ACF Winter Midwest at Michigan, Ann Arbor (1/16/10)

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:41 pm

I am pleased to announce that Michigan will host the Midwest/Great Lakes mirror of ACF Winter 2010. The tournament will be held on January 16, 2010.
To register, please send an email to qbtriumvirate AT umich DOT edu with the number of teams your program expects to bring, as well as the number of staffers and/or buzzers you will be bringing. It would also be great if you could provide contact information for a member of your program that we can use to reach you the morning of the tournament.
Fees:
Base fee - $120 per team.

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

Packet submission:
According to the ACF guidelines, any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quiz bowl 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 ACF's website for specifics on packet submission.
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.

The tournament will be held on the 3rd floor of Mason Hall, in the same location as all tournaments we host.

I hope to see you in January!

Cheynem · Post by **Cheynem** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:49 pm

Michael:

Since I will still be on winter break in Michigan during this tournament, I would like to play it at Ann Arbor (I am writing a packet with Minnesota, but will not be playing with those players who will be at a different site). If it is possible, I would like to play on some sort of exhibition/house team (I'm not sure what ACF's official policy is on this), but I can play solo if necessary.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:54 pm

That sounds fine to me, but you should ask the editors to make sure.

Pilgrim · Post by **Pilgrim** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:11 am

CMU should have 1-2 teams and 1 staffer (me) for this.

Broad-tailed Grassbird · Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:36 pm

3 Teams from MSU.

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:17 pm

Assume 1-2 teams from Notre Dame.

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:55 pm

Two teams from the U of I, maybe a staffer.

millionwaves · Post by **millionwaves** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:28 pm

dtaylor4 wrote:Two teams from the U of I, maybe a staffer.

Actually, there's a solid chance we might get three, but we'll definitely have two at the least.

MahoningQuizBowler · Post by **MahoningQuizBowler** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:32 pm

At least one team from Youngstown State.

Cheynem · Post by **Cheynem** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:53 am

Minnesota will have one team (me) at this tournament.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:57 pm

Field Update
Am I missing anyone?

Youngstown State
Illinois (2)
Notre Dame (2)
Michigan State (3)
Carnegie Mellon (1)
Miami (OH) (3)
Ohio State (1-2)
Chicago (3)
Toronto
Wayne State

Cheynem · Post by **Cheynem** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:18 pm

Mmm...delicious carnegie melons.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:06 pm

Cheynem wrote:Mmm...delicious carnegie melons.

Oops. Fixed

jdd2007 · Post by **jdd2007** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:35 pm

Ohio State with 1-2

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:04 am

P(2nd team from ND) > .5

(That is, count us in for a second team)

Geringer · Post by **Geringer** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:11 pm

evilmonkey wrote:P(2nd team from ND) > .5

(That is, count us in for a second team)

Does this team happen to include freshman Sean K?

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:33 pm

Macho Man for Expediency wrote:
evilmonkey wrote:P(2nd team from ND) > .5

(That is, count us in for a second team)
Does this team happen to include freshman Sean K?

No.

sds · Post by **sds** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:19 pm

Looks like Wayne State will be putting up at least 1 team as well.

marnold · Post by **marnold** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:51 pm

Chicago with 3.

Cheynem · Post by **Cheynem** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:03 am

I unfortunately will no longer be able to make this, so please scratch me off.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:44 am

Ok, I think the field should be up to date. Did I miss anything?

EncyclopediaCDRom · Post by **EncyclopediaCDRom** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:56 pm

I will drive one UIC team in my new Rommobile car. I can submit my packet on Sunday, January 3, 2010. Is there any chance of a trash tournament on Sunday, January 17--the traditional ABD date? The Penn Bowl writers just announced their trash tourney for Sunday, January 31; hopefully, a similar mirror will materialize at Northwestern. Last season, the Penn writers were such good sports at finishing their trash a week earlier than Penn Bowl to accommodate the ABD slot at Michigan.

Happy (not) new decade,
Rom

Geringer · Post by **Geringer** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:14 am

EncyclopediaCDRom wrote:I will drive one UIC team in my new Rommobile car. I can submit my packet on Sunday, January 3, 2010. Is there any chance of a trash tournament on Sunday, January 17--the traditional ABD date? The Penn Bowl writers just announced their trash tourney for Sunday, January 31; hopefully, a similar mirror will materialize at Northwestern. Last season, the Penn writers were such good sports at finishing their trash a week earlier than Penn Bowl to accommodate the ABD slot at Michigan.

Happy (not) new decade,
Rom

If there's any interest and a blind field, I'd be more than willing to condense the best of my Trashtastrophe questions into seven rounds or so if anyone really wanted to play them.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:14 pm

Macho Man for Expediency wrote:
EncyclopediaCDRom wrote:I will drive one UIC team in my new Rommobile car. I can submit my packet on Sunday, January 3, 2010. Is there any chance of a trash tournament on Sunday, January 17--the traditional ABD date? The Penn Bowl writers just announced their trash tourney for Sunday, January 31; hopefully, a similar mirror will materialize at Northwestern. Last season, the Penn writers were such good sports at finishing their trash a week earlier than Penn Bowl to accommodate the ABD slot at Michigan.

Happy (not) new decade,
Rom
If there's any interest and a blind field, I'd be more than willing to condense the best of my Trashtastrophe questions into seven rounds or so if anyone really wanted to play them.

Your questions were used at Ohio State's THUNDER mirror, correct? That would mean Youngstown State and Ohio State have seen them. If there is interest from the rest of the field, we could probably host something.
I think Northwestern gets the first chance to host Penn Bowl Trash; if they don't want to host it, we'll see.

Papa's in the House · Post by **Papa's in the House** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:36 pm

I know I'd play if you get a set everyone is blind to and I could probably get some others from Illinois. This would give you at least 2 teams.

Red-necked Phalarope · Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:25 pm

I don't speak for the team, but I suspect that some players from Ohio State would have some interest in a Sunday trash tournament; I know I would. (I actually haven't seen Trashtastrophe, but I'm in the minority for our club on that.)

Cheynem · Post by **Cheynem** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:19 pm

I'd actually be able to make any Sunday trash tournament, although I've already seen Jeff's set.

Windows ME · Post by **Windows ME** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:43 am

Toronto will be sending one team to this.

Sent you an e-mail as well.

EncyclopediaCDRom · Post by **EncyclopediaCDRom** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:17 am

Now that my four potential teammates who had been attending our fall practices have declined to make the trip with me, I had better withdraw UIC from this ACF Winter. I remain willing to drive my new Rommobile to Ann Arbor on that Saturday to play any trash scrimmage on Sunday. Since I have no time to look at archived packets from tournaments in which I have not played, I certainly have not seen anything from this recent Trashtrophe.

Congratulations to Alabama,
Rom

sds · Post by **sds** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:30 pm

For those who haven't confirmed the number of teams they'll be bringing (or people who haven't emailed or posted here) - please let us know by Wednesday, 1/13 at 10 AM.

Please also email [email protected] with a contact number for your team. We'll send out the informational email with locations/emergency numbers, etc. late on Wednesday evening.

WellTraveledSalesman · Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:04 pm

Illinois is bringing exactly 2 teams (in case it still wasn't clear) , and as far as I know, no staffer.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:46 am

Ok, I think the current field should be accurate above. Is there anything obvious missing?
Edit: May as well just post it here.

Youngstown State
Illinois (2)
Notre Dame (1)
Michigan State (3)
Carnegie Mellon (1)
Miami (OH) (3)
Ohio State (2)
Chicago (3)
Toronto
Wayne State

MahoningQuizBowler · Post by **MahoningQuizBowler** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:15 pm

Youngstown State must, with regret, withdraw. Sorry to wait until 4 PM.

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:08 pm

Stats through End of Prelims
Overall Stats

Quick Results:
1st: Illinois A (11-0)
2nd: Toronto (9-2)
3rd: Illinois B (9-2)
4th: Chicago A (9-2)

Side note for those who wish to know why there seem to be 12 rounds when only 11 were played: Since there were only 10 non-finals packets blind to all, and using a bracketing format that required eleven, round 7 was run on two different packets - Michigan State's packet for the Xiang Yu bracket, Illinois B's packet for the Han Xin bracket. To avoid faulty reporting in the round report statistics, I entered that round as two different rounds - round 7 for games played on Illinois B's packet, round 8 for games played on Michigan St. A's packet.

dxdtdemon · Post by **dxdtdemon** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:30 pm

Bryce, your new link is just the prelims.

evilmonkey · Post by **evilmonkey** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:32 pm

quantumfootball wrote:Bryce, your new link is just the prelims.

So it was. It is fixed now. Thank you for catching my mistake.

dxdtdemon · Post by **dxdtdemon** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:36 pm

evilmonkey wrote:
quantumfootball wrote:Bryce, your new link is just the prelims.
So it was. It is fixed now. Thank you for catching my mistake.

You're welcome.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:54 pm

Many thanks to everyone who came today. I think everyone had fun, and the tournament seemed to run smoothly with only a couple pretty minor delays.
Extra thanks go to Bryce for volunteering to do the stats. Thanks also to Trevor from CMU for helping to staff, and for all the editors for a good question set.

Broad-tailed Grassbird · Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:03 pm

Another very well run tournament.

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:11 pm

Save a few readers having issues with timing, this was a very well-run tournament. Congrats to Michigan for pulling it off.

marnold · Post by **marnold** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:41 pm

Thanks to Michigan for a well-run tournament. There aren't too many hosts where we could have an early evening bus to catch and not even be worried about it.

(Also, not that I actually care about this, but why bother breaking the tie from the circle of death for second?)

sds · Post by **sds** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:34 pm

marnold wrote:Thanks to Michigan for a well-run tournament. There aren't too many hosts where we could have an early evening bus to catch and not even be worried about it.

(Also, not that I actually care about this, but why bother breaking the tie from the circle of death for second?)

To determine who received fabulous used book prizes?

maxis7 · Post by **maxis7** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:41 am

Thanks to Michigan for a very well run tournament. It certainly was worth the hassle of long greyhound rides.

Frater Taciturnus · Post by **Frater Taciturnus** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 11:31 am

marnold wrote:

(Also, not that I actually care about this, but why bother breaking the tie from the circle of death for second?)

I'm pretty sure the ACF Rules require somewhere that trophies for 1st and 2nd place be given out for overall, UG, and D2, so It would be necessary to actually break that tie.