The Quizbowl Resource Center

Yale Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce Bulldog High School Academic
Tournament XV (BHSAT), which will take place on February 18, 2006.
BHSAT annually features a number of top teams from around the country.
As in the past, the questions will be written and edited by members of
the Yale Quiz Bowl team.

This is the fee structure for the tournament:

Base fee: $75
Working buzzer system: -$10
Moderator: -$10
Second, third, etc. team from a school: -$5 each
Minimum fee per team: $50

In addition, you can purchase a set of this year's BHSAT questions for
only $15. Purchase requests sent on or before February 4, 2006 will
allow you to take a set home with you the day of the tournament.
Requests sent after that date will be filled by mail after the
tournament.

Please make checks payable to: Y. Student Academic Competitions
(Please do NOT make checks out to Yale Student Academic Competitions)

For more information or to request a registration form, please e-mail to
andrew . uzzell @ yale . edu

Please send registration forms and payment to:
Yale Student Academic Competitions
P. O. Box 207092
New Haven, CT 06520-7092
(847) 212-9971

Thanks,
Mike Wehrman

We have arranged for hotel accommodations at the Courtyard New Haven at Yale, located only a few blocks from the Yale campus.

Rooms for the nights of February 17th and 18th are available at the "Yale rate" of $109 per room per night, a discount of $50 from the usual rate. To make reservations, call 1-203-777-6221, and mention "Yale quiz bowl" to receive the discount.

30-day field update (reckoned inclusively):

Aiken, SC
Dorman, SC
Champlain Union Valley, VT (2)
Chase Collegiate School, CT (2)
E.O. Smith, CT (2)
Burlington, VT
Cheshire, CT
Williston Northampton, MA
Housatonic, CT (2)
Gonzaga, DC
Norwich Free Academy, CT (2)
Seton Hall Prep, NJ (2)
Sacred Heart, CT
Walter Johnson, MD
Bromfield, MA

Total: 21

We're still accepting registrations, so if you're interested in coming, please let me know.

January 27 update:

Dorman, SC
Champlain Union Valley, VT (2)
Chase Collegiate School, CT (2)
E.O. Smith, CT (2)
Burlington, VT
Cheshire, CT
Williston Northampton, MA
Housatonic, CT (2)
Gonzaga, DC
Norwich Free Academy, CT (2)
Seton Hall Prep, NJ (2)
Sacred Heart, CT
Walter Johnson, MD
Bromfield, MA
East Hamptony, NY
Kellenberg, NY (3)
Suffield, CT
Stuyvesant, NY (2)
Terryville, CT

Total: 28

Expressed interest but unconfirmed:

Aiken, SC
State College, PA (2)
Benjamin Banneker, DC (2)
St. Johnsbury, VT

I'm suprised Banneker expressed interest, their team has been essentially dead ever since their coach left two years ago.

We're up to 32 teams. I don't expect the field to grow very much after this point, but we still have room for more.

At present:
Dorman, SC
Champlain Union Valley, VT (2)
Chase Collegiate School, CT (2)
E.O. Smith, CT (2)
Burlington, VT
Cheshire, CT
Williston Northampton, MA
Housatonic, CT (2)
Gonzaga, DC
Norwich Free Academy, CT (2)
Seton Hall Prep, NJ (2)
Sacred Heart, CT
Walter Johnson, MD
Bromfield, MA
East Hamptony, NY
Kellenberg, NY (3)
Suffield, CT
Stuyvesant, NY (2)
Terryville, CT
State College, PA (2)
Benjamin Banneker, DC (2)

Total: 32

Expressed interest but unconfirmed:

Aiken, SC
St. Johnsbury, VT

Is this the final field list?

No, we're still waiting to hear about a third team from Seton Hall, and whether Aiken is coming. I expect to post the final field tomorrow afternoon.

Final field update:

Dorman, SC
Champlain Union Valley, VT (2)
Chase Collegiate School, CT (2)
E.O. Smith, CT (2)
Burlington, VT
Cheshire, CT
Williston Northampton, MA
Housatonic, CT (2)
Gonzaga, DC
Norwich Free Academy, CT (2)
Seton Hall Prep, NJ (3)
Sacred Heart, CT
Walter Johnson, MD
Bromfield, MA
Kellenberg, NY (3)
Suffield, CT
Stuyvesant, NY (2)
Terryville, CT
State College, PA (2)
Banneker, MD (2)
Amherst, MA
Simsbury, CT (2)

Total: 35

SHP will be bringing three teams.

Very brief results:

State College A beat Walter Johnson 390-145 to win the Bulldog High School Academic Tournament XV. The other semifinalists where Seton Hall Prep A and Dorman.

Further results to follow following dinner.

Congratulations to State College who whooped us in the finals pretty badly. The tournament directors did a very good job of getting the tournament done on time too. The questions were generally very well written, although I did notice a few repeats and some odd distributions.

After a very long dinner that involved much delay with smoothing out the html presentation of our stats program, the results from BHSAT XV are now available online at

http://www.yale.edu/ysac/bhsatxv/index_bhsatxv.html

Thanks again to everyone who came.

Would you be able to provide the playoff scores?

Playoff scores weren't regularly kept, and even the scores for the ones that I moderated have fallen out of my memory, so I'm afraid not.