WUHSAC XVII, February 14, 2015 (BHSAT set), St. Louis, MO

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WUHSAC XVII, February 14, 2015 (BHSAT set), St. Louis, MO

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The Washington University Academic Team is excited to announce the seventeenth annual WUHSAC, to be held at Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, February 14th, 2015. This is as in the previous two years, President's Day Weekend, which (weather permitting) is an ideal way to use the holiday by seeing our campus and the city of St. Louis!

I'm Sean Phillips, and I'll serve as tournament director for this year's tournament. The set is once again a mirror of Yale's BHSAT event. We are looking forward to a tournament that will (hopefully) be bigger and better than ever!

To sign your team up for WUHSAC XVII, please e-mail me at [email protected]. For those of you who have my hotmail address please do NOT use that. It is in the interest of a smooth registration that I have everything centrally located and timestamped and therefore would greatly appreciate if in lieu of responses here being accepted as registrations, you simply email this gmail account with a note in the memo line. Teams will be signed up on a first-come, first-served basis. The field will be updated in this thread as registrations are received. If the field fills up before you can sign up, please allow us to waitlist you as well; in such a large field there is an appreciable chance that one or more teams will cancel.

WUHSAC's general rules will be similar to previous years with two major exceptions.

Rules
•20 tossups and bonuses per game
•no computational math
•no negs
•20 point powers
NO bouncebacks on bonuses. This is a one-year change done in the interest of the tournament running in a more timely fashion. After the event, I intend to forward all coaches a survey as to making this a permanent change.

Format
•36-team field with the possibility that this might expand
•Bracketed round robin prelims
•Re-bracketed round robin playoffs
•four-team superplayoffs and final if needed

Fees for the tournament will be as follows:
•$10 per school plus $65 per team
•-$5 per fully functional (eight-player) buzzer, up to $15 off per school
•-$15 per experienced staff volunteer

I'd like to ask everyone interested in staffing the tournament to let me know well in advance of the tournament, by e-mailing me at [email protected] or replying here. This will include both those volunteering on behalf of a school and others. Keeping track of staff for a tournament of this size will be almost as big a deal as keeping track of the field in preparation for the event. Thank you very much for your help!

As in previous years, we expect that some number of top-finishing teams at WUHSAC XVII will be invited to this year's PACE National Scholastics Championship, also to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, part of the Washington, DC, metro area, on June 6-7, 2015. WUHSAC will provide a useful opportunity for teams and staffers to visit and become familiar with a format that is similar to NSC beforehand (albeit they include powers and bouncebacks). A link to the 2015 NSC can be found here: http://www.pace-nsc.org/nsc-2015/

If you have any further questions, please e-mail me or reply here. We look forward to you all attending WUHSAC XVII!

Sincerely,

Sean Phillips
Tournament Director, WUHSAC XVII
Alumni Advisor, Washington University Academic Team
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One final note: for the first time this year, WUHSAC will be offering a small school title using NAQT definition of what constitutes a small school.
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Field (32/36)

Oakville (1 team, 1 buzzer, 1 staffer)
Hallsville (2 teams, 2 buzzers, 1 staffer) (ss)
Mehlville (1 team)
Tuscumbia (1 team, 3 buzzers, 1 staffer) (ss)
Priory (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Helias (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Parkway Central (1 team)
Webster Groves (2 teams)
Washington (2 teams, 3 buzzers)
Savannah (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Orchard Farm (1 team) (ss)
Hannibal (1 team)
Eureka (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Ladue (2 teams, 2 buzzers)
Sullivan (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Christian High School (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Centralia (1 team, 1 buzzer) (ss)
Northwest (2 teams)
MICDS (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Brookfield (1 team, 1 buzzer) (ss)
Marquette (2 teams)
Clayton (2 teams 1 buzzer)
SLUH (1 team, 1 buzzer)
CBC (1 team)
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Updated field to add Fort Osage, Washington, and Savannah.
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A couple new entries are added.
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Added Eureka and Ladue.
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Field is updated and we are closing in on being 2/3 full!
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Updated to add a few more squads including Ransom Everglades, our first out of state entry!
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Re: WUHSAC XVII, February 14, 2015 (BHSAT set), St. Louis, M

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Updated to add Springfield! Thanks to their coach for mentioning to me that I was wrong an this doesn't conflict with Illinois Masonic sectionals for once! Illinois teams and coaches I apologize for the oversight as I would have included your schools in the first invite. Please let me know if you're interested!
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I apologize for the lateness in updating this. This is the current field. I hope to send a logistics email as soon as rooms are confirmed.
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Registration will be in Louderman 461 (Teams are asked to lounge in Louderman 458 while their coaches register) which is building 65 on this map:

http://www.wustl.edu/community/visitors ... rthmap.pdf

Game rooms will be in Eads Hall and Siegle Hall (Numbers 33 and 97, respectively).
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We are now approved by MSHSAA and are Platinum certified by PACE, meaning the top 25% will qualify for the 2015 NSC!
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Since Rock Bridge has for the third year in a row elected to drop both it's teams and staffer commitments, we have availability!
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Ok so we are now at 32 teams, and thanks to Richard Yu procuring us an extra room this means we can have all the game rooms in Eads Hall instead of splitting it over two buildings as in previous years! I will be sending coaches a note shortly.
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Playoffs, Superplayoffs and finals combined:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... rplayoffs/

Congratulations to Hallsville A for winning WUHSAC XVII with a 500-160 win over Savannah in the final! Helias A takes third place overcoming Hannibal in a tiebreak.

More to come!
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The Combined Stats will be fixed no later than Tuesday (which is my next day off).
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I want to thank my amazing crew for executing yesterday's event. They really rocked. Special shout outs to Jeff Hill, Charles Hang, Richard Yu, and Gordon Arsenoff! Each did stuff above and beyond! It was a great pleasure and an honor to host this event and the teams definitely helped make that so, so a big thanks to them. I will see you all next year!
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The playoff and superplayoff stats are fixed. In addition, combined stats can be found here.
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