ACF Winter Northeast at Yale (New Haven, CT)- 1/16/2010

[Aaron]

ACF Winter for the Northeast region will be held at Yale (New Haven, CT) on Saturday, January 16, 2010.

Registration will begin at 8:00 AM with the first round starting by 9:00 AM. To register, email [email protected] with the number of teams, buzzer systems, and staffers your school intends to bring. Once the location of the tournament is finalized, we will post that information here.

Field update (1/1/10):
UPenn: 1+
RPI: 1
Dartmouth: 1
Brown: 1
State College HS: 2
St. Joseph's HS: 1
Doug Yetman/Hunter College: 1

Buzzers: 4

Packet submission and fee schedule information will follow ACF rules:
Packet submission- According to ACF guidelines, any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2008 is required to submit a packet in order to participate in an ACF tournament in 2009-2010. Please refer to http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/packetsub.php for specifics on packet submission.

Fee Schedule- We will be using the standard ACF Fee schedule.

Base fee - $120 per team.

Packet submission discounts/penalties:

Packet submitted prior to or on:
November 22, 2009: -$50
December 6, 2009: -$25 (-$50 for teams not required to submit packets)
December 20, 2009: No penalty (-$25 for teams not required to submit packets; optional packets will not be accepted after this deadline)
December 27, 2009: +$25
January 3, 2010: +$50
After January 3, 2010: The editors may grant one or more 24-hour extensions at an additional penalty of $10 per day.

Other discounts/penalties:

Fully functional buzzer systems: -$5 per buzzer (No maximum)
Staffers: -$10 each (No maximum)
Laptop: -$5 each (Maximum 1 per team.)
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles (one way, as determined by Google Maps)
International: -$20 (For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.)
Schools new to ACF: -$25
Teams new to quizbowl: -$75
High school teams: -$50

Minimum fee: $0

For further information regarding these discounts, please consult: http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/packetsub.php#fees. Checks should be made payable to "Y. Student Academic Competitions" and not "Yale Student Academic Competitions."

edit: Field update above.

[Ondes Martenot]

"RPI", which may just be Matt and I, will be attending.

edit: We'll also have a buzzer system

[Edward Powers]

Saint Joseph High School of New jersey would like to register 1 team and 1 buzzer for its inaugural collegiate competition.

[Lapego1]

We should be there with at least 1 team and a staffer (probably).

[TheKingInYellow]

State College will probably be coming with two teams and a buzzer, official registration forthcoming

[Aaron]

Latest Field update (1/11/10):
UPenn: 1+
RPI: 1
Dartmouth: 1
Brown: 1
St. Joseph's HS: 1
Doug Yetman/Hunter College: 1

Buzzers: 4

If the above field is incorrect, or if you would still like to sign up, please shoot me an email.

[Adventure Temple Trail]

Did this happen?

[Ondes Martenot]

Yeah...Brown, which was Jerry, Aaron and Rebecca (?) went undefeated after a double round robin

[grapesmoker]

Did this happen?

We decided to run this tournament on 2005 ACF Nationals instead. You know, for kids.

[Aaron]

After a double round robin, Brown emerged undefeated. They were followed by Yale A, which had two losses, both of which were to Brown.

Standings and stats can be found here:
http://sites.google.com/site/ysacyale/a ... heast-2010

[Down and out in Quintana Roo]

Hunter didn't come to this?

[Aaron]

They never signed up. I was told they are busy working on Prison Bowl.

[Sir Thopas]

They never signed up. I was told they are busy working on Prison Bowl.

Good on them.