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WE HAVE A FIELD

It's accessible by short URL at bit.ly/SicSemper2024.

Building is now open. See you shortly!

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I never get these updates posted anywhere near in as timely a fashion as I want to; however, we've had a bit of flux over the past couple of days, so I'm OK getting this out late. News and timing! FRIDAY NIGHT ...is tomorrow night, and it might be late to put this together! However, a couple of the ...

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Making the tournament viable? We now have 'em. Southwest Virginia stepped up large the past couple of days; the region recognizes the importance of this tournament to them and staff came in to support. Again, the biggest concern I had was that teams had promised staffers and I hadn't heard hide nor ...

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At this point in time there are seven registered staffers for Sic Semper Trashis. Teams, through their individual registrations, have promised additional staffers that could make the tournament viable right now, but those staffers have not registered and made their contact information known to me. W...

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We once again announce and invite registrations for the annual Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance (SWATA) trash tournament fundraiser, Sic Semper Trashis 2024, which will be held at Virginia High School in Bristol, Virginia on April 20. This will, as usual, be a mirror of Bob Kilner’s Ohio Tr...

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Honors and gratitude from Saturday’s Secret City Classic at Roane State CC’s Oak Ridge campus: Congratulations to Gate City A (Connor Ketron and Ian Stapleton) for clearing the field by two games and comprehensively repeating as Secret City champions. There was a three-way tie for placement behind G...

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Bump for field update and information post! I’m sending out what’s usually my Monday or Tuesday tournament week update on Friday midday the week before because my early week next week is PACKED. Thanks in advance for your understanding if you send an email on tournament week and it takes a minute to...

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It took us long enough...! As a coordinator for the hyper-local Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance (SWATA), we’re announcing our first two tournament dates for the 2023-2024 season: State Line Showdown 2023 November 11 at (Bristol) Virginia High School Mirroring MOQBA Novice II (novice diffic...

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Honors and gratitude from the second annual Tusculum Earlybird: Congratulations to Northmont (OH; Ave Rieger, Ethan Karl, Kevin Adler, Russell Dillak), who won an advantaged final over Ridgeview A (VA; David Farmer, Daniel Greear, Landon Couch) to claim the upper division title of Earlybird on a per...

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We’re looking forward to a great tournament on Saturday! Here is our standard pre-tournament update. It may look vaguely similar to last year’s! PARKING We expect the building to be open and available for us from 815 AM. Our mass meeting room will be Meen Center 007. Google Maps responds well to a m...

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Field update as of October 26. All teams Tennessee unless otherwise noted: William Blount (1 team, no buzzers, no staff) Knox Central (1 team, 1 buzzer, no staff) L&N STEM (1 team, no buzzers, no staff) Maryville (1 team, no buzzers, no staff) Adair County (KY) (2 teams, 1 buzzer, no staff) Sevi...

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Updates coming in comprehensively next week. But: we open the doors of the Meen Center at 815 AM for a 900 AM general meeting and a 930 AM start to matches. We'll take this as a bump for field updates - there's been a LOT of flux in the field, but we're starting to have a substantial tournament take...

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This is the formal announcement and invitation of teams to the 2023 edition of the Secret City Classic, a quizbowl event open to teams of all levels, to be contested at the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State Community College on October 28, 2023. Further information below, or move ahead with registrati...

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To those concerned with the advancement of our buzzer game in Tennessee, greeting. The primary purpose of this post is to share Brian Hoover's definitive schedule of Tennessee quizbowl events for the third year running. That calendar is the reliable update on events in the state; if you have Tenness...

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This is what we expect will be our final field update, as of October 3: Upper Division Northmont (OH) (1 team, 1 buzzer, no staffers) Gate City (VA) (1 team, 1 buzzer, multiple staffers) Gallatin (TN) (1 team, multiple buzzers, 1 staffer) (Wise County) Central (VA) (1 team, no buzzer, no staffers) E...

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This is the formal announcement and invitation of teams to the second annual (!) Tusculum Earlybird, a high school novice-level quizbowl tournament to be held at the Meen Center at Tusculum University on October 7, 2023. This event is made possible through the support of Tusculum University Admissio...

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Your honors and gratitude for the SuMO VIII weekend: Congratulations to Team 1 (Champagne Poetry; Jack Lewis, Matt Lewis, Sean Higgins and Jon Vaysman), who won a one-match playoff over Team 7 (the unnamed partnership of Tracy Mirkin, Graham Cope, John Riddle and Jason Russell) to claim first prize ...

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Your honors and gratitude for the SuMO VIII weekend: Congratulations to Team 1 (Champagne Poetry; Jack Lewis, Matt Lewis, Sean Higgins and Jon Vaysman), who won a one-match playoff over Team 7 (the unnamed partnership of Tracy Mirkin, Graham Cope, John Riddle and Jason Russell) to claim first prize ...

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Seeds, just in the nick of time, except not really all together yet: Full URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jcXmXHXlu_OwOqFxr1Rsf4lFzMbEZGwqeJYc2_unLSQ/edit?usp=sharing Shortened URL: https://is.gd/SuMOVIIITrash These seeds are TENTATIVE based on the pairing of free agents, which will hap...

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Prelim stage statistics are starting to go up.
https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... s/prelims/

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Schedule and seed pools for the SuMO Academic draw: Full link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SiKWV-BuRJBW9HVlG5Dw26RInfb2QO-mMakbVpYJHKU/edit?usp=sharing Shortened link: https://is.gd/SuMOVIII This is as competitive a field as we've ever run for SuMO Academic, and I'm honestly beside mysel...

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I can guarantee you SOME of us would be enthusiastic about a 11-team full RR! I heartily endorse this message. Just to be plain: we're on a very consistent and solid schedule for SuMO Academic, one that's going to allow tiebreaks and advantaged final if we need 'em. I'm not worried about the schedu...

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Despite my best efforts, I never seem to get this post assembled before Thursday of tournament week. Nonetheless, let’s get the information out for the world. (Did I just straight copy and paste this from the post for SuMO Academic? Mind your own business.) PARKING On both tournament days, we expect...

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Despite my best efforts, I never seem to get this post assembled before Thursday of tournament week. Nonetheless, let’s get the information out for the world. PARKING On both tournament days, we expect the building to be open and available for us from 800 AM. Our mass meeting space is the main lobby...

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A viable field update for ETEOSAP, as of July 25: Seth Kendall "et al." Big Celiac (Tennessee; Barnes et al.) "Yes, we're from Ohio. Get your jokes in now." (Kilner et al.) Karas/Shemontee/Rama collaboration Richlands A (Simmons' Last Stand) Richlands B (Woody et al.) It Negs The...

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This is the formal announcement of and invitation of registrations for the return of the East Tennessee End-of-Summer Academic Party, or ETEOSAP, to be held on July 29 at Tusculum University in Greeneville, Tennessee. Read more, or just get your team’s registration going: <https://forms.gle/VtdFou4s...

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This used to say... This is the formal announcement of and invitation of registrations for the return of the East Tennessee End-of-Summer Academic Party, or ETEOSAP, to be held on July 29 at Tusculum University in Greeneville, Tennessee. On reflection, this was originally posted in the wrong forum. ...

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Field updates for this tournament are being kept on a Google Doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1D ... sp=sharing

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Field updates for this tournament are being kept on a Google Doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1D ... sp=sharing

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This is the formal announcement of and invitation of registrations for SuMO Trash: ALL HAIL SUNSPHERE. The stress of SuMO Academic can tax even the hardiest buzzer-presser, and we have taken great delight in breaking that stress with a playable trash tournament that rewards players of all levels. We...

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This is the formal announcement of and invitation of registrations for SuMO VIII: Follow The Winding Waters. After two successful post-pandemic years at Tusculum University, and in partnership with Natural and Behavioral Sciences at Pellissippi State Community College, we’re pleased to situate the m...

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Message from our intrepid host, Noah Ashbrook: "Small heads up for our traveling teams: Bristol City has gone through some street number changes. Your GPS may still have Virginia High listed as 1200 Long Crescent Drive but the NEW address is 650 Long Crescent Drive. "Make sure you know you...

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Oh, boy, y'all. Here are the necessary updates with less than a week to go until a pop culture event unlike any other: FRIDAY NIGHT There will be a dinner gathering for competitors and staffers coming in from out of town at Mellow Mushroom on US 11 north of Exit 7 at 600 PM; if you're coming, contac...

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Bump for field update March 8. The high school field is closed on 18 teams. The open division field is on 15 teams and can add one additional team. One of the teams in the open division field is a designated "free agent farm" that is looking for additional teammates. We remain open to addi...

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Bump for field update on February 23. We're incredibly grateful for additional staffers who have joined the pool. We're still open to additional staffers (there are enough links to the staffing registration up there, I won't add), but we're at a point where we're welcoming additional registrants. Th...

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Bump for field update February 9. That was quick; our field is closed. We will almost certainly reopen the field at some point before April 1. We have odd numbers of teams in both the high school and open fields; we need to even those out. And there is still STRONG interest in the field. But before ...

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Bump for field update on February 8.

We are rapidly approaching field cap with substantial interest remaining and the need for support from staffers to make the event work. If you're able to join us to support our fundraising for Southwest Virginia teams, please fill out the staffer registration.

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The most up-to-date field update can be found on the SWATA Field Update page , which also includes field updates for the hyper-local SWATA Solo Challenge (if you're in the SWATA footprint, please contact Pearson with interest in that). This field listing is only being periodically updated; its most ...

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We are proud to announce and invite registrations for the annual Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance (SWATA) trash tournament fundraiser, Sic Semper Trashis 2023, which will be held at Virginia High School in Bristol, Virginia on April 1, 2023. This will, once more, be a mirror of Bob Kilner’s...

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The hyper-local Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance (SWATA) is announcing two additional dates for its 2022-2023 tournament calendar. On March 18, we will contest the first-ever SWATA Solo Challenge, an individual players' championship for players attending schools in the SWATA footprint, at G...

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Coaches across the state should have been contacted about entry into the 2nd annual Tennessee State Quizbowl Tournament, once again being held at Currey Ingram Academy in Brentwood on March 25, 2023. Since this event is closed to teams outside of the state of Tennessee, this will be the sole forum p...

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I'm always nervous speaking for Dren.

However: we should know by early Tuesday.

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East Tennessee Quizbowl will present a regional championship tournament on Feburary 4, 2023 at Jefferson County High School. Because this tournament is going to focus exclusively on teams from the east side of the state, this will be the official forums announcement of that tournament on hsquizbowl....

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Honors and gratitude after the revival of the Tusculum Collegiate Novice tournament on Saturday, November 12: Congratulations to Virginia Tech’s entry (Soham Mehra, Jacob Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, Naira Rodriguez) for their field-clearing 10-0 performance, including an emphatic 500-110 victory in a de-...

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From the stats boy on the day, honors and gratitude following yesterday’s Secret City Classic, East Tennessee Quizbowl’s fall event contested at Roane State Community College - Oak Ridge: Congratulations to Gate City (VA) B (Connor Ketron, Garrett Wallace, Mariam Millichamp, Paige Scott) for their 8...

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Bump for official announcement on September 25th.

Teams have already registered! See the field update on NAQT's site: <https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=13672>

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Honors and gratitude from the inaugural Tusculum Earlybird, contested today at Tusculum University:   Congratulations to Richlands (VA) A (Joey Simmons, Gavin Littrell, Owen Bales, Jadyn Daniels) for clearing the field at 7-0 and winning the upper division of Earlybird. Southside (SC) A finished sec...

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Bump for Wednesday-of-tournament-week field update. Still getting a couple of team situations and staff situations resolving, and I've issued a deadline of Thursday night at 500 PM for those situations to finalize so I can release the schedule. If your team isn't recognized in the field update, plea...

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As a coordinator for the hyper-local Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance (SWATA), we’re pleased to announce our tournament dates for our 2022-2023 restart: State Line Showdown 2022 November 5 at (Bristol) Virginia High School Mirroring SANDS (novice difficulty) Site contact: Noah Ashbrook <nas...

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The field for Tusculum Earlybird is provisionally CLOSED. There are a couple of interest groups that have contacted me, and I'm going to let their status resolve before I make any further decisions. Again: I remain a measure low on established reading staff, and schools that are bringing two teams h...

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