Rice Parking & Meeting Info
Registration will open at 8 a.m. We will have a brief meeting at 8:45 and start our first matches around 9:15 a.m. Registration and the first meeting will be held in Sewall 301 (first floor room). Teams may park in either Greenbriar Lot ($1 a day) near Rice Stadium or in the Founder’s Court Vistor’s Lot ($11 a day). The Founder’s lot is significantly closer (0.75 miles vs. 0.10 miles). A map of Rice is available here.
Registered Teams (35):
- Awty (3) Confirmed
- Bellaire (2) Confirmed
- Belton (2)Confirmed
- Cinco Ranch (2) Confirmed
- Cistercian (2) Confirmed
- Episcopal Confirmed
- George Ranch (1)
- Harmony Austin (2) Confirmed
- Harmony Beaumont Confirmed
- Harmony Houston Confirmed
- Kinkaid (2) Confirmed
- LASA (4)
- St. Stephens Confirmed
- St. John’s (2) Confirmed
- St. Mark’s Confirmed
- Seven Lakes (2) Confirmed
- Village (2) Confirmed
- Westside (2) Confirmed
- Yes (2)
Logistics
Texas Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce that we will host our first event for 2012, the Winter Rodeo on January 14, 2012 at Rice University in Houston. This tournament is open to all Texas high school students. This tournament will consist of a single varsity division.
Quiz Bowl is a academics-based game in which two teams of four students compete to answer questions about math, science, history, literature, religion, and arts. Students buzz in to answer tossup questions and correct tossup responses are rewarded with an opportunity to answer 3 bonus questions that cannot be stolen by the opposing team. The team with the most points after 20 tossup-bonus pairs is the winner.
This tournament is being organized and directed by Texas Quiz Bowl director Chris Romero. Teams that wish to register for the event may email their school name, faculty sponsor, team member names and grades, and contact information to Chris at romeroc@gmail.com.
Each team will play 6 matches during preliminary round play. Pizza will be available for pre-order on tournament morning and drinks and concessions will be available during our 30-minute lunch break after round 6. A pre-order form for Pizza can be found here. You can turn this it with your money at the registration desk on tournament morning.
After the prelims the top teams will advance to a seeded single elimination playoff. The fee for this event is $125 per team with a $35 discount available for teams bringing a working buzzer system. Teams will be required to submit a roster form on tournament morning.
At this event schools can earn points towards qualifying to participate in the 2012 Texas Quiz Bowl State Championship.
