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Dan-Don

We're off to late start after WUSTL A arrived at 9:30. Stats are here.

Dan-Don

Nick Bergeon volunteered to form a scab team with any WUStL B players that Charles can provide. They will be the 18th team.

Dan-Don

We have 5 players, so we can provide a rotating staffer or keep our second team if you need us to. Well, a rotating staffer only frees up one person to play on the house team, but I guess that will be our worst case scenario. Of course, that solo Northwestern person can also be one part of a scab t...

Dan-Don

Well we're in a bad situation. Brad Fischer was bringing himself and 1-2 moderators, but they canceled this afternoon. Additionally, the only two extra Northwestern people will be leaving around noon because of prior commitments. This means we cannot field a house team without more moderators. If an...

Dan-Don

A few small corrections to that the stats. Northwestern A should be listed as Undergrad. Also, the Round 11 match between Northwestern A and B can't possibly have 25 TUH since these were 24 TU rounds and the match didn't involve any replacements or ties or whatever. Also, in case small things like t...

Dan-Don

Everyone should check to make sure that the announcement post accurately reflects the number of discounts for buzzer systems, staffers, travel, packets your team will be receiving so that you can pay us the correct amount on Saturday. If not, post about it ASAP. If you're not sure how much you owe b...

Dan-Don

I'd say it's pretty likely we can have a house team to get us to 8.

Dan-Don

This field is closed. There's a slight chance Auburn will drop. If that's the case, they'll be replaced by a house team.

Dan-Don

How many buzzers will UIC have?

Dan-Don

If Lawrence B and UIC B come, we can field a house team to get to 21. (Unless, of course, another school wants to field the 21st team.)

Dan-Don

Teams should finalize their plans by Thursday afternoon.

Dan-Don

Bump. The field right now consists of UIC, Case, Delano, and Colby et al. Hoping for a bigger field.

Dan-Don

Lawrence A, UW-Madison, NU B, NU A, and NU C went to the top bracket. I think overall records (including prelims) were counted, so Lawrence cleared the field, Madison got second, NU A got third. NU B and C, which were the only D2 teams in the top bracket, wound up tied, so we played one packet for t...

Dan-Don

It'd probably be a good idea to have people on their byes read a room (or rooms) in which close matches might be happening, especially in the top playoff pool. Both players on Northwestern A, Greg Peterson, and I could definitely handle that. Is it correct to assume Seth Teitler is staffing? The ema...

Dan-Don

What will the tournament format be with 9 teams? I'd be kind of disappointed with a single round-robin. Could there be playoff pools of 6 and 3?

Dan-Don

All right, WUSTL B and Auburn give us 18, so the field is closed unless another 2 or 3 teams express interest.

Dan-Don

Being good on staff (for the time being), I need to know if WUSTL and Chicago want in. Let me know by mid-week, as Auburn very much wants to be added to the field. Are you counting me as staff for Loyola? Because I'll be there, and it would be silly to not use me. I am counting you. Also, this is a...

Dan-Don

I'll be there to staff.

Dan-Don

Ok. Question: Given that we're using the DII set, will halves be reduced to 9 minutes or remain 10 minutes?

Dan-Don

bt_green_warbler wrote:Please go ahead and register a Northwestern team in DI; I will then sort out the players.

Online registration is closed. Should I email Dan Abler?

Dan-Don

I explained combined-field qualification here and am happy to take questions if anything remains unclear. Meanwhile: we don't take appeals for DI/DII eligibility; you're either eligible or not. Please let me know which player that is and I'll switch your registration to the appropriate division. Th...

Dan-Don

Oh, I guess I misunderstood the policy on combined fields. Jeff had said you need 4 in a division, but you really need 4 teams in both divisions? Anyways, we found out really late that one of our DII players is ineligible, so if that player's appeal goes unfavorably, we'll also be fielding a DI team.

Dan-Don

Being good on staff (for the time being), I need to know if WUSTL and Chicago want in. Let me know by mid-week, as Auburn very much wants to be added to the field.

Dan-Don

Ok, I fixed the Chicago mistake, and I put Michigan C in the field. Currently I have enough staffers to run an 18 team tournament. It should be noted though that many of the scenarios for 15 or 18 would require 14 rounds + finals, and I think many of our NU staffers will not have time to stay for th...

Dan-Don

The grumpy old man in me is a bit distraught that a mixed HS team of apparently two people is taking up a field spot instead of innumerable collegiate teams on the wait list. The 7 collegiate teams on the wait list had more than 15 days to claim additional spots. Anyhow, it looks like I'll have at ...

Dan-Don

All right, so the field is closed as is. We'll do full RR +finals. I had to close it due to lack of moderator interest. I'll try to get more local and NU moderators, and I'll lift the limit on moderator discounts in case that helps. If I do get more moderators, I'll let in some number of teams off t...

Dan-Don

DCC A beat Stevenson in the first match of an advantaged final to win the tournament. There was a circle of death between Ignatius, Loyola A, and IMSA A for third place that was played off, but I don't know who won it. This was a good tournament--well run with good questions. Ignatius beat IMSA and...

Dan-Don

Northwestern University's annual Wildcat high school tournament will be played on April 16, 2011 using questions from Hunter College High School's Prison Bowl set . I will be directing the tournament. Though any high school teams will be allowed to enter the tournament, our goal is primarily to prov...

Dan-Don

Northwestern will have 2 teams (about 6-8 players), 0 buzzers, 0 staffers, 1 travel discount, and a -$50 packet discount. If you want to email me your invoice ASAP, I can work on getting a check to have on the 26th.

Dan-Don

We found room for 30, and we now have 29 teams. So the field is capped at 30. Room for one more team. Email me if interested.

EDIT: the 30th spot was taken, so I'll post the final field soon

Dan-Don

Northwestern's mirroring Penn Bowl Trash on 2/13/11 . LOCATION [/u] Matches will happen in University Hall , which is located at 1897 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL, 60208 . Check-in will occur in University 122 from 8:00 to 8:30. Matches will start at 9 or as soon as all teams get there. Please park in...

Dan-Don

Holy Cross of Deerfield A, B Maneteno A, B Marlowe A, B Is this Manteno Middle School (Coach = J. Quinn)? Or Martino Middle School of New Lenox (Coach = K. Smith)? {EDIT: Oh, and what's your cap for this tournament?) The former. I think I'm going to have to cap the field at 28 or 30, not for lack o...

Dan-Don

Your Cup of Robust Tea wrote:I feel like my little brother told me that Washington Gifted Academy (Auburn's feeder school) might be going to this, or something.

I got an email expressing interest from the coach, but it didn't contain relevant information like the number of teams and buzzer systems.

Dan-Don

I'm going to ask schools to finalize their number of teams by Monday 1/24 so I can start arranging for moderators. This is approximately when I'll officially close the field, which is capped at 24 teams.

An announcement for PB trash, to be held on Sunday, should be coming sometime this week.

Dan-Don

Stephen Colbert wrote:I'll gladly volunteer to staff the main tournament and play in the Harry Potter tournament if someone will have me on their team.

I'll play with you.

If the field stays small, and you don't need so many staffers, I can just show up for Harry Potter.

Dan-Don

Two teams from WUSTL, three buzzers, zero staffers. Packet(s) forthcoming. Just out of curiosity, why the cap on the moderator discount? Do you plan to have a surplus of staff? We should be fine on staff. If a team actually plans on bringing two competent mods, maybe I'll change my mind about the d...

Dan-Don

Edward Elric wrote:If your not playing Penn Bowl proper, can you still play Penn Bowl trash?

Yes.

Dan-Don

dtaylor4 wrote:I'd prefer the weekend off, but if you are really short on staff for the weekend, I'd be willing to make the trek for both tournaments, provided I can snag a place to crash.

We'll figure out the staffing situation once school starts again, so look for an email in mid-January.

Dan-Don

cournfused wrote:Any chance that PB Trash will be mirrored on the 13th?

We'll probably make that call in early January, after we start having practices again, to see what our staffing situation will be like.

Dan-Don

I'll be in touch in potential staffers closer to March.

Dan-Don

So I just sent this to coaches. Northwestern University in Evanston, IL will be hosting a middle school scholastic bowl tournament on 3/5/11 called Junior Wildcat. Your school is invited to enter a team (or teams) in the tournament. Check-in will occur between 8 and 8:30 am, with matches starting at...

Dan-Don

Northwestern's mirroring Penn Bowl on 2/12/11. GETTING HERE [/u] Matches will happen in Kresge Hall . However, check-in will occur in Harris Hall in the Harris auditorium from 8:00 to 8:30.The address is 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL, 60208 . Matches will start at 9 or as soon as all teams get the...

Dan-Don · Re: Penn Bowl 2011 (February 19, 2011) double post

double post

Dan-Don

It seems like a more practical solution considering everything is to have this set ready by 2/12. Whether you play the tournament at Penn on this date or not, it would be better for mirrors if this set were ready by 2/12. Personally, I'd prefer to see this ready for 1/29, but I agree that a quality...

Dan-Don

We were hoping to mirror this on 1/29, the same weekend as last year, so that we can a) make money and b) give Chicago-area teams to opportunity to play this set. If this set can't be moved up to that weekend, and provided our bid is accepted, will Penn be ok with a delayed mirror in early April? ed...

Dan-Don

Actually, the question I had for you was why you felt this distribution "bastardized" history. While I think that this tournament could use more history, I simply don't think the amount of history in this tournament is illegitimate, as you seem to. I suppose I'm just curious as to why you...

Dan-Don

While I would agree that knowing the social studies subdistribution would be preferable, why do you insist that this particular distribution underweights history in a way which is absolutely unacceptable? I personally think it would be preferable to have some more social studies, but if you can wri...

Dan-Don

Dan-Don, if you can't even read or acknowledge or respond to the caveats Reinstein posted at the beginning about this being 1 v. 1 and not 4 v. 4 or 5 v. 5 and that it was power-matched, not to mention that the Solo effort in math was necessarily canon-expanding whereas Solo history was not, I'm no...

Dan-Don

How, if at all, do the editors of this tournament plan to respond to the statistics from the other big experiment with non-comp math at Scobol Solo? In particular, will any changes be made knowing that other math is converted a rate less than 40% (the worst in the tournament and 20% lower than the a...

Dan-Don

dtaylor4 wrote:
Secretary of Bobcats wrote:Bull
Dude, you lost to players who are better at getting tossups. Go learn more, and maybe you'll do better next year.

I'm guessing Nolan was unhappy with the quality of the seeding and the set--not not getting tossups, since he had the fifth most.

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