The Quizbowl Resource Center

The Georgia Quizbowl Players Association will be holding its first tournament at Alpharetta High School on May 14th, 2011.

Format: This will depend on the exact number of teams but we will use some form of rebracketed playoffs.

Questions: This tournament will be using Yale's BHSAT. Rounds will be 20 tossups with 20 three part bonus.

Cost: $70 per team
-$10 per subsequent team
-$5 per buzzer system

All proceeds from this tournament are going to the Georgia All-star team to compete at the National All-Star Academic Tournament

If interested please email me at [email protected]

This Tournament will now be a mirror of Yale's BHSAT.

Field update?

As of May 4th:

Chamblee x2
Roswell
Centennial
Alpharetta
Norcross
Hooch A

With only a few days to go before the tournament, I wanted to give you a few important details that will help everything run smoothly on Saturday.

Registration: Registration will be from 8:15 to 8:45. Please be on time. I'm hoping to get the rounds started by 9 am. If you are running late for some reason, please call me at 678-836-6246.

Lunch: We will not be serving lunch at this tournament. We will provide teams with a map of restaurants that are close, and we will be sure to give a reasonable amount of time for lunch.

Format: We will be running a round robin with an ACF style final

See you Saturday!

The final field stands at 10 teams:

Alpharetta
Centennial A
Centennial B
Chamblee A
Chamblee B
Hooch
Norcross
Roswell
South Forsyth
Walton

Lunch is finished and Round 6 has started

Alpharetta and Walton are undefeated

Chattahoochee has 1 loss (to Alpharetta)

Centennial has 1 loss (to Chattahoochee)

SQBS stats will be posted after the tournaments conclusion

Alpharetta won this tournament by beating Chattahoochee in the second game of an advantage final, after losing the first

1st- Alpharetta
2nd- Chattahoochee
3rd- Centennial (losses to Alpharetta and Chattahoochee)
4th- Walton (losses to Alpharetta, Chattahoochee, and Centennial)

Individuals:

1- William Horton (Alpharetta)
2- Adam Silverman (Centennial)
3- Abubakar Abid (Walton)
4- Rishi Rachavelpula (Chattahoochee)
5- Mostafa Bhuiyan (Norcross)

More detailed stats will be posted later this week.

Stats

http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

I would like to again thank Yale for letting us use BHSAT, a set which got good reviews from across the board

I would also like to thank Mr. Edelstein for stepping in as a reader when we needed one.

Overall I thought this tournament went very well despite the relatively low attendance. I was extremely impressed with Chattahoochee's performance seeing as they were missing their captain Sidd. I also watched the Centennial - Alpharetta game, which was one of the most exciting games I have ever watched.

This tournament is seeking PACE certification

We might have gotten some bonuses against Chattahoochee, but that's just speculation. Our final score could have been 170, I guess.

Sorry about that. You scored 110 points on the bonuses, but for some reason that wasn't added into the final score on the scoresheet. I'll get Ananth to fix that and repost the stats.

This was a really enjoyable tournament to play. I thought that the BHSAT set did a really good job at being accessible to all teams (nobody scored below 10 ppb) while still having good lead-ins and third parts that differentiated among top teams. It was great to have one more chance to compete with the top Georgia teams before nationals, and, from the looks of it, a few Georgia teams have the ability to do very well at HSNCT and NSC. I bet Walton moves up in the rankings on the strength of its 24.51 ppb, but I'm not sure Chattahoochee will, unfortunately, despite wins over Centennial, Walton, and us.