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Schedule and Results Page—September 2000

Submit new tournaments or corrections to Matt Weiner at mattweiner@hsquizbowl.org.

This information is gathered from many sources, some of which may not be firsthand. Although I strive for accuracy, there may be errors below. Always check with the tournament director to make sure the date and conditions of the tournament have not changed before sending money or leaving for a tournament.

In the final column, if the school listed is the defending champion from the 1999-2000 season, the information will be in dark red. If the information is the results from the 2000-2001 season, it will be in dark green. 2000-2001 results may also appear below the rest of the tournament information.

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2000-2001 Schedule and Results: September October November December January February March April May-June

Date

Tournament

Host and Location

Format [note]

Entrance
restrictions
[note]

Qualifies for [note]

Contact Person(s) and Contact Information

2000-2001 Results or 1999-2000 champion

Sep. 15

T.R. Miller Tournament

T.R. Miller High School; Brewton, AL

ASCA [note]

None

None

DGerety@cet1.acet.net

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. LAMP (Montgomery, AL); 2. T.R. Miller (Brewton, AL)

Sep. 16

Vermont National Education Association Scholars’ Bowl Kick-Off Tournament

Essex High School; Essex Junction, VT

Five-minute phase of tossups with boni; five-minute phase of tossups

Vermont schools only

None

David Rome; vtdavidr@aol.com; members.aol.com/
kcommo/vtsbowl/index.htm

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Rice Memorial (South Burlington, VT); 2. Hanover  (Hanover, NH). 3. Burlington (Burlington, VT); 4. Mt. Anthony-Rice Chimera Team; full results at members.aol.com/kcommo/vtsbowl/vtkick00.htm

Sep. 16

Plano Tournament

Plano High School; Plano, TX

Unknown

None

None

Unknown

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Cistercian A (Irving, TX); 2. Plano A (Plano, TX)

Sep. 23

Ezell-Harding Varsity Tournament

Ezell-Harding Christian School; Antioch, TN

Unknown

Unknown

None

RGRummage@aol.com

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Cookeville A (Cookeville, TN); 2. Riverdale (Murfreesboro, TN); 3. Hillsboro (Nashville, TN); 4. Cookeville B (Cookeville, TN)

Sep. 30

Academic Initiative Autumn Invitational III

Catholic Central High School; Redford, MI

Four quarter [note]

None

None

Joseph Marsano; 1815 Pointe Crossing #102, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105; jmarsano@umich.edu; http://nic-163-c210-142.mw.mediaone.net/

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Eisenhower (Shelby Township, MI); 2. Plymouth-Salem (Canton, MI); 3. Catholic Central (Redford, MI); 4. Churchill (Livonia, MI)

Sep. 30

Fracas 2000 High School Quizbowl Tournament

Clemson University Academic Quiz Team; Clemson, SC

20 tossups with boni; questions provided by NAQT

Twenty-team field

NAQT [note]

David Swindell; dswinde@CLEMSON.EDU; people.clemson.edu/
~dswinde/quizbowl/Fracas2000.html

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Irmo (Columbia, SC); 2. Dorman (Spartanburg, SC); 3. Brookwood (Snellville, GA); 4. Martin County (Stuart, FL)

Sep. 30

Tournament Without An Interesting Name, the

First

University of California-Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA

Twenty tossups with boni, powers used; questions provided by NAQT [note]

None; tournament is also open to college teams composed of undergraduates, who will compete in a separate field from the high school teams

None

Pat Friel; pfriel@math.ucla.edu

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Palos Verdes Peninsula (Rolling Hills Estates, CA); 2. Edison A (Huntington Beach, CA); 3. Pasadena Polytechnic (Pasadena, CA); 4. Edison B (Huntington Beach, CA)

Sep. 30

Elkins Academic Challenge Tournament

Elkins High School; Missouri City, TX

Unknown

Unknown

None

haljay@hal-pc.org;  006pj430@fortbend.k12.tx.us

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Bellaire (Bellaire, TX); 2. St. John’s (Houston, TX); 3. Huntsville (Huntsville, TX); 4. Clear Lake (Houston, TX)

Sep. 30

Huntsville High School Invitational Tournament

Huntsville High School; Huntsville, AR

Four quarter [note]

Arkansas schools only

None

Mr. Bill Epperson; Wepperson@hotmail.com

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Northside A (Fort Smith, AR); 2. Northside B (Fort Smith, AR); 3T. Benton A (Benton, AR); 3T. Southside (Fort Smith, AR)

Format: Assume untimed games, -5s on tossup interrupts, 10-point tossups, no power tossups, 30-point boni which break down in multiples of 5, and no bouncebacks on boni unless otherwise noted. Detailed rules may be found on the websites listed for each tournament.

NAQT format is: 15-point blind powers on tossups and games timed to 9-minute halves.

NSC format is: bouncebacks on all boni and no -5s on tossups, opening phase of ten tossups with 20-point related boni, second phase of eight tossups with 15-point, one-part boni chosen from a category list, and final phase of ten tossups with open, 20-point powers and unrelated 30-point boni. Some tournaments other than the actual PACE NSC using NSC format may truncate the number of tossups in each phase.

Four quarter format is: A phase of tossups, a phase of tossups with boni, a category phase, and another phase of tossups. Variations exist.

It's Academic format: See http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/4992/itvshow.html.

Illinois format is: Twenty tossups with boni; boni are worth a total of 20 points and bounce back; unlike most formats, boni do not necessarily break down in multiples of 5.

Vermont format is: 9-minute phase of tossups with 20-point boni; 60-second phase for each team of up to ten 5-point questions; 9-minute phase of tossups

Alabama Scholastic Competition Association format is: A phase of ten 5-point tossups; a phase of ten 10-point tossups with 20-point boni and bouncebacks; a phase with a worksheet for each team of twenty 5-point questions; a phase of ten 15-point tossups.

Virginia High School League format is: A phase of fifteen tossups, a team phase of ten questions for each team, read alternately, with bouncebacks; a phase of fifteen tossups.

Celebrity Shoot format: See http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/trivia/hsbio/format.html.

KMO format: Using a disk which is mailed to participating teams, questions and five possible answers are displayed on the screen. The point value of each question decreases from a maximum of 10 depending on how long it takes to answer. If the first answer given is incorrect, the team can try again for 2 points. The team's score is reported to Academic Hallmarks and compared to the scores of other schools. For more information, see http://www.greatuk.com/kmo.html.

Panasonic format: A phase of twenty 5-point tossups; one 10-point written question; a phase of twenty 10-point tossups; one 20-point written question; a phase of twenty-five 15-point tossups; one 30-point written question There is only one buzzer per team (sometimes two) and conferral is permitted at all times. An incorrect answers causes a deduction of the question’s value; an incorrectly answered question may not be answered by any other teams.

Entrance restrictions: "Varsity only" means only one team per school can enter. "JV" in this box means that all players must be in grades 9 or 10 unless otherwise noted; however, some tournaments with JV divisions do NOT require that JV players be underclassmen; these tournaments will not have "JV" in the entrance restrictions box. Teams may only play once on each NAQT invitational set; see NAQT’s schedule page for information on which set is being used for which tournament.

Qualification: All tournament winners qualify for the ASCN Tournament of Champions.

NAC: Winners of all tournaments of eight or more teams, finalists of tournaments of 32 or more teams, teams which “can demonstrate that they are the best of 16,” winners of QuizNet matches, winners of the QU “20 Questions” contest, and the top 33 finishers of the previous year’s NAC qualify.

Qualification for the Panasonic Academic Challenge in states without a qualifying tournament is at the discretion of the national tournament. PAC teams may be composed of all-stars from various schools in the state or may represent a single school.

NAQT: Winners of all official NAQT events and most unofficial events using NAQT questions qualify for the NAQT High School Championship Tournament. NAQT also accepts several automatic qualifiers from each NAQT state championship (roughly the top ten percent of the field). NAQT also accepts, at its discretion, as many at-large qualifiers as are needed to fill the national field, with preference given to teams which did well at events using NAQT questions.

PACE: The top two teams of officially designated PACE affiliate tournaments with fields of less than forty teams qualify for the PACE National Scholastics Championship. The top four teams of officially designated PACE affiliate tournaments with fields of forty or more teams qualify for the PACE National Scholastics Championship. PACE also accepts at-large qualifiers at its discretion, with preference given to teams which finished highly but out of contention for automatic bids at PACE affiliate events. The top 4 teams from each PACE NSC qualify for the next year's NSC.

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