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Sorry for the delayed response. Voters from Five regions turned in ballots (Upper Midwest, Lower Midwest, Southeast, Northeast, UK). I will post the top five vote-getters for regional "Best overall" and the top from each of the categories that votes were cast. Thanks everyone for voting. Top 5 Upper...

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Oklahoma is almost definitely sending a team this year. Just awaiting definite confirmation from Caleb to be able to travel.

The roster will be:

Casey Stafford- Bridge Creek (12)
Yannick Davidson- Norman North (12)
Zac Bennett- Norman North (12)
Will Penney- Coalgate (9)

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I'm not as active anymore, but I do get to see teams from my part of the world a bit. I'm going to shill for Finn Bender to be on whichever set of rankings includes Myth and NAQT stuff, because he's really good at those things. He didn't get to play much this year, but he did lead Oklahoma to some d...

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This seems like a difficult exercise since there's like a hs level trashtournament a year and maybe a total of 50 tus in the regular season This is fair. At the same time, I feel like there are a lot of people that play all the miscellaneous trash tournaments and side events that don't get talked a...

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I'll talk about a few people in my region that really stand out. Finn Bender is really, really good at games, trash lit, internet stuff and can pull a little bit of everything else. Finn is probably the best player in this region across the trash distro. He is usually near the top of the field in sc...

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It's been awhile since I've seen anyone post a trash player poll, so I decided it would be a fun exercise for me to run. A google form for the poll can be found here: https://forms.gle/2zdBfr3Di5hcMFPS6 Since trash tournaments are usually open and more regional than national, the form only asks for ...

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SUPER ACRONYM (if it's available) or JCD II for Sunday if you do a full trash tournament. I've already played ACRONYM, as will a lot of others by that time. I'm also not opposed to just turning it into a side event Sunday.

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Y'all will probably hate this, but at early Delta Burkes (from 1998 till about 2007, I figure) I would have exactly one bonus in the tournament, usually coming in Round 7 or after, which had four five-point parts, and which asked the team captain to designate a player to answer one part based on an...

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There are 12 teams registered for this. They know who they are.

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I am pleased to announce that I will be hosting a Mirror of ACRONYM 11 at the University of Oklahoma on March 10, 2018. Like last year, this tournament will act as a fundraiser to help send an Oklahoma middle or high school team to one of the National Tournaments in May/June. Cost $20 per player Dis...

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ErikC wrote:Will it be phat?

Will there be independent music?

I don't know about phat, but I almost guarantee Erik writes something fetch (I know that's a reference circa 2004, but I haven't gotten to use it in a while).

I also expect nothing less than a 1/0 or 0/1 "wazzup" distro.

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Charbroil wrote:I'm pleased to announce that we will be mirroring Mike Bentley's Eyes That Do Not See IX visual arts tournament after the end of EFT.

Sad I'm not staffing EFT so I could play this.

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Going only by what I was told in writing when the last OK contract was awarded, the company that won was an OK firm who bid less than half of what QG and I both bid separately (as this was awarded before our merger). It is a firm I'd never heard of, before or since, neither in 16 years in the writi...

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Oklahoma : C (no change) Not much has changed here, but there's a lot of bureaucracy for teams to navigate. One of the OK state associations seems far more interested in devising online tests instead of updating the game to meet pyramidal standards, but also doesn't seem inherently hostile to the p...

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Tibetan literature wrote:The packet written by Tracey and me is coming in tonight.

Just sent this in. Fred, can you confirm that you received it?

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This tournament happened. Covfefe By The Ocean (Dustin Austin, Finn Bender, Tyler Bowen, Tracey Hickman) defeated Kansas State (Zach and Kelly Arnberger) in the final of a single elimination bracket 395-215. Fun was had by all! The top six individual scorers from the morning portion were Zach Arnber...

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The field for this tournament is officially closed at 9 teams. Everyone who registered should have received an email from me by now!

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This is a little over two weeks away, so I thought I would give a field update (as if you all can't see it above).

We currently have six teams registered and four free agents. If you are interested in playing this, please let me know.

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Finn Bender and I are about 50% finished with a packet for this.

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Sorry to necro a thread for a tournament that's long-since been done, and I recognize that what I'm about to say isn't directly relevant to this tournament, but I had a question about ACF Nationals 2016 and I couldn't post in the old thread (since it's now locked). Looking over Virginia's performan...

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Hello everyone! I will be hosting a mirror of ACRONYM in Oklahoma as a fundraiser for local teams. The Information is as follows: What: First Annual Oklahoma Open Pop Culture Saturnalia (OOPS) When: Saturday, June 24, 2017 Where: University of Central Oklahoma Why: All proceeds from this tournament ...

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I plan to play this. I'll mostly contribute newer stuff and some 90s West Coast.

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I've finished a packet for this. I may would be interested in writing another half-packet with someone since there is still plenty of time before these will be read.

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I'll definitely write a packet for this. Expect some cool (and a lot of) football and basketball, and probably not so cool everything else.

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I just found out that my normal team will be without Peter and Finn since they are studying abroad this summer. This creates a major void in television, trash lit (mostly comics), and video games. If you can fill that void and want to play this tournament, feel free to shoot me a message.

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This tournament happened, with an extremely small field. Oklahoma B went undefeated to win the tournament outright.

Stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ats/final/

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why are host teams not required to play in order to qualify a team? SCT is difficult enough to staff properly under the current system. Forcing the A team from the host school into the field would make things much worse. Fair enough, but has NAQT ever had a discussion about making the automatic bid...

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Note that, as discussed upthread, Chicago possesses all of the logistical requirements to split teams across multiple sites, the devious leadership required to sign off on it, is still livid as a club about our quite good B team getting D-value bubbled last year so that an auto host-bid could go to...

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The University of Oklahoma Academic Team is excited to announce that we are hosting the Great Plains mirror of ACF Regionals on Saturday, February 18th, 2017. I, Tracey Hickman, will be directing the tournament with the help of OU's A-team. More information about the set and packet submission can be...

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I would definitely play this on the IRC

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I would be down for writing some sports and music for future events.

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How I feel about this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q

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I may play this, depending on my work schedule.

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Josiah, The easiest ways for me to find people were the incoming freshmen contact list and teaming with a person that works for the school and sending out mass emails. Some students are looking to join clubs because they need it for their CV, and others might think quiz bowl is interesting. As for t...

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The University of Tulsa and the University of Texas at Dallas both attended Regionals this past year.

EDIT: Tulsa also plays in a few tournaments each year.

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I'll be attending the University of Oklahoma next year, pursuing an MA in Applied Linguistics. I plan on playing still, but plan to TD and staff tournaments more often than I have been able to recently.

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EDIT: a quick hour's jaunt to the other side of Oklahoma City will give you the opportunity to see an ancient philosophy class doing the unthinkable . BTW, the Symposium listed on the syllabus, according to UCO student Tracey Hickman, is actually referring UCO's Liberal Arts Symposium, a conference...

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I'm pretty shitty at high level quizbowl but I'd like to play this tournament. Hit me up if you're interested. I'll be looking for a team too if Caleb goes, since one of us will be the other's ride. I can contribute next to nothing, but you might be surprised by my "lit that no one reads except my ...

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This project has been put on hold for the time being.

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I'll play this if I'm in Chicago that weekend, which is looking like a greater and greater possibility every day. If you're looking for someone that knows sports, rap/top-40 music, or some random trash lit and movies, I'm your guy.

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So there were a lot of things that happened last minute out of Caleb's control, but this tournament ran as smooth as could be expected. We were originally supposed to have 12 people playing, and between Wednesday and today we lost four of them, plus he had a moderator call out this morning. On top o...

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I am pleased to announce that I am writing TTYL (Trash TraceY Likes), a vanity trash packet on stuff that I, Tracey Hickman, enjoy. The tournament is on pace to be playable by the summer of 2016. The set will consist of 8 packets of tossups and bonuses. I will be updating this post as I advance with...

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I vote we play either Eyes or Christmas Present or both after this

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Thank you to everyone who attended or helped staff today's tournament. Our Division I Champion was the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Truman State won the undergraduate title. Oklahoma cleared the field to capture the Division II title. Stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tou...

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Originally we were going to field two teams, an I just forgot to take off the "B"

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I sent out a logistics email early this morning. If you did not receive it, please let me know!

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The bioinformatics bonus I submitted specifically tried to refer to protein BLAST so people didn't confuse it with nucleotide blast. Though the matrices mentioned in the edited question were clearly protein, I think anyone familiar with the field but not have the matrices memorized would have no id...

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Thanks to everyone that came out today! Oklahoma cleared the field by 3 games today, taking home all three championships!

Stats are posted here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ats/final/

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I sent out a logistics email yesterday. If you have yet to receive it, please let me know so we can figure out what went wrong.

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I don't know of any teams in the Rocky Mountain part of the US that are active, aside from, maybe (big maybe), New Mexico State. Generally Texas and Louisiana schools form a "Texas Region" and schools like us from Oklahoma, along with Kansas schools join Missouri and Arkansas and form a "Lower Midwe...

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