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As this current school year is quickly coming to a close, I would like to begin the date claiming process for schools interested in hosting a tournament in the 2018-2019 school year. To claim a date for a middle school, high school, or NHBB tournament, simply reply to the forum with a date or dates that your school would be interested in hosting on. Please also indicate how certain you are of hosting (with a percentage) on the date or dates you have mentioned.

Regarding high school tournaments, our goal is to have a season opener in late September, followed by a novice tournament in October, with the rest of the tournaments happening around once a month. The last regular season high school tournament will be Southern California State Championships in April. Regarding middle school tournaments, our goal is to have three for the entire school year: one in the fall, one in the winter, then one in the spring that is combined with a high school novice tournament(similar to the Warhawk and PPT tournaments). For NHBB, we will aim to have 3 tournaments this year with the last tournament happening in March. As per usual, we will avoid major holidays as well as SAT/ACT dates.

A few things I want to keep in mind for next year:

1. Avoid having a middle school tournament and a high school tournament on the same day. This was my bad this last year. I know that the tournaments are geared towards different audiences, but this causes a shortage in staffers and buzzers.

• Speak up if you do not have enough staffers! Staffers are the face of your tournament. Make sure your school is able to supply (or somehow find enough) quality moderators. To ensure the quality of your tournament, creating training sessions for inexperienced moderators is highly recommended. Please let me know if you are interested in hosting but do not have enough moderators.

• Holding two tournaments on back to back weekends will generally result in a lowered tournament attendance. This year, I will do my best to space the tournaments out better so we have one per month.

• To any prospective hosts, it is crucial that you respond to emails in a timely manner. This will ensure that any issues get sorted out as soon as possible. If any issues are to arise, please be sure to keep us updated. Communication is key!

Feel free to contact me with any questions. More information on hosting a tournament can be found here.

Please let me know if any of the following information is incorrect:
September 1:
September 8: ACT
September 15:
September 22:
September 29: CCA PPT II IS/IS-A (Varsity & JV)

October 6: SAT Olympian OASIS II SSNCT (MS & HS)
October 13:
October 20: UCSD Triton Fall
October 27: ACT

November 3: SAT
November 10:
November 17:
November 24:

December 1: SAT
December 8: ACT
December 15:
December 22:
December 29:

January 5:
January 12:
January 19: Scripps Ranch RMBAT
January 26: Rancho Bernardo Bronco Bowl Jr. [MS]

February 2:
February 9: ACT
February 16:
February 23:

March 2:
March 9: SAT
March 16: Rancho Bernardo Pyramidal Competition (PC) [MS]
March 23: Westview ReKT [CAST/SCOP Novice 9] (Varsity and JV)
March 30:

April 6:
April 13: ACT
April 20:
April 27:

Rancho Bernardo is interested in hosting a novice housewrite tournament on October 13th (most likely SCOP novice) and a Warhawk-esque IS-A+MS in the spring.

Westview is interested in hosting a middle school tournament next year (exact date to be confirmed, will probably be before winter break) as well as a high school tournament around March.

vrohan wrote:Westview is interested in hosting a middle school tournament next year (exact date to be confirmed, will probably be before winter break) as well as a high school tournament around March.

Realized the best day for our MS tournament would be December 15

North Hollywood is interested in hosting a high school tournament on November 17th or 24th and a middle school tournament in March (date TBD).

Can Del Norte maybe hold an HS tournament around late January or early February?

Scripps Ranch is interested in holding a tournament next year, but our leadership has not discussed anything further. I'll keep you all updated when I know more.

UCSD would like to host high school tournaments on October 20th, mid to late February, and late April to mid May.

JCPoly wrote:Scripps Ranch is interested in holding a tournament next year, but our leadership has not discussed anything further. I'll keep you all updated when I know more.

Scripps Ranch would like to hold a high school tournament on January 19th.

vrohan wrote:

vrohan wrote:Westview is interested in hosting a middle school tournament next year (exact date to be confirmed, will probably be before winter break) as well as a high school tournament around March.

Realized the best day for our MS tournament would be December 15

We would also like to tentatively claim March 30 for our high school tournament. At least for now, we plan to have both a Varsity and a JV division. The JV division would probably be run on an A-set and the varsity division on a reg+ housewrite.

We will continue to use this thread to discuss the schedule for the upcoming school year, but to make things more efficient for Rohan and myself to put the schedule together, please fill out this Google form. We will be collecting information to help better organize the schedule and provide assistance to hosts that may need it. Thanks everyone!

Just a reminder that if you are interested in hosting a tournament next school year, be sure to respond to the forum and fill out the Google form! We are still looking for hosts for the next school year!

Arcadia would be interested in hosting a tournament in mid to late september.

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