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Matt Weiner

Congratulations to all 16 teams who participated yesterday at SFT XIV. Maggie Walker A and Blacksburg A were both undefeated entering their matchup in the final scheduled round. MW A won the round 10 game and the first game of an advantaged final, both of which came down to the last question of very...

Matt Weiner

Registration for this tournament is soft-closed. Registrants from here on out will be waitlisted while we continue to recruit/verify staffers.

Matt Weiner

To ensure that we can recruit adequate staff, registration for this tournament will soft-close on Tuesday, April 26. Schools registering after Tuesday will need to provide one qualified reader for every odd-numbered team (first, third, etc). Please sign up by Tuesday at midnight if you intend to com...

Matt Weiner

There was an unlabeled Anderson buzzer left behind at this tournament, which I currently am in possession of. If you are missing a buzzer let me know.

Matt Weiner

Congratulations to Virginia A which cleared the field at 11-0 to win this tournament. North Carolina A, North Carolina B, and Thomas Jefferson were tied for second at 9-2, and we played the tie off on half-games, resulting in Thomas Jefferson taking second. Full stats are here: https://hsquizbowl.or...

Matt Weiner

The final update e-mails regarding this tournament were sent to teams and staffers this morning. If you expected to receive something and did not, let me know.

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for a mirror site of the " 2022 WORKSHOP " tournament, to be held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 8:30 AM to about 5:30 PM. We plan to host this tournament as an in-person event. See the end of thi...

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for a mirror site of the " MRNA Vaccine " tournament, to be held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, February 19, 2022 from 8:30 AM to about 5:30 PM. We plan to host this tournament as an in-person event. See the end of t...

Matt Weiner

Thanks to all teams and staffers for an excellent showing at VCU Winter XII. In addition to our VCU club members & affiliates we were excited to have Ryan and Shannon from JMU, Veer from VMI, and a coach and parent from Maggie Walker on hand to make this tournament possible. In the Standard divi...

Matt Weiner

Registration for this tournament is soft-closed at this time. All teams who have contacted me to this point by e-mail or the registration form about being added to the field should be listed above. Further registrants will be waitlisted and will be invited to replace any teams that withdraw from the...

Matt Weiner

I sent out a survey to registered teams today trying to gauge how many teams would fit in each of two divisions if we split the field by competitiveness. Based on the responses, we will make a decision about the tournament format/field split in the final team update e-mail next week. I have lowered ...

Matt Weiner

Congratulations to Richard Montgomery, who won today's tournament by defeating Norfolk Academic Guild in the second game of a two-game final. Full stats are here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7 ... /complete/ Thanks to all the staffers who made an efficient event possible today.

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for the 2022 Virginia Commonwealth University Season Finale Tournament, which is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted at VCU in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 8:30 AM to about 4:30 PM. We plan to host this tournament as an in-pe...

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for the 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University Winter Tournament, which is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted at VCU in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, December 4, 2021 from 8:30 AM to about 4:30 PM. We plan to host this tournament as an in-pers...

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for the 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University Fall Tournament, which is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted at VCU in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 8:30 AM to about 4:30 PM. We plan to host this tournament as an in-person...

Matt Weiner

Thanks for starting this thread. VCU plans to host our fall high school tournament on 10/30/21, winter high school tournament on 12/4/21, and season finale high school tournament on 5/7/22. In the past, we have tended to use an NAQT set for the winter tournament and mirror non-NAQT sets for the othe...

Matt Weiner

Congratulations to Richard Montgomery A for winning today's Season Finale Tournament in dramatic fashion. RM A and TJ A both entered the last round of the tournament undefeated, creating a de facto final. After the teams played to a 400-400 tie, RM player Justin answered a sudden death tiebreaker to...

Matt Weiner

Updates for registered teams and staff containing instructions for meeting on Zoom on Saturday were sent out yesterday morning - if you did not receive information and plan on participating in this tournament please get in touch with me.

Matt Weiner

We currently have 21 teams registered and will cap the field at 25 pending continued staff recruitment. Teams beyond 25 will be waitlisted and admitted to the field in the order they registered as more staffers sign up.

Full team and staff updates will be sent out later this week.

Matt Weiner

Thank to Shannon for keeping score on this packet:

Anthony Delgado 70
Chandler -5
David 10
Doug 50
MattBo 40
Max Brodsky -5
Shannon -10
Will Grossman 155

Matt Weiner

Reminder that this is 10pm tomorrow (Sunday 3/14, eastern time). You can join the server at https://discord.gg/Pfzd8TXGhU.

Matt Weiner

I will be reading a sequel to this packet at 10pm eastern on Sunday 3/14 in the same server.

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for VCU's late spring high school tournament, VCU Season Finale XIII. This will be an academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted online via Discord or Zoom, on Saturday, May 1, 2021 from 9:00 AM to about 5:00 PM. Participants should be online by 8:30 AM. This tournam...

Matt Weiner

After a 5 game schedule, there were two undefeated teams remaining at this tournament, so we played a 1-game final in which George Washington A defeated William & Mary.

Stats: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... lus_final/

Matt Weiner

Per recent discussion with area teams, VCU will be holding a collegiate novice event on Saturday, February 13 via Zoom. This will last from 11am to about 3pm as a half-day tournament. If the field size allows we can do some kind of power-matching system, otherwise it will just be 5 or so pre-schedul...

Matt Weiner

This tournament concluded with the following results: NATIONAL DIVISION: Chattahoochee A defeated Maggie Walker A in the final. VARSITY DIVISION: Roeper defeated Chattahoochee C in the final. JV DIVISION: Longfellow A defeated Longfellow B in the final. We thank all teams and staffers for bearing wi...

Matt Weiner

Registration for this tournament is now closed. Please contact me by e-mail if you have any changes to make to your team's registration.

Matt Weiner

Registration for this tournament will close when we hit 51 teams or at 11:00 AM eastern on Wednesday, December 2, whichever comes first. We still have room for a few more teams.

Matt Weiner

Update 11/24/20: We currently have 42 teams registered for this tournament and as a result we will be soft-closing the field as we continue to recruit staff. Further registrants will be placed on a waitlist pending additional reader recruitment to accommodate more teams properly. If you can provide...

Matt Weiner

Congratulations to Norfolk Academic Guild for winning today's tournament with an undefeated 9-0 record. Their championship was secured on tossup 20 of a thrilling final game that ended 325 to 320 over second-place finisher Maggie Walker A. Douglas Freeman took third place and Cave Spring was fourth....

Matt Weiner

Since 18 teams is a very workable number for tournament format and staffing, we're going to lock registration here. If you are still interested in playing go ahead and fill out the form and I will let you know if anyone drops.

Matt Weiner

Congratulations to Pitt A for winning this tournament in a 295-215 final over Penn C. In the consolation bracket final, NC State won a thrilling last-question game against Virginia B. Stats for the prelims are up at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6582/stats/preliminary_rounds/ and for the pla...

Matt Weiner

With 15 teams currently registered I'm going to tentatively close the field as we continue to recruit staff. Further registrants will need to provide a reader, otherwise we will form a waitlist and/or refer you to another site running this packet set. Any freelance moderators would be greatly apprec...

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for VCU's fall high school quizbowl tournament, VCU Fall IX. This will be an academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted online via Discord, on Saturday, October 31, 2020 from 9:00 AM to about 4:30 PM. Participants should be online by 8:30 AM. This tournament is open ...

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for VCU's winter high school tournament, VCU Winter XI. This will be an academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted online via Discord, on Saturday, December 5, 2020 from 9:00 AM to about 5:00 PM. Participants should be online by 8:30 AM. This tournament is open to al...

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for VCU's mirror of IO SATURNALIA , which is a college-level academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted online via Discord, on Saturday, October 10, 2020 from 9:00 AM to about 6:00 PM. Participants should be online by 8:30 AM. For convenience, here is a link to the r...

Matt Weiner

VCU will host the following high school tournaments in 2020-2021: VCU Fall on October 31, VCU Winter on December 5, and VCU Season Finale on May 1. Question set choices and full announcements are pending.

Edited: May 1, not May 5.

Matt Weiner

This is the general announcement for VCU's mirror of the Michigan Winter Tournament, which is a college-level academic quizbowl tournament, to be hosted at VCU in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, February 1, 2020 from 8:00 AM to about 5:00 PM. Registration will run from 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM, so teams ...

Matt Weiner

**As of 3/11/20 we have decided not to host this tournament on the VCU campus on 3/28 in light of the covid-19 outbreak and related restrictions put in place by the university. An email was sent to all registered teams exploring the possibility of moving this to an online event, and we will announc...

Matt Weiner

No one wants to "deny people the right to lodge protests." What we are doing is evaluating those protests that are made by going through the question and seeing if the answer given was correct for the clues in the question, or not. Asking TDs to accept wrong answers because the writer coul...

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My stated positions as to what the rules/TD should do and my actions as an editor are easily reconcilable if you focus on the part about how I don't believe it's the purpose of protests or tournament directors to overrule normative decisions actually made by writers. "Sometimes the writer choos...

Matt Weiner

You have to say the right answer to get points. This requires no further justification. The fact that a question was "bad" or "non-empathetic" is not protestable. If you think the writer has written a bad question, complain about it here. But expecting to get credit for a WRONG ...

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CREEP covered up, and paid for the defense of those charged in, Watergate. It did not conduct the operation of the actual activities discussed in the tossup. The fact that covering up a crime makes one liable for the crime in the eyes of the law or of people judging the Nixon Presidency is irrelevan...

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The Plumbers were established directly by the Nixon White House and took direction from John Ehrlichman, who was not a member of CREEP. It seems that the Wikipedia page on the White House Plumbers asserts directly that they worked for CREEP; in typical Wikipedia fashion, this is 1) sourced to an art...

Matt Weiner

So what is the consensus on Penn State as the Mid-Atlantic mirror? Sorry for the tardiness but we are still interested in hosting if there are enough teams interested in attending. VCU has already been given a mirror, announced it, accepted several registrations, and sent e-mails to 60 schools invi...

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My opinion is that the data issue is a real one. Texas A&M or Vanderbilt might play ACF Nationals in any given year, have done so in the past, and obviously deserve the right to try to qualify and then make their decision later based on how they feel about their Regionals performance. After Detr...

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What is the current e-mail contact for UTC?

Matt Weiner

Any system where TDs, ACF, or anyone else is tasked with passing judgment on whether the reasons that some individual person took off time from school or quizbowl are "worthy" or not is incredibly flawed and unworkable by any metric we are applying here, and should not be used. In the next...

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The current rule contains what's basically an exception to the experience criterion, that lets you have four years from HS even if you played a bunch of ACF tournaments in high school. Obviously, anyone implementing this by interrogating specific people about their age is an idiot, and I would not a...

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They have to learn faster, get better faster, or they are going to quickly see their ability to play tournaments close. Nobody who was previously eligible has been made ineligible to play ACF by this rule change. Furthermore, the only person posting in this thread about Undergraduate status would h...

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