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I'll be attending Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA, who doesn't appear to have a team.

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For what it's worth, we actually finished higher than New Kent at GSAC. They had two playoff brackets and then played cross-overs to determine the final places.

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How'd they figure out Blacksburg and Tazewell were the #1 and #2 seeds? Region B, I heard, has not yet been held, and will be a single-elim between now and Friday. Your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps PPG or margin of victory? According to the Facebook group Regions I and II will play on Thursday.

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The Region IV tournament was cancelled. Blacksburg and Tazewell advance to states as the #1 and #2 seeds respectively.

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It's fine, I understand. It's unlikely we would have been able to make it anyway. Good luck to you and everyone in the tournament!

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All of our rides fell through, so we can't make it. Sorry.

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Can we get a field update for this? We're definitely interested in attending, if there is still room, but it would be nice to know if there would be teams there were we to attend.

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Pardon me here, but I'm surprised. Comparing these stats to the Decemberist stats, it looks like HSAPQ set 9 (or the bonuses, at least) was a good bit tougher than HFT. If someone wants, I can post a comparison, but really, an HSAPQ set shouldn't even be as difficult as HFT. EDIT: I just noticed th...

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Pardon me here, but I'm surprised. Comparing these stats to the Decemberist stats, it looks like HSAPQ set 9 (or the bonuses, at least) was a good bit tougher than HFT. If someone wants, I can post a comparison, but really, an HSAPQ set shouldn't even be as difficult as HFT. EDIT: I just noticed th...

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Group AA continued: I believe that Salem beat Cave Spring earlier this year, they reported being 4-0 and Cave Spring was on their schedule, so they've already got a step up there. That being said, I have yet to see Cave Spring A at full strength. They did seem to struggle some at the Roanoke tournam...

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It's fairly early, but things seem to be shaping up nicely. We've run into a few repeats as well. Nothing as egregious as being in the same match, but the matches occurred on back-to-back nights. A couple of these included the same stock clues appearing in both appearances. This is the only real cri...

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First and foremost I'd like to thank Maggie Walker for a good tournament and a great time. We really got a feel for where we are as a team. Also, as a member of a non-elite team, I'd like to say that the questions weren't terribly hard. At the very least not enough to be discouraging. Round 11 got a...

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-My team's scoring is pretty low, and could be much better. Our bonus conversion isn't good at all. I feel that we leave way too much on the table that we could easily get. I don't know if this is the case with you guys, of course, but one thing that really surprised me when I was at the Sterling k...

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Apparently, we are not allowed to attend officially affiliated with the school. I'll inform you of our ever-so-clever pseudonym when we come up with it. Edit: I believe that we've decided on simply "Blacksburg" (rather than Blacksburg HS), Blacksburg Academic Team, or something similar. Ou...

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I feel all right saying "only four teams above 15 ppb", "almost half of the field under 10 ppb" and "anyone scoring 2.86 ppb" indicate that the tournament did a really bad job being written for high schoolers. ...Yeah, it seems that this was perhaps excessively difficu...

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These bonus conversions are godawful, from the view point of "successfully writing quiz bowl questions". Harvard Fall was probably exceptionally hard for this particular group of teams. I can't comment on the set because I haven't seen it, but something to this effect isn't too surprising.

sageorator · Re: GSAC XVII at Maggie Walker (12/12/09) Blacksburg is interested.

Blacksburg is interested.

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Brant was a notable chief of the Mohawk tribe. That would be an acceptable lead-in, as that is how he is best known. However, I do seem to recall a trash giveaway clue.

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Auburn High School probably will not be hosting the EQuInE III since I will begin teaching at Blacksburg HS this fall. So unless the yet to be determined sponsor of the Scholastic Bowl team at AHS wants to host a tournament, I would say that it is likely that the EQuInE will no longer be on the sch...

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It's amazing how much talent graduated this past year. Maggie Walker will decidedly be very, very good. They'll probably dominate on the national level not to mention the state. I somewhat doubt there will be significant shifts in power as the schools losing those players are mostly traditional powe...

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I'll be at Milligan.

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I asked the Influence of Sea Power Upon History question at practice today and three people knew it , two before the power mark. It's rather poorly written question, but not terribly hard. I recall Mahan coming up in an old VHSL packet previously as well.

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I just love the pregame interviews with the coaches as well as the amazing questions on...well...everything.

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Shoot me one if you can, please. The address is sage orator @yahoo .com, minus the spaces of course.

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A rather big problem I've noticed is that by the time we get to the playoffs in tournaments, the team is usually really tired. I'll concede that usually the teams are better by this point, but we're noticably out of it. In addition to the obvious good night's sleep, any advice?

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I'm not completely sure that this is the correct place for this, but here it goes anyway.

Does anyone have any idea for the dates for the camp this year? Maybe just a general idea, besides "in the summer" of course?

Also, how is registration for the camp itself done?

Thanks in advance.

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This thread will probably be moved shortly. Anyway, as long as it's started, I'm curious as to Group AA results. That is, besides the previously posted Battlefield Disctict.

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What's left to be said that Chuhern and Sarah haven't already expressed? Uh, wow, just wow. I'm excited to be playing on HSAPQ questions next year. This will make everything better and easier for everyone.

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Do you have individual stats? No pressure or anything.

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I would like to thank Mr. Powers again for having us and hosting this tournament. Other than the initial delay and some typical stuff it was well run and went smoothly. The questions, for the most part, were good and of appropriate difficulty. Congratulations to everyone who placed and/or won an ind...

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I believe that they were going to try to do a Swiss system. I'm not sure if they will still try to do that. Just a heads up, though admittedly late. We may not be able to bring a buzzer, we will bring the extra $10 instead. I'm terribly sorry about this, even more so if it messes anything up, I take...

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Blacksburg scrimmaged Northside last night. Blacksburg A 275 Northside A 35 Blacksburg B 220 Northside B 20 The questions were somewhat better tonight. More of Pickrell's questions and less of Avery's. However, I did have my first experience with spelling questions. That was interesting. The art que...

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Blacksburg scrimmaged Pulaski tonight. Blacksburg A 270 Pulaski A 100 Blacksburg B 190 Pulaski A 130 I was skeptical about the complaints about the questions, but I have to concur. I have a great deal of respect for Shawn Pickrell and what he has done for quizbowl in Virginia, but this was bad.Only ...

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You are far from alone here. We lose people to swimming, track, soccer, HOSA, ~4 theatre productions, piano, math league, debate, and forensics just off the top of my head. Typically people come and go as they please and we usually lose 5-7 people about halfway through practice. What is especially f...

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Alright, thank you. I can now confirm that we will definitely be coming. I'm not sure if Ms. Coston will send you an email but I went ahead and emailed our registration to you. I hope that's fine and we're looking foreword to seeing you there.

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Blacksburg is interested in coming to this. We've just had a heck of a time scrounging up enough people and with the coach being out. I hope we don't get wait listed.

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I would like to echo A.J.'s sentiments. The tournament ran smoothly, especially considering one team got lost. We had a great time, despite getting destroyed in the later part of the day. We sort of got an idea of where we are and what we need to work on. I would like to thank Mr. Beeken and Auburn ...

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Oh yeah, duh, I'm not sure what I was thinking. Thanks for the correction. More competition for us. So, uh, Group AA will be pretty interesting as well.

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What time will this begin? I mean, what time is registration, etc.

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I have to agree on Gov from the stats that I saw, very impressive. I believe that Charlottesville has expressed interest in a couple tournaments in the state, so I would think they would make an appearance at some point. Cave Spring has looked pretty impressive from the stats that I have seen. It lo...

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Blacksburg will probably be bringing 2 teams to this. I am not sure when our coach will register though. I willl remind her about the discount and perhaps that will speed up the process.

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