The Quiz Bowl Club at Dougherty Valley High School are pleased to announce that we will be holding the first annual Wildcats Classic Tournament at our campus. We plan to host the tournament on Saturday February 7, 2015. For the tournament, registration will start at 8:30AM, the event will start at about 9:00AM, lunch break will start around noon, and we hope to finish around 5:00PM.
We hope to attract many teams from across the state and elsewhere. We will guarantee teams a high number of games (9 or more) at the tournament and ensure that teams are able to play others of the same skill level after preliminary placement rounds.
The top teams in the varsity division at the tournament will qualify for the 2015 PACE National Scholastics Championship (NSC; http://www.pace-nsc.org/nsc-2015/), which will be held June 6-7 at the Reston Hyatt in Reston, Virginia. Our tournament is certified Platinum by PACE and the top 25% of the varsity field will qualify for the PACE NSC. The top 15% of the combined field will qualify for the 2015 High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT;https://www.naqt.com/hsnct/2015/details.html), held May 29-31 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare hotel in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago). Teams that do well in the JV division are encouraged to apply for wildcards to HSNCT, as many teams in the past have qualified in this way. We will use NAQT IS-144 for Varsity and for JV.
Registration
We will split the field into junior varsity and varsity divisions and evaluate each separately. There will be book prizes and gift cards for the highest-performing teams and individual scorers at each division. Additionally, we will award the best varsity team with a trophy, and the best JV team with a certificate. This will be one of the few national qualification opportunities available in Northern California this year!
Entry Fees
Base fee per team (paying by cash or check): $80
Second and subsequent teams from a school: $70
If your school participated at zero pyramidal Quiz Bowl tournaments this year and last year (i.e. new team discount): -$20
Buzzer discount: -$10 (We will test buzzers and NOT accept them if they do not have four fully functioning units on each “side,” so do not try to claim discounts on buzzers that are not in full working order. Also, PLEASE LABEL your buzzers with your school/team name so that you can promptly pick them up at the tournament’s conclusion. Lastly, we will no longer accept buzzers that require a laptop to operate unless we really need them.)
Staff discount: -$30 for experienced ADULT (21 and older) , competent moderator
-$20 per for ADULT (21 and older) scorekeeper
(please let them fill in some paperwork located below)
Travel discount: -$20 per 75 miles one-way (determined by Google Maps)
Minimum entry fee: $20 per team
*Buzzers and staff discounts apply on an as-needed, first-come, first-serve basis. When registering, please detail how many staff and/or buzzers you may be able to bring. As the tournament approaches, we will let you know whether they are needed or not.
Please take time to have your staffers fill the form on this page: https://www.beamentor.org/linkpages/men … efault.asp (Level 1 clearance is enough). Note that the process might take up to 3 weeks to complete.
If we do not have the approval of your staffer before January 31st, we will not be able to offer you a staffer discount.
We are setting a field cap of 34 teams (overall, not per division). Schools may register multiple teams–there is no limit. We might be able to expand if there is enough interest, but until that point, we will accept teams on a first-come, first-serve basis. Fields fill fast, so sign up soon to reserve your slot!
To register for Wildcats Classic, please fill out this Google Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yjV0t5 … 0/viewform
The registration deadline for Wildcats Classic is Sunday, February 1. Please bring the cash or check payable to Dougherty Valley High School Quiz Bowl.
Gameplay
We will enforce all the gameplay rules as they are written in Sections D-H of the official rules of the Academic Competition Federation (http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/official-acf-rules/), so all players must fully familiarize themselves with these rules before playing these tournaments. If you are having trouble remembering the rules, we recommend you print out a copy and refresh your memory immediately prior to the tournament. Pay special attention to timing, pronunciation, and protest guidelines, as players often lose out on points by not knowing these. You can find out more about what Quiz Bowl is here: (https://www.norcalquizbowl.org/?page_id=18) and you can find more Quiz Bowl-pertinent resources here (https://www.norcalquizbowl.org/?page_id=51).
Thank you for your interest, and please spread the word to other high schools that are interested in Quiz Bowl or are heavily involved in other academic events like Speech and Debate, DECA, or Science Bowl.
Lunches
There will be a wrestling tournament the same day of our tournament. The tournament will have a snack bar. Those attending the tournament can buy food there.
Parking
There will be free parking spaces for the participants and their families.
Contact Information
Please contact us at dvhsquizbowl@gmail.com with any questions that you have.
