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Fifteenth Annual
Vancouver Estival Trivia Open
July 27, 2013

The 15th annual Vancouver Estival Trivia Open (VETO) was held on Saturday, July 27, 2013, at the University of British Columbia.

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: full stats available) being held the same day at the University of Toronto.

Some of the question packets will be available for free download! (saved on the Collegiate Quizbowl Packet Archive)

All staff were drawn from the participating teams during their bye round. Thanks to Mischa for getting us space at UBC.

We had seven teams, with a total of 23 players. Team rosters were as follows. If a team is named after an institution of higher education, it does not necessarily mean that all of its members are affiliated with that institution.

Round-Robin Results

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

We used the following schedule. Every team except FARSIDE had at least three members who could run a game room by themselves. The FARSIDE team had only one member, so its packet was played in two rounds: the first round was moderated by the sole team member, and then the two teams that played in that round helped run the second round. The FARSIDE rounds were scheduled immediately after lunch, so that four teams got a longer lunch break.

      Room 201  Room 204  Room 205    pack
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 9:30 FrSd-SFU. Oreg-UBC. UW.A-UW.B | Blvu
10:00 SFU.-Oreg FrSd-UBC. Blvu-UW.B | UW.A
10:30 FrSd-Oreg SFU.-UBC. Blvu-UW.A | UW.B
11:00 UW.B-FrSd Blvu-Oreg UW.A-SFU. | UBC.
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      Lunch at the Student Union Building
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 1:00 Blvu-UBC.                     | FrSd (SFU., Oreg, UW.A, UW.B still lunch)
 1:30 UW.A-Oreg UW.B-SFU.           | FrSd (Blvu and UBC. also reading)
 2:00 UW.A-UBC. UW.B-Oreg Blvu-FrSd | SFU.
 2:30 UW.B-UBC. Blvu-SFU. UW.A-FrSd | Oreg

Here are the standings for the round-robin (full SQBS tables are available).
Teams were ranked by win-loss record, with average points per game as tie-breaker.
Rank Team W L T Pct PPG PAPG Mrg 10 -5 TUH PPTH P/N G/N BHrd BPts P/B
1 UW B 6 0 0 1.000 235.8 116.7 119.2 55 11 120 11.79 0.00 5.00 55 920 16.73
2 UBC 4 2 0 0.667 185.0 135.0 50.0 49 10 120 9.25 0.00 4.90 49 670 13.67
3 Bellevue 3 3 0 0.500 193.3 143.3 50.0 52 18 120 9.67 0.00 2.89 52 730 14.04
4 Oregon 3 3 0 0.500 160.0 168.3 -8.3 46 10 120 8.00 0.00 4.60 46 550 11.96
5 SFU alumni 3 3 0 0.500 145.8 160.0 -14.2 43 9 120 7.29 0.00 4.78 43 490 11.40
6 UW A 2 4 0 0.333 95.8 209.2 -113.3 33 7 120 4.79 0.00 4.71 33 280 8.48
7 FARSIDE 0 6 0 0.000 121.7 205.0 -83.3 33 5 120 6.08 0.00 6.60 33 425 12.88

Individual Statistics

Here is how individual players ranked on tossups in the round-robin. The last fourteen columns indicate in which of the fourteen 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 G/N Pts PPG '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12
1 Phil Oregon 6.0 45 9 120 3.38 5.00 405 67.50 - - - - - - - - - Y Y - Y Y
2 Peter FARSIDE 6.0 33 5 120 2.54 6.60 305 50.83 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
3 Will UW B 6.0 33 8 120 2.42 4.12 290 48.33 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
4 Trevor UBC 6.0 25 5 120 1.88 5.00 225 37.50 - - - - - - - - - Y - - - -
5 Mike Bellevue 6.0 25 9 120 1.71 2.78 205 34.17 - - - - - - - - - - Y Y Y Y
6 Mike UBC 6.0 22 5 120 1.62 4.40 195 32.50 - - - - Y Y Y Y Y Y - Y Y Y
7 Ross SFU alumni 6.0 17 3 120 1.29 5.67 155 25.83 - - - Y Y M Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
8 Joelle UW A 6.0 16 4 120 1.17 4.00 140 23.33 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Y
9 Andrew UW B 6.0 14 3 120 1.04 4.67 125 20.83 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10 Alejandro Bellevue 6.0 14 4 120 1.00 3.50 120 20.00 - - - - - - - - - - - Y - Y
11 Chris Bellevue 6.0 13 5 120 0.88 2.60 105 17.50 - - - - - - - - - - Y Y Y Y
12 Michael UW A 5.0 9 1 100 0.85 9.00 85 17.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
13 Geoff SFU alumni 6.0 10 2 120 0.75 5.00 90 15.00 - - - - - Y Y Y - Y Y Y Y Y
14 Joanne SFU alumni 6.0 9 1 120 0.71 9.00 85 14.17 - - - - Y Y Y Y Y - Y Y - -
15 Matthew UW A 6.0 7 1 120 0.54 7.00 65 10.83 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
16 Brittany SFU alumni 6.0 7 3 120 0.46 2.33 55 9.17 - - - - - Y - Y - Y Y Y Y Y
17 Brittany UW B 6.0 4 0 120 0.33 inf 40 6.67 - - - - - - - - - - - Y - Y
18 Steven UW B 6.0 4 0 120 0.33 inf 40 6.67 - - - - - - - - - - - Y - -
19 Iugene UBC 3.0 1 0 60 0.17 inf 10 3.33 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 Steph UBC 6.0 1 0 120 0.08 inf 10 1.67 - - - - - - - - - - - - Y Y
21 Evan UW A 6.0 1 1 120 0.04 1.00 5 0.83 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
22 Amy Oregon 6.0 1 1 120 0.04 1.00 5 0.83 - - Y - - - - - - Y Y Y Y Y
23 Laurie Oregon 6.0 0 0 120 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Y

For leading in the individual stats, Phil takes over the title of West Coast Dominatrix of Relevant Knowledge from Peter, who was WC-DORK for fourteen straight years, ever since the inaugural VETO.

Playoffs

For the second year in a row, we used Page playoffs among the top four teams.
Quarterfinals (Packet: McMaster)

UW B 220, UBC 70
UW B: Will 6 1 55, Steven 2 0 20, Brittany 0 0 0, Andrew 3 1 25
UBC: Steph 0 0 0, Trevor 0 0 0, Mike 2 2 10
Bonuses: UW B 11 120 10.91, UBC 2 60 30.00

Bellevue 170, Oregon 105
Bellevue: Mike 4 3 25, Chris 3 1 25, Alejandro 0 2 -10
Oregon: Phil 4 1 35, Amy 0 0 0, Laurie 0 0 0
Bonuses: Bellevue 7 130 18.57, Oregon 4 70 17.50


Semifinal (Packet: U of T alumni)audio available!

Bellevue 245, UBC 115
Bellevue: Mike 5 1 45, Chris 2 0 20, Alejandro 2 2 10
UBC: Steph 0 0 0, Trevor 2 0 20, Mike 5 1 45
Bonuses: Bellevue 9 170 18.89, UBC 7 50 7.14


Final (Packet: B2B)audio available!

UW B 205, Bellevue 55

Bellevue: Mike 1 2 0, Chris 2 3 5, Alejandro 2 0 20
UW B: Will 6 2 50, Steven 1 0 10, Brittany 0 0 0, Andrew 2 1 15
Bonuses: Bellevue 5 30 6.00, UW B 9 130 14.44


Congratulations to UW B for winning the 15th Vancouver Estival Trivia Open!

[Picture of 2013 VETO finals]
End of the finals. From left to right:

[community audio] Audio recordings of the semifinal and final games are saved on the Internet Archive for your listening pleasure.

After our final, there was supposed to be a Trans-Canada Championship Match between the winning team in Vancouver and the winning team at the Toronto mirror, but this had to be postponed to a later date because by the time we were ready, the Toronto team had to go their separate ways home.

Prizes

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

Honour Honouree Prize Reason Sponsor
West Coast Dominatrix of Relevant Knowledge Phil of Oregon handcuffs scoring 67.5 points per game Peter of FARSIDE, but selection determined by stats alone
Most negs Phil of Oregon washcloth getting nine -5's in the round-robin, including (as tie-breaker) at least one in every game Brittany of UW B
Best science question Evan of UW A a periodic table of the elements, signed by the discoverer of 10 of them tossup about nitrogen Peter of FARSIDE
Best kids' question Joanne of SFU Buzz Jr.! Jungle Party tossup about Judy Blume Mike of Bellevue
Winner in crunch time UW B team Nestlé Crunch bar winning the final Jordan Palmer in Toronto, but selection determined by stats alone
Top scorer on losing team during crunch time Alejandro of Bellevue Cadbury Crunchie bar scoring 20 points on tossups in final Jordan Palmer in Toronto, but selection determined by stats alone
Worst repeat Joelle of UW A a broken record as reader of one of the playoff rounds, the scapegoat for not throwing out a repeat Peter of FARSIDE

General observations and lessons learned

"Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" — famous last words

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