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Tomorrow we will have five teams compete in the Nationals division and 20 teams in Standard. Nationals division will compete in a double round-robin that will last ten rounds. Standard division will utilize a two-phase preliminary setup over six rounds, followed by playoff pools for Rounds Seven ...

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Our standard division now has a waitlist, with hopes of expanding it as staff commitments are confirmed. We are eager to see more teams join our Pre-Nationals Division, which presently include these teams: Eldon Glasgow (KY) Mexico Nevada Washington I'll make sure to update both this thread and our ...

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In lieu of redundant updates, the standard division field, along with all buzzer/staff commitments will only be posted on our announcement thread on the Missouri Quizbowl Forums . The members of Mexico High School Scholar Bowl welcome your team to join other high school teams from across the region ...

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In lieu of redundant updates, information concerning our confirmed field and buzzer/staff commitments will only be posted on our announcement thread on the Missouri Quizbowl Forums . The members of Nevada High School Scholar Bowl welcome your team to join others from across Western Missouri and ...

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In lieu of redundant updates, information concerning our confirmed field and buzzer/staff commitments will only be posted on our announcement thread on the Missouri Quizbowl Forums . The members of Palmyra High School Scholar Bowl welcome your team to join others from across Northeast Missouri ...

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This is a reminder for out-of-state teams to submit registrations by Monday, as to allow us to begin the sanctioning process with MSHSAA. Please also mark your calendars for our Bulldog Regional Interscholastic Challenge (BRIC), which we will host March 29th. We plan to offer a standard division and ...

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In lieu of redundant updates, information concerning our confirmed field and buzzer/staff commitments will only be posted on our announcement thread on the Missouri Quizbowl Forums . In the event of conflicting information between the two threads, announcements on the linked MOQuizbowl.com will ...

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My middle school guidance counselor saw that I had an unusual knack for trivia and said I should try out for the team when I got to high school. (He even tipped my eventual high school coach off about me.) We didn't have a middle school program at the time (or even a middle school circuit to speak ...

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Thank you for taking part in our inaugural March Academic Invitational in Nevada! We saw every team make their way to the win column at least once, and several thrilling contests to wrap up the day. Mexico responded to Northmont A's near-perfect five-tossup run by powering the tossup before halftime ...

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At the time of this post, we have a field of 36 teams, which includes six teams on the most recent Groger Ranks . We have the space to expand to host as many as 48 teams, provided enough staff becomes available, and for those willing to make a weekend out of it, Nevada is a swift 89 minutes away ...

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Once again, Mexico A showed their depth and determination as they handled all ten rounds of competition with ease, including their 480-165 victory over Hallsville A. Hallsville made their way into the championship match with a late rally over Winfield A in Round Nine. As a result, the Warriors went ...

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We are now at a field of 36 teams, but we've just had an opening occur in the field. If you have an opening on your schedule for February 3rd, please consider attending PAWS! We have secured sanctioning from MSHSAA, but we will need to call their office to amend our paperwork. If you are outside the ...

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Would you be willing to have another group of writers supply bonus parts so that the set can be used in the standard 20/20 format? With 560 tossups planned, you could end up with separate fall and spring sets available for more prospective hosts. Speaking solely from the perspective of a tournament ...

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In lieu of redundant updates, information concerning our confirmed field and buzzer/staff commitments will only be posted on our announcement thread on the Missouri Quizbowl Forums . In the event of conflicting information between the two threads, announcements on the linked MOQuizbowl.com will ...

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We have secured enough moderators to bring about a field expansion to 32. With additional staff, we can expand to a final capacity of 36 teams. Should we remain at 32 teams, we will use the same setup as last year: power-matching cards in the morning, followed by playoff & consolation pools in the ...

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As noted on HSNCT liveblog coverage five years ago.

Although, I hadn't heard the part about LASA also needing to catch their flight.

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Missouri's state rules also have a similar provision in place: Prepared Materials : The use of prepared materials, calculators, cell phones and/or any other electronic devices is not allowed. If a player is found using such an aid during a game, the player will be ejected from that game. Smart ...

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Field expansion to 28 is underway. We are a few scorekeepers shy of comfortably expanding to 32, and with a few more moderators could even expand to 36.

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In lieu of redundant updates, information concerning our confirmed field and buzzer/staff commitments will only be posted on our announcement thread on the Missouri Quizbowl Forums . The members of Palmyra High School Scholar Bowl welcome your team to join others from across Northeast Missouri ...

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Coaches, Players & Staff, Thank you all for making the 2023 Palmyra Academic Winter Showdown a wonderful event! It was a privilege to again organize an incredible playing opportunity for 32 teams across Northeast Missouri and Western Illinois, which in the end came down to a showdown of teams ranked ...

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Stats have been uploaded to https://qbst.at/7651/

We also have category stats available on our scoreboard display from Saturday.

A full recap is in the works.

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A final field expansion to 32 has occurred. A major thank you to all teams who have offered staff, as well as Palmyra alums and community members willing to staff this weekend. We have set the enrollment threshold for our Small School Award at 250 students in grades 9-11. At present, 16 teams in the ...

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While the deadline has passed for out-of-state teams to register, we can report that MSHSAA has approved sanctioning for PAWS. (addendum @ 0820, 11th Jan 2023) While we had announced we would expand in blocks of four, a recent opening has instead allowed us to expand the field to 30 with teams ...

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We are in the process of expanding the field to 28 teams. Two programs on the waitlist have offered staff and are receiving first dibs on the openings. We would love to expand the field to 32 and potentially even 36 teams. If you are available and interested in helping staff in Palmyra, Mo. on ...

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When devising the category stat components for the latest version of HILLSheets, this was one of the big questions I had to consider. Ultimately, I set it up to where category stats would be compiled and released at the discretion of the set's writer, and only available to the public through a view ...

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I'll start by noting this item in PACE rules that I hadn't previously seen practiced: In the event that the answer of a bonus part is revealed before an expected bounceback opportunity for the non-controlling team, the scorekeeper shall note the issue and the match will continue . At regular season ...

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Additional teams/players worth watching: I'd also keep an eye on Avnith Kumar of Jefferson City . Like Camden, Avnith is a sophomore who made a splash last year, leading the Jays to a district title. I would not underestimate this team. Warrenton has stout senior leadership from Grant Buechner, who ...

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We have hit our initial cap of 24 teams, and we are now beginning a waitlist.

Expansion will occur in blocks of four as staff commitments are secured. Teams that commit to bringing staff will receive higher preference when we are able to move teams off the waitlist and into the field.

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Note: updates in the corresponding MOQuizBowl.com thread take precedence in the event of any discrepancies. Field (32/32) Schools are from Missouri unless otherwise indicated. Brookfield Centralia (2) Clark County Columbia Hickman Fulton Hallsville (2) Hannibal (2) Kirksville (2) Marceline (2 ...

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On behalf of the members of Palmyra High School Scholar Bowl, I am thrilled to welcome your team to join others from across Northeast Missouri, Western Illinois and beyond at our third Palmyra Academic Winter Showdown (PAWS) , scheduled for February 4th, 2023. PAWS will consist of a minimum of eight ...

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If I'm reading this right... A postsecondary degree is an associate’s, bachelor’s, doctorate, or master’s degree. . . . . • Having not graduated with a postsecondary degree before the competition year. Someone pursuing their bachelor's degree at a four-year institution would be ineligible if they had ...

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*raises hand sheepishly* There was a bonus I wrote in Yoda-speak for a housewrite tournament, in the days before pyramidal quizbowl became prevalent in the Missouri high school circuit. It was only because the bonus pertained to Yoda. (Prior to 20/20 gaining prevalence, we used four-part bonus, each ...

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I agree that a series of regional subforums would keep things more organized, and mirroring the setup of the current regional discussions would be the best approach. I'm not sold on each state/territory/province/equivalent political subdivision needing its own subforum. To wit, the Missouri Quizbowl ...

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Though I know state is a very big deal in Arkansas and teams spend a great deal of time preparing for the regionals/state competitions, you may want to eventually see if you can attend some quizbowl events in Oklahoma or SW Missouri on pyramidal if you get a chance (I know Greenwood also has a very ...

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Woooo, where to begin in the Show-Me State? We have 50 years of quiz bowl history to look back through, best exemplified by our cradle of Missouri quizbowl in Northeast Missouri with Carol Farmer at North Shelby and Barbara Campbell at Scotland County. The two built up one of the first solid ...

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Given the acronym, will there be an effort to incorporate any agriculture-related content within these categories?

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I think a good deal of this may have already been discussed less than a year ago in this thread . I'll reiterate that in some states, faculty or other approved adult supervision is required by virtue of quiz bowl having oversight from a state association. Em's points here are spot-on, and echo what ...

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Trying to figure something out: how do I set up tiebreaker sorting? I had two teams in a round-robin end up with identical PPG, but they appear to be sorted alphabetically and not by PPB or any other actual metric (Points allowed per game and game margins all went in favor of the team that ended up ...

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Does this only show previews from HSQuizBowl.org, or can it pull from other forums?

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Another quirk that my brother and I have come across: We've discovered in the current version that when clicking "Save & New" to enter games, any phases clicked from the previous entry will not automatically be selected for the new game. It's resulting in having to thumb back to see that "prelims ...

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Thank you for the quick fix! Excellent as always!

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Came across a bug. Apparently the program currently does not recognize teams who claim 100% of their bouncebacks.

Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DMd57l ... eLYb6/view

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I'm a bit rusty from sheltering in place behind the farm desk the past few months, so here goes: I would definitely keep an eye on Kirksville this year. Their main three players will all be back for their senior year, and depending on how active they and their second-year coach can become early in ...

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Bonus questions are now paired with tossup questions. This does not refer to content (i.e., tossups and bonuses are not related in terms of content, or if they are, it is a coincidence); it only refers to numbering and presentation. For example, if tossups 1 and 3 are answered correctly but tossup ...

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I completely agree that having some kind of adult whose presence is sanctioned by the school, be they an official coach or a volunteer school-sponsored chaperone, ought to be a requirement. As others have said, it turns a nebulous situation into one of more clarity -- should one witness a student ...

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Well, this might be as good a time as any to open up about my efforts to combine two of my lifelong passions. Several of you already know that I work in radio. I've been at a group of stations in Northeast Missouri since June 2013, first as the overnight programmer, then farm director and briefly ...

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Came across what looks like an error of some sort. All of the headings for this entry are shifted 1 to the left starting with ppg. It looks like you didn't specify any divisions? If that's the case, then it looks like that cell was omitted altogether, rather than a blank space created to fill in.

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Conceptually, a centralized tournament & set registration database would be a useful development for the community. From the vantage point of a tournament director, I would want to make sure this system allows hosts to generate & send invoices to participating teams. Some additional bells and ...

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Hot takes from this past weekend's Qualifier: The battle for Newman Road is going to be ferocious. Thomas Jefferson Independent , behind the senior leadership of Savannah Dillard, dealt College Heights Christian their first significant loss of the season, denying Gabe Forrest and the Eagles a spot ...

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the interface is much easier than SQBS with one exception - in SQBS, you can tab into the field for team selection and begin typing the name of the team that is playing; in YellowFruit I was forced to click each time and select the field with my mouse before I could enter the team name. I don't ...

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