FRIGHT: The Tournament to Keep Fear Alive @ RMHS, 10/30/10

Angry Babies in Love · Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:02 pm

Richard Montgomery High School is unbelievably pleased to announce its Freaking Ridiculously Intense Great Halloween Tournament (FRIGHT): Tournament to Keep Fear Alive. It will be held on October 30, 2010 at our campus in beautiful Rockville, Maryland. We will be using questions provided by High School Academic Pyramid Questions (HSAPQ), specifically set #16. Registration will begin at 8:15, with the opening meeting at about 9:00 AM. The fee structure is as follows:
Base fee: $70
Buzzer discount: -$10
Reader discount: -$10
Each additional team from a school: -$5
Minimum fee per team: $40
Checks should be made out to "Richard Montgomery High School" with "It's Academic" in the memo line.
There will be a light breakfast provided (donuts, bagels, orange juice, etc)
The tournament is on the day before Halloween, so we are allowing costumes to be worn. Just nothing too scary. Also no masks, some quizbowl players rely on seeing the opponents' eyes to instill fear into his/her heart.
Please send registrations to [email protected].
We can't wait to see you on October 30!

Running Field (Team count: 28)
Centennial (5)
GDS (1)
Detroit (!) Catholic Central (2)
Caesar Rodney (1)
Rockville (1)
Banneker (2)
St. Anselm's (1)
Quince Orchard (1)
Langley (1)
Whitman (1)
WJ (1)
Poolesville (1)
Longfellow (2)
TJ (3)
Gonzaga (1)
Howard (1)
Calvert Hall (1)
Marshall (1)

UPDATE: The cap is 28 teams.

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:42 pm

We should be there with a team, pending this UPenn stuff.

Also, congrats on being the first tournament with the word "freaking" in its title.

Angry Babies in Love · Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:49 pm

Cool. And yeah, we were going to do "GHOST" but a tournament somewhere else had that and we didn't want to crimp their style.

salmon of wisdom · Post by **salmon of wisdom** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:26 pm

Whitman is definitely interested.

Bonito · Post by **Bonito** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:12 pm

Wurzel-Flummery wrote:Cool. And yeah, we were going to do "GHOST" but a tournament somewhere else had that and we didn't want to crimp their style.

We appreciate it :3

Angry Babies in Love · Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:16 pm

Bonito wrote:
Wurzel-Flummery wrote:Cool. And yeah, we were going to do "GHOST" but a tournament somewhere else had that and we didn't want to crimp their style.
We appreciate it :3

Wow I didn't even notice it was your tournament! I approve of your tournament acronym choice

sir negsalot · Post by **sir negsalot** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:11 pm

NOOOOOOOOO This conflicts with the Colbert rally on the mall

Tanay · Post by **Tanay** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:25 pm

sir negsalot wrote:NOOOOOOOOO This conflicts with the Colbert rally on the mall

And Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" as well.

Angry Babies in Love · Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:28 pm

NoWayItsTanay wrote:
sir negsalot wrote:NOOOOOOOOO This conflicts with the Colbert rally on the mall
And Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" as well.

That's unfortunate.

wexs883198215 · Post by **wexs883198215** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:38 pm

WJ is interested, likely with one team. Hopefully none of our team members will feel some silly need to spend tons of time grooming themselves before homecoming

Angry Babies in Love · Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:06 pm

wexs883198215 wrote:WJ is interested, likely with one team. Hopefully none of our team members will feel some silly need to spend tons of time grooming themselves before homecoming

They can pull a Samantha a la UMD Fall last year and change before their last game and play in a dress/suit.

QOHS · Post by **QOHS** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:04 am

Pretty much all my kids want to go to the rallies on the mall and I don't think we'll be able to put a team together for this! It's unfortunate because it's one of the few tournaments that's really close to us. This may seem like an absurd question...but since there are so few rallies-on-the-mall geared specifically towards smart people I'll go ahead and ask: Any chance this tournament gets rescheduled?

Angry Babies in Love · Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:27 pm

QOHS wrote:Pretty much all my kids want to go to the rallies on the mall and I don't think we'll be able to put a team together for this! It's unfortunate because it's one of the few tournaments that's really close to us. This may seem like an absurd question...but since there are so few rallies-on-the-mall geared specifically towards smart people I'll go ahead and ask: Any chance this tournament gets rescheduled?

I'm so terribly upset about missing the rallies as well, but I'm afraid reschudling would be kinda tough. If it turns out that this is a bigger problem than I expect it to be, then we may consider.

Angry Babies in Love · Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:10 pm

The tournament's a little over a month away, register soon!

Angry Babies in Love · Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:08 pm

Another bump, and a notice to local teams on the fence: This may be your only chance before nationals to play top 15 powerhouse Detroit Catholic Central! So register soon!

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:26 am

Sent an e-mail to register one team, one buzzer, and one moderator (myself).

I'd like to leave open the small possibility for a second team as well, but like for much of the year when we can't afford a bus, this is pretty unlikely.

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:47 am

Hey, since this is the first HSAPQ set of the year, isn't it set 15? I've heard that 16 will be available by Winter, and 17 will be like the VHSL-ish (formed from those packets) set that we used at Rider Bowl last year.

Angry Babies in Love · Thu Oct 07, 2010 5:27 pm

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Hey, since this is the first HSAPQ set of the year, isn't it set 15? I've heard that 16 will be available by Winter, and 17 will be like the VHSL-ish (formed from those packets) set that we used at Rider Bowl last year.

Hmmm good question. All the emails I have from Shawn say set 16 though, so I assume that's what we're getting.

sir negsalot · Post by **sir negsalot** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:28 pm

The tournament is under 3 weeks away! Keep signing up, spots are moving fast.

Bloodwych · Post by **Bloodwych** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:48 am

Quince Orchard will come to this, despite any shenanigans on the mall.

sir negsalot · Post by **sir negsalot** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:21 pm

Great!

sir negsalot · Post by **sir negsalot** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:24 pm

(That was a thinly veiled ThreadBump)

Angry Babies in Love · Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:47 pm

Registration will close at whatever time I go to sleep on Wednesday, October 27. So get those registrations in!

sir negsalot · Post by **sir negsalot** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:36 pm

Keep signing up! TJ, WJ, Im looking at you!

wexs883198215 · Post by **wexs883198215** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:10 pm

Oh, sorry, I thought our coach had already done it because he had already talked to me about going. I'll prod tomorrow.

sir negsalot · Post by **sir negsalot** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:24 pm

Thanks to Poolesville and Longfellow for signing up! Space is now very limited.

Lightinfa · Post by **Lightinfa** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:50 am

sir negsalot wrote:Thanks to Poolesville and Longfellow for signing up! Space is now very limited.

What is the field cap?

Angry Babies in Love · Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:51 pm

Right now we're going to freeze it at 24 unless we can get more readers. Sorry about the late notice, this team count kinda snuck up on us. We'll make an announcement in the coming days as to whether or not we will expand. For now, there will be a waiting list.

Angry Babies in Love · Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:33 pm

OK so the plan is to keep the team count at 24 unless our waitlist grows from its current state (0), in which case we will reassess our moderator situation.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:00 pm

I've received official word from my students that we'll be a two-man team. If circumstances arise which make it desireable to combine us with a similarly short-staffed team, feel free to do so.

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:07 pm

Any updates on anything?

How many rounds should we expect?

Post by **Kouign Amann** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:27 pm

St. Anselm's will be missing Jacob and Brendan (our third) for this tournament. I'll be there with some sophomores and a freshman. Expect us to put up around 3 points per history bonus.

Post by **Smuttynose Island** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:53 pm

Around what time do you expect the break for lunch to begin? I'm debating if it is worth leaving this during lunch to go to the rallies.

Angry Babies in Love · Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:32 pm

OK so a few things:
The cap is staying at 24. Calvert Hall registered today but will be put on the wait list
Number of rounds: With 24 I'm thinking like two sets of round robins amongst four groups of six teams so like 10 games, 11 including finals.
Lunch will probably be after 5 rounds, so roughly 11:30-12:00 assuming a timely start. Downtown DC is about a 40-minute Metro ride from Rockville station, give or take.

Angry Babies in Love · Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:54 pm

Ok another change (sorry)
We're expanding to 28 to include Calvert Hall, Marshall, TJ C, and Longfellow B

Angry Babies in Love · Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:17 pm

So registration is closed, the field is as it is.

If you want updates throughout the day, visit the RM Quizbowl twitter account!

Post by **Kouign Amann** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:37 pm

What format do you plan to run with 28 teams? 4 groups of 7 and then some sort of crossover tiers?

Edit: Checking my email reveals: "The 28 teams at the tournament will be divided into seven initial brackets of four teams each, playing a round robin within each bracket. After round three, the teams will be re-organized, with the top two teams from each of the initial brackets placed in two evenly-distributed top flight brackets, with the remaining four teams in two evenly-distributed consolation brackets. After round 10, there will be cross-bracket games to determine placement."

Angry Babies in Love · Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:47 pm

Prof.Whoopie wrote:What format do you plan to run with 28 teams? 4 groups of 7 and then some sort of crossover tiers?

Edit: Checking my email reveals: "The 28 teams at the tournament will be divided into seven initial brackets of four teams each, playing a round robin within each bracket. After round three, the teams will be re-organized, with the top two teams from each of the initial brackets placed in two evenly-distributed top flight brackets, with the remaining four teams in two evenly-distributed consolation brackets. After round 10, there will be cross-bracket games to determine placement."

Yeah that. Basically identical to that used at TJ's Fall Novice.

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:03 am

For the sake of full disclosure, we actually have our real A Team (at least, the best 4 people i can think of that deserve to go), or basically just adding Alexa to the team. So, expect us not to suck quite like we did at UMCP.

Angry Babies in Love · Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:29 pm

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:For the sake of full disclosure, we actually have our real A Team (at least, the best 4 people i can think of that deserve to go), or basically just adding Alexa to the team. So, expect us not to suck quite like we did at UMCP.

Thanks for letting us know.

A note: This tournament has been "deflowered", as C.H. Flowers has pulled out of the tournament. There will be a scab house team in its place .

theflyingdeutschman · Post by **theflyingdeutschman** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:26 pm

Stats are up. Congrats TJ for getting first place! http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

Angry Babies in Love · Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:38 pm

1st place: TJ A
2nd: St. Anselm's
3rd: DCC A
4th: WJ
5th: DCC B
6th: TJ B

Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who read!

Edit: A note about stats: Disregard all house team individual stats.

Post by **Smuttynose Island** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:33 pm

Who should I email about issues with the stats?

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:42 pm

This tournament did not suck. The questions were not perfect but they were easy enough to legitimately be called a "regular" set, with the usual outliers occasionally.

Sorry for the delay after lunch. I tried getting us back quickly but our Round 5 was soooo long that we just couldn't eat (or, get) lunch fast enough. I know we kinda caused a lot of problems in that consolation bracket for the rest of the day. I tried to make up for it by reading pretty quickly.

Also, our buzzers started doing funny things. Sorry to that Longfellow team and that Centennial team in particular who seemed to get the worst of them. We'll look into it.

Angry Babies in Love · Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:32 pm

waddle1 wrote:Who should I email about issues with the stats?

Me, [email protected]

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:42 am

Did Jonathan from TJ B really go 9-0-0 against Walter Johnson? That's pretty... unbelievable. I'm assuming TJ B didn't suddenly get 4.55ppb in that round too.

Mechanical Beasts · Post by **Mechanical Beasts** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:47 am

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Did Jonathan from TJ B really go 9-0-0 against Walter Johnson? That's pretty... unbelievable. I'm assuming TJ B didn't suddenly get 4.55ppb in that round too.

Not to mention a 25 tossup packet.

Post by **Smuttynose Island** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:55 am

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Did Jonathan from TJ B really go 9-0-0 against Walter Johnson? That's pretty... unbelievable. I'm assuming TJ B didn't suddenly get 4.55ppb in that round too.

No, he went 4-0-1 that round.

Angry Babies in Love · Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:21 pm

Yeah, I'm going to see tomorrow if I can access the stats it totally left my mind over the four-day weekend upon which the tournament happened. They *should* be on my coach's computer.