St. Louis Open (06/28/2014)
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 10:21 pm
Hello, everyone! I'm pleased to announce that we will be hosting the St. Louis Open at Washington University in St. Louis on June 28th 2014. I, Charles Hang, will be serving as the Tournament Director, and can be reached at charleshang228@yahoo.com.
The tournament will feature both an academic and a trash component, details of which are below.
Questions
The academic tournament will be using the IMSANITY set.
We will be using the Ottawa Hybrid set for the trash tournament.
Registration
To register, please e-mail me at charleshang228@yahoo.com. Please indicate the following information:
1/ The Number of teams you will be bringing.
2/ The Number of buzzers you will be bringing.
3/ The number of players you will have, as well as their names.
4/ The number of staff (moderators and scorekeepers) you will be bringing.
Please register separate teams for both events and let me know if staffers will only be staffing one or the other event.
Please form up and register a team before the event.
Fee Structure
Academic Tournament:
Base Fee: $20 per player on your team.
There's also a $4 per person charge if you want pizza (please pay this in cash)
Buzzer Discount: -$10 per working buzzer
Moderator Discount: -$10 per moderator
Scorekeeper Discount: -$5 per scorekeeper
Minimum Fee: $20.
Trash Tournament:
$10/player
We are, of course, willing to make accommodations if a team has trouble paying and wishes to arrange a payment plan, etc.
Please make checks out to "Washington University Academic Team;" we can also take cash payments but greatly prefer payments by check.
Eligibility
Anyone can play this on any team. We would greatly prefer if you don't form “super-teams” for this tournament, given the nature of the field and the level of the questions.
Location
This tournament will be held at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Danforth University Center (Building 28 here).
The building address is:
6453 Forsyth Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63130
Parking is plentiful.
Time
We will begin at 9:00 in room DUC 234. Please show up by 8:30 for this tournament, or get in touch with me if you know you can't make it on time. Once you register, I'll send you a confirmation with my phone number for contact purposes.
We expect to finish the academic tournament before 4:00 PM, at which point we will have dinner and begin the trash tournament, hopefully within half an hour. We will end the tournament by 8:00 PM (which is when the building closes).
Tournament Format
Our precise schedule depends on how many teams we will have in attendance and will be finalized a few days beforehand. I plan on targeting 8-10 games (preferably closer to 10) and ending before 4:00 PM to give us adequate time for the trash tournament.
In order to maximize the amount of time available for Quiz Bowl, we will be ordering pizza for consumption between the academic and trash tournaments. As mentioned above, pizza is $4 per person.
For the trash tournament, we will try to get through as many rounds as possible before the building closes at 8:00 PM; an exact schedule will be also determined once we know how many teams will be playing.
Field
Academic (6)
Malkot ha Makolet (Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Jared Lockwood, Adam Sperber)
The Maimed Kings (Ben Zhang, Jacob O'Rourke, Jeffrey Wang, Patrick Naughton)
Easy Street (Michael Menkhus, Andrew Ludwig, Brandon Daake, Sean Phillips)
Kingdom of Callaway (Alex Dzurick, Dylan Randolph, Clara Wright, Ella Wright)
The Quick Happy Death of Ernest Hemingway (Alec Krueger, Victoria Likeum, Jim Gorman)
Dekalbastan (Danielle Long, Franz Varga, Elissa Pape, Annie Ray)
Hybrid (6)
The Purple Potato Eaters (Alec Krueger, Victoria Likeum, Jim Gorman, Elissa Pape)
Clever Team Name (Danielle Long, Franz Varga, Nick Bergeon)
Pecan Sandies (Michael Menkhus, Andrew Ludwig)
Unnamed (Ben Zhang, Sean Phillips, Itamar Naveh Benjamin, and Andy Walz)
Straight Outta Compton Scattering (Jacob O'Rourke, David Dennis)
Trochaic Tetrad (Alex Dzurick, Jared Lockwood, Dylan Randolph, Adam Sperber)
The tournament will feature both an academic and a trash component, details of which are below.
Questions
The academic tournament will be using the IMSANITY set.
We will be using the Ottawa Hybrid set for the trash tournament.
Registration
To register, please e-mail me at charleshang228@yahoo.com. Please indicate the following information:
1/ The Number of teams you will be bringing.
2/ The Number of buzzers you will be bringing.
3/ The number of players you will have, as well as their names.
4/ The number of staff (moderators and scorekeepers) you will be bringing.
Please register separate teams for both events and let me know if staffers will only be staffing one or the other event.
Please form up and register a team before the event.
Fee Structure
Academic Tournament:
Base Fee: $20 per player on your team.
There's also a $4 per person charge if you want pizza (please pay this in cash)
Buzzer Discount: -$10 per working buzzer
Moderator Discount: -$10 per moderator
Scorekeeper Discount: -$5 per scorekeeper
Minimum Fee: $20.
Trash Tournament:
$10/player
We are, of course, willing to make accommodations if a team has trouble paying and wishes to arrange a payment plan, etc.
Please make checks out to "Washington University Academic Team;" we can also take cash payments but greatly prefer payments by check.
Eligibility
Anyone can play this on any team. We would greatly prefer if you don't form “super-teams” for this tournament, given the nature of the field and the level of the questions.
Location
This tournament will be held at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Danforth University Center (Building 28 here).
The building address is:
6453 Forsyth Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63130
Parking is plentiful.
Time
We will begin at 9:00 in room DUC 234. Please show up by 8:30 for this tournament, or get in touch with me if you know you can't make it on time. Once you register, I'll send you a confirmation with my phone number for contact purposes.
We expect to finish the academic tournament before 4:00 PM, at which point we will have dinner and begin the trash tournament, hopefully within half an hour. We will end the tournament by 8:00 PM (which is when the building closes).
Tournament Format
Our precise schedule depends on how many teams we will have in attendance and will be finalized a few days beforehand. I plan on targeting 8-10 games (preferably closer to 10) and ending before 4:00 PM to give us adequate time for the trash tournament.
In order to maximize the amount of time available for Quiz Bowl, we will be ordering pizza for consumption between the academic and trash tournaments. As mentioned above, pizza is $4 per person.
For the trash tournament, we will try to get through as many rounds as possible before the building closes at 8:00 PM; an exact schedule will be also determined once we know how many teams will be playing.
Field
Academic (6)
Malkot ha Makolet (Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Jared Lockwood, Adam Sperber)
The Maimed Kings (Ben Zhang, Jacob O'Rourke, Jeffrey Wang, Patrick Naughton)
Easy Street (Michael Menkhus, Andrew Ludwig, Brandon Daake, Sean Phillips)
Kingdom of Callaway (Alex Dzurick, Dylan Randolph, Clara Wright, Ella Wright)
The Quick Happy Death of Ernest Hemingway (Alec Krueger, Victoria Likeum, Jim Gorman)
Dekalbastan (Danielle Long, Franz Varga, Elissa Pape, Annie Ray)
Hybrid (6)
The Purple Potato Eaters (Alec Krueger, Victoria Likeum, Jim Gorman, Elissa Pape)
Clever Team Name (Danielle Long, Franz Varga, Nick Bergeon)
Pecan Sandies (Michael Menkhus, Andrew Ludwig)
Unnamed (Ben Zhang, Sean Phillips, Itamar Naveh Benjamin, and Andy Walz)
Straight Outta Compton Scattering (Jacob O'Rourke, David Dennis)
Trochaic Tetrad (Alex Dzurick, Jared Lockwood, Dylan Randolph, Adam Sperber)