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Due to scheduling conflicts with the MQBA sponsored TRIVIA tournament run on IS-194A, this tournament has been indefinitely postponed. There may be some attempt to run it later in the year or it may be fully cancelled.

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Scone wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:04 pm What platform will be used to run this tournament?

We will be using Zoom.

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Current Field:

Mounds Park Academy (2)
Northfield (1)
Wayzata (4)

Total: 7/16

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The University of Minnesota Quizbowl team is excited to announce the UMN Fall Tournament on Saturday, October 24th, 2020. The tournament will be an online high school mirror of the LONE STAR question set . This tournament is distinct from the long running Gopher Invitation (GINVIT) tournament that w...

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Mods could we get this thread archived since a new 20-21 thread has been created?

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In general, I find negs useful to help players understand their own behavior through statistics. At least from a personal perspective, controlling my number of negs has been made much more concrete by the presence of negs in statistics, and provided a useful benchmark for improvement as a player. I...

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Unfortunately, Knowledge Bowl does remain very prevalent in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities (like Apple Valley), both at the middle school and high school levels. NAQT has been doing an impressive amount of outreach work over the past few years in Minnesota, although Covid has interrupted t...

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Here are a couple of threads that might be of use: 1. Mike Bentley's thread which goes over a lot of the basics and best practices for running online tournaments. This is a couple of years old, but the vast majority of information is still applicable to tournament's today. 2. A thread discussing Zoo...

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This thread was double posted with the Minnesota 2019-20 thread where the results and podcast discussing the results was posted.

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Shardul Rao : Shardul is an excellent player from his performances at WAIT , EFT , and Prison Bowl . Even if we disregard the online results he's shown to be an excellent fine arts and history based generalist. This is true. Shardul is very, very good at quizbowl and definitely deserves a spot in y...

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For those not in the Discord, the link to the fifth (and final) episode of the podcast can be found here. Topics include the End of Year Poll, Online Tournaments during the COVID-19 pandemic, and predictions for the circuit next year.

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For the fifth and final episode of the Minnesota High School Quizbowl podcast, the team ran an end of year poll. All ballots were conducted via AP style voting/points system, with the highest and lowest votes being dropped. Teams (15 ranked over 12 ballots): 1. Wayzata A (150) 2. Mounds View A (140)...

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Dropping by to shill for my own team. Don't want to flex too much here, but just wanted to say that as an A team, we have the Cars opening monologue down pat. In terms of actual ability, we're pretty unrivaled, too. Wayzata has won Minnesota's largest speedcheck tournament for the past 9 years in a...

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The 2019 WAIT set is now clear. Thanks to everyone who came out and played the set as well as the many sites that hosted tournaments using the set! Packets can be found here once they are approved for the archive.

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Barring the unlikely event in which I receive an additional mirror request before Monday, WAIT will be cleared and uploaded to the archive next Tuesday, May 5th.

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Ehtna wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 12:24 am I'm heading to University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), hoping to keep up with qb as much as possible!

Ditto.

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The fourth episode of the Minnesota Quizbowl podcast can be found here . This podcast was originally recorded on March 8th, but due to the constantly changing nature of new regarding the pandemic, we opted to hold off on publishing for a while... which led to me forgetting about it. But it's here no...

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Is this tournament considered part of the 2019-20 or 2020-21 season?

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After running the online mirror of WAIT (WOKE) this past weekend and due to the large amount of online events that are to be played in the coming weeks, I figured that it could do the community some good were I to share what I learned after TDing the event. Mike Bentley's post from just under two ye...

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TAG Magnet won the tournament after a very impressive performance in the finals. Three teams (TAG, GDS, and Water Gas A) were all 5-2 at the end of the playoff rounds. In order to finish things in a timely manner, we seeded the teams based on afternoon ppg and had TAG play GDS (TAG won 410-335) and ...

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WAIT Online is well underway. Stats can be found here and will be updated throughout the day.

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AdiyaSivakuma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:46 am Will there be bonuses read, or will it be like MWT Open Online with tossups lonely?

Bonuses will be read.

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I also just recalled this page , which is great and I think should be done for every state. In addition to nationals finishes, I think that it would also be cool if every state had its own page where it lists all the tournament winners from a state/circuit's history (at least definitely state champ...

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valanjoel10 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:04 pm There's a player 5 and a player 6 column on the google doc. Are these for subs?

Yes. The tournament will be 4 on 4, but if desired teams can have subs who will be permitted to sub in between rounds and at the half.

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The field has been expanded to 24 teams, which will be the hard cap of the tournament. However since many teams listed are tentative still, we strongly recommend continuing to sign up on the waitlist should the field fill up. If there are eight or more teams on the waitlist by the tournament date, w...

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The field for this tournament has been expanded to 16 teams.

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Can we throw out ideas without committing to working on them? There are several projects that I think the quiz bowl community could really use but that I personally don't necessarily have the time to commit to: 1. Incomplete quiz bowl answerlines (failing to include the entire names of countries an...

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I am pleased to announce the WAIT Online Knowledge Event (WOKE), an online mirror of the 2019-20 WAIT question set scheduled for March 28th, 2020. This tournament will be conducted over Discord. The tournament will be run on the Wayzata Academic Invitational Tournament question set which was housewr...

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I'm going to give people until I go to bed on March 22nd before I say that LOGIC is clear to be posted. If you are hosting a tournament and would like to use our set, please let me know soon! Given the large amount of cancellations that are likely to result due to the COVID-19 outbreak, are there a...

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The league playoffs happened last night so I will give some of my thoughts here. First a quick objective recap, Wayzata began the evening 4-0 advancing to the advantaged final with a loss to give while Mounds View and Eden Prairie duked it out in the one-loss bracket with EP coming out ahead. EP won...

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I agree with your picks for the most part, however I will note that ties for advancing to the playoffs are played so Minnetonka would have to win via a match (I think they are full matches) and not on PPG. Beyond that, I agree with your five picks for West Division teams. Same in the East. If St. Ag...

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The podcast team is running a Midseason MN poll. You can find it here: https://forms.gle/jWaDkhJQfXFFqahSA The poll will close this Sunday, December 29th, at 11:59PM . You do not have to be in high school to fill it out, but you should be associated with the Minnesota quizbowl circuit in some capaci...

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MNHSQB Podcast number 2 is now out featuring special guest Aryan Sehgal from Mounds View High School! Please let us know if there are any topics you want us to address in a future podcast or if you want to appear on it yourself!

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WAIT Main Site happened today. Mounds View A defeated Clark High School from Las Vegas in the second game of an advantaged final 385-375. Eden Prairie A took third place and the final qualifying spot for the 2019 PACE NSC. Thanks to all the teams that attended and we hope you enjoyed the set! Stats ...

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The private discussion forum has been set up for WAIT. Please join if you want to give feedback on and/or discuss the set!

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WAIT premiered at MIT fall this past weekend. A private forum has been set up. Please apply through the usergroups panel to give us feedback on the set once you have played it!

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What does Minnesota quizbowl look like away from the metro area? (I mean, I know somewhat since I lived in the state for eight years, but I'm wondering what, if anything, has changed.) It's not great. KB still dominates most of the schools not from the Metro. Red Wing sent a team to SnowCAT at Carl...

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My team is attending the Chattahoochee CATT XIV tournament on Saturday, November 9. Are there any previous WAIT sets out there with a different name, and if not are there any other sets to which you would say your questions are more similar? This is the first year that a WAIT set has been produced ...

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WAIT Mainsite Field (Teams/Buzzers/Moderators):

Breck (1/0/0)
Clark (Las Vegas, NV) (1/0/0)
Chanhassen (1/1/0)
Eden Prairie (4/2/0)
Minneapolis Southwest (1/1/0)
Mounds View (3/1/0)
St. Paul Academy (1/0/0)

Total: 12/5/0

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Three weeks ago, Shardul Rao (Mounds View), Brian Lin (Wayzata), and I (Wayzata) got together to record a podcast to discuss Minnesota quizbowl. That podcast can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/ben-weiner-916005443/minnesota-high-school-quizbowl-podcast-1 I will try to get it up onto YouTube (...

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Wayzata High School Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the main site tournament of the WAIT question set , which will be held on November 23rd, 2019 at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, MN. The tournament will be run on the Wayzata Academic Invitational Tournament question set which was housewritten by...

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Hello everyone! Maxwell Ye from Mounds View High School made a preseason poll for the Minnesota High School Quizbowl Circuit. We encourage anyone who is knowledgeable about the circuit to fill out this form. A few guidelines: 1. Please rank the teams that you think will be in the top 10 overall at t...

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First of all, what is the best way to keep attendees in check? It often gets pretty noisy during meetings, even though we are a small club. There are a lot of side conversations going on and the players, especially the ones in my clique, are just chatting with their friends instead of actually list...

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Since I would like to see a Minnesota annual thread not die immediately for once, I guess I will give my basic thoughts on the circuit this year. The Big 3: Wayzata: I think Wayzata will likely remain the best team in state this year and overall post a strong performance. Brian Lin is probably the s...

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As of July 23rd, WAIT is now 75% complete meaning that we are on track to be done writing by early August. This will give us around two months to continue editing and make final changes to the set before it is able to be played starting on September 28th. UPDATE: As of August 9th, 96% of WAIT is now...

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Mirror Sites: MIT Fall Academic Tournament @ MIT (Cambridge, MA): November 3rd 2019 CATT XV @ Chattahoochee High School (Johns Creek, GA): November 9th 2019 WUFAT V @ Washington University (St. Louis, MO): November 9th 2019 Pilot Grove Fall Invitational @ Pilot Grove High School (Pilot Grove, MO): N...

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Wayzata High School Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the Wayzata Academic Invitational Tournament (WAIT), a high school regular difficulty housewrite set for the 2019-20 season that will be available for mirrors from the weekend of October 19th to the weekend of May 16th (the weekend before HSNCT). ...

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Is this going to remain a doubles tournament or will it be switched to triples like the ICT tournament was?

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You missed the fantastic opportunity to call this Super Acronym 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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