The William & Mary Quizbowl Club is pleased to announce the Inaugural Colonel Ebirt Memorial Tournament to be held on campus in Williamsburg, Virginia on March 3rd, 2007. This is an official, untimed 10-tossup half NAQT event using IS-66. It is open to all interested high school teams. Currently the field cap is 32 but I might be able to expand that if more teams are interested. With 32 teams, the top 5 would qualify for NAQT HSNCT and the top 4 would qualify for PACE NSC. There will be 7 preliminary matches (7 rounds guaranteed), hopefully these will be real-time Swiss-paired but I'm waiting on a usable, debugged program to emerge (though I'm confident one will be available by the time of the tournament). In case we can't do Swiss pairing we'll do brackets of 8 and round robin schedules within those brackets. The main playoffs will be a double elimination of 8 teams (selected by record then ppg) which will last 5-6 rounds. This is a round shorter than your usual double elimination of 8 because in round 4 we'll make the last winning bracket team play the lowest seeded losing bracket team, instead of giving two teams a bye round (which doesn't make a lot of sense when you have an even number of total teams remaining). We'll also have a consolation bracket for teams seeded 9-24 after the prelims. This will either be a single elimination bracket or we'll let the Swiss pairing run for two more games for these teams then do a final four. Here's the fee structure: $70 base fee per team -$5 per working buzzer system -$15 per moderator/scorekeeper -$10 per team registered early (February 15th or earlier) -$10 per team traveling from DC, MD, or NC (since I only have exclusivity for VA for IS-66). Also applies for VA teams traveling over 200 miles according to Mapquest. -$20 per team from beyond VA, MD, NC, or DC +$20 cancellation fee per team for teams cancelled in March (Thursday or Friday before the tournament)/that don't show up unless there's a good reason. +$20 for purchase of IS-66 (paper copy) by teams attending the tournament. Note I can only give one per school. +$25 for purchase of the questions by a non-attending school Minimum fee per team (not including question purchase/cancellation fees): $30 To register, send an email to mpmorr_at_wm.edu (my address), and tell me which of the discounts apply (in terms of travel/# of buzzers/# of helpers), how many teams you'll be sending, your name, your school's name, and whether you'll buy a copy of the questions. You can direct any questions you have about the tournament/William & Mary to me through this address as well, or you can also direct questions to our Assistant Tournament Director, Mohammad Torabinejad at mxtora_at_... . As a note on where we derived the tournament name, Colonel Ebirt was the mascot for Tribe Sports until this year, when he was axed (possibly in an attempt to appease the NCAA in a sort of compromise over the feathers/Tribe logo thing). His name is simply "Tribe" spelled backwards. He was some sort of crossbreed of a frog and a colonial guy, didn't make a lot of sense but everyone in the Tribe community loved him. This tournament pays homage to our lost friend who filled the void that now exists without a mascot, a void that will soon also include the nonexistence of a logo (hence my feather avatar), though we get to keep the Tribe name. Anyway, if you want a copy of the full invitation, please email me, if I haven't already emailed you. Also, a longer (but not the full) version of the invitation can be found at www.geocities.com/wmquizbowl/tournaments , where field updates will likely also be posted. We hope to see you on our wonderful campus in March! Sincerely, Matt Morrison Tournament Director and William & Mary Quizbowl Club Co-President
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