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Tenth Annual
Vancouver Estival Trivia Open
July 19, 2008

The tenth annual Vancouver Estival Trivia Open (VETO) was held on Saturday, July 19, 2008. For the first time, it was hosted by the University of British Columbia, in honour of UBC's centennial year.

Many of the question packets are available for free download! (saved on the Stanford Packet Archive)

This was a guerrilla-style tournament, meaning that all questions were written by members of the participating teams, and there was no central editing. Question packets were shared with a mirror tournament (VETO's Eastern Trivia Open) being held the same day in Toronto. All staff were drawn from the participating teams during their bye rounds.

Thanks to Mike and Tex from UBC for reserving rooms at the I.K. Barber Learning Centre, to players in Toronto for sharing packets with us, and to everyone who helped while not playing.

We had eight teams, with a total of 27 players. These included active and retired players from the quiz bowl teams of both UBC and cross-town Simon Fraser University, as well as retired players from the quiz bowl teams of the University of Oregon, Queen's University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University.

Team rosters:

Round-Robin Results

First we played a single round-robin. Rounds were untimed, with 20 tossups in each. Power tossups were not used.

Every team except Junta wrote a packet. Junta brought two packets from Toronto. B2B also brought one packet from Toronto. Here is the schedule we used for the round-robin: 

 Time  Room 192   Room 193   Room 194      pack  help
 ----  --------   --------   --------      ----  ----
 9:30  UBCA-UBCC  BRRG-UBCB  B2B.-UofO  |  FrSd  SFUJ
10:00  BRRG-SFUJ  UBCC-UofO  FrSd-UBCB  |  B2B.  UBCA
10:30  B2B.-UBCB  FrSd-UBCC  SFUJ-UofO  |  UBCA  BRRG
11:00  UBCC-UBCB  SFUJ-B2B.  UBCA-UofO  |  BRRG  FrSd
11:30  UBCA-BRRG  FrSd-SFUJ  B2B.-UBCC  |  UofO  UBCB
12:00  SFUJ-UBCC  UBCA-B2B.  BRRG-FrSd  |  UBCB  UofO
----------------------------------------------------------------
Lunch break
----------------------------------------------------------------
 1:30  BRRG-UofO  UBCA-FrSd  SFUJ-UBCB  |  UBCC  B2B.
 2:00  FrSd-UofO  BRRG-B2B.  UBCA-UBCB  |  SFUJ  UBCC
 2:30  FrSd-B2B.  UBCB-UofO  .........  |  SFUJ  UBCA BRRG UBCC
 3:00  BRRG-UBCC  UBCA-SFUJ  .........  |  B2B.  FrSd UBCB UofO

Here are the standings for the games in the round-robin (SQBS tables available). Teams are ranked primarily by win-loss record, secondarily by average normalized points per game. The normalized score in a particular game is the game score divided by the average score of all teams that played on the same packet. A team's average normalized points per game is the average of the normalized score over all the games it played. We chose to break ties by average normalized points per game in an attempt to reduce the skew arising from the variation in difficulty levels of packets.

Rank Team W L ANPPG PPG PAPG Mrg 10 -5 TUH PPTH BHrd BPts P/B
1 B2B 6 1 1.269 217.1 127.1 90.0 63 11 140 10.86 63 945 15.00
2 UBC B 5 2 1.172 183.6 135.7 47.9 58 16 140 9.18 58 785 13.53
3 UBC C 4 3 0.968 146.4 128.6 17.9 48 8 140 7.32 48 585 12.19
4 UBC A 4 3 0.919 130.0 141.4 -11.4 43 7 140 6.50 43 515 11.98
5 Junta 3 4 1.025 149.3 157.9 -8.6 52 11 143 7.31 51 580 11.37
6 Oregon 3 4 0.938 145.7 172.9 -27.1 49 10 140 7.29 49 580 11.84
7 SFU BRRG 2 5 0.766 107.9 182.9 -75.0 36 7 143 5.28 36 430 11.94
8 FARSIDE 1 6 0.944 142.9 176.4 -33.6 50 12 140 7.14 50 560 11.20

Individual Statistics

Here is how individual players ranked on tossups in the round-robin. The last nine columns indicate in which of the nine previous VETOs the person had played (Y if yes, or M if in the mirror in Ontario).

Rank Player Team GP 10 -5 TUH P/TU Pts PPG '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07
1 Peter FARSIDE 7.0 50 12 140 3.14 440 62.86 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
2 Phil Oregon 7.0 47 8 140 3.07 430 61.43 - - - - - - - - -
3 Zarya UBC B 7.0 46 14 140 2.79 390 55.71 - - - - - - Y M Y
4 Bruce B2B 7.0 37 4 140 2.50 350 50.00 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y M
5 Brendan UBC C 6.0 30 7 120 2.21 265 44.17 - - - - - - Y Y Y
6 Mike UBC A 7.0 34 7 140 2.18 305 43.57 - - - - Y Y Y Y Y
7 Brock B2B 7.0 25 6 140 1.57 220 31.43 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y M
8 Bad Horse Junta 7.0 23 2 143 1.54 220 31.43 - - M Y Y - - Y Y
9 Wilbur Junta 7.0 20 3 143 1.29 185 26.43 - - - - - - - - -
10 Geoff SFU BRRG 7.0 16 3 143 1.01 145 20.71 - - - - - Y Y Y -
11 Daniel UBC C 7.0 13 1 140 0.89 125 17.86 - - - - - Y Y Y Y
12 Trevor UBC B 7.0 8 2 140 0.50 70 10.00 - - - - - - - - -
13 Ross SFU BRRG 7.0 7 0 143 0.49 70 10.00 - - - Y Y M Y Y Y
14 Brittany SFU BRRG 7.0 7 3 143 0.38 55 7.86 - - - - - Y - Y -
15 Rajon SFU BRRG 7.0 6 1 143 0.38 55 7.86 - - - - - Y - - -
16 Jimmy UBC A 7.0 5 0 140 0.36 50 7.14 - - - - - - - - -
Michael UBC C 7.0 5 0 140 0.36 50 7.14 - - - - - - - - -
18 Paul UBC A 6.0 4 0 120 0.33 40 6.67 - - - - - - - Y Y
19 Tex UBC B 7.0 4 0 140 0.29 40 5.71 - - - - - - - - -
20 Hammer Junta 7.0 6 5 143 0.24 35 5.00 - - Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
21 Buford Junta 7.0 3 1 143 0.17 25 3.57 - - - Y - - Y Y Y
22 Amy Oregon 7.0 2 0 140 0.14 20 2.86 - - Y - - - - - -
23 Mischa B2B 7.0 1 1 140 0.04 5 0.71 - - - Y Y Y Y Y Y
24 Martin B2B 6.0 0 0 120 0.00 0 0.00 - - - - - - - - -
Flavia B2B 1.0 0 0 20 0.00 0 0.00 - - - - - - - - -
Angie UBC B 7.0 0 0 140 0.00 0 0.00 - - - - - - - - -
27 Joel Oregon 5.0 0 2 100 -0.10 -10 -2.00 - - - - - - - - -

For leading (just barely) in the individual stats, Peter retains the title of West Coast Dominatrix of Relevant Knowledge.

Finals

The top two teams from the round-robin, B2B and UBC B, faced off in a best-of-three series, in which the round-robin game counted retroactively as the first game in the series. Since UBC B had won that first game, B2B would have to win two more games, but UBC B would have to win only one. It was rather strange to give a one-game advantage to the team with the worse win-loss record, but that's the way it worked out according to the rules that had been announced in advance. Results:

winning team score score losing team question authors
UBC B 95 75 B2B Queen's University

Congratulations to UBC B for winning the tenth Vancouver Estival Trivia Open!

Here are individual tossup results (+10/-5) and team bonus averages for the final round.
UBC B: Zarya 4/2 (30 PPG), Tex 1/0 (10 PPG), Trevor 1/0 (10 PPG); Bonus average 7.5.
B2B: Bruce 3/1 (25 PPG), Brock 2/1 (15 PPG), Martin 0/0 (0 PPG), Mischa 0/1 (-5 PPG); Bonus average 8.0.

Prizes

Some players received prizes. Unless otherwise indicated, honourees were selected by the sponsor of each prize.

Honour honouree reason prize sponsor
West Coast Dominatrix of Relevant Knowledge Peter scoring 62.86 points per game handcuffs Peter
Worst repeat Daniel bonus in the final packet on zirconium, which mentioned its atomic number of 40, after an earlier packet had a tossup on zirconium that gave its atomic number of 40 as a clue a broken record Peter
Best question on food from non-animal sources Bruce edible bonus about flavours of crisps a gluten-free, fat-free, GMO-free, vegan ReBAR 100% organic energy bar Peter

General observations and lessons learned

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