The Oklahoma Academic Team will be hosting Boren Cup, our semiannual high
school tournament, in Norman on Saturday, April 26, 2008. This year, Boren
Cup XXIV will use questions from UTC's Dennis Haskins Open (more information
about it can be found at
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4652).
Time: Registration is from 8:15-8:45 AM, the rules meeting is from 8:45-9:00
AM, and the tournament begins at 9:00 AM.
Location: Not determined officially but probably the Physical Sciences
Center (see campus map:
http://www.visit.ou.edu/HTML/map.htm
).
Base fee: $60 for the first team from each school, $50 for each additional
team
$10 discount for each working buzzer system
Eligibility: Any team of students from 9-12th grade is eligible to compete.
Teams usually come from Oklahoma, but teams from other states are also
invited to register.
Divisions:
Large Schools: all schools in Classes 5A and 4A in OSSAA Academic Bowl, all
private schools, all charter schools, all magnet schools
Medium Schools: all schools in Classes 3A and 2A in OSSAA Academic Bowl, all
freshmen-only teams from large schools
Small Schools: all schools in Classes A and B in OSSAA Academic Bowl, all
freshmen-only teams from medium schools
For a particular classification to be used, at least eight schools must be
registered for it.
For the latest information about the tournament, visit our team's website:
http://www.ou.edu/student/okacf/
Contact: If you want to register or have any questions regarding the
tournament, please contact Brian Morrow, at
bmorrow@ou.edu, or David John Gagne,
at
djgagne@ou.edu
. I hope you plan to attend.