Belles' Bowl (2/20/10) at Saint Mary's School (Raleigh, NC)

[ProsperoSMS]

Definitely getting in early with a date claim: The Quiz Team of Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, NC will hold the fifth annual Belles' Bowl on 20 February 2010. All teams welcome. We plan to cap the field at sixteen teams.

All inquiries can be sent to me ([email protected]).

Thanks,
Hugh Davis

[Nuclear Densometer Test]

Who will be the question provider?

[ProsperoSMS]

Questions are written in-house, increasingly by the students (year one was primarily by adults). Our format is a three-part match: lightning round (set topics), themed worksheets, and TU/Bonus. The team members will write and edit these.

Hugh

[AKKOLADE]

Do you have a set of questions available online to be looked at?

[AKKOLADE]

Questions are written in-house, increasingly by the students (year one was primarily by adults). Our format is a three-part match: lightning round (set topics), themed worksheets, and TU/Bonus. The team members will write and edit these.

Hugh

Is the lightning round portion done like tossups where either team can buzz in, or are they directed to a team for answering, like a verbal worksheet?

[ProsperoSMS]

Thread Bump:

Saint Mary's is excited to be hosting its fifth Belles' Bowl on 20 February 2010. We will cap the field at sixteen teams. Please contact me with your interest and let me know how many teams and buzzers you can provide.

Field as of 15 January 2010:
Collegiate (1 team)
Early College Academy (2 teams)
John A. Holmes High (1 team)
Raleigh Charter (2 teams)
Robinson (1 team?--can't find an indication of numbers)

Thanks,
Hugh

[ProsperoSMS]

Since I did not include this previously, the cost is $60 for a team ($40 for additional teams--at this point we're limiting to 2 teams per school), with $10 discounts for buzzers.

Field update, as of 19 January:

Collegiate (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Early College Academy (2 teams)
John A. Holmes High (1 team)
Raleigh Charter (2 teams, 2 buzzers)
Robinson (1 team?--can't find an indication of numbers)
Cave Spring (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Early College Guilford (2 teams, 1 buzzer)

Cheers,
Hugh

[ProsperoSMS]

Field Update, as of 5 February:

Cave Spring (1 Team, 1 Buzzer)
Collegiate (1 Team, 1 Buzzer)
Early College Academy (2 teams)
Early College Guilford (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
John A. Holmes High (1 team)
Johnston County Middle College (1 team)
NCSSM (1team, 1 buzzer)
Northeastern (1 team)
Pasquotank (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Providence Day (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Raleigh Charter (2 teams, 2 buzzers)
Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy (1team)

That has us at 16, with some requests for spots still made. We *may* expand, if we feel we can handle the extra needs.

Cheers, Hugh

[rchschem]

Nice field. This should be a great tournament. We'll bone up on our Episcopal trivia.

[pakman044]

Preliminary round stats (rounds 1-5) now available.

Patrick King

Edit: Old link removed. Please use the link in this post.

[Mechanical Beasts]

You have two columns of 10s--are you recording powers (as they're marked) separately but also counting them as ten points? If so, that's pretty cool.

[pakman044]

You have two columns of 10s--are you recording powers (as they're marked) separately but also counting them as ten points? If so, that's pretty cool.

There are three components to this competition:

A 10 question tossup round, no bonuses, each 10 points each (lightning round)
A 150 point worksheet
A 10 question pyramidal tossup round, with 30 point bonuses and bounceback on bonuses. (pyramidal round)

The first column represents lightning round tossups, and the second column of 10 is pyramidal tossups. The LtngRnd or lightning round in the stat sheet is the worksheet. I usually run a script against the results to change the output to clear these issues up, but I haven't had time to do that yet today (since the first round of playoffs is running now).

Patrick King

[pakman044]

Quick results:

First Round
1. Raleigh Charter A (5-0, 360ppg) d. 16. Pasquotank/Holmes (0-5, 20ppg), 220-50
8. Early College at Guilford B (3-2, 206ppg) d. 9. Johnston County Middle College (3-2, 182ppg), 250-160
5. Raleigh Charter B (4-1, 270ppg) d. 12. Holmes (1-4, beat Northeastern, 120ppg), 190-130
4. Collegiate (4-1, lost to Providence Day A, 370ppg) d. 13. Northeastern (1-4, beat Thomas Jefferson Classical, 122ppg), 360-100
6. Cave Spring (3-2, 244ppg) d. 11. Raleigh Charter C (1-4, 162ppg), 340-130
3. Providence Day A (4-1, beat Collegiate, 362ppg) d. 14. Thomas Jefferson Classical (1-4, lost to Northeastern, 162ppg), 350-100
7. Providence Day B (3-2, 224ppg) d. 10. Early College Academy A (2-3, 142ppg)
2. Early College at Guilford A (5-0, 334ppg) d. 15. Early College Academy B (0-5, 100ppg), 340-60

Quarterfinals
Raleigh Charter A d. Early College at Guilford B, 280-140
Collegiate d. Raleigh Charter B, 380-110
Providence Day A d. Cave Spring, 320-200
Early College at Guilford A d. Providence Day B, 240-150

Semifinals
Raleigh Charter A d. Collegiate, 260-190
Providence Day A d. Early College at Guilford A, 350-220

Final
Providence Day A d. Raleigh Charter A, 260-240

Full stats will be forthcoming in the next few days.

Patrick King

Edit: Fixed an incorrect score.

[pakman044]

Full stats are now available.

And for those who are interested, here are the previous years's results: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006.

Patrick King

[Down and out in Quintana Roo]

Another Raleigh Charter tournament that Peter couldn't make it to? A shame. They still played well without him, again.

[ProsperoSMS]

Yes, Raleigh Charter played very well, and when you consider the group they had on their A squad yesterday were 3 juniors and a sophomoe, they continue to excel. Congrats to both RC and Providence Day on excellent days.

Thanks to all for coming out. We had a late start (and a late restart from lunch), but I hope that everything worked out for all.

Hugh

[rchschem]

Another Raleigh Charter tournament that Peter couldn't make it to? A shame. They still played well without him, again.

That 6.67 ppb in the final round is a little bothersome though. Time to do some coaching, I suppose!

[pakman044]

Another Raleigh Charter tournament that Peter couldn't make it to? A shame. They still played well without him, again.

That 6.67 ppb in the final round is a little bothersome though. Time to do some coaching, I suppose!

That 6.67 P/B also did something else:

Round 9

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Team                    Res  PF  PA  10L 10P TUH PPTH   WS  BHrd BPts P/B   BBHrd BBPts P/BB
Raleigh Charter A       L    240 260 5   6   20  12.00  80  6    40   6.67  6     10    1.67
Providence Day A        W    260 240 2   3   20  13.00  120 3    30   10.00 14    60    4.29

A little explanation:
10L are first part tossups without bonuses (10).
10P are third part tossups with 30 point bonuses with bounceback (10).
WS is a 15 question, 10 point per question worksheet.
BBHrd is a bounceback heard; I credit a bounceback heard for each bonus part that is not gotten correct by the team hearing the bonus (so a perfect P/BB is 10).

On the tossups, Raleigh Charter got 11 of the 20 tossups, including 6 that yielded bonuses (as opposed to 5 and 3 respectively for Providence Day). But by converting on only 4 parts of 18 bonus parts, Providence Day got to hear 14 bounceback parts, and stole 6 of them, as opposed to Raleigh Charter only hearing 6 bouncebacks parts and stealing 1.

And even though each team converted bouncebacks at the same rate--1.67 points per bounceback part (or 16.7% of steal opportunities), that bigger denominator for Providence Day pushed them over the edge. (edit: For some reason, SQBS's BBPts/BBHrd statistic is producing weird results. The statistic for Raleigh Charter A should be 1.67 BBPts/BBHrd and 4.29 BBPts/BBHrd for Providence Day A).

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Team               BParts BPts BBParts BBPts TotParts Pts Pts/Part ConvPct
Raleigh Charter A  18     40    6      10    24       50  2.08     20.8%
Providence Day A    9     30   14      60    23       90  3.91     39.1%

Patrick King