JOSEPH BOOKSTABER MEMORIAL ACADEMIC TOURNAMENT (3/17/2012)

[urbanpf]

THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL JOSEPH BOOKSTABER MEMORIAL ACADEMIC TOURNAMENT (JBMAT)
Saturday, March 17, 2012
at Millburn High School, 462 Millburn Avenue, Millburn, NJ 07041

The Millburn High School Academic Quiz Bowl team is proud to host the Eleventh Annual Joseph Bookstaber
Memorial Academic Tournament (JBMAT) on Saturday, March 17, 2012.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT JBMAT

FEE STRUCTURE: $70 for the first team; $50 for each additional team
(maximum of three additional teams per school). Checks should be made payable to “MHS QUIZ BOWL TEAM”.

DISCOUNTS: $10 off for each buzzer system; $10 off for each moderator.
Minimum payment of $40 per team

ANTICIPATED FIELD: We are capping our field at 32 teams, anticipating that
sufficient staff can be arranged.

TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE (subject to final field considerations and adjustments):
JBMAT will be an NAQT-style tournament (question set IS-111 - 20 toss-ups/20 bonuses, untimed). We are
looking to have preliminary brackets with at least six guaranteed matches. Playoffs will be of a round-robin
format of four rounds, with the top eight teams proceeding to playoff round. Consolation brackets will not
be included this year.

REGISTRATION: Registration will run from 8:00 AM – 8:45 PM, with Round 1 starting at approximately
9:00 AM. Complimentary bagels juice will be served between 8:00 and 8:45 AM in the Millburn High School
cafeteria. A brief orientation will precede the start of the first round of competition.

MEANS OF REGISTRATION: You may notify us of your intent to register by posting here, but your
registration will not be considered official until you send/e-mail as an attachment/fax the registration form
that is attached below.

CONTACT INFORMATION: If you have any questions concerning any aspect of the tournament, please
e-mail Mr. Peter Urban at [email protected]. Also, if phone is your preferred mode of communication,
call (973) 564-7130, (voice mail ext. 471) or Mr. John Yi (voice mail ext. 237) and leave a phone number where
you can be reached, both during the day and in the evening. Our fax number at Millburn High School is
(973) 912-8633.

[Great Bustard]

Ridgewood is expressing interest for 3-4 teams, and as many buzzers as you need.

[Edward Powers]

St. Joe's will be there with 3 teams, 2 buzzers and 1 moderator. A formal registration will be submitted ASAP.

[SHP Pirate]

Seton Hall Prep will be there with at least 2/3/1. E-mail to follow.

[gstoye]

Peter...

MAST would like to bring 3 teams with one moderator. Registration form to follow.

[Edward Powers]

Bumped for a field update, since this will be taking place in less than a month.

[urbanpf]

FINAL FIELD (3/16/2012)

Ridgewood HS - 2 teams, 3 buzzers, 0 moderators
St. Joseph HS (Met) - 3 teams, 2 buzzers, 0 moderator
Seton Hall Prep - 2 teams, 3 buzzers, 1 moderator
MAST - 1 teams, 0 buzzers, 1 moderator
Scarsdale HS - 3 teams, 1 buzzer, 0 moderators
Secaucus HS - 2 teams, 0 buzzers, 0 moderators
High Technology HS - 1 team, 1 buzzer, 0 moderators
Passaic Valley HS - 2 teams, 0 buzzers, 0 moderators
Phillipsburg HS - 2 teams, 1 buzzers, 1 moderator)
Hunter College HS - 3 teams 0 buzzers/moderators)
South Plainfield HS - 1 team, 0 buzzers, 1 moderators
Delbarton School - 1 team, 1 buzzer, 0 moderators
East Brunswick HS - 2 teams, 0 buzzers, 0 moderators
JP Stevens HS - 2 teams, 0 buzzers, 0 moderators
Ranney School - 1 team, 0 buzzers, 0 moderators
Colonia HS - 1 team, 2 buzzers, 1 moderator
Columbia HS - 1 team, 0 buzzers, 1 moderator

Field capped at 30

Peter Urban
Millburn HS
3/16/2012

[lchen]

Hunter is interested with 2-3 teams. We'll send a registration form later once we have our numbers down.

[Grace]

High Tech would like to bring one team and one buzzer.

[Dorothy.Glus]

We might be in for 1 team. I wont know for sure until Tuesday.


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[roey]

Ranney is interested in bringing likely 1 team with no buzzers or moderators.

[etakuyak]

Scarsdale would actually like to be put down for three teams instead of two.

[Northern Central Railway]

Is there a final field update for this?

[urbanpf]

Coaches,

Looking forward to seeing you all on St. Patrick's Day tomorrow!!

---Registration begins at 8:00 AM. Please enter at the main entrance of the HS
under the "MILLBURN HIGH SCHOOL" letters).

---Complimentary breakfast between 8 - 8:45 AM. Bagels (yes, including some
green ones!), cream cheese, butter) OJ, apple & other juices, & water

---We'll be setting up in 5 brackets of 6, with bracket winners & three wild cards
going on to playoffs. Each team will play five preliminary matches. Individual
awards will be awarded at this time

NOTE: We're hoping to get all five prelims in before lunch. Thus, the top eight
will go to lunch at that point. The rest of the field can leave if they wish,
but are invited to stay & watch matches, as long as they are quiet
observers. A list/map of alternative options for lunch (local eateries &
phone #'s of local pizzerias that deliver) will be included in the team
packet you'll receive at registration

---PLAYOFFS will include two round-robin brackets of four teams. After three
playoff matches, teams will be seeded for a fourth match for placement
(Bracket A winner plays Bracket B winner for championship, Bracket a 2nd
place plays bracket B 2nd place for 3rd/4th place, etc.)

---If you have not sent me a cell number at which you may be reached, please do
so, at [email protected]. If you need to reach me by phone tomorrow
morning, please call me at (973) 879-5742.

Peter Urban

[lchen]

---PLAYOFFS will include two round-robin brackets of four teams. After three
playoff matches, teams will be seeded for a fourth match for placement
(Bracket A winner plays Bracket B winner for championship, Bracket a 2nd
place plays bracket B 2nd place for 3rd/4th place, etc.)

Will there be consolation matches for the teams that do not make the top bracket?

[Down and out in Quintana Roo]

Consolation brackets will not be included this year.

Lily, it doesn't sound like it. Why is this the case? Most "good quizbowl" tournaments over far more than 5 guaranteed games.

[urbanpf]

No, there are no consolation brackets - I made that clear in the original posting.
For a variety of reasons (not the least of which is that it's St. Patrick's Day!), we
have experienced staffing difficulties that have greatly limited what we can do.

PFU

[SHP Pirate]

Brief results from JBMAT ...

1st/2nd: St. Joseph's A d. High Tech 395-265
3rd/4th: Hunter A d. East Brunswick A 325-190
5th/6th: Hunter B d. Ranney 480-235
7th/8th: Hunter C.d. Scarsdale A 295-220

Stats may be found on tournament data base. (I do not have the link.)

- MTZ

[Important Bird Area]

Playoffs, Prelims

[Redgrass1]

Michael Ploch from St. Joe's forgot his glasses at Millburn, so if you find them he'd like it if you could notify him somehow.

[urbanpf]

If Michael had black frame glasses, I found them - they are in my mailbox
in MHS Main Office; will contact Coach Powers about this.

PFU