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UMR Tournament, March 5th
UMR Tournament, March 5th
Does anyone out there have any experience with the UMR High School Invitational? What teams will be there or are usually there? Is Round-Robin or Double-Elimination used? Any information would be helpful!
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It is MSHSAA format, with three swiss-paired rounds in the morning. I don't recall off the top of my head how many teams make the afternoon or how many teams are coming, but Bill should be able to help you with that.
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What's a Swiss-paired round? And who is Bill?
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Well, Swiss-paired rounds are designed to put similar-strength teams against each other (they're also used at many chess tournaments). As for who Bill is, well, that would be Bill Stallard, the man in charge of the UMR quiz bowl program.
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Could you give an example of two teams that might be paired? Oh yes, Bill Stallard, thanks Jason.
By the way, here is my formal introduction to this message board: I'm Warren Hays, from Eugene.
By the way, here is my formal introduction to this message board: I'm Warren Hays, from Eugene.
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well we usually do a college bowl format of 20 questions 20 bonus (but we went to this due to time). Swiss paired is you get a random number lets go with a 8 team example.
round 1
1-2
3-4
5-6
7-8
lets say all odd number win
round 2
1-3
5-7
2-4
6-8
round 3
1-5(winners from round 2)
3-7
2-6
4-8
thus giving one 3-0, 3-- 2-1, 3-- 1-2 and one 0-3.
Right now we have 21 teams your coach should have a list I sent it out last week
round 1
1-2
3-4
5-6
7-8
lets say all odd number win
round 2
1-3
5-7
2-4
6-8
round 3
1-5(winners from round 2)
3-7
2-6
4-8
thus giving one 3-0, 3-- 2-1, 3-- 1-2 and one 0-3.
Right now we have 21 teams your coach should have a list I sent it out last week
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Welcome to the board. We played you guys at state last year in an awesome game. (I'm Matt Chadbourne, formerly from Viburnum, now at UMR.) I see you guys are in our district this year, along with Richland.
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Ah, thanks for the explanation Bill (I'm guessing that's who East Buc is). I'll ask my coach for the list, but do you happen to remember any of the teams who will be there?
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Westminster Christian and Thomas Jefferson are two I remember off the top of my head. And yes, East Buc & UMR is the one and only Bill Stallard.
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Hey there Matt! I certainly do remember you. That was an awesome game we played at state - only 25 points between us in the end.
And congrats on making 1st in All-State in our Class! I actually made 2nd, however that's possible, since Eugene only played 3 games and lost all.
Yes, we have an extremely tough district this year. But we'll try our best to give the other teams hell (esp Richland).
And congrats on making 1st in All-State in our Class! I actually made 2nd, however that's possible, since Eugene only played 3 games and lost all.
Yes, we have an extremely tough district this year. But we'll try our best to give the other teams hell (esp Richland).
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Tuscumbia 1
St Elizabeth 2
Mcleur North 2
Helais 2
fatima 1
WCA 1
Pilot Grove 1
Eugene 1
Poplar Bluff 1
Carthage 1
Norwood 2
Salem 2
TJ 2
Rolla 1
Dixon 1
St Elizabeth 2
Mcleur North 2
Helais 2
fatima 1
WCA 1
Pilot Grove 1
Eugene 1
Poplar Bluff 1
Carthage 1
Norwood 2
Salem 2
TJ 2
Rolla 1
Dixon 1
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Thanks for the list Bill. What do the numbers 1 and 2 signify?
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number of teams coming from that school, how many did mizzou have?
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Ok, thanks for clarifying. Any idea which teams will be playing one another and/or in what order?
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well right now we have 21 teams we will be splitting them up into small and large school (not sure who i sgonna be 12 and 11 yet depends on the splits) then we will have a single elim tournament. you will get at least 4 games
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Ok, cool. Which teams are large and which ones are small? Just a guess that Eugene will be considered small.
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all depends on MSHSAA enrollments from the last cycle. They will be some schools maybe in class 2 that make it to large school, tough to say without doing the enrollments now. After I get this book read I will post what they look like now
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Well the bad news I forgot MCN is dropping one of their teams
Here is the break down
Large
MCleur North--1472
Rolla
Poplar Bluff
Helias
Carthage
WCA
Salem--718
Fatima--363
Small
Dixon--355
Eugene
Norwood
TJ
Pilot Grove
St Elizabeth
Tuscumbia--89
Not happy about having to place Fatima in large school, hopefully we will get another school so we can drop them down to small
Here is the break down
Large
MCleur North--1472
Rolla
Poplar Bluff
Helias
Carthage
WCA
Salem--718
Fatima--363
Small
Dixon--355
Eugene
Norwood
TJ
Pilot Grove
St Elizabeth
Tuscumbia--89
Not happy about having to place Fatima in large school, hopefully we will get another school so we can drop them down to small
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Do you have to have eight large schools? It just looks too egregious.
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Thanks for all the info. Greatly appreciated.
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Why are you having your tournament on the same day as Cuba? Anyway, that sucks cuz I wish Savannah could go since WCA will be there but I think Luce already scheduled Cuba for us.
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other way around, Cuba had no other day to run theirs.
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those 8 schools count for 10 teams. there is 10 in each small and largeDo you have to have eight large schools? It just looks too egregious.
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I've heard that the questions in this tournament are conceived by college students, is that correct?
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Yes. The UMR team is writing the questions.
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Are they much different from other question packets, say, at District and State?
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What year?Octoguy wrote: By the way, here is my formal introduction to this message board: I'm Warren Hays, from Eugene.
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High school senior (2005)
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you will have to wait and finded out
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I'll take that as a yes then, Bill.
^_^
Do you guys (and girls too) have any sort of a bracket started yet?
^_^
Do you guys (and girls too) have any sort of a bracket started yet?
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Girls hahaha that is a good one. You will know who you play the day of. Were coach will draw a number and that will be your place in the bracket. But the questions will be close to district level(hard for me to say since I have not been to one in 4 years)
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Lets play a game well two games. The first anyone that would like to read at the tournament can PM me(we can make it worth your trip). Game two guess how many rounds of questions I have 10 days before the tournament(matt you can't guess)
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Darn. I could get that one.East Buc & UMR wrote: Game two guess how many rounds of questions I have 10 days before the tournament(matt you can't guess)
It should be +1 by Sunday, maybe earlier depending on whether I get Internet access this weekend.
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Matt Mr ruck wants you to sign us up to go i hope its not to late. and how much is it with for the questions.
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e-mail at wcsq4f@umr.edu we can work it out there
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what noone wants to read. and noone wants to guess as to how much Bill has this weekend
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I don't understand what you're asking or I'd guess.
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well by next saturday we need 8 packets of questions guess how many i have
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Hey Matt if your helping write the questions put alot of sports questions in their so we may win. Just joking.
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How about 7 packets Bill.
What do I get if I win??
What do I get if I win??
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Just wanted to say good luck to all teams participating tomorrow!
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Thanks i hope you do well also.
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Cool, Viburnum's coming too.
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To answer the question i posed at the time we had 2 packets.. to top it off we are still writing a fee questions
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Yeah V-town is coming too. But dont get your hopes up on having a tough competition as last year we are not as good,
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What did you two think?
How did you like my Sports questions Cody?
How did you like my Sports questions Cody?
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What an awesome tournament. Still can't believe we took 1st.
I liked these questions. Nice job to all who worked on them!
I liked these questions. Nice job to all who worked on them!
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any that come to mind you really liked or didn't like, to many of certain ones, not enough of other?
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All the history was good. Some of that geography was dang hard (ie. "Given a state in the United States and it's national ranking in population from the 2000 Census, name the city."), but still made me think, so I liked it.
Way too much calculus. Yuck. Cut out most of the math if ya like.
Some of those questions had to have been written just a couple days beforehand. There was a bonus set about "Goon tactics and John Chaney" or something, and I remember hearing about that only this past Friday.
Overall the questions were good.
Hey Bill, do you have an updated list of those team and individual scoring sheets taped to the wall?
Way too much calculus. Yuck. Cut out most of the math if ya like.
Some of those questions had to have been written just a couple days beforehand. There was a bonus set about "Goon tactics and John Chaney" or something, and I remember hearing about that only this past Friday.
Overall the questions were good.
Hey Bill, do you have an updated list of those team and individual scoring sheets taped to the wall?