Announcement: ACF Regionals at Delaware (02/16/08)
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Announcement: ACF Regionals at Delaware (02/16/08)
Base fee: $120 per team
Buzzers: -$5 each for working buzzers
Staffers: -$10 each
Laptop: -$10 each at UCLA, Tulsa, Chicago, and Delaware sites
Travel: -$10 per team for each 200 miles travelled
Canada -$20 for your team being from a Canadian school
New ACF teams (your school did not send a team to ACF Fall, Regionals, or Nationals since September 2005, AND no one on the team claiming this discount played those tournaments for another school) -$25 per team
New quizbowl teams (your school did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament between September 2005 and January 2008, AND no one on the team claiming this discount played those tournaments for another school) -$100 per team
Minimum fee for a school: $0
INFO
ACF Regionals will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2008.
Information for those required to write packets is at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/regionals2008.html .
Regionals this year will display a SIGNIFICANT drop in difficulty from the past few years. While it will not be quite as easy as ACF Fall, it will be emblematic of "regular difficulty" in quizbowl rather than any hypothetical "Regionals difficulty." It may compare roughly in difficulty and style to Penn Bowl 2007. With that in mind, coupled with an initiative to get teams who only played College Bowl or Honda in the past to attend this tournament, I hope to see teams display interest in regions which did not have ACF Regionals sites in 2007, as well as in the traditional locations.
--Matt Weiner, Chief Editor, ACF Regionals 2008
***** This is just a preliminary post. I don't normally post this stuff nor am I the captain of the team. I am just posting because none of the other UD members are registered here. More specific information to follow, thanks for your patience
Buzzers: -$5 each for working buzzers
Staffers: -$10 each
Laptop: -$10 each at UCLA, Tulsa, Chicago, and Delaware sites
Travel: -$10 per team for each 200 miles travelled
Canada -$20 for your team being from a Canadian school
New ACF teams (your school did not send a team to ACF Fall, Regionals, or Nationals since September 2005, AND no one on the team claiming this discount played those tournaments for another school) -$25 per team
New quizbowl teams (your school did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament between September 2005 and January 2008, AND no one on the team claiming this discount played those tournaments for another school) -$100 per team
Minimum fee for a school: $0
INFO
ACF Regionals will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2008.
Information for those required to write packets is at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/regionals2008.html .
Regionals this year will display a SIGNIFICANT drop in difficulty from the past few years. While it will not be quite as easy as ACF Fall, it will be emblematic of "regular difficulty" in quizbowl rather than any hypothetical "Regionals difficulty." It may compare roughly in difficulty and style to Penn Bowl 2007. With that in mind, coupled with an initiative to get teams who only played College Bowl or Honda in the past to attend this tournament, I hope to see teams display interest in regions which did not have ACF Regionals sites in 2007, as well as in the traditional locations.
--Matt Weiner, Chief Editor, ACF Regionals 2008
***** This is just a preliminary post. I don't normally post this stuff nor am I the captain of the team. I am just posting because none of the other UD members are registered here. More specific information to follow, thanks for your patience
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This is an exciting field.
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Make sure you e-mailed markpell at udel dot edu with that information. Last time I heard we were up to 6 teams, 2 from MD, and 2 each from two other school that slip my mind.yoda4554 wrote:I also emailed you guys some time back to say that Temple's bringing a team.
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In case the message didn't get through, Maryland is only sending 1 team to this tournament.
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As of the meeting last night, here was the expected field:
CMU
Delaware House team(s) (2 if an appropriate number of packets exist, 1 if not)
Maryland
Penn A
Penn B
Temple
VCU
If this is not correct, we need to know, well, now.
Of more concern was that they didn't have the questions yet and didn't know when they are coming. Would someone in charge please communicate to them about this?
If someone has the questions, I wouldn't mind a copy sent to charterquiz at gmail dot com as a backup plan. Thanks.
Bill, on behalf of Delaware ACC.
CMU
Delaware House team(s) (2 if an appropriate number of packets exist, 1 if not)
Maryland
Penn A
Penn B
Temple
VCU
If this is not correct, we need to know, well, now.
Of more concern was that they didn't have the questions yet and didn't know when they are coming. Would someone in charge please communicate to them about this?
If someone has the questions, I wouldn't mind a copy sent to charterquiz at gmail dot com as a backup plan. Thanks.
Bill, on behalf of Delaware ACC.
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Thanks to Delaware for hosting this tournament. Things ran pretty well and we did 12 rounds in a pretty good time frame.
I would like to express my frustration that this event only drew 6 teams, however. This hasn't just been a problem at ACF Regionals, either. It seems like a lot of teams in the Midatlantic Circuit are for unknown reasons skipping out on tournaments that they know will be well edited and that will not be very far away for some reason. This is probably the 3rd or 4th tournament this year where some of the better teams on the Midatlantic circuit haven't shown up, which kind of sucks.
I would like to express my frustration that this event only drew 6 teams, however. This hasn't just been a problem at ACF Regionals, either. It seems like a lot of teams in the Midatlantic Circuit are for unknown reasons skipping out on tournaments that they know will be well edited and that will not be very far away for some reason. This is probably the 3rd or 4th tournament this year where some of the better teams on the Midatlantic circuit haven't shown up, which kind of sucks.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
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University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Incidentally, for those who care:
The setup was that Delaware and Maryland broke their teams into two for an 8-team round robin, after which they recombined for a 6 team round-robin (with the exception of Charles, who joined a lonely Trevor Davis to fill out CMU's team). Out of this muck, Maryland's only loss came to itself in the first round-robin; CMU(+Meigs), Temple, and Penn A all ended 7-5, and Delaware and Penn B were fifth and sixth. As I'm sure surprises no one, Jonathan, who played solo for the first round robin, was top scorer.
The setup was that Delaware and Maryland broke their teams into two for an 8-team round robin, after which they recombined for a 6 team round-robin (with the exception of Charles, who joined a lonely Trevor Davis to fill out CMU's team). Out of this muck, Maryland's only loss came to itself in the first round-robin; CMU(+Meigs), Temple, and Penn A all ended 7-5, and Delaware and Penn B were fifth and sixth. As I'm sure surprises no one, Jonathan, who played solo for the first round robin, was top scorer.
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I agree with Mike here. There were 5 schools there, which I am pretty sure is the smallest school turn-out I've ever seen in my four years of QB. I may not be as informed about the current college situation on the Mid-Atlantic, but for a while it seemed like we wouldn't be getting enough teams to host a semi-significant tournament.Bentley Like Beckham wrote: I would like to express my frustration that this event only drew 6 teams, however. This hasn't just been a problem at ACF Regionals, either. It seems like a lot of teams in the Midatlantic Circuit are for unknown reasons skipping out on tournaments that they know will be well edited and that will not be very far away for some reason. This is probably the 3rd or 4th tournament this year where some of the better teams on the Midatlantic circuit haven't shown up, which kind of sucks.
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Stats
The stats are available here: http://udel.edu/stu-org/acc/pastevents/ ... dings.html
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Re: Stats
Ah, I see Mark beat me to it.Pellegrini wrote:The stats are available here: http://udel.edu/stu-org/acc/pastevents/ ... dings.html
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There are pretty much errors in the indiviudal stats for each of our rounds, but whatever, they don't make a big difference in the long run.
Mike Bentley
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Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
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