Singles Action at Wreck Beach Open at UBC, 27 September 2003 All popular culture, 245 tossup questions, all written by Brock Stephenson. FORMAT ====== This Trash Singles Tournament, which was called Singles Action at Wreck Beach Open, when played in Vancouver, is modeled on the University of Maryland-College Park Gaius Cornelius Hobnobus Memorial Singles academic tournament format. The distribution for the tournament is 20 percent each of sports, music, movies, TV, and other, which encompasses all other things in pop culture from books to technology to food and drink to anything weird. There are five rounds. The first two rounds have 50 tossup questions each, round three has 25 tossup questions, round four has 90 tossup questions, and the final round has 30 tossup questions. On each questions a player may get 10 points for a correct answer or minus 5 points for an incorrect answer before the question is over. More than one person can earn a negative five point penalty of there are multiple people who interrupt in with incorrect answers. Up to four people may buzz in on any single question. In round one, you can have up to eight people playing in each room. Try to divide the numbers evenly. For example with 12 people two rooms of 6 or with 20 people, two rooms of 7 and a room of 6. Ideally, multiples of eight are best. It does not matter if the rooms are unbalanced for this round. Players may continue to answer questions until their score reaches 120 points, at which time they stop playing for the round. By having the top players out of the round before the 50 questions are up, it allows the other players in the room to be more competitive in finishing in second, third, fourth, etc. places. If there are fewer than four rooms in play, the winner of round one in each room automatically qualifies for play in the playoffs (round 4). For example, a room with six players could have a round that plays as follows: Andy 120 points (out after 28 questions) Bev 125 points (out after 46 questions) Chris 95 Dan 80 Ellen 45 Fred 30 As Andy was the first person to reach 120 points, he finishes first. Bev, although she finishes with more points because of an odd number of neg 5s en route to more points, because she exits after more questions she is seeded second. The other players do not reach 120 points and are ranked in order of finish with Chris third, Dan fourth, and so on. Round two is much like round one as it has people removed from the game after reaching 120 points. To seed people for this round, try to make it so that each room has a person who finished in first, second, third, fourth, etc. places in their respective rooms in the previous round. For example with two rooms, have the odd-placing people shift rooms or for three rooms, have people in first, fourth and seventh stay in their room while the people in second, fifth, and eighth move one room up and the people in third and sixth move one room down. The winner of each room also qualifies for the playoffs. It does not matter if the same people win both round one and round two. After round two, add up each player’s combined scores for the two rounds. For round three, the top eight players who have not qualified for the playoffs will compete. (Other rooms may be set up to play this round for fun.) These eight players will compete for the remaining playoff spots, likely somewhere in the range of six to two spots remaining. All eight players play this round for the duration of the 25 questions with the top scoring players advancing to round four. Scores from previous rounds do not matter. In round four, the playoff round, the bottom scoring player is eliminated after 40 questions to reduce the room to seven players. This is repeated after 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 questions so that only the top two players remain at the end of the round. Scores from previous rounds do not matter. (Other rooms may be played to determine the final placement of lower ranked players.) In round five, the final round, the top two players play 30 questions for the championship. Scores from previous rounds do not matter. RESULTS ======= Round 1 Room A Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Carlos 13 2 120 (after 26 questions) Sarah 8 4 60 Mike (SFU) 7 1 65 Tanya 3 0 30 Shaun 3 2 20 Room B Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Hanson 11 6 80 Sean 8 3 65 Jenny 3 2 20 Joanne 3 2 20 Mike (UBC) 1 1 5 Zerah 5 3 35 Dan 4 8 0 - Carlos and Hanson qualify for the playoffs - Room A should have had another person so that there would have been two rooms of six, but that did not matter too much. - If everyone had stayed for round two, the rooms would be reorganized with the odd-placing people from one room taking on even-placing people from the other room, so that we would have Hanson, Sarah, Jenny, Tanya, Mike (UBC), and Dan in one room and Carlos, Sean, Mike (SFU), Joanne, Shaun, and Zerah in the other room. As the people who left reduced the numbers in each room evenly, again it did not matter all that much. Round 2 (50 questions, players stop playing at 120 points) Room A Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Hanson 13 1 125 (after 48 questions) Sarah 8 1 75 Tanya 3 1 25 Jenny 3 2 20 Dan 5 6 20 Room B Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Carlos 12 0 120 (after 18 questions!) Sean 11 2 100 Mike (SFU) 3 1 25 Shaun 1 1 5 Joanne 1 2 0 - Since the same two people won both rounds, no one else qualified here. Totals through two rounds Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Carlos 25 2 240 (in only 44 questions!) Hanson 24 7 205 (in 98 questions) Sarah 16 5 135 Mike (SFU) 10 2 90 Tanya 6 1 55 Sean 19 5 165 Jenny 6 4 40 Zerah 5 3 35 Shaun 4 3 25 Dan 9 14 20 Joanne 4 4 20 Mike (UBC) 1 1 5 - Sarah and Mike (SFU) pick up the third and fourth playoff spots. - If everyone had stayed, round 3 would put the numbers 5-12 in a 25 question qualifying round with the top four players qualifying for the sudden death playoff round. Since there were only 12 people, that would mean that everyone not yet in the playoffs still had a chance at qualifying. - By the time this round was over only eight people were still at the tournament. Round 3 (25 question playoff qualifier with top 4 qualifying for the elimination round) - To save time, this round was not played as only 8 people remained. Round 4 (90 question elimination round, bottom player dropped after #40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90) Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Carlos 28 6 250 Hanson 17 5 145 Sarah 7 4 50 (eliminated after 90 questions) Mike 4 1 35 (eliminated after 80 questions) Sean 3 4 10 (eliminated after 70 questions) Shaun 1 0 10 (eliminated after 60 questions)* Dean 2 3 5 (eliminated after 60 questions)* Joanne 1 1 5 (eliminated after 40 questions) * Shaun and Dean were tied at 10 after 50 questions. At that point they faced sudden death rules where the first positive or negative score change would cause an elimination to occur. Dean had an incorrect early buzz on question 60, which eliminated him at that point. Shaun was then the player with the lower score remaining and was eliminated after 60 questions. Final (30 questions) Player +10 -5 Total ------ --- -- ----- Carlos 10 2 90 Hanson 6 3 45 - Carlos wins the tournament and again shows why he is up there with the top trash players anywhere. ********************************************************************** All Movie Tournament @ UBC, 27 September 2003 After all the UBC people left, the nine SFU people who remained at UBC played on movie tossups from Berkeley from July, 2003: http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/basquemovies03/index.html Player ? +10 -5 Points Pts/Question Round 1 Sean 50 10 4 80 1.600 Sarah 50 6 0 60 1.200 Shaun 50 6 1 55 1.100 Hanson 50 5 0 50 1.000 Brock 50 3 1 25 0.500 Mike 50 2 0 20 0.400 Joanne 50 2 1 15 0.300 Dean 50 0 1 -5 -.200 Round 2 Carlos 50 18 1 175 3.500 Brock 50 6 2 50 1.000 Sean 50 3 1 25 0.500 Dean 50 2 0 20 0.400 Shaun 50 3 3 15 0.300 Joanne 50 2 1 15 0.300 Mike 50 1 1 5 0.100 Sarah 50 1 2 0 0.000 Final Round Carlos 13 5 1 45 3.462 Sarah 13 4 0 40 3.077 Hanson 13 2 1 15 1.154 Brock 13 1 0 10 0.769 Joanne 13 1 0 10 0.769 Mike 13 0 0 0 0.000 Shaun 13 0 0 0 0.000 Dean 13 0 0 0 0.000 Totals Carlos 63 23 2 220 3.492 Sean 100 13 5 105 1.050 Hanson 63 7 1 65 1.032 Sarah 115 11 2 100 0.869 Brock 113 10 3 85 0.752 Shaun 113 9 4 70 0.619 Joanne 113 5 2 40 0.354 Mike 113 3 1 25 0.221 Dean 113 2 1 15 0.133