Stony Brook University – Student Activities Center Saturday, 06 March 2010

For Competing Players & Their Coaches…

Please wear your name tag throughout the day

During a competition round, coaches may communicate with players only during

the 2-minute, mid-round break

If your team is eliminated, please remain through the end of the bowl. Prizes for the top three finishing teams will be distributed at the concluding Award Ceremony.

For Spectators…

Please turn off cell phones. Please enter/leave a competition room only at the beginning or end of a round, or

at the mid-round break.

Please refrain from loud comments, shouting of answers, gesticulations, etc. during a round. No communication of any kind between the audience and a player or coach is allowed during the active part of a round.

No photography or audio/visual recording of an active competition is allowed.

Space in some competition rooms is limited. Parents, family, and classmates of

players and coaches have priority access to seats.

Food is available at the food court in the Student Activities Center For Volunteers…

Please wear your name tag while at the event.

Outside the competition rooms, refer players, coaches, or spectators with issues and/or problems to Bowl Central.

For Players, Coaches, Competition Officials, & Spectators Alike…

Please be in your seat, in the correct competition room, ready to begin the round, at the scheduled starting time.

During scheduled competition time, please keep hallway noise outside the competition rooms to a minimum.

Food and drink (other than water) is not allowed in competition rooms.

Bowl Agenda

7:30 am Team registration - Lobby

Continental breakfast – Ballroom A

8:15 am Welcoming remarks – Auditorium Dean David Conover, SoMAS Provost Eric Kaler, SBU Honored invited guests

8:30 am Agenda, competition structure, & rules

Bill Wise, Event Coordinator 9:00 am Morning competition (round-robin) – see schedule for rooms 11:30 am Lunch – Ballroom A

players, coaches, volunteers spectators – on your own

1:00 pm Afternoon competition session (elimination rounds) see schedule for rooms

4:00 pm * Final round to decide overall winner -Auditorium 5:00 pm * Awards ceremony - Auditorium 6:00 pm * Concluding remarks & adjourn - Auditorium

* times approximate

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The Competition Format

Morning Round-robin In the morning round-robin session, the 16 competing teams are divided into 4 divisions of 4 teams each; each team plays only the 3 other teams in its division. The first round of matches is a practice round with no scoring. After the practice round, teams stay in the same room and play each other for real in Round 1. At the end of the morning round-robin session, the 4 teams in each division are ranked #1 #4 based on the total number of match points each has accumulated. If 2 or more teams in a division have the same number of match points, the tie(s) will be broken based (1st) on the teams’ head-to-head won-loss record and (2nd) on fewest losses. The schedule of team play in the morning round-robin competition session is found separately in the event folder. Placing Procedure To establish placement for the afternoon competition, the 4 top-ranked teams from the divisions will be placed 1st 4th based on the total number of question points each team accumulated during the morning competition session. The team with the highest number of question points is the 1st place team. The second-ranked teams’ question points will be compared to establish places 5th 8th; the third-ranked teams’ question points determine places 9th 12th; and 13 th

16 th places are determined by the question point totals of the fifth-ranked teams in each division. Placement between 2 teams with the same number of total question points from the morning round (an unlikely scenario) will be decided by a coin toss. Afternoon Elimination Rounds The afternoon competition session begins with a round pitting the higher-placed teams against the lower-placed teams from the morning round-robin competition: 1st place vs. 16th place; 2nd place vs. 15th place; etc. This first round of the afternoon session is a single-elimination round. Teams losing in this round are eliminated. Teams winning in the single elimination round are seeded for the double elimination round as shown in the separate Single Elimination Schedule in the event folder. In the double elimination competition, a team must lose two matches to be eliminated. Should a match in an elimination round result in a tie at the end of regulation time, each team is given 5 toss-up questions. The team answering the most questions correctly wins the match. The schedule of team play in the double elimination competition is found separately in the Double Elimination Schedule in the event folder.

Selected Rules of the Competition Question Types Three types of questions are used in the competition: paired toss-up and

bonus questions, and team challenge questions. Each 30-minute match will consist of 6 minutes of toss-up/bonus questions (buzzer system employed), followed by two team challenge questions. After a 2-minute break, the match will conclude with 6 final minutes of toss-up/bonus questions.

Answers to team challenge questions must be written out within the time limit prescribed

for that question; consultation between team members is allowed; a team, through its captain, submits one written answer. The buzzer system is not used. Challenges to the scoring of a team challenge question answer are not allowed.

Buzzing In No player may buzz in before the moderator identifies the subject area of the

question. If such occurs, the toss-up (and potentially, the bonus) question are given to the other team to answer.

Having buzzed in on a toss-up, a player must wait for verbal recognition from

the moderator before answering. Failure to do so constitutes a, “blurt,” and gives the toss-up to the other team.

If a toss-up is read completely and answered incorrectly, the question is given (but not

re-read) to the other team to attempt an answer. Consultation Between Team Members Allowed on team challenge and bonus questions, not on toss-up questions.

None whatsoever allowed between active players and coach or alternate.

Time Allowed to Answer Questions 90 seconds – 5 minutes on team challenge questions, depending on

difficulty. Once a toss-up question has been completely read, somebody must buzz in within five

(5) seconds or the moderator moves to the next toss-up. Once recognized by the moderator on a toss-up, a player must begin his/her

answer within 3 seconds or the question is given to the other team. On bonus questions, the team captain must begin his/her answer within twenty (20)

seconds after the question was read.

Scoring

Two types of points are involved in the competition. Match points are awarded to teams based on the results of a single match. The team winning a match gets 2 match points, the losing team gets 0 match points, and each team gets 1 match point in the event of a tie. Question points are awarded to a team during a match based on answers to questions. Question points are awarded as per the following: Question Points Awarded

Toss-up Questions

Read completely, answered correctly +4 points Read completely, answered incorrectly 0 points Interrupted, answered correctly +4 points Interrupted, answered incorrectly -4 points Unrecognized response (“blurt”) 0 points

Bonus Questions

Answered correctly +6 points Answered incorrectly 0 points

Team Challenge Questions up to 20 points The team with the most question points at the end of the 2nd 6-minute buzzer period wins the match. In the morning round-robin session, ties between teams at the end of a match are allowed to stand. In the afternoon elimination sessions, ties are broken by asking 5 toss-up questions. Scoring of tie-breaker toss-up questions is as described for toss-up questions during normal competition. The team accumulating the most points from these 5 questions wins the match. Only competing students may challenge, based on a rules violation or a science issue. These challenges will be dealt with by the rules and sciences judges in the competition room. Appeals to the ruling of a rules or science judge can be made only by a competing student and will be referred to the “Appeals Board” in Bowl Central. Rulings by the Appeals Board are final.

Copies of the complete NOSB competition rules are available at the Registration Table

Event Sponsors Planning and putting on an event like the 2010 Bay Scallop Bowl takes time, effort, and money. This competition has been made possible by the generous contributions of our sponsoring organizations. The Consortium for Ocean Leadership manages the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) and provides substantial financial support to individual regional NOSB competitions. Additional financial support for this event was provided by The Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation, The School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences of Stony Brook University, Battelle Corporation, New York Sea Grant, The Blue Ocean Institute, The Institute for Ocean Conservation Science and New York State Marine Education Association.

Bowl Planning Team

Volunteers Anne Cooper Ellefson, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Event Photographer Xiaoming Xia,. School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Media Relations Leslie Taylor, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Technical Support George E. Carroll, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Bay Scallop Bowl Logo Created by Tiffany Gagnon Event Coordinators William Wise, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Kim Knoll, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences

A cadre of willing and well-trained volunteers is necessary to conduct a regional NOSB

competition. Our thanks to the 2010 Bay Scallop Bowl volunteers, listed below.

School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences

Robert Aller

Robert Armstrong Peter Alpert

Hannes Baumann David Black

Malcolm Bowman Kurt Bretsch Jamie Brisbin Alicia Brown

Elizabeth Brown Bruce Brownawell Morgan Brunelle Jesse Bruschini Matthew Clark Ruth Coffey

Jackie Collier David Conover

John Wallace Daniel Martha Divver Owen Doherty Eileen Doyle Tara Duffy

Keith Dunton Tracey Evans Julia Figliotti Charlie Flagg

Gina Gartin Eileen Goldsmith

John Gondek John Graham Carolyn Hall

Jenn Hertzberg Lyndie Hice

Shauna Higgins Devin Holifield

Jesse Hornstein Julie Huang

Aleya Kaushik Juliet Kinney

Kim Knoll Elliott Kurtz

Rebecca Kusa Cindy Lee

Amanda Levine Nicole Liable

Darcy Lonsdale Glenn Lopez

Kamazima Lwiza Maggi Mars

Valentin Neamtu Christine O’Connell

Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa Sue Pawagi

Heidi Pearson Aaron Pellman-Issacs Agnieszka Podlaska Nuria Protopopescu

Paul Revekant Brooke Rodgers Frank Roethel Jaime Romany

Konstantine Rountos Santiago Salinas

Leili Sarrafha Joy Smith

Larry Swanson Gordon Taylor Leslie Taylor

Jasmine Valentin Stephanie Vos Elyse Walker Chuck Wall Joe Warren Anna Webb Tom Wilson

Sarah Winnicki William Wise Xiaoming Xia Nick Zanussi

Minghua Zhang

Stony Brook University SBU Medical Center Sharon Pavulaan Katerina Panagiotakopoulou

Blue Ocean Institute NOAA Mount Sinai High School Carl Safina Cynthia Decker Gina Sing

Battelle Betsy Barrows

Thomas Gulbransen NY Sea Grant NYS DEC James Ammermann Karen Chytalo Barbara Branca Maureen Davidson Cornelia Schlenk Philip LoCicero Jay Tanski Lisa Tettelbach

2010 NOSB® Sponsors

NOSB® is a program of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Inaugurated in 1998, the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) provides an educational forum for high school students to excel in math and science and receive national recognition for their diligence and talents. Administered by the Washington DC - based Consortium for Ocean Leadership, the 2010 NOSB features teams of high school students competing at 25 regional sites across the country. The winning team from each regional competition advances to the national competition, to be held in St. Petersburg, Florida April 23-26, 2010. The NOSB is coordinated in association with the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), and is supported by the government agencies, foundations, corporations, and organizations as noted. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.

For more information on the National Ocean Sciences Bowl

web site: http://www.oceanleadership.org/link/nosb

tel: 202/448-1232 fax:202/986-5072