Tri-State Academic Challenge (KY/OH/WV) 11/20/2010

[scottsmith81]

We will be conducting the Tri-State Academic Challenge with high school, middle school, and JV divisions, for teams in Kentucky & Ohio & West Virginia. We would like to invite your school to join us. http://www.qunlimited.com/kent.htm

Date: Nov. 20, 2010. Games start at 9 a.m., est. finish time is 5:30.

Place:
Belfry Middle School
25259 US Highway 119
Belfry, KY 41514

Entry Fee: $75 per team

Deadline: Payment must be received by Nov. 10, 2010. A school that has not paid in full before the competition starts will not be allowed to play.

Register: http://www.qunlimited.com/ordereg.htm or by phone, 800-868-1518.

The Field: Our upper and lower limits are: high school division 8-64 teams; middle school 7-32, JV 7-32.

The Questions: We hold ourselves to the highest standards of question quality and academic relevance.

Format: four-quarter NAC format, see http://www.qunlimited.com/rulesreg.htm

Top Teams: will qualify for the National Academic Championship.

[Rococo A Go Go]

I'd like to recommend to teams in the area that they not go to this. UofL already has a perfectly wonderful tournament on that day (although the field may be full) but anyone who isn't going to that would be better served staying at home than going to this. This is a tournament that will likely have a format and a lower level of question quality that will not help teams in quizbowl or even quick recall.


Edit(s): Better wording to get an important point across.

[SoLegit12]

Plus HSCNT>NAC.

[Matt Weiner]

I think Kentucky is especially sensitive to issues of ethics in quizbowl, given the incident with Matt Knupp a year and a half ago. The Kentucky powers that be reacted swiftly and justly to that affair and showed that Kentucky has no tolerance for such behavior. I am confident that Kentucky as a whole will follow their lead and not head down the moral sewer that is a Chip Beall tournament (or the smaller but still disturbing issue of competing with a previously-announced tournament).

[jwoolley]

For what it is worth, the U of L tournament is on November 20, not November 10. Oops, I just saw that the date in the heading was wrong and that there is a date conflict. Sorry.

[Whiter Hydra]

For what it is worth, the U of L tournament is on November 20, not November 10. Oops, I just saw that the date in the heading was wrong and that there is a date conflict. Sorry.

And the first post says it's November 20, which is what I'd be inclined to believe, unless they're having a tournament on a Wednesday.

[Scott]

I'm assuming this thing didn't happen.
Can anyone confirm?

Edited: Guess it did.

[Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant]

This looks like the results: "schools that are favored to make the playoffs at 2011 Nationals."

lol at the tiebreaker

[SoLegit12]

Finalists: Campbell County B and Belfry Middle.
Really?

[Coach K]

Finalists: Campbell County B and Belfry Middle.
Really?

It sounds like it was just a middle school division.

[SoLegit12]

Finalists: Campbell County B and Belfry Middle.
Really?

It sounds like it was just a middle school division.

I was confused because the post talks about varsity hs and this page with no other results

[Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant]

Hard to tell since there doesn't seem to be a field list or staaaaats; they just replace the announcements with the results writeup.