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With regards to nationals for next year, expect a separate Darien history bowl club to attend NHBB nationals and we plan on attending HSNCT as well (though we will do NSC if that's all our advisors can do-considering we have 2 advisors plus the coaches from Middlesex we should have advisor availabil...

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I also think NAQT should make it harder to qualify for HSNCT, but I think it should be based on the quality of the field at a tournament and the quality of teams in the region in which the tournament is held, rather than the set the tournament uses. Of the two A-set tournaments my team attended this...

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Many of the teams from the WGBH High School Quiz Show attended the state tournaments, but were probably discouraged by the remarkable performance of the teams who had previously attended tournaments (We had a 430 - 10 match, for example). Many teams in the state prepare for the High School Quiz Sho...

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I'll agree with you that Darien and AMSA are almost equal in strength, but we've never had our full A team play against your full A team, so everything's a gray area. Lexington shouldn't be too far behind either. About tournament attendance: Yes, we do have an administration problem, but that only a...

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What's going on/What are everybody's thoughts with New England quiz bowl next year? Anyway, here's what I know/think about the teams in (southern) New England for next year. Top teams: 1. Darien-we bring back everyone except for Cameron van de Graff, who went to FAcT and Connecticut Invitational wit...

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As would I. Perhaps a separate thread should be made for this?

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You can also look up team and player results here: http://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/. This will search the hsquizbowl database for a team's results which may be better than searching for tournaments.

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Looks like Jesuit won varsity, Booker T Washington won JV, and Paiadeia won middle school for New Orleans.

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I just heard it's Western Albermarle vs. LASA A in a one-game final.

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You could try doing some middle school competition next year if you can get a couple more 7th and 8th graders interested. Otherwise, you could do some high school novice tournaments. If you practice and you can find a couple of okay teammates, you should play at an acceptable level. Also, competing ...

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Can I see the tossup on Frozen/Let it Go?

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Siegfried wrote:Off topic: (If you don't mind me asking) Why didn't Barrington attend this year? Logistical reasons?

On that note, why did it seem like no particularly good IL team (Daniel Wright, Thurgood Marshall, etc.) attended?

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I would say, that if you know what comes up, you can read the poems online. You'll find a bunch of results if you just google the poem. To know what comes up, reading packets and studying frequency lists would be a good idea.

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Mnemosyne wrote:Kealing goes down to a team they had already beaten 620-210? Weird.

St. Mark's was 5-3 yesterday, and now they're the only team left in the winner's bracket.

Edit: And it turns out that exact roster tied for 7th at TQBA states 2 weeks ago. That might just be the weirdest thing.

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puls wrote:And the full prelim stats are available. We'll be fixing errors as we find them, so do pipe up if you see any!

Jack Robertson on Middlesex C should be Jack Roberson.

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Will NAQT be updating results on its website throughout the day?

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Is Woodland planning on hosting the Connecticut championship again next year?

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Darien is looking into hosting an event, most likely in February or later.

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Is there any chance the set from the US history bee can be posted?

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I would say Prison Bowl, LIST, and GSAC are annually very good. LIST is probably the easiest of the three, prison bowl the hardest. 2013 BHSAT was a fantastic regular difficulty set, but I wouldn't recommend 2012 (I don't know about other years). Harvard Fall is good if you want slightly more diffic...

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yay, I'm going to MSNCT too! The best way is to in general, read. What I do is that I write down the sparknotes plot summary. then on quizbowldb.com , I search up the name of that book and write down lots of keywords that tossups ask for. The only bad thing is that you're mostly studying high schoo...

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Sparknotes is great, no doubt. I have no problem with the main lit, as I've read a lot of them, so it's mostly more obscure or lesser known works and short stories. I'll try to see if I can fit some into my week. Thanks for the tip! Something else I forgot-definitely know at least the main plot of ...

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Sparknotes or something similar to spark notes. I did it before MSNCT last year. I would suggest actually reading poems and short stories though. Don't waste time sparknoting novels that are commonly read-Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. will probably be powered by some...

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Smooth coarea formula wrote:Just saying, unless you need to pay a stipend to an advisor, you only need about $200 for a buzzer system plus money for practice questions to start a club.
yeah, tournaments and travel costs are negligible of course

Parents drive and kids chip in for the entry fees.

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Just saying, unless you need to pay a stipend to an advisor, you only need about $200 for a buzzer system plus money for practice questions to start a club.

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The rules generally require teams to be made up of players from the same school.

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Also Protobowl, though I don't know how useful that actually is. It depends on what you're doing in protobowl. If you're in a private room it should be ok, as it's not too different from reading packets. However, public rooms like the lobby generally aren't good for studying because players will be...

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I don't get how you find that time. I generally study 2-3 hours a week when I'm not off from school. During break I try to amp it up as much as possible (10+ hours minimum).

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I could help out with some writing/subject editing (though I write for NAQT, I have zero editing experience), if you want. We can discuss this via private message if you're interested. I also think you need to find an experienced group to team up with-people like Bellarmine, TJ, etc. Someone has to ...

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It is hosted at their school, in the cafeteria.

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It might be worth mentioning that the field for HSNCT is "full" when you count reservations for state championship qualifiers, and the waitlist already has 26 teams.

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And now they're being lured in by the cash prizes.

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Because learning stuff is fun, and beating teams because you've learned stuff makes it even more fun. I love to compete, I like to learn, and I like to improve. Edit: Quiz bowl has also exposed me to so many things I would not have otherwise found. If you asked me who wrote Things Fall Apart last ye...

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In regards to the quality of the field, the teams that play NAC are nowhere near the best teams in the country, and it would be disingenuous to call it a "national championship". The best teams that play are generally somewhere in the 80-100 range in the Morlan rankings, and most of the t...

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HSNCT is fun.

is "funn". We aren't going to HSNCT because it would be too logistically difficult at this point (quite a bit of red tape) and it's our club's first year, so we don't quite know exactly what we're doing.

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Can I have some more recent ones?

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They are regular players. Also, people don't listen to the coach (he's new to quiz bowl) that much, and they listen to me less. It's pretty much a free-for-all when it comes to making decisions.

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Why is your team deciding what national tournament to attend? I honestly don't know why it came up. For the past couple months we've been planning on attending NSC, and then someone brought up the idea of :chip: because they felt NSC would be too difficult and wouldn't be "fun". All of a ...

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My team wants to go to :chip: . We are currently registered for NSC, but a majority of the team wants to go to NAC (because it is more "fun" and "the questions are better"). We have not played a :chip: tournament all year and we just won our NAQT state championship. How do I conv...

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It really depends on the teams' goals and structures. Obviously, if you want to win a tournament, a "stacked" team would do much better than splitting up the best players. But if you have a single, confident, dominant player(hi Michael), and if you're aiming to qualify many teams for Nati...

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What are the arguments for and against balancing the strength of teams? Obviously not balancing the strength of teams would give you a much better A team, but what about arguments for balancing teams?

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I have to second how well Woodland ran the tournament-including an hour for lunch, the whole tournament took just about 7 hours. We had a great time.

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The only sort of "theme music" I remember is Ernie playing "Imma Bee" between matches, so it was slightly better than the questions (although much worse than the ones he plagiarizes-it's always a bad sign when those are the best questions).

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He would have to calculate a combined ppb for prelims+playoffs.

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KnicksRule wrote:Connecticut Invitational V held at E.O. Smith on Feb 22nd

I don't believe there is a combined file for the stats.

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[*]2) Guaranteed three rounds of play, followed by a play-off bracket [*]4) Last chance to qualify for National Academic Championship before State n Missoula A few things: 1. What set of questions will this tournament be using/who is the question provider? It is always a good idea to post that in a...

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Please do.

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Could the field on the PACE website be updated?

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Acton-Boxborough A won the tournament and Darien B finished 2nd. Victor Pavao was the highest scorer. That's all I really know.

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Where on the Uconn campus will this tournament be taking place?

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