WUHSAC XVI February 15, 2014, St. Louis, MO

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

The Washington University Academic Team is excited to announce the sixteenth annual WUHSAC, to be held at Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, February 15th, 2014.

I'm Sean Phillips, and I'll serve as tournament director for this year's tournament. The set is once again a mirror of Yale's BHSAT event. We are looking forward to a tournament that will (hopefully knock on wood) run more smoothly than ever.

To sign your team up for WUHSAC XVI, please e-mail me at [email protected]. For those of you who have my hotmail address please do NOT use that. It is in the interest of a smooth registration that I have everything centrally located and timestamped and therefore would greatly appreciate if in lieu of responses here being accepted as registrations, you simply email this gmail account with a note in the memo line. Teams will be signed up on a first-come, first-served basis. The field will be updated in this thread as registrations are received. If the field fills up before you can sign up, please allow us to waitlist you as well; in such a large field there is an appreciable chance that one or more teams will cancel.

WUHSAC's general rules will be similar to last year's:

Rules
•20 tossups and bonuses per game
•no computational math
•no negs
•no powers
•bouncebacks on bonuses

Format
•Up to a 36-team field
•Bracketed round robin prelims
•Re-bracketed round robin playoffs
•four-team superplayoffs and final if needed

Fees for the tournament will be as follows:
•$10 per school plus $65 per team
•-$5 per fully functional (eight-player) buzzer, up to $15 off per school
•-$15 per experienced staff volunteer

This year, I'd like to ask everyone interested in staffing the tournament to let me know well in advance of the tournament, by e-mailing me at [email protected] or replying here. This will include both those volunteering on behalf of a school and others. Keeping track of staff for a tournament of this size will be almost as big a deal as keeping track of the field in preparation for the event. Thank you very much for your help!

As in previous years, we expect that some number of top-finishing teams at WUHSAC XVI will be invited to this year's PACE National Scholastics Championship, also to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, part of the Washington, DC, metro area, on May 24-25, 2014. WUHSAC will provide a useful opportunity for teams and staffers to visit and become familiar the NSC format before NSC. A link to the 2014 NSC can be found here: http://www.pace-nsc.org/?p=2812

If you have any further questions, please e-mail me or reply here. We look forward to seeing you at WUHSAC XVI!

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

I love it. I send out an email and made these posts and in two hours I had so many responses my phone crashed. You guys rock!

Field (36/36)
Helias (3)
Webster Groves (2)
Eureka (1)
Parkway West (1)
Hallsville (1)
Mehlville (1)
Tuscumbia (1)
Marquette (2)
Chattahoochee (GA) (1)
Savannah (1)
Ransom Everglades (FL) (3)
Northmont (OH) (1)
Orchard Farm (1)
Ladue (2)
Oakville (1)
Parkway Central (1)
Clayton (2)
Pilot Grove (1)
Seton Hall Prep (NJ) (1)
Hickman (2)
CBC (1)
Hannibal (1)
Parkway South (2)
Priory (1)
Centralia (1)
Saint Louis University High (1)

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Multiple edits since the initial field announcement, but now including last year's third place team, Chattahoochee (GA)!

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

More additions to the field including out of staters Ransom Everglades and Northmont.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

With the addition of Ladue, we are now 3/4 full!

[SHP Pirate]

Seton Hall Prep (West Orange, NJ) would like to register 1/0/0. (One student will be playing solo.)

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

We are now full! Any teams still wishing to register will be wait listed and added in order of when they sign up.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Edited the field when I realized I forgot to add a team. Apologies to Pilot Grove.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Teams are being added to the wait list and are listed in order of registration.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Update:

WUHSAC XVI will have registration take place in Louderman Hall on Saturday February 15th, beginning at 8 am with rounds to start at 9. Louderman is building 65 on this map:

http://www.wustl.edu/community/visitors ... rthmap.pdf

I ask that coaches come to register in Louderman 461 while students an assistants take seats in Louderman 458 (the auditorium). An email to all coaches with more information will be sent later this week.

Looking forward to it!

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

WUHSAC XVI is now PACE certified platinum, meaning the top 25% of the field will receive bids to PACE NSC! We have had some openings, so please let me know if you are interested!

P.S. We are still waiting to hear back from MSHSAA. They have all the forms, but just need to hear back from other states equivalent body.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

With the two recent additions we are once again full!

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Tournament is now sanctioned by MSHSAA!

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Prelim Stats:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

Prelims and Playoffs
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _playoffs/

All Rounds:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _combined/

[Grace]

We hope you enjoyed the BHSAT set, and we welcome your comments. If you are interested in providing your thoughts about specific questions or about the set as a whole, please join our discussion subforum by going to the Control Panel, selecting Usergroups, finding "BHSAT 2014 discussion," and hitting "Join selected". Those who don't have an account and/or don't want to post there should feel free to email [email protected] if they have any questions, comments, concerns, or errors to note -- we certainly plan to revise and improve the set so it goes more smoothly at future sites, so we welcome and encourage any/all commentary towards that purpose.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Also yes I am aware the bounce back stats are screwed up and they will be fixed.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

For clarity: Ladue beat Northmont in the first game of an advantaged final 500-250. Hallsville finished third, Ransom Everglades 4th.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to my crack staff yesterday: Richard Yu. Jeff Hill, Charles Hang, Sam Haynes, Jacob O'Rouke, Charlie Beard, Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Avery Wagner, Seth Ebner, Kent Buxton. Isaac Baumann, Ammar Zahid, Kefu Lu, Nick Bergeon, Tirth Patel, Vinnay Penna, Norman Luc, Brandon Daake, Christina Whelehon, and three very special alums of the program Greg Lyon, Patrick Mooney and Steve Frappier. This wouldn't have worked as well without you and if I forgot anyone I apologize.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

The Overall Stats should be corrected with Superplayoffs listed in a sensible order.