Cross-posting on behalf of Jonchee Kao from Bellarmine:

Bellarmine’s Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that the homesite tournament of our first housewrite set, BELLum Omnium Contra Omnes (BELLOCO), will be held on February 22, 2014 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California.

The initial field cap will be 24 teams, with possible expansion, dependent on the number of staffers and buzzers we have available. Teams are restricted to six players each; please break up any larger teams into two or more teams. There is no limit to the number of teams that can come from any single school.

The tentative tournament structure will be 6-team preliminary brackets with 5 games of round robin preliminary play followed by a rebracketing into playoff rounds, the structure of which will be determined by the number of teams who register for this event. We anticipate that rounds will go from 9:00 until approximately 5:30, followed by an awards ceremony. The exact round timings and other logistical information will be emailed to registered teams before the tournament. Please do not plan to leave early without telling us beforehand.

Eligibility
All teams of high schoolers from the same school are eligible to play in this event.

Fees

• base fee: $80 per team
• –$10 for second or subsequent team from the same school
• –$10 per working buzzer (please do not bring buzzers that are not in good working condition)
• –$5 per inexperienced staffer
• –$15 per experienced moderator
• –$10 per 75 miles driving, one way, rounded down
• The minimum fee after all discounts have been added is $0. Payment will be taken at check-in the morning of the tournament.

To register: please email Jonchee Kao (jonchee.kao15@bcp.org) by Thursday, February 20, 2014, indicating how many teams, buzzers and staffers that your school will bring as well as the contact person (and cell phone number) for your team. Please also include the names of the members of each team to make onsite check-in easier.
Any volunteers not affiliated with a registered team are warmly welcome and should contact me as well.
Registered teams will be provided with more detailed information before the tournament. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. We hope to see your team there!

The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and Berkeley Quiz Bowl are pleased to announce that Berkeley will host the 2014 NAQT Northern California State Championship on Saturday, March 15, 2014.

Location: This tournament will take place at UC Berkeley. Details of which classroom building(s) will be posted closer to the date of the tournament.

Questions: We will be using NAQT Invitational Series IS #136. No computational math will be read.

The top 15% of teams will qualify for the 2014 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament, to be held May 31-June 1 near Chicago. In addition, the highest-finishing team that has not yet qualified for the HSNCT will qualify at this tournament (whether or not that team places in the top 15% of the state championship field).

Eligibility: All high schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event.

Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that players must play for the same team throughout the tournament.

Fees:

Base fee: $80 per team

$10 discount: second or subsequent team from the same school

$10 discount per working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)

$20 discount per experienced moderator

$10 discount per scorekeeper (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for those volunteers who have never kept score before.)

$30 discount: new to quizbowl (played no pyramidal tournaments before October 1, 2013)

$20 discount: teams that travel 60 or more miles one-way (distance measured from your high school to UC Berkeley by Google Maps)

Payment will be taken at check-in on March 15th. Please make checks out to “Tanay Kothari.”

How to register: please contact the tournament director, Jeff Hoppes (jeff.hoppes@gmail.com), on or before Monday, March 10th, indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staff your school plans to bring.

The UC Berkeley Quiz Bowl Club is a student group acting independently of the University of California. The student organization is the host of the 2014 NAQT Northern California State Championship and takes full responsibility for the guests.