The Quizbowl Resource Center

The University of Georgia Quizbowl Club is pleased to announce the Second Annual Classic City Classic, to be held on the campus of the University of Georgia in the journalism building on the previously-announced date of December 1, 2007.

This tournament will use NAQT IS-70 and is an untimed "Official NAQT Event" open to all interested high school teams. The top 15% of competing teams will qualify for the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament in May.

Costs:

$70 for each team

$-5 for each working buzzer system (up to 2)

$-5 for a competent worker (up to 1)

$55 for each additional team a school brings

Travel discounts for teams from 200+ miles (one way) are negotiable.

We will also be selling lunches for $5 each, with a choice of pizza or sub, chips, and drink.

Contact:

To register, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with your school's name, contact information, and number of teams. Please include, if applicable, the number of buzzers you will be bringing or if you intend to bring a worker. If you have any questions, please send them to that address as well.

If enough teams indicate interest, we will look into reserving a block of hotel rooms for those wanting to stay overnight.

Updates and further information (directions, lodging, etc.) can be found on our team website, http://www.uga.edu/quizbowl.

Hey everybody, thought I would just post a quick update on here.

Yes, the Second Annual Classic City Classic is still taking place at The University of Georgia on December 1st. Just in case you were wondering, here is a quick field update as of today, but we hope to add more teams before the 1st:

Dorman High School 3 Teams
Brookwood High School 1(+?) Team
Chattahoochee High School 2-3 Teams
Walton High School 1-2 Teams
Norcross High School 2 Teams
Grayson High School 2 Teams
Sequoya High School 2 Teams
Robinson High School 1 Team
Etowah High School 1(+?) Team
Bleckley County High School 1(+?) Team

If you would like to play and have not yet received any information about the tournament, please contact us at [email protected].

Thanks,

Jonathan Douglas Okon
Vice President UGA Quizbowl

Tournament Field Update:

Dorman High School 3+ Teams
Chattahoochee High School 2-3 Teams
Walton High School 1-2 Teams
Central Gwinnett High School 1 Team
Norcross High School 2 Teams
Grayson High School 2 Teams
Sequoya High School 2 Teams
Robinson High School 1 Team
Etowah High School 1(+?) Team
Bleckley County High School 1(+?) Team

Jonathan Douglas Okon
Vice President UGA Quizbowl

Tournament Field Update:

Dorman High School 3+ Teams
Chattahoochee High School 2-3 Teams
Walton High School 1-2 Teams
Central Gwinnett High School 1 Team
Norcross High School 2 Teams
Grayson High School 2 Teams
Calhoun High School 2 teams
Sequoya High School 2 Teams
Robinson High School 1 Team
Etowah High School 1(+?) Team
Bleckley County High School 1(+?) Team

Jonathan Douglas Okon
Vice President UGA Quizbowl

Tournament Field Update:

Dorman High School 3 Teams
Chattahoochee High School 2 Teams
Walton High School 1 Teams
Central Gwinnett High School 1 Team
Parkview High School 1 Team
Norcross High School 2 Teams
Grayson High School 2 Teams
Calhoun High School 2 teams
Robinson High School 1 Team
Etowah High School 1 Team
Bleckley County High School 1 Team
White County High School 1 Team
Kennesaw Mountain 1 Team

Jonathan Douglas Okon
Vice President UGA Quizbowl

By the way, we are still taking registrations if any schools are interested and have not contacted us yet.

Tournament Field Update:

Dorman High School 3 Teams
Chattahoochee High School 2 Teams
Brookwood High School 1 Team
Walton High School 1 Teams
Norcross High School 2 Teams
Grayson High School 2 Teams
Calhoun High School 2 teams
Etowah High School 1 Team
Bleckley County High School 1 Team
White County High School 1 Team
Kennesaw Mountain 1 Team

Jonathan Douglas Okon
Vice President UGA Quizbowl

Brief results after 7 prelim rounds and a top 8 playoff (yet still done by 4):
1. Dorman A (50+ powers in 7 prelim rounds; 4-1 P/N ratio)
2. Dorman B
3. Walton (by default over 4. Brookwood)

By virtue of finishing in the top 15% (rounded up), Dorman A, Dorman B, and Walton all qualify for the 2008 HSNCT.

Other playoff teams:
Chattahoochee A and B, Bleckley County, Duluth

Full results, including individual stats, will be posted soon. Congrats to all teams who came out and we look forward to seeing everyone at our spring tournament, tentatively scheduled for March 1st.

Dorman was there in full force and played to the level they're known for. Chattahoochee was impressive for most of the tournament but got tripped up. Brookwood played solid matches. But the surprise was Walton. Looks like Walton may be back! It looked like they didn't even have their full team but they played a smart game. The Georgia state tournament will be an interesting competition after all! Good tournament overall except it dragged on after a while and fell far behind schedule. Timed rounds or fewer rounds would have helped.

We promised teams that we'd be done by 5 and had the championship match end just after 4, so we finished well ahead of schedule. Each prelim round was an average of 30 minutes, which I think is definitely above-average for tournaments who use 20 questions, read all 3 parts of the bonuses, and keep individual stats. Yes, we had 7 prelim rounds (due to a bunch of last-minute drops that was the best number for us this time), but I always thought teams, especially those who might not make the playoffs, would enjoy playing more quizbowl rather than less.

CloudsDiffered wrote:Timed rounds or fewer rounds would have helped.

Timed rounds have generally been opposed by most teams/coaches in our area (and many outside of it); in fact, I think I'm one of the few people who doesn't work for NAQT who actually favors them. So that's not really an option.

We can certainly offer fewer rounds in the future if that's what teams prefer, but like Chris, I thought the preference would be for more games rather than fewer.

While I thank CloudsDiffered for the compliment, I can say that our team (Chatt A) thought we definitely underperformed. This was the result of a combo of “bad dayâ€

We're working on getting the stats posted online in SQBS format, but until then here are the team stats:

# Team W L T Pct PPG PAPG Mrg 15 10 —5 TUB PPTH P/N BH BPts P/B
1 Dorman A 7 0 0 1.000 536.4 59.3 477.1 51 55 16 140 26.82 3.19 106 2520 23.77
2 Dorman B 7 0 1.000 399.3 145.7 253.6 36 51 24 140 19.96 1.50 87 1865 21.44
3 Chattahoochee A 6 1 0 0.857 373.6 110.0 263.6 25 60 12 140 18.68 2.08 85 1700 20.00
4 Brookwood 5 2 0 0.714 318.6 185.7 132.9 16 56 17 140 15.93 0.94 72 1515 21.04
5 Chattahoochee B 5 2 0 0.714 296.4 188.6 107.9 16 55 20 140 14.82 0.80 71 1385 19.51
6 Walton 5 2 0 0.714 289.3 166.4 122.9 13 57 16 140 14.46 0.81 70 1340 19.14
7 Duluth 5 2 0 0.714 249.3 172.1 77.1 16 46 10 140 12.46 1.60 62 1095 17.66
8 Bleckley County 3 3 0 0.500 162.5 241.7 —79.2 4 38 3 120 8.12 1.33 42 550 13.10
9 Grayson A 3 4 0 0.429 155.0 202.9 —47.9 10 38 14 140 7.75 0.71 48 625 13.02
10 Dorman C 2 5 0 0.286 187.9 280.0 —92.1 11 40 15 140 9.39 0.73 51 825 16.18
11 Kennesaw Mtn 2 5 0 0.286 152.9 233.6 —80.7 6 36 7 140 7.64 0.86 42 655 15.60
12 Grayson B 2 5 0 0.286 135.7 264.3 —128.6 7 31 13 140 6.79 0.54 38 600 15.79
13 Etowah 2 5 0 0.286 100.0 261.4 —161.4 5 30 14 140 5.00 0.36 35 395 11.29
14 Calhoun B 1 6 0 0.143 28.6 329.3 —300.7 0 11 —3 140 1.43 —0.00 11 75 6.82
15 Calhoun A 0 7 0 0.000 25.7 341.4 —315.7 0 9 4 140 1.29 0.00 9 110 12.22
16 Southwest Magnet 0 6 0 0.000 5.8 285.8 —280.0 0 3 1 120 0.29 0.00 3 10 3.33

Stat issues resolved! Check them out... soon.

(1) Dorman A def. (8) Bleckley County
(4) Brookwood def. (5) Chatt B
(6) Walton def. (3) Chatt A
(2) Dorman B def. (7) Duluth

(1) Dorman A def. (4) Brookwood
(2) Dorman B def. (6) Walton

Walton's Coach (UR) def. Walton for "3rd place"

(1) Dorman A def. (2) Dorman B 420-155

Thanks again to the teams who came out and we hope to see you in the spring for our March 1st tournament.

When and where are full stats going to be available?

Soon, depending on whether our webmaster checks his email tonight or tomorrow. I'll post back here when I've got a link.

OK, so on to Plan B. Stats are available here.

Very sorry it took so long.