UCLA TWAIN IX: Collegiate Saturday 4 October 2008

[chrisn]

The UCLA College Bowl Club is pleased to announce TWAIN IX. All collegiate students are welcome to play.

DATE: Saturday 4 October 2008

PARKING: Parking is $9 at various lots throughout the UCLA campus. It is recommended that parking lots 3 and 5 be used. A map of UCLA is available at http://www.ucla.edu/map/. It lists all parking structures and building sites, but dining options are not included.

VENUE: The Event will be held at Bunche Hall. Tournament headquarters is 2209A. Meet there for sign-in.

SCHEDULE:
7:30 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.: Registration Period
8:30 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.: Rules Meeting / Moderator Meeting
9:00 A.M.: Tournament Play

FOOD:

Breakfast: A "light, continental" breakfast will be served.

Lunch: It is recommended that each team member bring at least $10 for lunch on campus. Hours of Operation vary for each dining option, but Ackerman
Union is definitely open during the weekend. Please note that Ackerman may not be the closest dining option to tournament venue.

ELIGIBILITY: Undergrads, graduates, and "et al." are allowed to play, so long as they have paid the registration costs.

FORMAT: Brown "Early Fall Tournament" Mirror on the West Coast. These questions were written by Brown and is played at other locations in the country, so please keep this in mind. Difficulty: ACF Fall.

PRICING STRUCTURE:
Team Discounts
Base fee = $110 per team
-$5 for a fully-functional buzzer system (Must have four working buzzers on both sides)
-$10(n-1) multiple team discount, where n is the number of teams from your school, for all n (-$10 second team, -$20 third team, etc.)

School-wide Discounts
-$20 New School Discount (must not have played in any competition sanctioned by ACF or using ACF-style events between the current date and July 1, 2005.
-$5 for a moderator (The TD has the right to accept or reject the moderator and also reserves the right to withdraw the discount retroactive to payment.)

Minimum fee (per team) = $75

WARNING! If you cannot have payment by tournament date, please contact the TD with at least 24 hours notice. If you arrive without warning of delinquent payment to tournament, we will assess a $50 penalty to be paid immediately in addition to the regular payment, which must be received by us within ten business days.

Checks should be made out to "College Bowl Club of UCLA". Please do NOT change this wording. For reasons of financial security, please bring the check to the tournament rather than mailing it in advance.

REGISTRATION:
The Tournament Directors for TWAIN IX are Ravi Menghani and Chris Ngoon. The tournament cap will be set at 24 teams, but if demand is complemented by resources, we will consider expanding the tournament.

If you are planning to come, please e-mail Chris at [email protected] with:
1) Your school's name
2) One representative's name and e-mail address
3) The number of teams you are bringing
4) The number of buzzer systems and any other discounts you wish to
validate

DEADLINE: All registration for TWAIN IX is closed at 5:00 P.M. PST on Tuesday 30 September 2008.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Chris at [email protected].

Please keep yourself updated with more news as the tournament date approaches.

We hope to see you at TWAIN IX on Saturday 4 October 2008

Thank You!
Chris Ngoon and Ravi Menghani
Tournament Directors, TWAIN IX

[cvdwightw]

Is there any particular reason the base fee for this tournament is $10 more than the base fee at other mirror sites? It's probably not going to make a huge difference as to whether or not we come, but it seems a little strange.

Oh yeah, and parking fees went up. What is it with the UCLA parking service?

[Auroni]

UCSD should be showing up to this with four people (I hope)

[chrisn]

As of 26 September 2008, the following schools have registered.

-UCSD
-CalTech
-UC Irvine

Hopefully more teams will register later as Stanford has yet to reply.

[Auroni]

is there any information about the building this will be held in? Also, our teams right now will have anywhere from 2-4 people, each.

[tkpatel]

Yes. Check the first post in this thread.

[tkpatel]

I don't know if the TD emailed the teams or not, but due to construction at Bunche Hall (our original venue), we have changed our venue to 3105 Rolfe Hall.It can be found in the east wing of the hall.

[Auroni]

Forgive me for being impatient, but when will statistics for this tournament be posted?

[tkpatel]

Our webmaster (Ray Luo) is still waiting for the stats file from the stats keeper, and stats should be posted as soon he gets them.
Hope this helps.

[recfreq]

Results are here: http://quizbowl.bol.ucla.edu/results/TW ... dings.html

[cvdwightw]

Something about the Stanford/UCSD B game doesn't look right. I highly suspect that the actual score is 510-5 rather than 310-5.

[Maxwell Sniffingwell]

Couldn't figure out what you meant, Dwight, until I noticed Stanford's 7.78 PPB. I'll bet you're right.