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I strongly advise teams not to attend this tournament, as Questions Unlimited has a long track record (from at least as early as 2000 to at least as recently as 2009) of plagiarizing questions in their packets from other events without either acknowledging or compensating the original authors. Any ...

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Alabama is interested in attending this event. I don't know how many teams we'll have yet, but I'm sure it'll be at least one. I dunno if we'll have any Jake. That's the weekend of the Florida game. Please do not discuss internal matters on the board, thanks. By saying such things, you give readers...

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Nine days left until William Rufus King, sign up while you can!

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Alabama is interested in attending this event. I don't know how many teams we'll have yet, but I'm sure it'll be at least one.

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Secondly, why should an editor of an tournament, and by extension the members of the community participating in the event, be forced to suffer the indignities of a sub-par tournament, when there are other possibilities. You are smart enough to know that the story rarely ever involves just one miscr...

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I find this idea to be exceptional. It would probably make for higher quality tournaments given that the proposed question writers would be able to produce higher quality questions at a higher rate than a TD who is obviously asking you to write questions in his weak areas because he would have alrea...

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He is nowhere near as bad as me, for example.

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I predict Clemson will find its way into the top 10 in at least one of the national tournaments. I also think Rice will have a similar performance.

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So all the high school seniors who love quizbowl should all come to UA. This is a great idea. Early recruiting, that's all.

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It has been rumored that I can moderate up to seven matches at one time. If this holds true, would you increase the field size significantly?

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...double post, sorry.

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If I can convince my dad to drive from OKC to Chattanooga, I'll be more than happy to come over for some quizbowl fun. If so, we'll be known as Sundberg Christian Ministries, Inc. Thanks for the notice -- I wasn't sure when your mirror was, but I'm itching to get back behind a buzzer.

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My placement of Henry was based on the fact that he led every tournament in the region in scoring this year as well as the fact that he was Penn Bowl's second-leading scorer at the main site, outscoring Evan and Chris, who are both in the top 10 while getting more scoring from teammates as well. Whi...

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And here I was thinking that that ballot was Henry Gorman's! Man, Jake, you're crazy. In terms of this forum: sure, but maybe I know something. In terms of quizbowl in general: haven't been able to put my heart into it much lately -- it's kinda hard when your next door neighbor, or his neighbor, or...

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I bet I know who ballot S belongs to. *Yo Billy: You do know that I do these things sometimes because I know you'll post, right? I mean, my stats aren't what they should be, granted, but I have tons of intangibles, such as ability to close matches and way above average buzzer speed, and those count...

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wd4gdz wrote:Next year @ Bama: Jonathan Thompson + Jake Sundberg = the best graduate tandem EVER!

QFT, Billy. QFT.

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If there were any additional statistics, they would have been reported by now, logically. except for the fact that at least 50% of tournaments don't post their full statistics within the following week Have you ever heard of a tournament that reports less than half of its stats on its forums? yes, ...

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Yeah, but then when people asked for the stats of the other games all we found out were the numbers in the final. Does this mean that there is still another round robin we didn't hear anything about, or does it mean that the use of the word "first" was imprecise and that the only other ga...

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I'll be at Alabama for the next five or so years.

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The Atom Strikes! wrote:Another note: we played the tourney on DI questions.

...which made your performance even more impressive, of course. Sorry I forgot to mention this in my post. Thanks, Henry.

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Also, that only works if I can tell who is what division. At Oxford: Warwick A and Imperial College London were D2 teams, all others D1. At Rice? I can't figure this out from naqt.com (even trying to view the field and invoice data for a completed SCT returns an internal server error). We do have r...

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This is awesome. Thanks. I knew everyone would think it was awesome. I will take nothing less than full credit for the creation of this tournament since I am the one that recommended that it take place. Just further proof that my ideas are never anything short of awesome. You guys are officially aw...

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Stats can be found here:

http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams. ... nt_id=3196

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Quick update:

Final Standings:
Rice (10-0) D2 Champs
UT A (8-2) - Kwartler, D1 Champ(s)

Individuals:
1, 2: Henry, Eric: Both with 90-100 ppg, don't remember the ordering.
3: Jake: 45-ish PPG
4: Nathaniel (Tulsa), 30+ PPG

I'm sure Chris will post the results sometime in the near future.

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Here are the stats.

http://ullquizbowl.tripod.com/DC_standings.html

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Stats?

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Significant drive back for a good bit of the field. Additional reasoning need not be given, really.

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Congratulations to LASA for going 6-0 and winning a shortened version of the Penn Bowl mirror. Romero et al finished 4-1 while Louisiana finished 3-3 on the day. Top four scorers were: Chris Romero, 76.00 PPG Benji Nguyen, LASA, 48.33 PPG Jake Sundberg, Louisiana, 43.33 PPG Thomas Littrell, LASA, 28...

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More teams sign up! Pretty please?

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New update. Field cap at 8 unless teams bring mods.

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I think the thing is that no viable set is available, given the mirror of Penn Bowl at ULL. I just do not see the problem, if there is interest in having tournaments on IS an A sets then why have all the hubub. Sure it is not perfect, but I am sure fun will be had by teams in attendance, if they co...

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I understand the ire using A sets but...who cares. If people want to play, and show up, then...do it. You know there are factors like the fact that teams don't have infinite time and money that means going to play an A-set would keep collegiate teams from being able to attend as many collegiate tou...

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Also, this would negate the affront to the ULL Penn Bowl Mirror. I understand the ire using A sets but...who cares. If people want to play, and show up, then...do it. I have long been of the opinion that lower level questions is not a bad thing. Fun is had, then that is all that matters. Especially...

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*changed the building from Moody to Griffin.

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Cooper98 wrote:I dunno why theyd rather go to Phil Campbell hell rather than Tuscaloosa even if it is acbl that is a godforsaken place. Almost as bad as Lafayette, Louisianna!

He's still recovering from that dreadful Cowboys game last week. Give him time.

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I wish we had tournaments that we could go to within 2 hours of campus...but in our case, it's near impossible. Oh I am but the greatest quizbowl road warrior of all-time (in terms of hours of driving per trip). Are you going to UA after you are done with Snead, Mark?

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I felt you were a good reader, but in the round you read for us, you stopped play 3-4 times to tell a joke or make an aside. While it probably only added an extra minute or so to our round, it was still an unwanted extra minute that could have been avoided. I believe you have read for our team a fe...

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OK, I said my piece, I'll lighten up. A few comments, though. Mark: The long trips are not necessarily always good for your gameplay, however fun they may be. If you have a trip that lasts more than 10 hours, it tends to hurt you, but 6 or 7 hours isn't that bad, even though it seems like it would b...

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I know ULL is doing one, and I don't want to step on that, but it is admittedly a bit far for Georgia, Tennessee and other states to travel. My utmost apologies. I didn't know that we had never been to a tournament in either of these states. We were present at ACF Fall 2007 and 2009 Southeast and A...

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I don't know where the teams in this field from this tournament are coming from because the field hasn't been posted, but my personal concern was that it could take a team or two away from our field, in addition to UA not attending. Generally, it's a good idea to communicate with teams in the regio...

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My personal suggestion was for UA to move the date of Admiral Ackbar to early-mid March and host a mirror of MUT. Although playing on NAQT questions an opportunity for players to play an IS-A tournament before SCT, the questions do not in any way help you prepare for SCT. I just don't understand wha...

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Impressive, LASA. Impressive.

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Field update:
Louisiana (1)
Chris Romero (1)
LASA (1)
Lafayette HS (1)
Harding (1)

Teams are encouraged to sign up, of course.

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Greetings, everyone! The UL Lafayette Club for Academic Competition happily announces that it will be hosting a Penn Bowl mirror on 1/30. The tournament will take place at Griffin Hall and tournament play should start around 9:00, so be there at 8:20 - 8:30 -ish. Distribution: Please note this is sl...

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Unfortunately, there don't seem to be very many grad students right now in Southeast quizbowl, especially north of Florida; the only one I can think of is Alyssa Hesse from USC. Well there's me, and there's Jonathan Thompson of Alabama. But then again, ULL is really not in the Southeast or the Sout...

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Clearly, UA can host a tournament whenever they want. I'm not pretending to tell them otherwise. I was simply pointing out that it might hurt our tournament. Incidentally, I asked Andy Knowles (who is on UA's team) about moderating for us today. He said he had no idea UA was planning to host this t...

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Maybe the best idea here is to let UA and Brindlee Mountain decide this amongst themselves instead of making it look like UA is trying to be a detriment to Brindlee Mountain's situation. A team has the right to host a tournament whenever it wants, and UA's president is new, so maybe it didn't occur ...

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The game tips off at 3:00 CT. Maybe there can be a break in-between rounds to watch football? If I'm able to make it, I surely wouldn't mind.

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It might not be such a great idea to host a college NAQT tournament on A-sets. They tend to be a tad bit too easy, even for the below average college player. Some of the better high school teams in Louisiana had rounds where they neared 600 points on these packets, and teams consisting of people wit...

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Yeah, like Matt said. You never know, there's a chance you could find a decent teammate or two at one of these competitions, and it never hurts to staff a tournament, anyway.

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