NAQT Northern California State (Berkeley, 4/11)

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The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and Berkeley Quiz Bowl are pleased to announce that Berkeley will host the 2015 NAQT Northern California State Championship on Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Location: This tournament will take place at UC Berkeley. The precise building will be determined closer to the date of the tournament.

Questions: We will be using NAQT Invitational Series #146. No computational math will be read.

The top 15% of teams will qualify for the 2015 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament, to be held May 30-31 near Chicago. In addition, the highest-finishing team that has not yet qualified for the HSNCT will qualify at this tournament (whether or not that team places in the top 15% of the state championship field).

This tournament has been platinum-certified by PACE; the top 25% of teams will qualify for the 2015 NSC, to be held June 6-7 near Washington, DC.

Eligibility: All high schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event.

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

Fees:

Base fee: $80 per team

$10 discount: second or subsequent team from the same school

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

$20 discount per experienced moderator

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

$30 discount: new to quizbowl (your school played no pyramidal tournaments before September 1, 2014)

$20 discount: teams that travel 60 or more miles one-way (distance measured from your high school to UC Berkeley by Google Maps)

Payment will be taken at check-in on April 11th. Please make checks out to "Quiz Bowl Club."

Register here!

The UC Berkeley Quiz Bowl Club is a student group acting independently of the University of California. The student organization is the host of the 2015 NAQT Northern California State Championship and takes full responsibility for the guests.

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current field

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Registration is now open!

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We just hit our 28-team field cap. Further registrations will be put on the waitlist.

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Details for Saturday have been emailed to all registered teams. Check-in is at 8:30 am in 201 Wheeler.

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Lunchtime.

Playoffs:

Bellarmine
Davis A
Saratoga
Haarlem A
Escobar A
Valley Christian

First consolation:

Albany
Haarlem B
Davis B
Escobar B
Leland
Amador Valley B

Second consolation:

Haarlem C
Amador Valley A
Harker
Evergreen Valley A
Berkeley
Amador Valley C

Third consolation:

Washington
Milpitas
Evergreen Valley B
Davis C
Evergreen Valley C
Haarlem D


stats

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Superplayoffs: Saratoga, Haarlem A, Davis A, Escobar A

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Congratulations to Saratoga, who cleared the field to win the 2015 NAQT Northern California state championship! Full stats will be available soon.

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Complete stats are here. Congratulations to Albany, our new HSNCT qualifier!

My thanks to everyone who helped staff today.

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Congratulations to Saratoga, who went 13-0 to win the 2015 NAQT Northern California State Championship! Haarlem A finished second with an 11-2 record (both losses to Saratoga). Davis A claimed third by defeating Escobar A 325-320 in the last round of the superplayoffs.

Complete team and individual stats are available here.

My thanks to all of the staff who made this tournament possible: Ankit Aggarwal, Neeloy Azad, Steve Flowers, John Gleb, Ashley Gonik, Eric Grewal, Samira Irfan, Isabelle Jia, Nicholas Karas, Aseem Keyal, Shatayu Kulkarni, Arbong Lei, Holly Luo, Ninad Munshi, Anagha Panchagnula, Niki Peters, Sam Peterson, Jim Puls, Rithik Rajani, Susan Shen, Shweta Thakur, Lukas Vlahos, Andrew Wang, Ivy Wang, and Naomi Williams.