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Field (teams/buzzers/staffers):(12/7/3)

State College (5/2/0)
Henderson (1/3/1)
DuBois (1/1/0)
Great Valley (1/0/0)
Milton (1/1/1)
Central (2/0/0)
Berwick (1/0/1)

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Penn State Quiz Bowl is happy to announce our spring academic bowl for April 16th, 2016. This tournament will be taking place on NAQT's IS-154 set. We are expecting to see a field of some of the strongest squads in Pennsylvania get the chance to compete for some big wins and trophies! The initial fi...

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Tournament is complete! Here is the stats!

Congratulations to Alagar Homeschool for claiming a tournament victory! Winchester Thurston A and Norwin tied for 2nd. Well done to all teams!

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Morning Round stats are now available.

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We haven't been keeping this thread up, but this podcast on writing questions (with a focus on writing science) and this one about Rebellions in American history may be useful to some.

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If you have 10-11 players, register two teams then tell the TD you are available with a standby team. That way, you might be able to get a 3rd team in for free, and if you have a player drop you don't end up having to drop a team. Or you can run a tight ship as a team and ensure that 11 players com...

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Final Stats Manheim Township A won the tournament, clearing the field by two after going undefeated. Indiana A beat Westmont Hilltop B to take home the 2nd place trophy.Thank yous go out to all teams for attending Penn State's first tournament in a while and making it such a success. I also want to...

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Preliminary Rounds are done! Great play all around from many new players. Stats are here.

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I have had to beg multiple people to volunteer their time to help staff a tournament now because of certain people who "committed" to reading to this tournament decided, in the end, that they could not read, and because we got excess demand from something approaching 50 teams, but we're p...

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Registering for a tournament means: "We have gotten clear commitments from all our players that they are free that weekend, and are willing and able to attend the tournament. That is to say, coaches in Missouri frequently register before getting clear student commitments because the tournament...

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Best I know, there is no national database of staffers. I've had the same problem in Pennsylvania. I know a number of the tournaments in our area have had lengthy waitlists at points due to lack of staff. Best I've been able to do is keep a list of known quizbowlers and quizbowl alums in state (a lo...

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Final Standings The top 4 were: 1) Manheim Township A 2) Lehigh Valley Academy 3) Great Valley A 4) PALCS A Both the final and third place match were nail biters that came to the last question. Thanks to all teams for coming, and to our great staff, especially outside help Victor Prieto, Bill Tress...

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Prelim Stats are up!

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An unofficial update based on what's been circulating: Teams/Moderators/Buzzers (24/6/6+): Manheim Township (4/0/3) Great Valley (4/1/1) PALCS (2/0/0) Lehigh Valley Academy (1/0/0) Cedar Crest (2/1/1) West Chester East (3/0/1) Renaissance (4/4(?)/0) Downingtown East (3/0/0) Emmaus (1/0/0) More buzze...

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The bottom line here is "make sure you look considerably better dressed than the students"/"make sure you look dressed to be an authority figure". This doesn't take men dressed in tuxedos and women dressed in designer dresses to do. Use common sense, don't dress like you would fo...

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Formal. No one will be off put by too-formal footwear in this context, but sneakers,flip flops, or sandals might. Generally footwear is less important than shirt/pants since your shoes will probably be under a desk or table when you're reading, but it's always better to err on the side of caution.

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We have a facebook group I should advertise more, join it!

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Episode 3: Getting to the Next Level In our Third Episode we talk about things a player can do to take it to improve as a player- whether that be find their feet with the most frequent topics in quizbowl, learn strategies to acquire knowledge from your opponents, or learn to read and write deep to ...

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Any notion about when stats will be available? Would be very helpful for coverage of the tournament at the Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource. Thanks!

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A series of interrelated questions has been coming up in my discussions with other quizbowlers recently in regards to getting a solid, unambiguous definition of what defines our game. I thought I'd throw them to the field and see what kind of consensus or lack thereof comes out. 1) What specifically...

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Penn State will be hosting on December 5th on SCOP Novice: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17884. This will be aimed at new-to-quizbowl squads and freshmen, though somewhat more experienced players can play too.

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1) According to here and here , this tournament was announced before the BASK set was even announced. It's not like Columbia and Charter did not know that this was going to happen. 2) There is plenty of room for the three tournaments to co-exist, so long as Delaware Valley, Columbia, and Charter all...

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Matt, you bring up some absolutely fantastic points, many of which resonate with me such that I want to elaborate. To come clean for all: I am posting this as someone who, (at least I think, and could be misperceiving my own place) “just kind of showed up and was present until one becomes a voice at...

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It should be noted that Rice was one of maybe two or three out of the 90 or so tournaments we had last year that was not a school that was also playing with up to six teams in the bowl for free. I think that you'd have better run events if you paid more and did not encourage host schools to field 6...

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2. Are you honestly suggesting here in saying NATIONAL twice that we shouldn’t hold regionals? To put it mildly, there are tens of thousands of people who would take issue with that. To clarify, regionals feed into the Bee and Bowl, thus are part of completing the mission of a National Bee and Bowl...

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There is a tournament at Delaware Valley High School in Matamoras,PA just over the border that day.

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We are happy to announce that the former Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl Reasource Blog (https://gpqb.wordpress.com/) will now be covering the entire state of Pennsylvania! If you are in Northern or Western PA, give us a holler!

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I've confirmed with Madden that they have no plans to cut any events for the 2015-16 year (though this slate, and the HS Nationals weekend, seem pretty seriously maxed out with little prospect of addition). This one sentence, right here, is why I cannot fully support Matt's post, which I mostly agr...

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I'm going to chime in here with a related point: a given team does not have to go to all that many events to be a "good" quizbowl school. As the community has structured it, it's perfectly reasonable for a less committed school to study some, attend 4-6 local events a year, play the state ...

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GPQB's nationals preview is now up at https://gpqb.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/p ... s-preview/.

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Announcement copied here from our GPQB Resource Blog : We are pleased here at the Philly quizbowl blog to announce our selections for the inaugural set of Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl awards for Player of the Year, JV Player of the Year*, and Coach of the year. -Congratulations to Ryan Bilger of Em...

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Let it be known the Delaware moderator who volunteered has a) never read a college event, and b) never read without a second person in the room. Please forgive her for any mistakes or whatever she makes in this ridiculous pressure situation.

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We hadn't posted about this since most Delaware teams don't read the forums, but for the public record, this happened and stats are here. Thanks goes out to my co-moderators Nate Lacey and Val Carter, who took time out of their spring breaks to do this.

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I am off to Penn State to pursue a History PhD, focusing on Reformation studies. I won't go so far to say I'll be retired, though I have no expectations to play short term. I do, however, intend to keep up with the high school outreach I've been doing in Pennsylvania, so if you have a high school ev...

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Afternoon Rounds All Games Congradulations to Wilmington Charter A on claiming their 5th Blue Hen Title. The top twelve were: 1) Wilmington Charter A 2) Georgetown Day School B 3) Manheim Township A 4) Emmaus A (beat Lehigh Valley Academy on a half-packet tiebreaker to play in the 3rd place match) ...

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Prelim Stats

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For what it's worth, they are scheduled to play at Blue Hen in a week.

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We have managed to find the staff to expand the field to 36, almost clearing the wait list. We are currently capped there. If more staff can be acquired, we may be able to go even further.

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As a person covering that region, I did not put Lehigh Valley Academy down for the small schools only because I did not realize they qualified. They have not been marked an SSNCT qualifier on the NAQT website. I concur that Alex is excellent and LVA is as high as 4th or 5th best team in the state of...

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We are temporarily at field cap. We hope to find more staff to expand the field further. If you wish to be placed on the wait list, please send me an e-mail and I'll put you on one.

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Having known this situation for a while, let it be known that I gave Charter several warnings to publicaly announce they had canceled the event, and nothing happened. I understand if room reservations and scheduling problems interfere with an event, but please make sure you have a designated person ...

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A local league match from a couple years ago in the Philadelphia area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ESfS00gT0

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I can't edit the entry in the tournament database as we put it under coach Sobieck's name, and he sent me a few wrong passwords locking me out. The offical stats I submitted to NAQT were corrected and the stats on their page properly reflect that match. I will get to edit the tournament database as ...

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Prelims Combined Stats Emmaus defeated Manheim Township A 400-260 in the final to claim their first ever quizbowl tournament victory, after a half packet tiebreaker with West Chester East to get into said final. Lehigh Valley Academy defeated West Chester East 365-160 to take 3rd. The 5th place tea...

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Field [Current Cap of 36] Wilmington Charter (4/4/1) Manheim Township (4/2/1) The Gunston School (1/1/0) Great Valley (3/2/0) Emmaus (1/0/0) Camp Hill (1/1/0) Henderson (2/2/2) Concord (2/1/0) Ocean City (2/0/1) Cedar Crest (2/1/1) Georgetown Day School (2/2/0) C. Milton Wright (2/1/1) Centennial (...

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The University of Delaware Academic Competition Team is pleased to announce our annual Blue Hen Invitational will be returning for a seventeenth year! We hope to see a bigger field than last year, and are looking forward to one of our most competitive fields in some time. We will be using NAQT's IS-...

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It sounds like you're running into a problem that is prevalent across the state of Pennsylvania in local leagues. This problem stems in part because of the way they run their state tournament. Berths are given out through the Pennsylvania education department's Intermediate Units, and so 29 separate...

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Here are the afternoon statistics: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2287/stats/playoffs/ The final round was 1st half packet: Georgetown Day School 180, Emmaus 175 2nd half packet: Georgetown Day School 260, Kellenberg A 110 Combined Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2287/stats...

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Due to a circle of death, Kellenberg A, Georgetown Day School, and Emmaus are playing a two-phase half-packet final. Kellenberg will play in the second phase due to scoring the most points in playoff games.

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