The Quizbowl Resource Center

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of the Oxford Open on August 17th. I will be the tournament director. Further details are below. Please e-mail me at ericd25@hotmail.com to register or if you have any questions. We will be ...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I was just wondering if there was a field update for this tournament?

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'm certainly one of the older folks in the community. Heck I remember people complaining about me playing when I was a 24 year old law student, so I've been feeling old in quizbowl for a while. It's about the only community I know of in which being over 22 or so is considered "old" and being in you...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

If you're going to do another reading, I'm free just about any day this coming week, but if it's just me I'm happy if you just want to send the packets along or something along those lines. I'll echo this. I was going to play SNICK at VCU but it wasn't ready at that point and am disappointed that I...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

26 teams competed in the 2018 USC Fall Tournament. Congratulations to Spring Valley for winning an advantaged final to claim the tournament championship. Congratulations also to Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy for finishing second in an incredibly competitive showing, and congratulations to the J...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'd like to thank all of the teams who have registered and/or expressed interest for this tournament. I am going to tentatively cap the field at 24 teams due to staff and room constraints. However, I will work to expand the field size if I can get more staff to commit to the event and get a few more...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2018 USC Fall Tournament on November 10th. I will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to answer any que...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'm going to Wofford College. I'm pretty sure they have a team, but I'm not very informed on the state of their quizbowl program. They hosted a tournament just last month. Lee Holden was their student leader, but he has graduated. Dr. Wright is their faculty advisor and takes them to tournaments. T...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Antrobus63 wrote: After a few more weeks with the stats still Pending on the official NAQT stats page, I wrote NAQT. They replied, "We are waiting for the hosts to correct errata." I wrote the TD again, who said: "We corrected all we could. We told them. Never heard back. Stats are on Neg5. Why is ...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I also worry a commonly given solution to insularity is "make everyone everyone else's friend," which is not feasible and if anything perpetuates the issue of knowing key people as being a necessary condition for quiz bowl success. What is means to "act professionally," on the other hand, is less c...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I have a lot of responding and clarifying regarding Julia’s thoughtful post, so pardon the length. For the sake of brevity I’ll address two of the points Eric made. Firstly, I’ve personally never heard that “college quiz bowl is too hard” be a reason for “good,” involved players to quit. To scale an...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

This is a list my wife Bryn came up with. We check it every tournament we host, and it usually works. Some of these things are more important than others. Tournament Direction Checklist Pre-tournament: Obtain contact info for teams As teams commit to attending, ensure that buzzers and staff commitme...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region · Re: NAQT South Carolina State Championship at USC (3/31/18) Stats

Stats

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

At high school tournaments late in the year, college clubs can and should be finding out where seniors are going and getting their contact information; that way, they can help new freshmen set up clubs at their school and invite them to tournaments. Yeah, this is a good idea. I always give a plug f...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Congratulations to Dorman A for winning the South Carolina NAQT State Championship, winning 2 out of 3 matches against runner-up Dutch Fork A. Dorman B finished 3rd and Dutch Fork B won the J.V. title. Thanks to all of the teams and their coaches/parents/chaperones/drivers for their attendance. Than...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

As many other posters have mentioned or made an inference to, the lack of new collegiate teams in most areas (teams like Swarthmore and Bowdoin are nice exceptions to this!). I think this is related to the lack of outreach option, but I'd like to hear what other people think as well. Outreach helps...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I voted for a few things, but there are some nuances that I'd like to point out. Please note that I'm not blaming incoming high school quizbowlers for college quizbowl's ills with what I write below. I completely understand and there's nothing wrong with being the hypothetical folks I describe below...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I played the Auburn mirror of this tournament yesterday. I enjoyed the tournament, and thanks to the writers and editors. Probably most of the issues have been discussed at this point. Some of the bonus leadins were overly long, which is something I'd like writers to control in future tournaments. I...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2018 NAQT State Championship Tournament on March 31st. I will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to an...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'm moderating tomorrow and was wondering about the electronic scoresheets. Is there any info out there on how to use them and stuff?

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

This is a neat thread and as a frequent TD it's made me think about book prizes and prizes in general. I'm a big fan of book prizes. When I was in college, they weren't really a thing. We usually got individual trophies, which were appreciated, but I would have rather gotten books. I've won books at...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I always go to our library booksale here in wonderful Columbia SC. Like Jacob, I come away with bags of books for not much money. It's listed on http://www.booksalefinder.com/, so I have to think there are lots of other great book sales out there with similar deals. One thing I have done in the past...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'm glad some input was helpful. I just downloaded chrome, and it works like a charm now; don't know why I didn't think of doing that. Thanks for putting in the work to make this program happen. Several teams at the site expressed enthusiasm about the possibilities of recording the buzz points. As a...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Just want to give my experience with this thing. I haven't read the whole thread: I just want to explain how it went with me and Bryn in our room. I got to the site at Georgia Tech this morning and was told we'd be using a new electronic system. That was my first notice that we'd be doing this at th...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Here are the stats.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /playoffs/

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Congratulations to Dorman A for winning the USC Fall Tournament. Riverside finished 2nd. Dorman C finished 3rd overall and won the JV championship. Thank you to all of the teams who participated, the coaches, and our incredible staff. Special thanks to my wife Bryn, who, despite a recent health scar...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

This tournament is now capped. Anyone interested in registering a team can feel free to let me know, and we'll put you on the waiting list.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'd like to thank all of the teams who have registered and expressed interest in our Early Fall Tournament! Due to the high interest in this event, I am capping the field at 30 teams and limiting the maximum number of teams to 1 for new registrations. If more teams than this express interest, I'll d...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2017 USC Fall Tournament on September 30th. I will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to answer any an...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Thanks for doing this thread, coach. USC is thinking of doing September 30th as the date for a fall tournament with NAQT questions. Please post here or message me if you have other ideas. I'd like to get the announcement out in the next week or 2.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Last summer's VCU side event weekend was one of the most enjoyable tournament experiences I've ever had, so I trust the VCU folks implicitly to put together good events on both weekends based on what they consider to be the most reasonable logistics. Also, thanks to the VCU folks for agreeing to tak...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

This is certainly an important thing. As someone who's been at it for a very long time, it's never been easy figuring out who the contacts of college teams are. Several attempts have been made over the years to remedy this. It's definitely a challenge. The last attempt at a directory that I remember...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Don't mean to sound like a broken record (pun intended!), but could we add the Chuck Berry rock tournament to the list of possible tournaments spreadsheet so we can gauge interest on that?

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

For the veterans in the circuit, how do you all usually go about selecting side events for a side event weekend? A straw poll is my best idea so far, but I also don't want to mirror too many of the ones that will be at CO already. Last year's VCU weekend basically had us doing everything available....

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Could we consider adding the Chuck Berry rock tournament as part of the weekend? If not as a formal tournament then perhaps as a shootout event.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I would very much like to play this at HSNCT.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Nevermind.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Congrats to the Dorman Bulldogs (Geoffrey Thomas, Jason Fern, Chase Fleming, and Lee Holden) for winning the South Carolina mirror of (This) Tournament is a Crime. Various USC house teams rounded out the rankings. Stats are here . Thanks to Ben Ingram and Caitlin Sperka Thomas for coming down to sta...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Congratulations to Dorman A, who won the 2017 South Carolina NAQT State Championship Tournament. Southside B finished 2nd and Dutch Fork A finished 3rd. Dorman C won the JV championship. Full stats will be posted tomorrow. Thanks to all of the players, coaches, and staff. Special thanks to Ben Ingra...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

In order to make this tournament a little more affordable, I've reduced the base fee.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

Just wanted to note that this event is a little over a week away and I've updated some of the information in the announcement. We still have plenty of room for new teams to register!

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I wanted to give an idea of what driving into town was like for my team. Our team stayed at some cheap hotels in Secaucus. For a variety of reasons, we drove into town. In case anyone is driving into Manhattan from NJ or the outer boroughs, I found that traffic wasn't too bad. The tolls are expensiv...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

My wife and I would be interested in playing in this, depending on the date.

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I've set up a spreadsheet where people can put their proposed teams down, or mark themselves as interested free agents. Please e-mail me to officially register, though.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina will be hosting a mirror of (This) Tournament is a Crime on Saturday March 25th. I, Eric Douglass, will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to answer any ...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2017 South Carolina NAQT State Championship tournament on Saturday, March 18. I, Eric Douglass, will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams pri...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

The scarf was not mine or Bryn's. Thanks for hosting; see you all at Regionals!

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'm going to write a sequel to a packet a wrote a few years ago for this thing called The Pain of Quizbowl Past. This year's iteration will be more of the same. Basically 20 or so questions playing around with incidents in my personal and quizbowl life that have caused me pain. I think the last iter...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

I'm comically rusty at this point, but I used to be a pretty good history player. One thing I've seen younger players make mistakes with when studying history questions is to get too narrowly focused. I've seen lots of players commit to things like "knowing everything about the Civil War" or "knowin...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

South Carolina still plans on bringing a team. Is there any word on a field update?

Search found 552 matches