Academic Competition Newsletter Volume VII, issue 5 17 January 2001 Welcome to the January edition of the ACN. The objective of the ACN is to provide new and established QB programs with information of all aspects on the sport of Quiz-bowl. The newsletter will endeavor to report fully on all QB events for teams West of the Mississippi or of interest to those teams, continuing the earlier policy to extend coverage towards the Midwest. Subscriptions are free and can be made for individuals or club mailing lists. Simply drop a note to the editors Gaius Stern or Eric Owens with the word "subscribe ACN" in the subject header. Likewise, to drop a subscription simply write the editors. This Month: Results summary Announcements Wisconsin Elvis Stanford Cardinal Classic Washington-St Louis Gateway NAQT SCTs Carleton Undergraduate Tournament New site for Tournament List Calendar --------- RESULTS SUMMARY With the absence of a December issue, we are now some two months behind on tournament results. With that in mind, we thought you might prefer a brief summary of recent tournament results rather than recaps of tournaments that are by now somewhat dated. 11/11 NAQT IFT-Midwest (Wisconsin) Champion: Chicago Expresso (Div I), Chicago Lolitas (Div II) Runner-up: Illinois (I), Northwestern C (II) 11/11 CBCT (UC Irvine) Champion: Harvey Mudd A Runner-up: Harvey Mudd B 11/18 NAQT IFT-South (Texas A&M) Champion: Oklahoma A (I), Oklahoma C (II) Runner-up: Texas A&M 11/18 NAQT IFT-West (Stanford) Champion: Berkeley A (I), Berkeley C (II) Runner-up: Cal Tech A (I), Cal Tech C (II) 12/2 DePauw "With a W" Champion: Iowa Runner-up: Kentucky A ------------ WISCONSIN TO HOST ELVIS The University of Wisconsin College Bowl Group is pleased to announce the 14th annual Elvis Aaron Presley Memorial Academic Quiz Tournament that will be held at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on the weekend of Feb. 2-3, 2000. As customary with the Elvis, it will be running round robin (or modified round robin, depending on the number of teams) with some sort of single elimination playoff for the top few teams. Send all registration requests to the co-tournament director, Steve Watchorn, at . CARDINAL CLASSIC XI Stanford University College Bowl Club is proud to present the eleventh annual Cardinal Classic, the premiere timed "invitational" tournament on the West Coast. Last year's field included 3 of the top 6 schools from NAQT ICT and Stanford hopes have a similarly strong field this year. The tournament is scheduled for February 2-3, 2001. This is a timed tournament will games consisting of two 9-minute halves. The format of the tournament itself will be officially determined when the number of teams participating is finalized, but fear not--no team will be lacking for games to play. This is a packet-submission tournament. For more information, contact Prasun Ray, at prasun@stanford.edu. GATEWAY INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT VII The Washington University Academic Team is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the GATEWAY INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT VII on Saturday, February 3rd, 2001 on the lovely campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The GIT will be a timed NAQT-style tournament with questions purchased from NAQT. Rounds will consist of two 9-minute halves. There is currently a cap at 24 teams for the GIT. Wash U is aiming to have two 12-team brackets with play-offs following. All collegiate teams are welcome to participate in the GIT. NAQT rules of eligibility apply for this tournament. If you're interested in attending GIT VII, please contact Cheryl Barkauskas at . NAQT SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP HOSTS National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is pleased to announce that the 2000-2001 Sectional Championship Tournaments will be held at the following locations: DePauw DePauw U. dpucollegebowl@yahoo.com Iowa Jon Stewart stew1@arthur.avalon.net Southern California Tim Woodward twoodwar@usc.edu Washington Jason Brown geekbowl@u.washington.edu Wichita State Eric Owens etowens@feist.com All of the Sectional Championship Tournaments will be held on the of February 10-11, 2001. Some of these tournaments will be Saturday only, others will be Friday and Saturday. As in previous years, three titles will be awarded: Division I Champion Division I Undergraduate Champion Division II Champion [Division II will compete separately in most regions] Schools should contact hosts directly to register for these tournaments. Several of these schools are also hosting trash tournaments along with the SCT; ask the school in your region for details. UC RIVERSIDE TOURNAMENT UC Riverside will host a high school / college JV tournament with the support of UCI College Bowl Club. The date of the tournament is tentatively set for Saturday, February 17, 2001. That day that was picked coincides with CBI Regionals in an effort to minimize scheduling conflicts. Please contact the UCR College Bowl Club for more information at collegebowl@usa.net CARLETON UNDERGRADUATE TOURNAMENT The Carleton College Academic Quiz Team announces that it will host CUT 3, the third annual Carleton Undergraduate Tournament, on Saturday March 3. This will be an undergraduate-only tournament with questions supplied by National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). These are questions billed as being best suited for collegiate play by novice teams, rather than by full-squads of experienced quiz circuit regulars. But this tournament will welcome both novice teams and more experienced undergraduate players--with a twist. In order to try to match team strength to the question level, eligibility for this tournament as follows: Any school which did not earn an invitation to the NAQT ICT Division I field in 2000 will be welcome to enter traditional four-person teams. Any school which did earn an invitation to the NAQT ICT Division I field in 2000 may enter teams as follows: Teams of up to four players who are all first-year "novice" players. (That is, undergrads whose first intercollegiate academic quiz competition as part of a college team came during the current 2000/01 season.) OR Teams of up to two players who need not be novices, but who are undergraduates who have never themselves been credited with answering an average of 2.5 tossups per game played or better in any past NAQT ICT (1997-2000) in Division I. OR Solo undergraduate players who have themselves answered an average of 2.5 tossups per game played or better in any past NAQT ICT in Division I. To register teams or ask questions, contact Eric Hillemann at ehillema@carleton.edu. TOURNAMENT LIST CHANGES HOSTS Jason Paik of the Washington University Academic Team has recently been handed the reins of the tournament list from Hayden Hurst, who has kindly maintained the page for the community for almost two years. The page has now moved to the Wash U. server, and is now banner free. The new URL is: http://www.rescomp.wustl.edu/~collbowl/tourlist.html ==================== CALENDAR 1/20 Minnesota Junior Bird David Levinson levin031@tc.umn.edu ACF Regionals-West (Scripps) Nancy Williams bristlesage@yahoo.com ACF Regionals-South (Texas) Eric Smith quizbowl@uts.cc.utexas.edu ACF Regionals-Midwest (Chicago) Mike Altman mbaltman@midway.uchicago.edu 1/27 UCSB Led Bowl Mark Brinkman mbrink00@umail.ucsb.edu 2/3 Wisconsin Elvis Steve Watchorn watchorn@physics.wisc.edu Stanford Cardinal Classic Prasun Ray prasun@stanford.edu. Washington-St Louis Gateway Cheryl Barkauskas cab3@cec.wustl.edu 2/10 NAQT-DePauw DePauw U. dpucollegebowl@yahoo.com NAQT-Iowa Jon Stewart stew1@arthur.avalon.net NAQT-Southern California Tim Woodward twoodwar@usc.edu NAQT-Washington Jason Brown geekbowl@u.washington.edu NAQT-Wichita State Eric Owens etowens@feist.com 2/17 College Bowl Regionals Various Sites www.collegebowl.com UC Riverside JV Tournament UC Riverside collegebowl@usa.net 3/3 Carleton Undergraduate Tournament Eric Hillemann ehillema@carleton.edu ==================== Until February, Eric & Gaius