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FWIW - I have decided not to hold this event on Nov. 14.

We are holding out hope that NAQT will work with us to host this - and our other ASCA events - safely next semester.

I appreciate everyone's input.

quizbowllee

All that makes sense, especially in regards to NASAT. This whole thing has been enlightening and somewhat surreal. I'm used to being attacked for being too cautious. I'm often referred to as a "sheeple" (among less politically correct slanders against Liberals) for taking the pandemic too seriously ...

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Guys, I appreciate and respect you. Truly. I'm not trying to be contrarian or defiant. And I take your comments under advisement. Honestly, right now, I'm leaning towards cancelling and hoping for the best on Jan. 9. Fred - we just can't host this online. We just don't have the resources and staff n...

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So do you want to spread COVID or...? SIGH. No. We are implementing very strict safety precautions and rules modifications. We have been face-to-face, in person at school since Aug. 20. We are following our local and state health department guidelines. There have been very few issues at all. The fo...

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Hello, Everyone! I am looking for a set that can be used on Nov. 14 for a "Glorified Scrimmage" Tournament at West Point in Alabama. Due to the extension of the NAQT moratorium, we are postponing our regularly-scheduled IS-A set tournament to Jan. 9. However, most of the teams still want to particip...

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With all due respect, there are indeed a great number of sets being produced for this season [upwards of 30, 17 of them being standard "housewrites"]. These range in difficulty from high school novice to high school nationals difficulty, meaning that whatever difficulty level you need should be ava...

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ASBOT is a house-written set by the Sparkman High School Varsity Team: (Sparkman High School is not affiliated with this tournament, it is independently run by us 4) Andrew Goetz Caleb Ethridge Eshan Pokhrel Rebecca Jensen Why has ASBOT chosen to write a new set for this tournament? The market for ...

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We at West Point usually host our "Winter High School Invitational" on either the first or second weekend of December. Since both of those dates have been taken by ASBOT and Arab, we will be adjusting. I would like to reserve Saturday, Nov. 14 for our tournament. I will contact NAQT about the set. T...

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I apologize for the for the noob question, but is there a way for me as the coach to log in and observe my team's matches? I'm trying to learn as much as possible about how online competitions work. Watching over my son's shoulder doesn't seem like the best way for me to observe and learn.

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In the interest of organization, I have made a form that teams can fill out. I will be dumping that information into a spreadsheet and posting a link once I have a non zero amount of data points. I am instituting the use of a form to prevent trolling. https://forms.gle/8W1fjnMcRmYYjX9w7 Can you add...

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All of our out-of-state travel has been cancelled through the end of this month, with eyes toward extending that travel ban depending on what happens over the next few weeks. I anticipate that we will be told to cancel plans to attend IPNCT and SSNCT very soon. I will hold out until the very end and...

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Excellent news!

Thank you. We will see you there.

quizbowllee

Is there any concern about the low number of registered players, particularly in the Middle School Division? Or, do most people wait until much closer to the event to register?

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My son, Brodie (also in 7th grade and 12 years old) was telling me about this on the way to school this morning. He is very active on the Quizbowl Discord. Since he has become so active, we've had several conversations about packet security, etc. When he first started, he asked me several times if i...

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Perhaps I'm a little biased. I was primarily a Lit player/Generalist back in my day. Lit and humanities were definitely my strengths. Science was my biggest weakness. That said, I look at this from a completely different angle. I actually learned a lot through studying literature. Of course I was an...

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When can I get these questions? Our tournament is this Saturday.

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We have A LOT of spaces still available for this tournament, so I've decided to post the information here to maybe entice some more teams: Coaches/Sponsors: I am happy to invite you and your teams to our Middle School Quiz Bowl Winter Invitational. The tournament will be held at West Point High Scho...

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We will be hosting a Middle School Mirror of this set on Jan. 11, 2020 at West Point High School.

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Can I get an update on the availability of this set for us to mirror? We'd like to do a tournament on Jan. 11 and I need to make the announcement ASAP.

Thanks,

Lee

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As for Middle School, it's really too early to tell. Hopefully after the big invitational this Friday at Wallace, it will be a little more clear. Potential powerhouses Liberty, Monrovia, Russellville, and West Point will all make their regular tournament debuts. Those teams, along with Discovery and...

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Are we going to get those on NAQT's website? This link will probably open for us at home, but Mobile County has a most outstanding firewall... User was reminded to add a signature --Management I was much more interested in why these tournaments haven't been posted to NAQT's website yet. But, I'm gl...

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Will we ever see stats from Hoover and/or WRK?

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We are interested in using this set for a MS tournament on Jan. 11, 2020.

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Congrats to the winners of West Point's SM4RT Invitational:

Varsity:

Spain Park - Champions
Hoover - 2nd Place
Hewitt-Trussville - 3rd Place

JV:

East Lawrence B - Champion
Hoover B - 2nd Place

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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 Good Hope - 2 Hewitt-Trussville -3 Holy Spirit - 2 LAMP - awaiting number of teams Russellville - 2 St. Bernard - 3 Spain Park Southside Sylacauga - awaiting number...

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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.

quizbowllee

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.

quizbowllee

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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