Stratford Santa Clara Invitational (12/13/14 Santa Clara CA)

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The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and the Stratford School are pleased to announce that Stratford will host its third annual middle school quizbowl tournament on Saturday, December 13, 2014.

Location: This tournament will take place at Stratford Schools Santa Clara, 890 Pomeroy Avenue, Santa Clara, California.

Questions: We will be using NAQT Middle School Series #11. (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: $60 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 December 13th. Please make checks out to Stratford School.

How to register: please contact the tournament director, Jeff Hoppes ([email protected]), on or before Monday, December 8th, indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staff your school plans to bring.

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Field:

Registered (24):

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 A
Diablo Vista B
Emerson
Fallon
Holmes A
Holmes B
Matsumoto
Pi-oneers
Stratford Fremont
Stratford San Jose
Stratford Santa Clara A
Stratford Santa Clara B
Stratford Santa Clara C
Stratford Santa Clara D

Last updated 12/13 --JTH

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The field for this tournament is now closed; additional interested teams will be placed on the waitlist in case any of the registered teams drop.

Edit 12/4: we had one team drop, so there is now space available if anyone wishes to claim it.

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Details for Saturday have been emailed to all registered teams. Check-in is at 9:30 am in room H2.

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Lunchtime.

Prelim results:

A bracket:

1. Berryessa A (5-0)
2. Santa Clara A (4-1)
3. Fallon (2-3, 160 ppg)
4. Strawberry Park B (2-3, 132 ppg)
5. Holmes B (1-4, 153 ppg)
6. Diablo Vista B (1-4, 126 ppg)

B bracket:

1. Holmes A (4-1, 396 ppg)
2. Ardenwood A (4-1, 336 ppg)
3. Pi-oneers (4-1, 290 ppg)
4. Sunnyvale B (2-3)
5. Santa Clara B (1-4)
6. Chaboya (0-5)

C bracket:

1. Strawberry Park A (5-0)
2. Fremont (4-1)
3. Santa Clara C (3-2)
4. Berryessa B (2-3)
5. Diablo Vista A (1-4)
6. Matsumoto (0-5)

D bracket:

1. San Jose (5-0)
2. Sunnyvale A (4-1)
3. Ardenwood B (3-2)
4. Emerson (2-3)
5. Santa Clara D (1-4)
6. Clark (0-5)

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Congratulations to Holmes Junior High A, who defeated Stratford San Jose 380-290 in a one-game final to win the 2014 Stratford Santa Clara Invitational! Challenger-Sunnyvale A defeated Challenger-Strawberry Park A 410-300 in the third-place game.

Complete team and individual stats are available here.

Thanks to our host, Bryan Martin of Stratford Santa Clara, and all of the staffers who made this tournament possible: Ankit Aggarwal, Matt Bruce, Terry Drinkwater, Eric Guo, Larissa Kelly, Teddy Knox, Arbong Lei, Roland Li, Hieu Nguyen, Atul Saha, Andrew Shibata, James Wang, Eliot Williams, and Peter Zhu. Special thanks to Chris Fleitas of Bellarmine for loaning us two buzzer systems (and thus ensuring that this tournament included zero cases of slap bowl).