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- Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Registration Open Cavalier Classic XXII - 10/26 at UVA
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4044
Re: Registration Open Cavalier Classic XXII - 10/26 at UVA
Would it be possible to get a field update?
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2019-2020 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21645
Re: DC Metro 2019-2020 Date Claim Thread
Can this thread be stickied and the last season's archived? In addition, is there a way to display the calendar post above the chronologically first post in this thread, if possible?
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2019-2020 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21645
DC Metro 2019-2020 Date Claim Thread
I'd like to thank Audrey for maintaining last year's thread. I will be stepping up to the plate again and managing the DC Metro quizbowl calendar for the 2019-2020 season. I will be including local college tournaments so that any colleges hosting tournaments for high schoolers can work around those ...
- Wed May 29, 2019 5:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 144
- Views: 58056
Re: 2019 HSNCT discussion
(Berwick-upon-Tweed with the only clue about it being at war for Russia If I recall correctly, also I can find literally no evidence that this ever happened, unless the bonus mentioned it as a legend of course. I would have to see it again). The Berwick clue was apparently based on a human interest...
- Wed May 29, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 144
- Views: 58056
Re: 2019 HSNCT discussion
Can I see conversion stats for the bonus on fictional metals (alloys?)? Curious as to how many teams converted the third part.
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2018-2019 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 49
- Views: 33247
Re: DC Metro 2018-2019 Date Claim Thread
Can this thread be stickied and last season's be archived?
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Virginia NASAT 2018?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10563
Re: Virginia NASAT 2018?
Category split sounds like a good idea. I agree with this plan.
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Virginia NASAT 2018?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10563
Re: Virginia NASAT 2018?
I am interested in going, and will probably be able to make the tryouts.
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 34309
Re: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
UVa will be hosting the NAQT Virginia State Qualifier using SCT-18 on 31 March, per the NAQT.com schedule.
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 34309
Re: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
Presumably not given VHSL's use of the relevant NAQT set, as well as it being unlikely that many teams would be willing to play a college set.swimmerstar wrote:Is UVa not hosting the Virginia State Championship this year?
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 34309
Re: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
Corrected, thanks.Curious Homunculus wrote:The link for 12/2's NHBB Tournament at St. Anselm's goes to the wrong tournament. The correct link is here.
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ and NAQT Joint Announcement
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11366
Re: HSAPQ and NAQT Joint Announcement
What about Virginia teams that compete in VHSL and intend to play tournaments run on the sets that are to be converted into VHSL format?
- Sun Sep 03, 2017 6:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 34309
Re: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
Could a moderator please unsticky last year's date claims and replace them with this thread?
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:40 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 205008
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
I once powered a tossup on "Liberty or Death" because of my old Culpeper Flag Facebook profile picture.
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 4:51 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Proto
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13684
Re: Proto
I guess Kevin Kwok finally let Protobowl die.
- Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:41 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: State tournaments
- Replies: 8
- Views: 26020
Re: State tournaments
In Virginia, we have two state championships, the Virginia High School League (VHSL) and the NAQT States. VHSL is "scholastic bowl" which uses a four-quarter format but is still high quality. Around 90% of the Virginia public schools do scholastic bowl, so the state championship is "c...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 7:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39971
Re: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
The new thread for 2017-18 is here.
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 34309
DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
Thanks to everyone who has previously maintained this thread. I will be managing the calendar for quizbowl events in the DC Metro area for 2017-2018. I will also be including local college tournaments so that any colleges hosting tournaments for high schoolers can work around those - note that not a...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39971
Re: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
Sure, I'll do it.
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:42 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NAQT MSNCT: Congratulations Middlesex!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 20908
Re: 2016 NAQT MSNCT: Congratulations Middlesex!
Must be me stressing over negging.the return of AHAN wrote:That heavy breathing in round 5, tho...jonah wrote:Audio recordings of selected matches are now available.
(seriously, it's all but unlistenable)
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 8:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Schedules & Stats
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5823
Re: Schedules & Stats
A related issue with the NHBB stats is the disappearance of 2016's National History Bee stats from the website, as the link is now dead, and the relevant statistics apparently were not converted into Excel files and posted to the website as previous year's stats were.
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39971
Re: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
Please update the schedule to reflect that Georgetown moved its HFT Mirror to 4/29 from 3/18, according to their tournament announcement.
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39971
Re: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
Please update the schedule to reflect that Georgetown moved its HFT Mirror to 4/29 from 3/18, according to their tournament announcement.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:30 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: State of QuizbowlDB
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5204
Re: State of QuizbowlDB
It is now officially dead, as a Japanese owner has bought the domain.
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Virginia NASAT
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2909
Re: Virginia NASAT
Count me in.
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MVGS Open I @ Lord Fairfax CC (Warrenton, Va, 3/4/17)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4299
Re: MVGS Open I @ Lord Fairfax Community College (Warrenton,
Is a field update available?
- Thu Dec 22, 2016 9:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Richard Montgomery Fall Novice Tournament (MD)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4922
Re: Richard Montgomery Fall Novice Tournament (MD)
Did this happen?
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 39971
Re: DC Metro 2016-2017 Date Claim Thread
3/4/17 Mountain Vista Open @ Lord Fairfax CC in Warrenton, IS-165A has been announced by their coach but hasn't yet been included in the calendar.
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:50 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Fundraising
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12417
Re: Fundraising
You could do a "trivia night" after school. This has worked for Longfellow in the past.
- Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:39 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: What to do to improve for history
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12116
Re: What to do to improve for history
I use spaced repetition software, but most of my studying is from reading history books. What books have helped you the most? Also, my weakest is at American history, being not American myself. What books would you recommend for the "hot" American topics like the Revolution, the Civil War...
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:50 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: What to do to improve for history
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12116
Re: What to do to improve for history
I use spaced repetition software, but most of my studying is from reading history books.
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 nAC
- Replies: 72
- Views: 35664
Re: 2016 nAC
FYI Lux is from Nebraska. According to the QU website, there were three Nebraska teams at the JNAC.
- Sun May 22, 2016 5:23 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: 2016 US Academic Bee and Bowl Nationals
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10096
Re: US Academic Bee and Bowl Nationals
Middlesex won the Bowl in a close final. William Wang, captain of Longfellow, won the Bee division by a large margin.
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 5:38 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Map of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22845
Re: Map of Quiz Bowl
There is essentially a black hole in quiz bowl coverage for the western states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska). If you are including college clubs that have ever played in a sectional championship, you are missing Mississippi State and UT Chattanooga ...
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44473
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
Well the last one was the least important, anyway. For the first two: I am nigh-literally floored that either of those things were floated as ideas, much less BOTH, much less either happened, much less BOTH happened. There is no universe in which either of those are good ideas. Most importantly (no...
- Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44473
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
Oh c'mon -- repeats between years with sets of this size and such specific subject matter are unavoidable and practically guaranteed! It probably was not necessary to use the same first line clue about Erika, why not instead use a clue from one of the other songs mentioned in the tossup, like Panze...
- Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44473
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
In the set for the JV Bowl finals there was a tossup with mostly repeated clues from the 2014 Bee Nats set.
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Oldest Tournament?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3597
Re: Oldest Tournament?
Is it possible that there could be results from the early Snead State Invitationals?quizbowllee wrote:I have contacted Blake Leeth at Snead State and have asked whether any of the questions from the tournaments held in the 1970s-1980s are still available if they could be scanned. I will let you know what I find out.
- Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:10 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Charter Challenge 2016, Wilmington DE
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5259
Re: Charter Challenge 2016, Wilmington DE
Is it possible that complete stats could be uploaded to NAQT?
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:22 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Starting a new Quizbowl Team
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10495
Re: Starting a new Quizbowl Team
There is a large amount of useful information on these previous related topic threads. * http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17888 * http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14280 If you are from Lexington High in Massachusetts, your school already has a good qui...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:10 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: List of Essential Resources (alpha)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 40478
Re: List of Essential Resources (alpha)
Neg 5 offers live tournament results. It worked very well at Charter Challenge last Saturday.
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB Opening Announcement for 2015-16 Varsity & JV Divisions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8000
Re: NHBB Opening Announcement for 2015-16 Varsity & JV Divis
So what about the Hawaiian quiz bowl scene and the (re)invigorating effect IHO presence there will have?Cody wrote:Ah, yes, Hawaii. I like my tournaments as inaccessible as possible!
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:55 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Top MS Players?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5724
Re: Top MS Players?
The middle school circuit in Virginia is pretty thin, with only two schools (Henley and Longfellow) going to last year's MSNCT. I've never actually seen Henley's best players in a tournament, so I can't provide any information on them. One of Longfellow's best players this year is William Wang, who ...
- Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Interview Question: Why do you do Quizbowl? etc.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1103
Re: Interview Question: Why do you do Quizbowl? etc.
Quiz bowl could possibly provide incentives to learn information which could be useful in an educational setting. Also many people like winning and that can drive participation.
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:34 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quizlr: a new study resource
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11296
Re: Quizlr: a new study resource
When using it on safari, it still gives me a "There was an error with your data, please check that your browser's javascript is enabled." message even though my javascript is already enabled.
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 3:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying for HS lit in MS
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6166
Re: Studying for HS lit in MS
I tend to study lit by reading the actual books, because I find that I can get powers better that way, and I have a lot of time now, since its summer. Can somebody please name some of the books that come up in almost every HS tournament?
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 2:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB & USGO 2016 Middle School Nationals: Chicago, Jun 10-12
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3232
Re: NHBB & USGO 2016 Middle School Nationals: Chicago, Jun 1
What is the National Citizenship Bee about? Is it buzzer based or is it like the subject exams?
- Tue Jul 14, 2015 4:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying for HS lit in MS
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6166
Studying for HS lit in MS
What books generally come up in HS lit sets? I am in middle school but about half the tournaments my school attends are high school level, like TJIAT. I'm pretty good at the Western classics, but I don't know much of what comes up in the high school sets.
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21363
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
There shouldn't be more emphasis on sexuality of writers because it would be unnecessary. The sexuality of writers who were homosexual and not from the modern period like Henry James wasn't known then and isn't well known now. Adding sexuality into tossups would also be making tossups at, for exampl...