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I'm not sure what other Delaware schools read this message board, but sign up for this tournament! It's free!!

I've updated the field, to at least show that this won't be solely a CR/Charter Challenge.

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There's exactly a month to go, and we've got a half dozen teams signed up. Not bad, but should be more! Where you at, interested teams? Also, some team that rhymes with Blarter Tool of Schmilmington... sign up.

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Triple post. Fun. Anyway, if there is anyone out there, it is likely that we will need serious help in this tournament. I know that UD quizbowl members are attending ICT this day, but if there are any other UD alumni or extra teammates who are not attending, please please help us out here on the 31s...

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I'll keep a field update here if anyone cares:

Caesar Rodney (3 teams, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Charter (8 teams, 3 buzzers, ? moderators)
Mount Pleasant (2 teams, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator)
Concord (1 team, ? buzzers, ? moderators)

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The Delaware State NAQT Championship will indeed be hosted by Mt. Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday March 31st. I am posting this on behalf of Mt. Pleasant and their coach, Tom Stansell. Because of the late notice, this tournament will be offered FOR FREE. It will be using NAQ...

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Delmarva Christian High School in Georgetown, DE is interested--I'll be gauging student interest and hopefully have sign-ups by the end of the week. AWESOME! Delmarva Christian was a force in the old Texaco/Comcast Challenge days, and we would be so thrilled to have you join the circuit again! Let ...

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How late is too late to sign up for this tournament? I ask this because the Delaware NAQT Championship is in all sorts of disarray (the tournament host is not responding to repeated e-mails and we have zero details on the event, including staffing and other logistics), and it was supposed to be the ...

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Dogberry wrote:This tournament will now be using Auburn's RAVE set - more information about the set here. We greatly appreciate Auburn's flexibility and generosity.

See above. This was what was done.

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urbanpf wrote:Consolation brackets will not be included this year.

Lily, it doesn't sound like it. Why is this the case? Most "good quizbowl" tournaments over far more than 5 guaranteed games.

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Pszczew wrote:NSC continues to not be up to par

What does that mean?

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This is in little more than a month and only two teams have officially signed up!! So, like, register please!

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bt_green_warbler wrote:The Delaware state championship has been confirmed for Mount Pleasant on March 31st.

That is super duper sweet. :) Thanks for all you do, Jeff.

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CR is interested in attending. It seems like we can do it but i'll need confirmation from the girls, or whoever can make it.

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I should have been clearer in my first post when I said "Nobody pays attention to whose buzzer system is being used." I was referring to the people who were actually conducting that particular playoff (which includes myself). The TD was not made aware of what room we had chosen to hold th...

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Any other word on Delaware's championship? Apparently the Mt. Pleasant coach has been completely unresponsive for weeks? If this falls through, will another school step up to host it?

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I on the other hand think that the trash round either needs to go, or needs to be rewritten with an actual high school audience in mind. Bonus questions about 60s bands, 70s female singers, 80s movies, and the like are just ridiculous for kids who weren't even born until 1995. Please stop doing the ...

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GDS, Charter A, Charter B, "Kony Island," Oakland Mills, and CR A are in the playoffs currently in this tournament, which has completed 2 or 3 rounds of the final 5 in the afternoon.

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This means that the top two teams from each bracket will make the playoffs and then replay their previous game during the playoff round robin. Am I correct in assuming that the prelims games are not counted (that there is no difference between 5-1 and 6-0)? Yeah, we'll just base playoff record on t...

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We're missing all sorts of players for this. Our top team is missing one of its 4 (but should be close to "full strength"), and the other two will only have 3 players each, including a C Team composed of only freshmen.

See everyone Saturday.

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Did you contact any of the Virginia schools on the Eastern Shore? I know Nandua has become active on the circuit, and I know that Chincoteague plays VHSL Scholastic Bowl. I can help you find contact information for them if you don't have it already. Tournaments at CR and Wilmington Charter are prob...

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I learned about the Wilmington Insurrection in high school, so I assume it's at least somewhat famous, although from what I'm seeing here it is not nearly as well known as I thought it was. It's not well-known. I seriously only know it because it's a coup d'etat, or, at least, kinda close to one, a...

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This state suffered one of the few, if not only, instances of a coup d’etat in US History when, in 1898, an elected municipal government in its then-largest city was overthrown by former Congressman Alfred Waddell, who went on to serve as mayor for seven years. That outcome was allowed to stand by ...

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Yeah, letters are actually very cost efficient, and it's really awesome that you guys went ahead and used them. At 45 cents each, a 175-letter enterprise will make back all its costs if just two new teams sign up. I sure hope it's worth it. We literally sent a letter to every single high school in ...

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Easton has indeed registered! The 175 letters we mailed out may not be a complete waste of time and money after all!

Keep those signups coming, everybody.

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So, this was completely free, and gave away money and prizes... and like 20 teams came?

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I have a feeling that the day after Prom would be arguably worse for my team (#allgirlquizbowlteams)... so, i dunno, i'll check.

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RyuAqua wrote:Yesterday the idea of using the DII SCT was floated. Centennial's ATTACK should be available as well.

DII SCT would be nice, since we would love the preparation for HSNCT the next week (that is, if NAQT accepts our wildcard bid...).

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As a former History major, and current AP U.S. History teacher, i can attest that those American History bonus questions that were posted were, quite simply, real damn hard.

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And i thought last year's tournament with just 20 teams was low. Are we going to have just 18 teams for this thing? This is kind of sad. What's happened to quizbowl in Delaware? I sure hope all those letters we mailed to teams on Friday get them to come to Rider Bowl III in April. Also, for so many ...

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We'll have to rescind a team due to (what else?) kids being committed to other things, so mark CR down as bringing 3 squads now.

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27 negs in round 1 by the combined 10 teams at this tournament. Neat.

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After a huge e-mail went out yesterday to scores and scores of addresses, we finally have our first registration from The Haverford School! Also, just as many letters went out in the mail yesterday, so prepare to receive a formal invitation, basically if you are a school within 100 miles of us (in m...

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Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:
bt_green_warbler wrote:Probably, but we haven't confirmed a date yet.
ok, because this is probably going to need Delaware's help to run this again, and I haven't had anyone tell me what's going on yet.

Weeks ago, i was told by both players and advisor from Mount that it would be held on March 31st.

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Regarding the conferring after one team negs, I think this is an issue primarily with school that also routinely play formats that allow conferring. Here's what I think happens: once the other team negs, the team in question then begins treating it like a bonus since it's obviously just for them at...

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To deal with the original point of this thread, it probably would help if there was a one page summary of the rules that focused on things new players should know. It wouldn't solve the problem, since a lot of people wouldn't read it, but it could be passed out at tournaments with new players and l...

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The Laughing Cavalier wrote:
List of villages in West Virginia wrote:Was this tournament a PACE-NSC qualifier?
We'd delayed ruling on this one because of concerns about the question set. Sorry; I'd forgotten about that until you asked. I just emailed Mike Bentley and should be able to get back to you all on this later tonight.

So... any news?

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Was this tournament a PACE-NSC qualifier?

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mhayes wrote:This might be a dumb suggestion, but what about the Early Autumn Collegiate Novice set? Did any teams play this set in your region?

It's not publicly available yet, so it could be an option.

Why isn't it publicly available, by the way?

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I keep posting in this thread, but this is probably the last time. My girls were quick to point out something before we left on Saturday: there were a total of 4 females on any teams in all of the playoffs, and all 4 of them were all from CR. Kind of cool and kind of depressing at the same time. Per...

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Our team will really really lose a lot of ability and scoring, with Pratyusha and Alexa graduating. It will be a long time until we're anywhere near where we are this year, even if we'll have at least two seniors on next year's team (Lexi and Julia). There isn't a lot of potential behind them, save ...

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Looking at the stats, i'm pretty sure that Banlale didn't get 9 tossups in the last time i moderated on BCC. I think he actually got zero. Really, you might want to fix this. It's totally screwing with BCC's points per bonus and such. The team definitely did not go 2-17-0 in that game... i think th...

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Looking at the stats, i'm pretty sure that Banlale didn't get 9 tossups in the last time i moderated on BCC. I think he actually got zero.

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This set was all sorts of great, if but a tiny bit hard at times. There were a few bonuses that below average teams were not getting 10s on, and there certainly were some... hm, interesting... ideas for tossups. A few were just too hard. Again, i stand by my general sentiment that asking about works...

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Thanks so much Linda, and Auburn kids. I'm sure the set will be great, and we're looking forward to hearing it.

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I would not object to a change of the set, especially to one that i've heard nothing but "rave" reviews on. Certainly this would be better than the alternative, if i'm to believe what is being posted here.

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Did you get my e-mail from before? For now, we have 4 teams, our buzzer, and myself to help moderate. I'll let you know if that changes.

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Wow. It's too late to change our minds about the tournament on Saturday, but please be aware that i now wish we were playing on a different set. If our experience is anything like the teams in Illinois that had to suffer through this last month, then teams may deserve a lesser admission price for th...

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I never heard the final results for this. Were the stats finished yet? I imagine Independence A won, since they had just an awesome team.

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I don't have a lot of specifics right now, but i just want to add that i cannot tell you how many actual academic clues (or, okay, pseudo-academic clues) i have picked up from The Simpsons.

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You listed us bringing two teams and we are definitely not. We have one, one buzzer set, and myself to moderate.

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