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I believe the tournament should have been called "The Ron Smith Really Really Hates Columbia" tournament since we got to play two of the top three teams (BGA and Hume-Fogg) in our first two matches of the day. :smile: All kidding aside, thank you for a great tournament experience and your ...

History Bowl counts as a tournament toward the 4-tourney minimum, as do non-pyramidal tournaments. Even KMO counted as one of the four before it went belly up. I'm not sure the middle TN crowd would go for limiting the area to only two teams at state seeing as how that would involve taking only two ...

TACA was formed almost 20 years ago and at the time there was a robust roster of tournaments. It was not unusual then to go to tournaments in Murfreesboro, Nashville and Cookeville where 50 or more in-state teams competed representing schools from upper east TN to Memphis. Sadly, the participation o...

The deadline for joining TACA is less than a month away. Only member schools can compete in the state tournament. TACA Schools BGA Blackman Camden Central Central Magnet of Murfreesboro Columbia Academy Columbia Central Cookeville Ezell-Harding Farragut Gallatin Hendersonville Hume-Fogg Academic Mag...

University School of Nashville is planning a tournament on January 11th.

The TACA state tournament at Tennessee Tech will most likely be on March 28-29.

One East TN coach mentioned the days (10-15 years ago) when there were tournaments at UT, Lee College, Halls, West, Oneida and CAK in addition to the Knoxville tv tournament. Now aside from Charlie at UTC, there's not much in-state in the eastern time zone.

I've received a few e-mails in the last few days from coaches in east and west TN lamenting the lack of tournament opportunities in those parts of the state. Any one in the east and west grand divivions of TN planning on any tournaments this year?

We have a new Tennessee Academic Coaches Association web site. The address is

http://tnacademic.webs.com

I will be sending out an e-mail to the 50 or so schools that are on my Tennessee e-mail list in the next few weeks to determine dates of tournaments for next school year. Any schools who are not currently receiving TACA e-mails can let me know and I'll be glad to add them to the list. As I receive w...

At the state tournament, we use average points scored for the bye round.

TACA State Tournament Rank School Wins Losses Total Pts. 1 Ezell-Harding 10 0 4818 2 USN 9 1 3630 3 Hume-Fogg 8 2 4103 4 MLK 7 3 3454 5 McCallie 5 5 3245 6 BGA 5 5 2860 7 Gallatin 4 6 2640 8 Webb 2 8 2607 9 Cookeville 2 8 2354 10 Columbia 2 8 2167 11 Lincoln County 1 9 2178

Excellent tournament Saturday at Vanderbilt. Well-run and good job all the way around.

State field: Ezell, HFA, MLK, BGA, USN, McCallie, Cookeville, Gallatin, Columbia, Lincoln County, Webb

Thanks, Matt. Many of our coaches post threads for their individual tournaments already, but a Tennessee specific thread is a very good idea. I'll definitely make a point of posting more on this board in the future myself about tournaments and TACA activities. Tracy Franklin Tennessee Academic Coach...

We have had a lot of turnover in the coaching ranks the past couple of years so it has been really hard to keep up with the changes in our Tennessee schools. The state tournament sponsored by TACA was begun in the mid-1990s and has been affiliated with NAQT for many years now. The rules for joining ...

We filmed our match for the Nashville tv tournament yesterday. The NAQT questions are definitely an upgrade over what they have been using the past four years- only two of the forty toss-ups went unanswered.

We used to have several teams in the Memphis-area come over to middle Tennessee and compete, but none lately. With tournaments at Riverdale and Cookeville ending, even middle Tennessee has seen a decrease in activity. There are almost no tournaments in east TN aside from Charlie's tournaments in Cha...

The following students have been selected by the membership of the Tennessee Academic Coaches Association as this year's TACA All-State Academic Team: Mark Arildsen (University School of Nashville) Ian Boothby (Hume Fogg) Nick Conley (Ezell-Harding) Kim Counts (CAK) Sarah Craig (West) Matthew Gidcom...

Martin Luther King Magnet School claimed its fourth consecutive state title in this weekend’s Tennessee state tournament. MLK finished with a 12-1 record in the round-robin tournament losing only to Ezell-Harding. Ezell-Harding also finished at 12-1 (losing to Hume-Fogg Magnet) to finish second on t...

Any update on the field yet?

Actually the winning team at TACA State does win a $1000 prize to defray national tournament expenses for whatever tourney they choose to attend.

I wasn't really sure in which forum to post this message, but here goes: A local television in my area is interested in beginning a tv tournament next year. I know these are popular in various areas of the country and I would appreciate it if any of you could pass along any contact names of those wh...

Congratulations to Martin Luther King Magnet School for repeating as Tennessee Quiz Bowl State Champions. The complete results are as follows: 1. MLK 10-1 6570 2. Farragut 9-2 5520 3. Ezell-Harding 9-2 5245 4. Linclon County 8-3 4740 5. Rossview 8-3 4660 6. CAK 7-4 4885 7. Hume-Fogg 5-6 3730 8. Webb...