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Music suggestions:

Pump up: Dropkick Murphys (especially Sing Loud, Sing Proud)

Chill: Sublime (especially 40 Oz. to Freedom), Dispatch (especially Bang Bang)

I've always tried to stay away from caffeine and energy drinks because my body doesn't really appreciate them too much, so here's what I do: 1. Go to sleep the night before (duh) 2. Before the tournament, go to the store and buy a box of Fig Newtons. I can usually eat most of a box over the course o...

ImaPC wrote:
Hrmm, the stream doesn't appear to be working for me. Anyone else having better luck?
I think they have medication for having a weak stream...

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

As someone who wants to be a good lit player someday: prof.whoopie [at] gmail.com

Thanky

Woody Paige wrote:
disgruntled coach wrote:Stuff
More stuff

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is indeed the third published book and the fifth chronologically. The Silver Chair is the fourth published and the sixth chronologically.

I seem to have a vague memory of a tournament held at GDS when I was in seventh grade that I think was billed as the "NAQT MD/DC State Championship." I've been seeing on the announcement board that a lot of other states have such a tournament this year, but not the MD/DC area. Is there any particul...

I seem to have a vague memory of a tournament held at GDS when I was in seventh grade that I think was billed as the "NAQT MD/DC State Championship." I've been seeing on the announcement board that a lot of other states have such a tournament this year, but not the MD/DC area. Is there any particula...

Due to the extremely unfortunate and inconvenient date of our It's Academic semifinal taping, St. Anselm's will not be able to attend. Drat. I was really looking forward to this, too. I guess we'll try again next year.

I know Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt does or did host one or two middle school tournaments each year. Those tournaments occurred Friday evenings and featured such schools as Martin Luther King MS, Kenmoor MS, Walker Mill MS, and St. Anselm's. It has been almost nine years since I gradu...

Johannes Climacus wrote:I'll ask Mr. Caulfield tomorrow, or whenever, depending on how big this snowstorm is actually going to be.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Ok, thanks.

Any news on what the field might look like?

Ok, thanks.

Is the link broken for anyone else?

Aidan, You're right to not try to have them running ACF packets right away. Pyramidal toss-ups at the middle school level can be hard to find and you don't want to frustrate them with high-level high school packets. Vary the format you're using with fun things like lightning rounds and such. There'...

Aidan, GDS has (although it hasn't been very active this year) a middle school quizbowl club that meets every few weeks. I usually read HAVOC or good high school packets. If you arrange some sort of middle school scrimmage, GDS would probably be interested in participating. Sweet. I shall keep this...

Hello middle school quizbowl coaches, As of tomorrow afternoon, I am one of you. The St. Anselm's middle school team effectively died after last year, and we are attempting to resuscitate it, with myself in charge. I was the only one who volunteered. Our first step was finding players. We had the te...

Why are buzzer races precived more often than they occur? I think it would be quite useful to be able to gauge how many precived buzzer races are actually buzzer races when evaluating sets. It's my experience that people sometimes reflexively press the buzzer when they see someone else make a move ...

No offense intended, but this really isn't a good idea. The way I am parsing it, this seems to advocate "bad" or "undedicated" college teams playing with high schoolers on high school questions. Stepping stone theory is bunk. Also, why segregate good high school teams out? I feel like this would dr...

Something out of Bill James could probably be adapted to work here. However, I'll leave it to the more mathematically inclined.

Speaking of round 7, the paper cut outs clue came way too early for Matisse. I was under the impression that his use of collage was very famous. The whole "I am physically ruined, so here, let me still make great art" motif tends to be famous for those who partake in it: I think it's pretty famous ...

quantumfootball wrote:
Prof.Whoopie wrote:From practice:

Given: Huson River Valley
Answer: Kuiper Belt
How did that happen?

An extremely bad player who shows up at practice sometimes and often doesn't pay attention to the question, producing hilarity.

From practice:

Given: Huson River Valley
Answer: Kuiper Belt

Caesar Rodney HS wrote:featherless biped

Fixed by Plato.

At Eleanor Roosevelt this morning:

Full Metal Alchemist for Fire Emblem

It was a category round: "Things Beginning With the Letter F." The first line mentioned the series being imported from Japan, and I guess they just guessed.

Bollinger has an account now? Hooray! And yes, we're so in.

Looks like we've found this year's official ACF t-shirt design. Is there such thing as an official ACF t-shirt? Forgive my ignorance, but I definitely want in on this if anyone decides to put this epic image into clothing form. http://doc-ent.com/qbwiki/images/0/01/Tabachnick.jpg just for clarifica...

DumbJaques wrote:Looks like we've found this year's official ACF t-shirt design.

Is there such thing as an official ACF t-shirt? Forgive my ignorance, but I definitely want in on this if anyone decides to put this epic image into clothing form.

Sir Thopas wrote:
No Rules Westbrook wrote:it takes longer to properly tapir down that pyramid.

I didn't want to have to be the one to point that out. Nice.

*expresses interest and plans to talk to coach about it this week*

And the stats themselves will get posted or no?

I feel that not only practicing on high school questions, but also attending as many high school tournaments as I could while in middle school greatly helped my development as a player. Admittedly, since my school is 6th-12th grades, I was part of an actual high school team as early as seventh grad...

I feel that not only practicing on high school questions, but also attending as many high school tournaments as I could while in middle school greatly helped my development as a player. Admittedly, since my school is 6th-12th grades, I was part of an actual high school team as early as seventh grade...

^^^ THIS ^^^

St. Anselm's is definitely "expressing interest." I, for one, would really like to go; it's just a question of mustering the rest of the team and then hoping our coach is willing to take us. I'm going to talk to her some time this week about it. I think it's likely that we will be there with at leas...

OK, whenever you have the time. I just wanted to make sure it would happen eventually.

St. Anselm's really would like to attend, but unfortunately we have our It's Academic taping that day.

As neither the set nor the stats have been posted two weeks later, I thought I'd bump this. I really would like to see both.

Saint Anselm's is going to be there with definitely one, but probably two teams. If she hasn't already, our coach will email you soon.

quizbowllee wrote:
Prof.Whoopie wrote:Also from Centennial

Given: Van Halen Belt
Answer: Van Allen Radiation Belt
Someone really did this?

It was hilarious.

Packets would be nice: prof.whoopie[at]gmail.com

I agree mostly with the above. This tournament continues to improve year to year. Breakfast was once again very appreciated.

Also from Centennial

Given: Van Halen Belt
Answer: Van Allen Radiation Belt

The Notebook Hey everyone, I've been lurking around the boards here for a while, but this is my first post, so I thought I'd introduce myself and my school. I'm Aidan Mehigan, and I go to St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D.C. I've been playing quizbowl since seventh grade (our school is grad...

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