The same sorts of thing happened in the Northeast yesterday and I'm certainly not blaming the tournament staff. 40 minutes is a lot more realistic. So if future schedules are made up for 45-minute rounds, tournaments can actually be finished ahead of time, scary thought that this may be. Kudos to Yale for fine organization and "relatively" few repeats, save black hole boni, and a set of teams that was, for a welcome change, both pleasant and challenging. Ben Malkevitch Princeton > williechen7 wrote: > > I've seen it happen in all the ACF tournaments I've attended, and I should > have learned the lesson beforehand. I was naive enough to schedule 30 minutes > per round. With a field so deep as the West, teams will answer 17-21 tossups > per game, hear all the bonus parts, and wait 5 seconds per part to be prompted > for an answer. Add on the fact that one local team arrived 30 minutes late and > teams chose to have an hour and 15 minutes for lunch, we finished all 13 > rounds at 7:45 PM in lieu of the intended 5:00 PM. That comes out to > approximately 10 extra minutes per round. > > For future reference, I think hosts of ACF tournaments should allot a minimum > of 40 minutes per round.
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