DCCAT II (2/18/12) CANCELLED

[jjones]

Academic Team Coaches:

It is my pleasure to announce the Detroit Catholic Central Academic Tournament II which will be held Saturday, February 18th at Detroit Catholic Central High School’s new campus at 27225 Wixom Road, Novi, MI 48374. The tournament is open to all high school teams. Teams will consist of four students with any number of eligible substitutions. If there is sufficient interest, we will consider having a JV play-off open to students in grades nine (9) and ten (10). However, all teams will compete together in the morning rounds. Please indicate whether or not you are interested in sending Varsity or JV teams on your registration form.

Snacks, coffee and juice will be provided to all teams free of charge during registration. For lunch teams are on their own; however, there are many nearby fast-food options available on Grand River Ave or Wixom Road. Maps for lunch options will be provided to schools on the day of the tournament.

The tournament is house written and a sample rounds can be found at quizbowlpackets.com . Each game will consist of two ten-question halves per match with the following subject area distribution: 4/4 Literature, 4/4 Science, 4/4 History, 3/3 Art, 3/3 RMP (non-Fiction) 1/1 Geography, 1/1 Trash.

Every team will play preliminary matches in the morning to determine seeding. Teams will then be rebracketed for afternoon play with the top six teams competing in a championship bracket and the remaining teams placed in consolation brackets. Trophies will be given to the top four teams in the varsity division. If JV divisions are played, the top two teams in the junior varsity division will also receive trophies. Tournament matches will consist of two halves each with the following:

• 10 Pyramid-style tossups worth 10 points and three (3) related bonuses worth 10 points each
• Powers (15 instead of 10) will be awarded to teams that buzz in early and answer the question correctly.
• Penalties of neg 5s (-5 points) will be given to teams that interrupt the question with an incorrect response. No penalty will be awarded to teams
that answer incorrectly at the end of the question.
• Each team will be allowed one (1) one-minute time-out per game.

All questions will be read during the matches. Substitutions will be allowed between rounds and during either team’s time out.

Sample questions from last year's DCCAT can be found at quizbowlpackets.com at the following link: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/archive/2011DCCAT/

The fee structure is as follows:
• $65 cost per team
• $10 discount per buzzer system
• $10 travel discount for teams making a 150 mile round trip

Please make all checks made payable to Catholic Central Academic Team.
Detroit Catholic Central High School
27225 Wixom Road
Novi, MI 48374

We look forward to all of you coming to our tournament. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions. Inquiries can be made to jjones [at] catholiccentral [dot] net.

[Smuttynose Island]

• 10 Pyramid-style tossups worth 10 points and three (3) related bonuses worth 10 points each

Do you mean 20? Also are the bonus parts related to the TU itself, because if so that generally leads to a reduction in set quality and an increase in set difficulty as you us up many potential early and middle bonus parts on the TU.

[jjones]

Each game will consist of two ten-question halves per match

I have edited the post to make it clearer that there will be 20 questions per round. Bonuses are related to their toss ups only so far as subject area distribution is concerned, so a fine arts toss-up will be followed by a fine arts bonus and so on.

I hope this helps clarify things.

[jjones]

Field Update:
Cabrini 1
Redford Thurston 2
"Central" 1
Sand Creek 2

I'll keep this updated as more registrations come in.

[jjones]

Because we could register enough teams to run this tournament, DCCAT II has been cancelled. We plan to try to run this tournament in the Fall of 2012.