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I was there and saw it happen, and read most of the question sets. I'll go into more detail when I actually get off the plane and home, but if the questions were all over the place in difficulty, I certainly didn't see it. I think that people who say that are overthinking this, and JEff's suppositio...

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On the few occasions that I get to play, Dillinger Escape Plan, Slayer or Clutch. Any album.

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Oh yeah, another "trick" to learn literature quickly that I forgot...again, you won't first-line much by using this method, but you'll second-line most things. If you're -really- lazy but just motivated enough to put -some- effort in, watch the movie based on the book (if it exists) to get...

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Expanding on what Casey said, I've found that there's a straightforward three-pronged method for becoming a great literature player: 1. If it's a short story or a non-epic poem, just read it. (Short novels such as "Candide" also qualify here.) The time investment isn't much, and the payoff...

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I would also most likely play in any available open side tournament.

--Scott

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Just wanted to point out again that Bethlehem HS and Bethlehem History Bowl Club are two separate entities. This, indeed, is the reason why Bethlehem did not play at BrainBusters Fall this year...because I had no idea of the situation that existed at Bethlehem HS until I started corresponding with ...

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You can pretty much add Upstate NY ( at least Eastern/ Central ) to your list. Ithaca runs a tournament that apparently was poorly attended by top notch programs In fact, it was attended by only one top-notch program - Ithaca, the hosts. (Actually, Delaware Valley A at full strength is a go-to-nati...

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Bethlehem A and Ithaca A are the class of upstate New York this year - both teams have attended, and made championship brackets in, metro-NYC area tournaments. They're #1 and #1a, and #3 is a LONG way below. Unfortunately, they probably won't get to play each other this year (although Bethlehem did ...

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relaxationutopia wrote:Fake knowledge triumphs in pyramidal way to often.

Knowledge, however it is acquired, is still knowledge. There's no such animal as "fake knowledge".

--Scott

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Mark: I stupidly didn't mention this earlier, but geolawyerman's post reminded me that there one way remaining that Bethlehem can qualify for a spot at HSNCT, without having to worry about the waiting list: attend and win the Saturday, April 19, NAQT Upstate New York Championship tournament to be he...

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I feel fairly good about the HS's chances of winning the NYS Masterminds tournament. I am not sure if that qualifies them for anything else.... Masterminds is a qualifier for NAQT HSNCT (and I suspect that Bethlehem's Prison Bowl performance would have a good case for a wildcard). Interestingly, it...

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Ithaca High School won the inaugural HSAPQ New York State Quizbowl Championship by defeating Kellenberg Memorial High School (Uniondale, NY) 270-90 in a one-game final after both teams finished 9-1 in the preliminary rounds. Amherst High School finished 3rd, and Emma Willard School (Troy, NY) finish...

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Good to hear, Mark. I'll be sending out a reminder e-mail within the week to my mailing list, and I'll add you to it if you can PM me your e-mail address.

--Scott

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Hi everyone: BrainBusters Solo is officially a go! The first-ever all-subject quizbowl tournament in upstate New York/northern Pennsylvania designed specifically for solo players will take place at VICTOR HIGH SCHOOL in Victor, NY (suburban Rochester, located very conveniently just off the New York ...

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Hi Ed: I would like to offer my services as a moderator for the tournament, as I will be accompanying one of the teams in the field to the tournament for logistic reasons better explained in a PM or in a private e-mail to scottblish@gmail.com. Get in touch and I'll let you know what's going on. --Sc...

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Andrew: If you need another experienced moderator for the ML Invitational, please let me know (e-mail at scottblish at gmail.com) by this Thursday evening, as I should be able to make it down this weekend if you need the help. I'll have to know by then, though, so that I can make sure that the day i...

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Ithaca A (11-0) (Tracy Lai, Jensen Lo, Andrew Robertson, Casey Wetherbee) successfully defended its BrainBusters Fall quizbowl championship with a convincing 525-75 victory in the final over previously-undefeated Cooperstown A (9-1) (Claire Dohner, Joey Katz, Michael Kern, Sean Mebust, Jacob Russell...

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you could try what some of my teammates and I did years ago before nationals to get over some problematic buzzer-shyness: read the last two lines or so of pyramidal tossups (for these purposes, you can even use packets you've already practiced on in full). You could also read bonuses as tossups for...

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Andrew:

I have to check my schedule to be sure, but I may be able to come down that day and help you guys out with moderating the tournament. Contact me at scottblish at gmail.com if it turns out that you need the help, and I'll see what I can do.

--Scott

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Hi everyone: With 5 days to go until the registration deadline for BrainBusters Fall, here is the updated field, with buzzer and staffing information, for BrainBusters Fall at Ithaca HS on Saturday, December 7. Amsterdam (2 teams) Cooperstown (4 teams, 1 buzzer, 1-3 staffers) Delaware Valley, PA (2 ...

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Several field updates with about 6 weeks to go to the tournament, and 4 weeks to go till the first registration deadline. (SS) indicates that the school is a small public school by NAQT definition and will therefore be competing for spots at the SSNCT in Minneapolis in May, in addition to the HSNCT ...

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Important note: the following announcement and website link supercedes the previous BrainBusters Fall announcement, as we are now able to process credit card payments and have changed some other important information regarding the BrainBusters Fall Tournament. The official tournament announcement is...

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First of all, to give credit where credit is due, I used Cody Voight's very complete and well-written announcement for VCU Fall as the model for this tournament announcement. Actually, in some cases, I outright stole some of the phrasing for use in this announcement, so I wished to credit him as an ...

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I should probably give an update on Ithaca, at least so people actually recognize the existence of areas of New York that are signifcantly outside of the metro area. We had some stupid losses at HSNCT, and missed playoffs when we really shouldn't have. (Evident from the scores of our games and cons...

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Yes, I reduced the amount of opera in this tournament, and slightly increased the number of questions for all of the other Misc. Auditory Arts as consequence, including jazz. But by my count, there was 3/3 in a 25-packet set. I'm not sure if this qualifies as an abundance, but to my mind, that is c...

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I"d like to tentatively claim November 9, 2013 for the BrainBusters Fall tournament at Ithaca HS. While we are expecting a larger and more regional field than last year's edition, which was housewritten and strictly local in scope, we also do not anticipate any field clash with Harvard Fall. Th...

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I should be able to read for this. Let me know if you need my help so I know what the plan's going to be. (Drop a line to [email protected]).

--Scott

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Hi Zach: Put me down to staff again this year. I may be able to get you up to 6 competing schools from my region, 2 of whom (Ithaca and Wellsboro, PA) competed at HSNCT last year, and 2 of whom (Cooperstown and Montrose, PA) are recent refugees from Chip who are just starting out in pyramidal quizbo...

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After my experience at the DC phase of the NAC this weekend, as well as some thoughtful contemplation of the sentiments and arguments that I have read on this board and other places, and conversations that I have had with people in this community whose opinions and input I greatly respect, I would l...

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Couldn't you have the same fun without giving up your weekend and supporting awful people by ordering delicious Thai food into someone's house(or going beforehand) and reading 1993-era questions to each other? There's a good argument for changing the phrase "awful people" in that sentence...

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I'd be willing to be a moderator for this, if my services are desired. Shoot me a PM on here or an e-mail to [email protected] if they are.

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I haven't heard anything, but I'd encourage those interested in trying out to discuss plans at Prison Bowl, as most of the top NY players will be there. Without any real organizational structure in NY, the burden is on the players to get themselves organized. Last year's selection process was decid...

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Ithaca's best player and also almost certainly upstate New York's best player, senior Irit Huq-Kuruvilla, is also good enough to possibly crack this team and would possibly be interested in trying out. I don't know if he's on the board or how often he looks at it, but I'll let him know about this th...

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Count me in as a supporter of good quizbowl in Westchester County. If you need some help moderating, I'd be happy to drive down from Ithaca that day to help you guys out...it'll be my second NYC Metro area tournament of the year after Seton Hall's Pirate Open. Drop me an e-mail at scottblish at gmai...

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Hunter was at nowhere near full strength, as Marianna said. I didn't moderate a Northmont game all day, but apparently Sam wasn't there so it wasn't exactly Northmont A playing either. Mountain Lakes A looked extremely impressive in the morning bracket that I was working, but I didn't see them in th...

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I also wanted to say that any of the teams that played in this tournament that would be willing to come to upstate New York to play in our tournaments are welcome to do so.

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I want to join in the praise for this tournament, and to thank Mike and the guys from Seton Hall Prep for having me as a reader and commend them for putting on an excellent tournament that went off without a hitch (except for the technical issue at the end, which really had no effect on the tourname...

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Hi Michael: I'm not 100% sure what my schedule is for that weekend yet (I have 5 adopted children, ages 13 to 3, and don't know if my wife has planned anything for them that weekend), but if you're in need of an extra experienced moderator for the Sept. 29 tournament, I might be able to come down fo...

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Hey, it's the bizarro universe of the "four quarter is more fun" argument! Yes, avoiding this argument/discussion because, from the sounds of ^, it's not exactly the topic to have a hearty debate about, the whole point of what's been said is - there has to be a stronger way of uniting the...

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though geographically, they're technically the latter False.I do not accept this statement as fact. Anyway, Ardsley was the first Westchester team to go to HSNCT in years (I assume). When I lived in NYC, most people I knew considered Yonkers "part of the city", but would call the rest of ...

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That'd be the Post Star Academic Bowl (PSAB) - the league I was talking about earlier, and yeah, having read the "Criticisms" page in its entirety, that really sounds like PSAB to the letter - speed check questions, more trivia than academia, and the part about the 60 second round I compl...

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There is a long-running quizbowl league based in the area of Elmira, New York, called the Twin Tiers Quiz League that I was quite pleasantly surprised to see was still running when I got back into quizbowl last year, and will be entering its 25th year of competition this fall. (I captained Elmira He...

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In terms of the Adirondack portion of the "upstate" New York region Note that the other (northwest) side of the Adirondacks has a regular NAQT tournament ( this one ), whose champions sometimes attend HSNCT. Colton-Pierrepont qualified for, and were listed to attend until withdrawing in t...

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Sam wrote: OTHER PLACES - Apparently Ithaca was not terrible last year...but yeah, I don't know much about those other regions of the state, and it seems like they tend to be generally weak. Upstate is quite weak, honestly. Ithaca and Horseheads were the two upstate teams that I know of from last ye...

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Zach: Assuming I don't have any issues come up between now and then, I'm planning to be there as well if you need a moderator. I'm in Ithaca and I have family in the Buffalo area (actually Lockport), so maybe we'll make it a family trip with my wife and kids going to visit relatives while I work the...

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There is something that, out of decency, I need to post here that is not directly related to this year's tournament, but does have to do with insinuations I made in a previous post that, upon further reflection and conversations with others, have turned out to be false. Here are the statements that ...

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Note that I didn’t say anything about higher-quality PEOPLE, because, honestly, as people there’s nothing bad at all to be said about Ariel, Brick, Ernie, Jason, Brooks and Tina Going 20 years back, the problem was certainly not to do with Ernie Anderson or Brick Barrientos (or for that matter, Mik...

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Also, as a few of the moderators brought up earlier in the thread, I would also appreciate some sort of feedback summary regarding the moderator comment cards the teams filled out on me, when Jeff, Joel, Jonah, Matt et al get around to analyzing the data, so I know where to improve for next year. No...

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Just out of curiosity, has a Saturday preliminary round spreadsheet akin to this one from last year, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... _US#gid=16 been posted for the 2012 HSNCT yet, or is that forthcoming?

--Scott

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The promised Part 2. Let’s start with an extremely shady piece of “ethical” advice that I was given by Chip Beall: On day 1, I noticed that I was scheduled to moderate one of Ithaca A's games. I was in a game room with Chip at the time (he had me roving from room to room for most of the tournament),...

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