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Field Update (8/23):

The following schools have expressed interest in bringing at least one team:

Arab - 2
Austin - 2
East Lawrence -2
Hewitt-Trussville -2
Holy Spirit
James Clemens
LAMP - 2
Muscle Shoals
Russellville - 2
St. Bernard - 2
Southside
Sylacauga

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Dear Coaches/Sponsors: The West Point High School Quiz Bowl Team would like to invite you to our annual “Kick-Off” Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 at our campus in Cullman, AL. This tournament is open to all players in grades 12 and below. Schools may register multiple teams. We encourage sch...

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Does anyone have any dates yet for Invitationals? I've got kids and parents desperately trying to juggle a million different activities. Most have Quiz Bowl as a priority, but we need to know dates ASAP so that they don't make other commitments. As for us, we will have host an invitational (High Sch...

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QuizBro wrote: ↑
Mon May 13, 2019 11:02 pm
Does anyone have any advice for helping things stick? Short question but need some advice.

If only your DAD was a quizbowl coach....

Thanks to those who have replied with the exact advice that I gave him. Sometimes, a kid just needs to hear things from someone other than ol' Dad.

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I sent the SQBS files for our Dec. 8 tournament to NAQT several days ago. I have no idea why they haven't been posted. But, it looks like a LOT of tournament stats from the past couple of weeks haven't been posted.

I just sent another e-mail asking about it. I apologize for the delay.

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I will add my voice to the chorus against this rule. In my six years at West Point High, this rule would've affected two of my starting "A-team" players. One player (class of 2013) was home-schooled until high school and turned 19 shortly before HSNCT, in which he played his senior year (my first ye...

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Hello all! My name is Adam Williams and I am the president of the Alabama Academic Quiz Bowl Team at the University of Alabama. We still have spots left in our annual William Rufus King Memorial Tournament to be held on October 20th here at UA. Top finishers at this tournament will qualify for NAQT...

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iarehavethestupid wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:37 pm
Will middle school be allowed to play JV?

Yep.

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Dear Coaches and Sponsors, I would like to invite your team(s) to West Point High School’s “Steve Reed Memorial Tournament” to be held Saturday, December 8, 2018 at West Point High School in Cullman, AL. The tournament is open to all teams consisting of players in grades 12 and below. There will be ...

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Nothing in the published rules suggests a letter theme is required, so I haven't been doing that with my sets. Hopefully that avoids some of the issues anyway. While technically true, we do try to make sure that the worksheets all contain a theme and that said theme is conducive to a broad spectrum...

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We're coming!

AT LEAST 1 varsity and 1 JV - possibly and probably 2 JV!

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How exactly does a round-robin tournament work? Is it similar to what we did at ACE camp for the Wild West tournament? Round Robin means that each team plays every other team exactly once. The team with the best record at the end wins. This is usually only done when the field is small enough to all...

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Stats are up, but slightly misleading due to the need to add a couple of extra games: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5213/stats/all_games/ Actual Results: 1st Place - Eastside, GA 2nd Place - Southside 3rd Place - Liberty Middle (That's correct. 8th graders dominated much of this field.) 4...

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West Point High School in Cullman, AL will be hosting a "Kickoff Tournament" on August 25, 2018. This tournament will be a mirror of the SCOTTIE Invitational being held and written by Glasgow High School in Kentucky. The tournament will be open to all players 12th grade and below. There will likely ...

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When will we see finalized logistics, format, schedule, etc?

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bretthogan43 wrote:I'd like to wish the best of luck to West Point and Good Hope as they represent the great state of Alabama (and Cullman county!) at SSNCT this weekend. Go warriors and raiders.

Thanks, man. We did our best.

quizbowllee

Coaches/Sponsors: I am inviting you to our final (probably) High School Scholar's Bowl Tournament of the school year at West Point High School in Cullman, AL . The tournament will take place on Saturday, April 21. This tournament will use NAQT set SCT-18. They may be slightly more difficult, but sho...

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In fact, I was actually very impressed and satisfied with the set that was played this Saturday at the MS State Championship. Sometimes, I am sort of put off by some of the answerlines and questions in NAQT sets as I feel that they're not really relevant enough to be asked about (that's a personal ...

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As of this morning, I am officially taking over as head coach of West Point Middle School. Therefore, I will now be coaching West Point's Intermediate (5th grade), Middle (6th-8th), and High (9-12) teams. My head is still spinning that this happened so unexpectedly. I'm looking forward to working wi...

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jonah wrote: [*]Quizbowl pays the bills

If only that were true for me....

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Here's the deal on SMART III - it's the last of the SMART Trilogy. I can't put myself or my players through this again. We MAY do a SMART "reboot" in a couple of years, but we will NOT do another house-write for a while. Here's the story of how it came to pass that there was virtually no fine arts q...

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Dear Coaches and Sponsors, I would like to invite your team(s) to the 6th Annual West Point Quiz Bowl Tournament to be held Saturday, December 9, 2017 at West Point High School in Cullman, AL. The tournament is open to all teams consisting of players in grades 12 and below. There will be separate aw...

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For what it's worth, this is my personal Top 10: 1) Hoover - I struggled with Hoover/James Clemens for the top spot. Sharath is awesome. But, Hoover has four power players. I have to believe that ultimately a well-balanced TEAM will be able to defeat an individual powerhouse in the end. I could be w...

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We will be hosting a middle school invitational on Nov. 3 this year. I'm in need of a VERY easy set of pyramidal questions - a set that would allow 5th graders who have NEVER played or even practiced more than a handful of times to get most tossups by the end and have a ppb over 10. Does anyone have...

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Never mind.

I will be meeting with the team next week and making decisions about SMART III and our Fall/Winter NAQT tournament. Conflicts keep popping up.

Stay tuned.

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SMART III: The SMART Knight Rises at West Point will officially be on Sept. 30.

Our fall/winter NAQT Invitational will probably be Dec. 9.

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Team Alabama Rosters: Team A: Venu Reddy (Springwood) Will Parker (West Point) Rishik Hombal (Hoover) Judson Christopher (Southside) Team B: Sharath Narayan (James Clemens) Joseph Jun (Hoover) Andy Kong (Hoover) Peter Scalise (Indian Springs) Team C: Jared Stinson (Dothan) Kohan Lovett (West Point) ...

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As to the spoilers, I'm sorry. Once again I don't think we have a formal policy on this, and I'm not so sure we should — surely quiz bowl will always have a major component of knowing what happened in creative works. However, I will add this question to our (enormous) list of things to discuss over...

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This may seem silly, but I'm actually serious: Can NAQT please NOT write questions with major spoilers to new movies? At least give it a year. I'm a pretty big horror movie fan and was (and still am) planning to rent Get Out soon. I had avoided any plot points at all. But, the bonus on that movie ga...

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Dothan ends our season finishing top 4 at the TV Scholars Bowl tournament, losing to James Clemens by 40. Although they will be losing me, the top scorer, 3/4 of our A team are Juniors who will be returning next year and I am sure Dothan will be competitive next year. I am very thankful for all the...

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Stats are up from our tournament on Saturday:

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-t ... nt_id=8206

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I may be just overlooking it, but I can't seem to find the actual rules of the NASAT tournament anywhere. Does it follow the PACE NSC format and rules? Is there anywhere where the rules are posted so that I can familiarize myself with them?

Thanks.

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Alabama will have 3 teams. Two will be funded by ASCA and the third will be funded by the kids on the team.

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Odds are, Alabama will have 2 teams. I'm working to coordinate everything at this time.

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I will be coaching the NASAT team this year. Everyone interested, please e-mail me at thenry@ccboe.org with "NASAT" in the subject line. Once I see how much interest there is, we will decide the best method of team selection. ASCA will pay entry for one team. If there is enough for a "B" team, we ma...

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"Has anyone figured out West Point yet?" No. And that includes me. We will return 3 of our 4 starters next year. And, we will have Billy Ellis returning, as well. Billy was an A-team starter LAST year, got moved to B-team captain this year, and SHOULD return to the A-team next year as a Senior. Aust...

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It depends on where you teach. Ask your administration what is required. When I worked for Huntsville City Schools, I had to have a notarized permission form from each student just to travel down the street. Here at West Point, a generic parent-signed permission form will allow me to take them anywh...

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Could someone please elaborate on "statistically anomalous"? I've seen the results, and if it's simply the fact that these two players scored at abnormally high levels throughout the tournament, that's a problem. It seems wrong that statistical anomaly and failure to corroborate tournament results ...

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And, even as I posted this, it was corrected....

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I just read all this. I don't know why. But, as an outsider, it looks like either Jake or Josh mixed up the "Alliance" and the "Association." According to Jake, it is the ALLIANCE that is promoting good quiz bowl (IE - pyramidal, no worksheets, etc). According to Josh, it is the ASSOCIATION that is ...

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Assuming every winner, runner-up, and wildcard team accepts their invitation to ASCA State, this will be the pools (assuming that I seeded everyone correctly): Pool A - Hoover, LAMP, Indian Springs, Arab, Enterprise, Fairview Pool B - James Clemens, West Point, Grissom, Sparkman, East Lawrence, St. ...

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Speaking of Spring tournaments... Good Hope is still hoping to run a tournament again this year in the early Spring, and I've agreed to help organize/run it. Do the players/coaches who frequent this board have a personal preference in Spring dates? February 4th is probably a no-go for me since that...

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This weekend's tournament at West Point was very good. We didn't have any major problems and finished early. I think our varsity team had a tough time this weekend and didn't play to their full potential. Although we finished second without one of our best players (Rishik Hombal) we left a lot of p...

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Stats from our tournament:

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-t ... nt_id=7867

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Mr. Henry has evidently been arguing his case with you guys for a while but he is not just a QB coach; he is an employee at a traditional public school who has his own dog in this cultural fight. Traditional public school employees, admins and teachers, tend to, um, loathe charters. And part of his...

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Field Update: Bob Jones - 1 team Buckhorn - 2 teams Clarke County - 1 team Covenant Christian - 1 team Florence - 1 team Gadsden City - 1 team Good Hope - 1 team Hanceville - 1 team Hewitt-Trussville - 3 teams Hoover - 3 teams James Clemens - 2 teams Muscle Shoals - 2 teams St. Bernard - 1 team Stil...

quizbowllee · Re: William Rufus King Invitational X at Alabama (10/08/16) Stats, PLEASE!

Stats, PLEASE!

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Dear Coaches and Sponsors, I would like to invite your team(s) to the 5th Annual West Point Quiz Bowl Tournament to be held Saturday, December 10, 2016 at West Point High School in Cullman, AL. The tournament is open to all teams consisting of players in grades 12 and below. There will be separate a...

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Fair enough. For what it's worth, I would very much be in favor of some sort of objective way for NAQT to rule on charter school eligibility. You have convinced me that if any charter schools belong at SSNCT, Lehigh Valley does. Perhaps they will consider some sort of committee that will look at sch...

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For those who are confused by Lee's references to Facebook, I think he is referencing a post by Matt Weiner, who doesn't post on the boards and hasn't posted in this thread. The people in this thread who disagree with him did not post anything on Facebook and have not impugned him at all. I would a...

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