Geneva (NY) Invitational - Geneva High School, Geneva, NY (12/2/23) [NAQT IS-225A]

[vklehman]

The Geneva High Quizbowl Team would like to invite you to compete at the Geneva Invitational Tournament, to be held in person at Geneva High School on Saturday, December 2, 2023.

Registration for the teams participating in the tournament will commence at 7:45 am, with a staff and player meeting at 8:30 am. We plan to start the first round of play no later than 9:00 am.

We will be using NAQT IS-225A, for this event. We hope that any active Upstate NY teams (or anyone else for that matter), including MasterMinds, will consider competing in this tournament, as the question set is the same difficulty as MasterMinds, and is the only IA set they do not use.

REGISTRATION:
Registration for this tournament will be handled through the tournament registration page on the NAQT website, found at: https://www.naqt.com/registration/regis ... &type=TEAM

You will need to log into the NAQT site to register; if you do not already have an account, you can quickly create one on that site. Please fill out the registration form, although your rosters do not need to be finalized until the day of the tournament.

Registration will close at the end of the day on WEDNESDAY, November 30 ,2023. If you are having difficulty navigating the NAQT website, please contact me directly at [email protected].

FEE STRUCTURE:
The base price is $85 for the first team and $75 for each additional team. WEa re offering the following discounts:
-$5 per functional buzzer system, capable of supporting 4 players per side
-$10 per staffer provided by the school
-$10 per 150 miles traveled to Geneva High School (one way)
-$10 for any new school/program that has never played at a Geneva Invitational. Each team from a school is eligible for the discount

NB: Minimum fee per team is $50. Payment is NOT required at the time of registration. Cash, check or Venmo available. Payment will be due upon arrival at GHS on the 2nd, but feel free to mail checks ahead of time to:

GHS Quizbowl Team
℅ Victoria Lehman
101 Carter Road
Geneva, NY 14456

LUNCH:
Geneva is well known for providing an onsite lunch: tasty, filling, and reasonably priced, with Vegan options available. We will have further information re the menu the week of. We recommend staying at the school for lunch or bringing your own. You may leave for lunch but be aware that the tournament will restart promptly at the announced restart time and will start reading packets to whomever is in place at the time.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT:
Games will consist of 20 tossup/bonus pairs, read in untimed matches. During play, we will use ACF five-second timing rules (five seconds to buzz in after tossup completion, five seconds to start answer to tossup after buzz, five seconds to start answer to bonus after bonus completion). The exact bracketing format used will depend on the final number of registered teams, but we expect to run a quasi-seeded round robin format in the morning, followed by a rebracketing and another round robin after lunch, with a single final match to determine tournament champion if needed.

We hope to see as many of you as possible on December 2, for another fun-filled day of quizbowl competition!

Victoria Lehman
GHS Quizbowl Coach
Geneva, NY

CURRENT FIELD (number of teams/buzzers/staffers)
Bishop Ludden (2/0/0)
Ithaca (2/0/0)