ABC XXXIV (Oct 26-27, 2007) at Vanderbilt University
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ABC XXXIV (Oct 26-27, 2007) at Vanderbilt University
Even though the current year isn't over, we wanted to announce the date for ABC XXXIV in the fall, since Oct 26-27 is the only weekend we can host. It's an ACT date, but hopefully people can plan accordingly. We'll get a full announcement out later in the summer.
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Ok all you DC powerhouses, and anyone else who wants to go to a great tournament, please come to this. Since it's fairly central and it gets the best from the Southeast/midwest, please, please, please consider coming to this tournament. It definitely has the best chance to be a "pre-national" event.
Charlie Dees, North Kansas City HS '08
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
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God Damn it.
Charlie Dees, North Kansas City HS '08
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
Below is the official announcement for Vanderbilt's ABC XXXIV on October 26-27, 2007, in Nashville, TN. Please note that, due to an as-yet-unresolved problem with student org websites, we haven't been able to upload the files yet. We hope that within a week or so, the following link will contain all this information, plus workable links to registration, rules, etc.: http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/colle ... _info.html In the meantime, email us (vuquizbowl AT yahoo DOT com) with any questions.
Your school is cordially invited to participate in Vanderbilt's 34th Academic Bowl Contest on October 26-27, 2007. Because of your participation, ABC has been incredibly successful. We hold one of the largest and longest-running high school academic tournaments in the nation. We believe our tournament is among the best in terms of strength and diversity of field, location, and most importantly, question quality.
!!Important Notice!!
All schools wishing to bring two or more teams must provide at least one reader (depending on field size, some provided readers may not be needed, but we still need them available and at the readers meetings).
Format
We will use the standard two-day format, with separate varsity and JV (9th/10th grade only) divisions. You may attend the optional Friday night session of four Swiss-paired rounds. Friday night's results are used to seed teams for the real action on Saturday morning, and after seeding, Friday's results are discarded. It is in your interest to play Friday night to earn a good seed (and just to play more games), but it is purely optional. Saturday morning, teams are divided into pools of 5-6 teams each. You play a full round robin in your pool, and the top teams based on record and then average points per game move to the playoffs. The playoffs will most likely consist of a 16 or 32 team single elimination bracket, depending on the field size for each division. Every team that plays Friday is guaranteed to play eight rounds. Teams that play Saturday only are guaranteed five rounds.
Approximate Schedule (all times central)
Friday, October 26
5:00-6:00 Registration (Wilson 126)
6:15 Coaches meeting (Wilson 103)
6:15 Readers meeting (Wilson 126)
7:00-10:00 Swiss paired rounds
Saturday, October 27
8:00 – 8:30 Registration (Wilson 126)
NOTE: If you play on Fri night, please check in on Sat to let us know you are back.
8:30 Coaches Meeting (Wilson 103)
8:30 Readers Meeting (Wilson 126)
9:00 – 12:30 Round robin matches
12:30 - 1:30 lunch
1:30 - 5:00 Playoffs/Consolation
Remember to look at the Additional Info for maps, directions, etc.
Fees
The tournament fee is $70.00 per team. See registration form for team registration details.
Each buzzer set you bring is a $5.00 discount. Each competent reader you bring is a $15.00 discount - this discount is in effect even if you bring a required reader. It is important that if you get the reader discount, the reader actually reads and does not just serve as a back-up. IF YOU HAVE A BUZZER SET, BRING IT, even if it doesn't always work right. Please indicate whether your buzzer is fully working or back up only. We don't want to, but we will play hand slap rounds if necessary.
Other
If you have never attended ABC, you can download a couple sample rounds of ABC style questions from the ABC home page. If you would like more old questions, email us about purchasing them.
The deadline for receiving registrations is October 22. We only need your registration by this date. You can pay on the tournament date, or if your check is delayed, just let us know. Once you are registered, you will receive an email confirmation within a week. Do not assume you are registered unless you receive the email. If you have not received your email, contact Tyler Ritchie to verify your registration status.
We may cap the field at around 70 or 80 teams if we deem it necessary and we reach that many registrations.
Your school is cordially invited to participate in Vanderbilt's 34th Academic Bowl Contest on October 26-27, 2007. Because of your participation, ABC has been incredibly successful. We hold one of the largest and longest-running high school academic tournaments in the nation. We believe our tournament is among the best in terms of strength and diversity of field, location, and most importantly, question quality.
!!Important Notice!!
All schools wishing to bring two or more teams must provide at least one reader (depending on field size, some provided readers may not be needed, but we still need them available and at the readers meetings).
Format
We will use the standard two-day format, with separate varsity and JV (9th/10th grade only) divisions. You may attend the optional Friday night session of four Swiss-paired rounds. Friday night's results are used to seed teams for the real action on Saturday morning, and after seeding, Friday's results are discarded. It is in your interest to play Friday night to earn a good seed (and just to play more games), but it is purely optional. Saturday morning, teams are divided into pools of 5-6 teams each. You play a full round robin in your pool, and the top teams based on record and then average points per game move to the playoffs. The playoffs will most likely consist of a 16 or 32 team single elimination bracket, depending on the field size for each division. Every team that plays Friday is guaranteed to play eight rounds. Teams that play Saturday only are guaranteed five rounds.
Approximate Schedule (all times central)
Friday, October 26
5:00-6:00 Registration (Wilson 126)
6:15 Coaches meeting (Wilson 103)
6:15 Readers meeting (Wilson 126)
7:00-10:00 Swiss paired rounds
Saturday, October 27
8:00 – 8:30 Registration (Wilson 126)
NOTE: If you play on Fri night, please check in on Sat to let us know you are back.
8:30 Coaches Meeting (Wilson 103)
8:30 Readers Meeting (Wilson 126)
9:00 – 12:30 Round robin matches
12:30 - 1:30 lunch
1:30 - 5:00 Playoffs/Consolation
Remember to look at the Additional Info for maps, directions, etc.
Fees
The tournament fee is $70.00 per team. See registration form for team registration details.
Each buzzer set you bring is a $5.00 discount. Each competent reader you bring is a $15.00 discount - this discount is in effect even if you bring a required reader. It is important that if you get the reader discount, the reader actually reads and does not just serve as a back-up. IF YOU HAVE A BUZZER SET, BRING IT, even if it doesn't always work right. Please indicate whether your buzzer is fully working or back up only. We don't want to, but we will play hand slap rounds if necessary.
Other
If you have never attended ABC, you can download a couple sample rounds of ABC style questions from the ABC home page. If you would like more old questions, email us about purchasing them.
The deadline for receiving registrations is October 22. We only need your registration by this date. You can pay on the tournament date, or if your check is delayed, just let us know. Once you are registered, you will receive an email confirmation within a week. Do not assume you are registered unless you receive the email. If you have not received your email, contact Tyler Ritchie to verify your registration status.
We may cap the field at around 70 or 80 teams if we deem it necessary and we reach that many registrations.
After 3 weeks of pestering the student org tech support, we finally regained access to our site. The main announcement page is now available:
http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/colle ... _info.html
http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/colle ... _info.html
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- Wakka
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Yes, we're well aware it's an ACT date, but we only have so many options on dates. This year, that weekend is literally the only one available to us based on Vanderbilt's schedule and other HS and college tournaments. The last weekend of October has been our more-or-less traditional date, and we've held it on ACT/SAT dates before without too much of a detriment, given how often those tests are offered.
Ok, here is the current field as of 10/25.
Varsity (40 total):
Apollo
Brookwood
Campbell Co.
Chattahoochee
Christ. Acad. Knoxville
Danville
Daviess Co.
Dorman (2)
Dunbar (2)
Edmonson Co.
Ezell-Harding
Franklin Road Acad.
Franklin-Simpson
Grayson
Henderson Co.
Hume-Fogg
James Island
Johnson Central
Lincoln Co.
Madisonville N. Hopkins
McGavock
MLK Magnet (2)
Norcross
N Kansas City
Owensboro
Paintsville
Piarist (2)
Pikeville (2)
Russell
Sacred Heart (2)
Univ. School Nashville
Walton (2)
Woodford Co.
JV (22 total):
Apollo (2)
Brookwood
Danville
Daviess Co.
Dunbar (2)
Edmunson Co.
Ezell-Harding (2)
Franklin-Simpson
Hume-Fogg
Johnson Central (2)
Lincoln Co.
Madisonville N. Hopkins
MLK Magnet (2)
Paintsville
Piarist
Russell
Woodford Co.
Varsity (40 total):
Apollo
Brookwood
Campbell Co.
Chattahoochee
Christ. Acad. Knoxville
Danville
Daviess Co.
Dorman (2)
Dunbar (2)
Edmonson Co.
Ezell-Harding
Franklin Road Acad.
Franklin-Simpson
Grayson
Henderson Co.
Hume-Fogg
James Island
Johnson Central
Lincoln Co.
Madisonville N. Hopkins
McGavock
MLK Magnet (2)
Norcross
N Kansas City
Owensboro
Paintsville
Piarist (2)
Pikeville (2)
Russell
Sacred Heart (2)
Univ. School Nashville
Walton (2)
Woodford Co.
JV (22 total):
Apollo (2)
Brookwood
Danville
Daviess Co.
Dunbar (2)
Edmunson Co.
Ezell-Harding (2)
Franklin-Simpson
Hume-Fogg
Johnson Central (2)
Lincoln Co.
Madisonville N. Hopkins
MLK Magnet (2)
Paintsville
Piarist
Russell
Woodford Co.
Last edited by vandyhawk on Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:47 pm, edited 8 times in total.
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Field is updated above. Since Monday was the given registration deadline, and we're getting close to maxing out on rooms and readers (various campus events have left us with fewer of each than normal), we can't guarantee we'll accept any late registrations. Of course, teams do usually drop, so if you still want to come, email us and we'll see how it goes. Otherwise, we'll look forward to seeing everyone this weekend.
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That's unfortunate. I guess they can commiserate with Illinois people now. As for the field, we'll call the JV field set since 24 is a very nice number in our format. We would accept 1-2 more varsity teams, though, if anyone has some interested parties.howlin wrote:Alabama teams are having troubles with local school boards about travel out of state. God forbid that anyone should discover that there are very intelligent people in Alabama.
I can try to find some yes/no questions for that!yangsta wrote:Or they can... go play in Japan or something...STPickrell wrote:If only a telephone match could be arranged between the winner of this and the winner of Cav Classic ... :-)
Dave Bykowski
Furman '00
Michigan '02
PACE 1998-2009
Director, JROTC National Academic Bowl Championship
Furman '00
Michigan '02
PACE 1998-2009
Director, JROTC National Academic Bowl Championship
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We don't have any trouble in this department. Honestly, we're not coming for two reasons:howlin wrote:Alabama teams are having troubles with local school boards about travel out of state. God forbid that anyone should discover that there are very intelligent people in Alabama.
1) ACT Test - many of my players are taking it.
2) It's on my wife's birthday. While that may seem weak to some, I kinda love her...
-Lee
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1. Dorman A
2. NKC
3rd (tie) Dorman B and MLK
"5th" - Chattahoochee, Dunbar A, James Island, ?
2. NKC
3rd (tie) Dorman B and MLK
"5th" - Chattahoochee, Dunbar A, James Island, ?
Charlie Dees, North Kansas City HS '08
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
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About how well did Johnson Central do?Deesy Does It wrote:1. Dorman A
2. NKC
3rd (tie) Dorman B and MLK
"5th" - Chattahoochee, Dunbar A, James Island, ?
I haven't been able to get in contact with teammates, yet. Several of us couldn't go due to ACT testing conflicts. Of course I bet a lot of other schools were affected, too.
I think the last quarterfinalist was Brookwood. Pretty sure on that.
Congrats to Dorman, NKC, and the rest. Wish we could've watched the finals but we didn't want to get home too late.
We beat Johnson Central in the round of 16.About how well did Johnson Central do?
Congrats to Dorman, NKC, and the rest. Wish we could've watched the finals but we didn't want to get home too late.
Adam Liem
Chattahoochee High '08
Georgia Tech '12
Chattahoochee High '08
Georgia Tech '12
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We would like to thank everyone for coming out to ABC XXXIV this weekend, and we hope you enjoyed yourselves. We would especially like to thank all of the volunteer readers, both Vandy students and the team-provided readers. Congratulations to Dorman A for defending their varsity title, once again beating North Kansas City in the final, and to Dunbar A for defending their JV title, beating Johnson Central A in the final. Links to the Saturday morning RR results and the playoff brackets can now be found at:
http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/colle ... sults.html
A couple of other notes - I think the varsity divisions ran about as smoothly as ever, while JV seemed to run into some hiccups, somehow getting 1-2 really slow readers for each session. Also, based on our own discussions and at the behest of some coaches' comments, I think we'll likely start the Friday night Swiss pair rounds 1/2 hour or an hour earlier next year to make sure that the kids aren't getting back to hotels too late.
On another note, we announced this at some point, but ABC XXXV will be held either April 5 or 12, depending on when NAQT has their national collegiate tournament.
http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/colle ... sults.html
A couple of other notes - I think the varsity divisions ran about as smoothly as ever, while JV seemed to run into some hiccups, somehow getting 1-2 really slow readers for each session. Also, based on our own discussions and at the behest of some coaches' comments, I think we'll likely start the Friday night Swiss pair rounds 1/2 hour or an hour earlier next year to make sure that the kids aren't getting back to hotels too late.
On another note, we announced this at some point, but ABC XXXV will be held either April 5 or 12, depending on when NAQT has their national collegiate tournament.