Stratford San Jose Invitational (3/21/15, San Jose, CA)

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The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and the Stratford School are pleased to announce that Stratford will host its fourth annual middle school quizbowl tournament on Saturday, March 21, 2015.

Location: This tournament will take place at Stratford Schools San Jose, 1718 Andover Lane, San Jose, California.

Questions: We will be using NAQT Middle School Series #13. (For practice material similar to the questions we will use at the tournament, please consider the NAQT New Middle School Package and the 2013 Collaborative Middle School Tournament.)

The top 15% of teams will qualify for the 2015 NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament, to be held in Dallas, Texas on May 9-10, 2015.

Eligibility: All middle schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event. This tournament is open to any players who have not yet completed 8th grade, though the questions are targeted at 7th and 8th graders.

Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that players must play for the same team throughout the tournament.

Fees:

Base fee: $70 per team

-$10 second or subsequent team from the same school

-$10 working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)

-$20 experienced moderator

-$10 scorekeeper (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for those volunteers who have never kept score before.)

Payment will be taken at check-in on March 21st. Please make checks out to Stratford School.

How to register: please contact the tournament director, Jeff Hoppes ([email protected]), on or before Monday, March 16th, indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staff your school plans to bring.

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The field for this tournament is capped at 24 teams.

Registered (21):

Bret Harte
Chaboya
Challenger-Ardenwood A
Challenger-Ardenwood B
Challenger-Berryessa A
Challenger-Berryessa B
Challenger-Strawberry Park A
Challenger-Strawberry Park B
Challenger-Sunnyvale A
Challenger-Sunnyvale B
Clark
Diablo Vista
Emerson
Harker
Holmes
Pi-oneers
Stratford Fremont
Stratford San Jose
Stratford Santa Clara A
Stratford Santa Clara B
Stratford Santa Clara C

Last updated 3/19 --JTH

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Details for tomorrow have been emailed to all registered teams. Check-in is at 9:30 am in room 402.

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Congratulations to Challenger-Ardenwood A, who defeated Holmes Junior High 355-275 in a one-game final to win the 2015 Stratford San Jose Invitational! Challenger-Berryessa A defeated Harker 320-300 to claim third place. All four teams qualify to attend MSNCT in Dallas.

Complete team and individual stats are available here.

Thanks to our hosts, Maggie Schwartz and Jeff Takemoto from Stratford San Jose, and all the staff who made this tournament possible: Omeed Askary, Ankush Bharadwaj, Neeloy Azad, Larissa Kelly, Hieu Nguyen, Niki Peters, Jayanth Sundaresan, Eliot Williams, and Peter Zhu. Special thanks to Chris Fleitas of Bellarmine for once again loaning us buzzer systems.