed rounds, so we are offering an additional -$5 discount for each timer. In addition, we are still looking for more experienced moderators, so the moderator discount has been increased to -$20.
Alan Lin -- Caltech Quiz Bowl
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
We want your teams to come so please sign up early! I think we have been good hosts in the past and there is no parking fee so you save $10 for each car you bring.
Matthew Feldman
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
marinozagor wrote: FORMAT: NAQT Invitational Set IS-88, untimed rounds will be played.
Why the change? I'd prefer it if the rounds were untimed, because the number of questions read during a timed round in a SoCal tournament is going to vary a lot. Like, A LOT. I don't know, maybe Caltech has a lot of pretty awesome readers, but seeing as you guys are still looking for "more experienced moderators" and considering that some of the "experienced moderators" you pick up might not actually read clearly and quickly at the same time, I think it would be a good idea to keep it 20/20 untimed.alanlin wrote: We would like to conduct timed rounds, so we are offering an additional -$5 discount for each timer. In addition, we are still looking for more experienced moderators, so the moderator discount has been increased to -$20.
Just my 2 cents, feel free to point out that I'm wrong and there's a very good reason for having timed rounds.
Stephen Liu
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Harvard '14
Stanford '17
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
At last year's Technophobia, if I remember correctly, they tried doing timed rounds. Instead, they fell short on timers, and in the end, timers were not used at all.
However, the room I was in used a timer for the first round, causing some confusion.
Anyways, I agree that timed rounds are a bad idea.
As long as moderators can read at a not-completely-snail's pace, half an hour per round on NAQT is not unreasonable.
However, the room I was in used a timer for the first round, causing some confusion.
Anyways, I agree that timed rounds are a bad idea.
As long as moderators can read at a not-completely-snail's pace, half an hour per round on NAQT is not unreasonable.
Alex Wang
Arcadia High '10
UCLA '14 or so
Arcadia High '10
UCLA '14 or so
Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Personally, the only advantage I see to timed rounds is that you play more tossups if you're lucky enough to have a solid moderator. Sadly, that's not always the case. The 20/20 format is just much more consistent...
Max Stivers
Santa Monica High '10
NYU '14
Santa Monica High '10
NYU '14
Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
I'm also in favor of doing untimed rounds, since the moderators at HSNCT will get through at least 20 tossup 90% of the time, anyway.
Auroni Gupta (she/her)
Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Since several people seem to feel strongly about this, we will not be doing timed rounds. Accordingly, there is no longer a timer discount.
Alan Lin -- Caltech Quiz Bowl
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Current field is:
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Torrey Pines (1)
Hart (1)
Polytechnic (1)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Arcadia (3)
Matthew
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Torrey Pines (1)
Hart (1)
Polytechnic (1)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Arcadia (3)
Matthew
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Current field is:
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Torrey Pines (1)
Hart (1)
Polytechnic (1)
Edison (2)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Arcadia (3)
We have room for 1 more team. please email Alan by Friday if you want that team to be your own! We will meet at 8AM in Baxter 25, not the lecture hall because it is in use during the morning. Because this room is a bit smaller than the normal lecture hall, but should hold almost everyone.
Matthew
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Torrey Pines (1)
Hart (1)
Polytechnic (1)
Edison (2)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Arcadia (3)
We have room for 1 more team. please email Alan by Friday if you want that team to be your own! We will meet at 8AM in Baxter 25, not the lecture hall because it is in use during the morning. Because this room is a bit smaller than the normal lecture hall, but should hold almost everyone.
Matthew
Feldman
Caltech
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Also, please park by Beckman Institute Auditorium, it'll be closer
--Marino Di Franco
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Unfortunately, Torrey Pines had to drop out at the last minute, so our final field is:
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Hart (1)
Polytechnic (1)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Arcadia (3)
Edison (2)
Again, we will be meeting in Baxter 25 for registration, NOT the lecture hall as in the past. Furthermore, although the original post indicated parking in the California lot, there is also a closer parking lot accessible from the intersection of Del Mar Blvd and Michigan Avenue. Parking is still free. We hope to see everyone tomorrow!
Rancho Bernardo (1)
Hart (1)
Polytechnic (1)
La Jolla (3)
Santa Monica (3)
Arcadia (3)
Edison (2)
Again, we will be meeting in Baxter 25 for registration, NOT the lecture hall as in the past. Furthermore, although the original post indicated parking in the California lot, there is also a closer parking lot accessible from the intersection of Del Mar Blvd and Michigan Avenue. Parking is still free. We hope to see everyone tomorrow!
Alan Lin -- Caltech Quiz Bowl
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Sorry for the drop. I don't know what happened myself but I was a little disappointed.
Stephen Liu
Torrey Pines '10
Harvard '14
Stanford '17
Torrey Pines '10
Harvard '14
Stanford '17
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
La Jolla A took the round robin tournament undefeated, leaving Santa Monica A in second and Arcadia A in third. Noted accomplishments include an impressive play by the solo RB team and a fresh Hart team.
Full stats to be posted very soon to http://quizbowl.caltech.edu
Full stats to be posted very soon to http://quizbowl.caltech.edu
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Re: Caltech Quiz Bowl: Technophobia Jr.
Team W L
1 La Jolla A 13 0
2 Santa Monica A 12 1
3 Arcadia A 10 3 0
4 Arcadia B 9 4 0
5 RB 8 5
6 Polytechnic 7 6
7 Arcadia C 7 6
8 La Jolla B 6 7 0
9 Santa Monica B 6 7
10 Edison A 6 7 0
11 La Jolla C 3 10 0
12 Hart 2 11 0
13 Santa Monica C 2 11
14 Edison B 0 13
Full results on the webpage.
1 La Jolla A 13 0
2 Santa Monica A 12 1
3 Arcadia A 10 3 0
4 Arcadia B 9 4 0
5 RB 8 5
6 Polytechnic 7 6
7 Arcadia C 7 6
8 La Jolla B 6 7 0
9 Santa Monica B 6 7
10 Edison A 6 7 0
11 La Jolla C 3 10 0
12 Hart 2 11 0
13 Santa Monica C 2 11
14 Edison B 0 13
Full results on the webpage.
Feldman
Caltech
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