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Pensacola is going to send two teams, two buzzers, and a moderator tentatively then.

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List of wrestling-based comic books wrote:I've updated the announcement to reflect the new date and whatnot.

This date has already passed. Do you mean April 16, 2011?

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Forty-sixth? Dark horse time.

*starts reading packets*

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I still don't understand HOW rotating pseudonyms is any harder than non-rotating pseudonyms. You do the exact same thing to input stats for both. The exact same thing.

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The idea of people changing pseudonyms every round, even if the names remain stable, is terrible! It screws up the individual stats and while you may not personally care about a prize, maybe someone does, and thus "Scrappy Doo" having the stats of four different people across the day is n...

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There have been no issues thus far with people using pseudonyms. Can we stop trying to make up problems that don't exist right now? Okay, then nobody should be upset when their real names, not their frivolous pseudonyms, appear in the stats when we know who is actually who. That's what prompted thi...

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3. I hope we can agree that there are limits: Continually rotating pseudonyms should never be allowed, as these can prove very confusing for statskeepers, etc. 5. I think not using pseudonyms is helpful sometimes when TD's are attempting to form brackets or if teams are qualifying for national tour...

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For the purpose of seeding, I'm not so sure how individual stats help. Typically, teams register by saying "We're bringing 2 teams, 2 buzzers, and 1 moderator," and the tournament director seeds as if they're bring their normal teams. This is because team composition (at least for a couple...

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How much would it cost to mirror this set?

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Oh, I didn't write that; but I did like the musical Cats way back in my youth when I saw it (maybe that's why I liked it).

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(does anyone actually like Cats?) Yes. A pet peeve I had was that in one of the packets there were 6 or so tossups or bonuses about people or things related to Russia. It might be alright for quizbowl purposes, but it just seemed weird to me. Another complaint I had was that bonus difficulty seemed...

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Yeah, my only problem with how this was run was that the three best teams were in one bracket. If either Georgia Tech or Chipola got moved over to Team Jacob, it would have been better. Aside from that, it was a well run tournament, and I had great fun on probably one of the best sets I've played on...

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Actually, we're bringing one or two teams to Rickards it seems. We'll be short one Kay and one Nathan due to homecoming though.

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Wouldn't it be better to do a round robin and break ties at the end?

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Nope. It's homecoming =\.

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By the way, are you guys going to UF?

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I'm not knocking on Maclay here. You guys have a good team. The coach thing is just something my teammates noticed. You guys won fair and square. You were the better team that match. But, I also don't think that having the other team's coach read and moderate for their own team is ever a good idea. ...

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I'll edit math and write for math, biology, fine arts, and kiddie lit (I can do others if need be).

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Hopefully, we'll get to play again at UF to settle this.

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We played grossly out of our strengths too because we didn't know what we were getting. Picking which give and take you get isn't really an advantage when categories like "A Deal with the Devil" could mean anything from Faust to The Devil Went Down to Georgia. As for the moderator issue, i...

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Pensacola is pulling out due to some dumb reasons and minor drama that have come up in the past couple of days. We apologize for any inconvenience this could have caused.

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Pensacola Invitational stats have now been shared.

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Oh, I feel like such a boob. Here are the stats: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings.

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We had 10 teams so we tried a full round robin. Three teams (Tate A and B, Washington, and Pine Forest) left before we could finish so we just didn't count the games they would have played in. Fortunately, this didn't matter for the top three standings. Also, we introduced a themed worksheets with ...

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This happened. We had 10 teams so we tried a full round robin. Three teams (Tate A and B, Washington, and Pine Forest) left before we could finish so we just didn't count the games they would have played in. Fortunately, this didn't matter for the top three standings. Also, we introduced a themed wo...

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Unfortunately, Pensacola will not be able to attend this tournament.

Best of luck on the tournament though.

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Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:Questions Galore is not Questions Unlimited.

Oh my. Quite right. Edited.

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Upon reading them, I have to say they're better but still quite bad. Speaking as a student, I'd prefer HSAPQ and NAQT (to a lesser extent) as a question provider; and I would probably boycott any Questions Unlimited tournaments on the basis of their questions and other reasons that people have allud...

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Given that both teams have only played one match against each other on a wonky quasi-NAQT round, Pensacola was missing a key player, I was running off of 2 hours of sleep due to being in the ER for a while for my foot, Maclay was being read to by their coach (whose moderating style was... questionab...

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Yeah, we were without Helie, and I was running off of 2 hours of sleep. Excuses aside, we probably should have still won that game. We have a ways to go. We seem to have lost a lot of our science ballsiness (and ballsiness in general) with the departure of David. I still maintain that Pensacola is t...

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http://www.artofproblemsolving.com is the best math source I can give you. Their books (Art of Problem Solving Volume 1 would be good for middle schoolers) are really good and interesting but are probably more oriented towards the math competition and math problem solving area. Still, they'll give y...

kayli · Re: ACF Fall South at Alabama (11/6/2010) Pensacola is interested.

Pensacola is interested.

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Pensacola is interested provided this does not conflict with UF's winter tournament.

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Thanks for the vote, Zach!

Also, I was under the impression that Southside lost everyone.

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How much will it cost to mirror this set?

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FSU used to hold a fall tournament, but I think that that won't be happening for a while in the post-Billy Beyer era for a while. Rickards hosts a fall tournament on an A-set that gets some local teams. Aside from that, I don't know of any major tournaments in the area. UF (~2 hours away from Valdos...

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Kay, Nathan, Helie, Melody, and Hayden return on Pensacola; and I think Matt, David, and Cole return on Ransom Everglades.

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How many ballots have you gotten so far? Is it enough to have a legitimate (or as close to legitimate as we can get) poll?

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Looks like I won't be able to get anything in. Sorry. Senior year and other excuses.

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I am pleased to announce that Pensacola High School will be hosting the first Pensacola Invitational! The tournament is an NAQT qualifier which will be held on the colorful campus of Pensacola High School located at 500 West Maxwell Street in sunshine-y Pensacola, Florida. The set we will use is to ...

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So what are the writing restrictions? Kay Li Pro Bono Questions might submit a bid in lieu of other people...

That is, how are the questions and bonuses formatted and what distribution do they want?

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Here's an announcement template that I stole from a previous announcement if you want to use it: Give me your top 25 in order, 1 to 25. Teams will get 25 points for a 1st place vote, 24 for 2nd, and so on. Please indicate the state of the school when including them. Email them to me at x@y.com. Plea...

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I know this won't help me in quizbowl much, but what are some good books for Irish mythology?

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:Wing House

I'm there.

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What are some good books for the big three sciences? So far, I have Campbell's biology book and Zumdahl's chemistry book. But, what are some other good book I can get?

EDIT: For high school level and beyond.

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List of wrestling-based comic books wrote:I presume you mean information like the building and parking, which we'll probably send out, as well as add here, once we actually sort out those details and get more confirmed teams and emails. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Alright then. Yeah, it is a little early. Sorry.

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Pensacola is interested in attending (We're coming for you, David!). Shoot me an email at kldaace at gmail.com. Do you want us (Tech) to send you an email? Also, I am not sure if David is aimed us, either. Sorry for any misunderstanding. Yeah, send me an e-mail with the information; and I'll forwar...

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Also, Jeff, do you have the power percentages by categories? Sure. current events 14.7 fine arts 16.8 geography 10.3 general knowledge 11.7 history 12.8 literature 17.8 foreign language 20.1 mixed 17.4 pop culture 27.5 philosophy 8.1 science 14.8 sports 28.8 social science 14.5 theology 16.0 I just...

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Congratulations! Seems like you landed are pretty nice job.

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Pensacola is interested in attending (We're coming for you, David!). Shoot me an email at kldaace at gmail.com.

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