Kingston-area quizbowl tournament (2/11/2012)

[bsmith]

There will be a quizbowl tournament at Queen's University on February 11, 2012. It will use an NAQT "A" set and it is open to all high school teams (though they are targeting new-to-quizbowl schools in the area).

I don't know if anyone from Queen's uses this board, but Britney Castleman ( secretary -AT- onqba.ca ) has been collecting registrations and can be a contact person if needed. Details will need to be sorted out, but expect admission in the $40-$60 per team range.

[Masked Canadian History Bandit]

The Facebook event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200669073333561

Pricing seems to be $55 for the first team, $45 for the second team, and $35 for all additional fields.

Current field:

KCVI x1
Regi x2

Interested
Lisgar?
Woburn?

[BritneyC]

The field currently stands at:

Regi: 2 teams
KCVI: 1 team
Ernestown: 1 team

I am still waiting on responses from the other 4 schools, but we have the minimum number of teams to proceed. I will also be contacting schools in the Brockville, Belleville and Gananoque area in the hopes of extending the reach of Quizbowl.

[pandabear555]

Lisgar should be able to send a teams, buzzers, and staff to this tournament

[BritneyC]

Just an update regarding the current field:

Regiopolis: 3 teams
KCVI: 2 teams
Ernestown: 1 team

I have also called 6 more schools in the Belleville, Brockville and Gananoque areas who are new to quizbowl. I will be following those up in the next week or so. Just to clarify - this is a *novice* tournament, so if Lisgar intends to bring teams, they will have to be novice teams. The goal of the ONQBA is to encourage quizbowl, not scare off any new teams.

[pandabear555]

Lisgar is definitely considering sending a team of grade 9s if we can.
Our senior players are also willing to staff.

[BritneyC]

And yet *another* update regarding the current field. We now have 7 teams who will be coming, from 4 different schools.

Regi: 3 teams
KCVI: 2 teams
Ernestown : 1 team
Bayridge: 1 team

I will be re-contacting the 6 surrounding schools I called in December to get confirmation one way or the other about their attendance. Deadline for teams to register is January 31st. 2012.

[bsmith]

Stats (done in Mac OS!): http://onqba.ca/stats/kingston/kingston_standings.html