Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005

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Bulldogs over Broadway at Yale--Oct. 29, 2005

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Hey everybody,

This is to let you know that Yale is hosting its annual college
tournament, Bulldogs Over Broadway (BOB), on Saturday, October 29,
2005 in scenic New Haven, CT. Due to schedule conflicts, it's going
to be a little earlier than our traditional first weekend of December
date.

Fees:
Base fee $100
Working Buzzer discount -$10 (limit 2 discounts)
Minimum fee (with packet discounts listed below) $60

BOB is a packet-submission tournament, and here are the requirements.

Send me a packet of: 25 tossups/25 bonuses (aim for around ACF
regionals difficulty or maybe a little easier)

Also, I'm going to try to get last year's BOB questions posted on the
Stanford archive within the next week or so.

Packet specifics:

4/4 History
4/4 Literature
4/4 Science
2/2 of any of the above three (no more than 1/1 of each discipline)
3/3 Fine Arts (music, painting, architecture, etc.)
3/3 Religion/Myth/Philosophy
2/2 Social Science
1/1 Geography/Current Events
2/2 Miscellaneous (General Knowledge, Multi-disciplinary, Trash, or
more from previous categories)

Packet discounts/deadlines:
Fri. September 30 -$25
Fri. October 7 -$15
Sat. Oct. 15 No penalty
Fri. Oct. 21 +$20
After that $+40

**Best packet discount (as determined by me) -$15

Email me about arrangements for novice teams, multiple teams from the
same school, packet questions, etc.

michael . wehrman @ yale . edu

Thanks,
Mike Wehrman, Yale
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Post by MikeWormdog »

hey,

thought I'd give an update to move this thread higher up the list. I sent the packets from last year's tournament to the folks at Stanford, so they should be up on the archive soon.

As for this year, so far I've heard from (these are mainly probables, nothing confirmed--so don't freak out if you should/shouldn't be on the list):

Brandeis 1
Brown 1
Columbia 1?
Rochester 4!
Rutgers 1
Rutgers-Newark 1?
New School 1
probably a Yale house team

this'll be rounded out with other usual suspects most likely...Harvard, etc.

anyway, let me know if you want to come up to Yale on the 29th--the more the merrier.

Later,
Mike
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Post by MikeWormdog »

ok, I'll get info out to the teams as soon as it's available...I'm not sure where on campus the tournament will be held yet, but here's a team list as of now:

Columbia 2 (maybe 3)
New School 1
Penn 1
Rutgers 1
Rutgers-Newark 1
Rochester 4
Yale House 1
Brandeis 1 maybe
Brown 1 maybe


Most of the packets have gotten to me by now...thanks for sending them. It's looking to be a good tournament.

Mike
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Post by MikeWormdog »

Ok, the tournament will take place in the centrally located Willliam L Harkness Hall (WLH), which is on the corner of Wall and College streets.

We will convene in WLH 208 at 9 and hopefully start rounds by 9:30.

Parking is located a block away in a lot on Temple Street.

For a map, go here: http://www.yale.edu/campusmap/central_old.html

You can find more general directions here: http://www.yale.edu/campusmap/

See everyone on Saturday.

Mike
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Brief results:

Rutgers-Newark and New School (Nathan and Andy) both went 9-1 during the round-robin. Rutgers-Newark then beat New School to win the championship.

The top scorer was Jason from Rutgers.

Full results will be posted in a finite amount of time.

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Post by ezubaric »

NatusRoma wrote:Full results will be posted in a finite amount of time.
What about results from last year? I'd much rather have results in a finite and bounded amount of time. :grin:

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Post by MikeWormdog »

ok, don't discuss the question specifics because these are going to be used in mirrors at Tulsa (this saturday) and Georgia sometime in January. if you'd like to post your general feelings on the questions (which i think turned out pretty decent) go ahead.

Hope everyone enjoyed the tournament....the stats should be out soon because they were kept on computer this year.

Mike
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Post by Nathan »

btw....kudos to Mike on the editing...(and to the packet writers)...this was a well-run tournament and extremely well-edited....the vast majority of the tossups were pyramidal and the bonuses were edited to a consistent degree of difficulty.
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ezubaric wrote:
NatusRoma wrote:Full results will be posted in a finite amount of time.
What about results from last year? I'd much rather have results in a finite and bounded amount of time. :grin:

-Jordan
Fortunately, the series has finally converged. Apologies for the delay; we'll try to approach the limit more quickly next time.

Results excluding championship match:

Teams:

Team Name Wins Losses Byes Total Score Avg Score
Rutgers - Newark 9 1 1 1915 191.5
New School 9 1 1 1800 180
Rutgers 8 2 1 2225 222.5
Columbia A 7 3 1 1940 194
Rochester A 6 4 1 1615 161.5
Penn 5 5 1 1600 160
Columbia B 4 6 1 1210 121
Columbia C 3 7 1 1070 107
Rochester B 2 8 1 795 79.5
Rochester D 2 8 1 410 41
Rochester C 0 10 1 275 27.5

Individuals:

Player Name Team Avg. Pts Pwr Tos Avg. Neg T/N Ratio
Jason Rutgers 79 0 8.2 0.6 13.67
Gordon Rochester A 50.5 0 5.6 1.1 5.091
Nathan New School 49 0 6.8 3.8 1.79
Mike Rutgers - Newark 46 0 5.1 1 5.1
Beryl Columbia B 37.5 0 3.9 0.3 13
Isaac Columbia C 31 0 3.6 1 3.6
Shah Rutgers - Newark 29 0 3.4 1 3.4
Adam Penn 28.5 0 3.3 0.9 3.67
Jared Columbia A 24.5 0 2.8 0.7 4
Tim Columbia A 24 0 2.5 0.2 12.5
Harrison Columbia C 21 0 2.4 0.6 4
Alexandra Penn 18 0 1.9 0.2 9.5
Jeff Rochester B 17 0 1.8 0.2 9
Zak Rochester B 16.5 0 1.7 0.1 17
Nick Columbia A 15.5 0 1.7 0.3 5.67
Lily Columbia A 15 0 1.9 0.8 2.375
Andy New School 12 0 1.7 1 1.7
Dan Rochester D 11 0 1.2 0.2 6
Grace Columbia B 10.5 0 1.1 0.1 11
Evan Penn 10 0 1.3 0.6 2.167
Mike Rochester C 9.5 0 1.1 0.3 3.67
Andrew Rochester A 8.5 0 0.9 0.1 9
Eric Rochester A 8 0 0.9 0.2 4.5
Richard Rutgers - Newark 8 0 1 0.4 2.5
Margot Rochester D 7.5 0 0.8 0.1 8
Jon M. Rochester D 6.5 0 0.7 0.1 7
Nimrod Rutgers 5.5 0 0.6 0.1 6
Jessica Columbia B 5.5 0 0.7 0.3 2.33
Max Rochester B 5.5 0 0.8 0.5 1.6
Nick Penn 5.5 0 0.9 0.7 1.29
Greg Rochester B 4 0 0.5 0.2 2.5
Jamie Rochester C 4 0 0.4 0 0
Adam Columbia B 4 0 0.4 0 0
Jason Rochester A 2 0 0.3 0.2 1.5
Colleen Rochester C 2 0 0.3 0.2 1.5
Jon W. Rochester D 2 0 0.2 0 0
Chris Rutgers 1.5 0 0.2 0.1 2
Joyce Rochester C 1 0 0.1 0 0
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