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Edit: removed drunken post It's sort of pointless to make "picks" with regard to Alabama, because they're always wrong. A team always comes out and surprises everyone else each year. Therefore, I'll just make a list of teams that I think can do some damage next year if they want to. (This ...

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Facebook, anyone?

Fo' Sho.

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At most tournaments I've been to, the protest is lodged immediately after the question and is resolved at the end of the match, should it affect the match's outcome. Sometimes I've seen coaches try to protest questions at the end of the match, and usually those protests are sent to the TD or ignored...

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And please keep trying to get Alabama to do that, because the state format isn't that bad, but the questions are.

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Heh, have fun with that one, man. Looks like Tyranus is the "easiest" pool, if you could call any of them easy.

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I think Kevin Roth played as well.

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Coincidentally, I negged that same question with that same answer...

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Yeah, I was watching the TJ-Walton match, that was pretty crazy... It was a pretty good tournament, even though we didn't do as well as we would have hoped. 11 days in Chicago was a bit much, but well worth it. A 4 hour delay at O'Hare didn't help, and going 5-5 in prelims didn't help either, but oh...

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LAMP will be flying up to Chicago today, I guess, since it's 2 AM. Good luck to everyone at ASCN and NAQT, and we look forward to seeing you all there.

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I appreciate the props, but we played horribly at the NAQT state tournament this year. Hopefully HSNCT won't be too rough for us.

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200's?!? I didn't think they ever got THAT large. I know this and last year's were around 120 teams or so.

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Damn man, I can put away some Moe's burritos. Homewreckers....mmmm.

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There's a great deal I'm willing to tolerate for free airfare to far-flung locales. Whether I bother with CBI next year depends on the nationals host -- I certainly won't be coming for the buzzer races, Friday night matches, and restricted answer space worthy of Trivial Pursuit or a Chip Beal packe...

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There's a great deal I'm willing to tolerate for free airfare to far-flung locales. Whether I bother with CBI next year depends on the nationals host -- I certainly won't be coming for the buzzer races, Friday night matches, and restricted answer space worthy of Trivial Pursuit or a Chip Beal packe...

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We'll be at NAQT in Chicago. And about the power marks, there were definitely a few we got in on that I was sure were powered, but weren't, and a most of our powers were really odd (as in, a fairly obvious clue had already been given). I'm not sure if any other tournaments are using IS-50A (since Ap...

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I know ASCA in Alabama gives money to the 1st through 4th place teams in the state tournament each year.

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Yeah, Jay and I are graduating, as are Evan and James. I thought that the CCA guys were seniors, too.

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We actually went 3-4. It was pretty crazy. We played horribly all day. This was our worst tournament of the year, but I'm glad we came, because we have a lot of practice to do in order to get ready for NAQT HSNCT in Chicago. The format really takes adjusting to, as well as the questions. The tournam...

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We got an early at-large bid to NAQT nats, and we're going. My prom's next weekend, so it won't really affect me that much. I think we have a 2 hour or so drive, we're leaving at 6 AM tomorrow. :-\

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It was made by one of the stupider guys, I think he was just messing around, but it was really funny.

In fact, I just remembered another good one from today.

Axl Rose for Harold Pinter (same guy, don't ask)

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Today at Practice (not committed by me):

Ted Bundy for Perse Shelley

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Good god... I think we have a winner. That's crazy.

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Pat: you kick so much fucking ass.

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More on Grissom's beastness: Last year's team had Shiva as the main point-getter and he was a freaking beast. You guys would do awesome out of state and you should really consider running a school tournament instead of school system tournament so you can raise some funds to travel. It'll pay off if ...

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We'll be at NAQT states, although it should be interesting since we've never played in an NAQT tournament or practiced on a set of NAQT questions. Right now we're not sure if we can afford NAQT nationals without significant expense to the other players, and if we went, it'd be 3 people as opposed to...

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I don't like math because I can't solve it fast enough, but also it doesn't test the recall/thinking portions of quiz bowl (By thinking I mean the piecing together of obscure clues to get early buzzes). Yeah, Nick, Jim Gerrick is a tad bit better than Patrick's Press or QU or whatever the heck you g...

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Good God! They let him out of state?!?! Well, I'm glad you beat him. We beat him at state last year in our televised round. It was very, very sweet. Although I believe I've said this before, he looks somewhat like a lamprey with tooth decay and doesn't sound much better. Just keep your email address...

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Any comments on state?

I thought the questions were significantly more difficult than last year, but not too inaccessible. The first day was a little slow, but the second day went great. The readers were really good and had great knowledge of the rules. And, while we didn't win, I still had fun.

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From ASCA state tournament:

Johnny Cochran for Louis Brandeis (heard 1960 instead of 1916)

obscenity for patent

Both accredited to me...

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True dat. 1. Indian Springs 2. Grissom 3. LAMP 4. Brindlee Mountain Pools (both ended in 3-way ties, with A having 3 teams at 6-1 and B having 3 teams at 5-2) A 1. Indian Springs 2. Grissom 3. LAMP B 1. Brindlee Mountain 2. Cullman 3. Holy Spirit Quarterfinals (1 seeds get a bye) A3 (LAMP) def. B2 (...

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Leo Wolpert wrote:
Golden Tiger 86 wrote:
Baron Jacobi wrote:81. Ken ?? (BYU)
Is that possibly this guy
Actually, it's Kenny Sanchez, the ADD kid I knew in 4th grade who beat Star Fox on "hard" without ever dying.

Mormons play Star Fox?!?!?

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I'll be at Alabama.

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LAMP will be at ASCN, then NAQT. 11 days in Chicago basically expense free. Fun.

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I don't know how we got in contact. My coach sent him an e-mail, I think. You might try to look at Bevill's site and get a phone number or something.

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LAMP has registered for the NAQT State tournament at Bevill State on April 23.

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IMHO, Indian Springs is too unstable to make a run at ASCA. We beat them at Brindlee Mountain's tournament by over 100 points without our 2nd leading scorer (usually gets 40 ppg). They're too streaky to pull it off. Indian Springs and LAMP are the two teams in the state that will somehow do very wel...

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Rivers actually makes sense there, but I seriously doubt that there would be a question on a music figure that obscure in any non-trash QB tournament. However, that would have definitely popped in my head at that time, as well.

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Michael Bilow?!?! I attended a MUN conference earlier this year at Harvard with him! He's a sharp guy. How's he doing?

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Jay and I are graduating. To quote Louis XV: "After me, the flood." I don't think LAMP's going to be really strong next year. However, after Alex left last year and Tony the year before that and George the year before that people said the same thing but we pulled through. Basically, it com...

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popculture wrote:
(possibly she, but girls aren't good at math)

Nice one there, Lawrence.

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We played them earlier in the year and, IIRC, we beat them pretty handily. I was sort of surprised when I saw/heard the results at the tournament yesterday.

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Poetic justice is always a nice thing. Congrats to ASFA for the win and CCA for a strong second. Tournmanet was overall fairly good. There were a good number of hoses, but the questions weren't really trashy, so that's good.

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Montgomery Region

Pool A
1. LAMP
2. St. Paul's
3. TR Miller

Pool B
1. Baker
2. Northside

I thought I heard the St. Paul's coach say something like her team couldn't go to state, so if that's the case, TR Miller gets the bid.

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Friends don't let friends go to

NAQT's a better tournament, NAC's a better trip (although if playing in a bad tournament would ruin the trip, then NAQT wins in all aspects).

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Depending on the date and timeframe, LAMP might be able to go. We'd definitely want to go for the extra NAQT practice. It just depends on our availability and such.

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I think the ASFA guys have gotten the point about the tournament. They'll improve it next year. It's time to lay off and stop beating a dead horse. It's really aggravating when people slam a tournament that you spent a while putting together. Feedback is feedback, but I don't want them to get angry ...

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I'll just clarify... I was feeling lazy yesterday. Format Issues: I've just about had it with the varying point values for tossups. All tossups should be 10 points, regardless of which period they're in. Use the pyramidal style tossups from the last round the whole way through and make them worth 10...

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How about ASCA as a whole. I just think it's stupid. I guess it's the "legitimate" state championship, but I wish they would change the format a little bit.

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I was only there through the prelims (I had to work at 3). I think in my pool Russelville came out undefeated. They were pretty good. I'm not sure who won it, though.

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Various negs from practice:

Wrong: The Marriage of Gandalf Arnolfini...
Right: ...yeah

Wrong: Homeless Guy To Galaxy (Intended to be Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Right: On The Road

What country owns Greenland?

2 seconds pass
BUZZ: GREENLAND! It's a trick question!

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