The Quizbowl Resource Center

tiwonge

I may be interested in this. Will try to scrounge up some local teammates (and maybe some other regional teams).

tiwonge

Perhaps I should start by defining what I understand to be the defining characteristics of "good quizbowl": Pyramidal tossups Bonuses (if used) with graded difficulty structure. (In the three-part case, this would be an easy, a medium, and a hard part for each bonus, though in principle b...

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Thanks. I was going to edit it when I got home to see the set number we were assigned.

tiwonge

Idaho Quiz and Academic Teams and the Boise State Quiz Bowl club will be hosting the Treasure Valley Tournament at Boise State on Saturday, December 2. The tournament will start at 9:00 AM. The opening meeting will be at 8:30 in room 204 of the Interactive Learning Center (ILC). Please be there by t...

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Yeah, I made some changes off the top of my head when I realized it needed to be changed, then did so again (despite this clearly not working the first time). This was dumb and lazy of me. In any case, the bonus now reads as follows: 1. Answer the following about the retranslation of the English ve...

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Hey, whatever the first creed bonus part got "fixed" to is still wrong. I can't remember exactly what it said yesterday, but it still was claiming the line in question had something to do with Eucharistic theology, which just isn't what's been talked about there at all. 1. Answer the foll...

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Full stats:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... nal_stats/

BYU finished above TVMSC+ despite the record because they broke into the top half.

Other weirdness at the bottom explained by some BSU players leaving early.

Thanks to all teams who came from such a distance.

tiwonge

Oregon and Colorado finished at 8-1. Oregon won the tie-breaker match 215-210 to take the tournament. Daniel from Oregon was the top scorer.

Full stats coming soon.

tiwonge

BSU will most likely be bringing 2 teams.

tiwonge

Idaho Quiz & Academic Teams along with the Boise State Quiz Bowl club will sponsor and host the Boise Novice Tournament on October 14 at Boise State University. This tournament will use NAQT's IS-167A. It is a novice tournament. (Experienced players are welcome to come volunteer as scorekeepers ...

tiwonge

Will you be offering a travel discount?

tiwonge

First, thanks Colin this is great advice! To anyone who has experience doing this: what do you recommend for a first practice for new people? This was our first year in a while at the involvement fair, so for the first time we will have kids who heard a tiny spiel at the fair and are showing up. Ho...

tiwonge

Matt asked the same thing in the Discussion tab. It probably should have been here. I have some thoughts I shared there.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =9&t=20285

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That was a lot about recruiting. I didn't give much about retaining. I don't have as many ideas here. I guess you have to make sure that it is interesting. That means 1) they aren't intimidated or discouraged and 2) have interesting things for them to do. Maybe some others can suggest something alon...

tiwonge

I have a similar problem. The quiz bowl team here kind of died off for a few years, and I tried to re-start it last year. In general, I have the most success with people on the team who extend personal invitations to friends who they think will be interested. The personal connection makes a big diff...

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Boise State University will be mirroring the Early Fall Tournament on October 14, 2017. For more information about the tournament, see: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19786 Details We will most likely meet in the Interactive Learning Center (ILC), and I will update this whe...

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After talking with UW, Boise State would like to mirror this in the northwest.

tiwonge

To quote Joe Nutter: I'll take this opportunity to point out that Michigan State also offers a scholarship ranging up to full tuition+room and board+annual stipend for doing well on a test they offer which basically consists entirely of quizbowl knowledge, covering all categories and closely aligni...

tiwonge

I had a mother ask me today if there were any quiz bowl scholarships available. The only one I am aware of is the Morgan Costa-Rhodes scholarship offered by PACE ( http://www.pace-nsc.org/the-morgan-costa-rhodes-memorial-scholarship/ ) for graduating high school seniors. Are there others? Are there ...

tiwonge

Get in touch with the teacher who started that (there's a google result that suggests who did) and that might be a decent lead. I did. There are actually 3 people from that school that NAQT had, and two of the addresses were still valid (including the one who seems to be most associated with it). U...

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The Southeast Education Service Center's quiz bowl page does not appear to resemble anything like pyramidal quiz bowl. The rules say questions are worth between 5 and 25 points, there is no mention of bonuses, and the practice questions they link to (which, unfortunately, do not seem to exist) incl...

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I intend to try to get something started in Utah. Utah has a very active "National Academic League" circuit in at least some parts of the Wasatch Range corridor. See here , here , and here for three lists of teams from various districts. Note that some of these are Jr. High schools as wel...

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Okay, if you know someone in the above mentioned states that would be interested in quiz bowl tournaments, let me know! I intend to try to get something started in Utah. Edit: also, northern Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene area and/or Spokane. (I have heard from two interested coaches there. CdA Charte...

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You have Reno listed twice.

They hosted some sort of Academic Olympics that used NAQT questions, but I have no idea what the tournament was like or the rules or anything.

tiwonge

Is that just the Las Vegas area? I found some sort of "Academic Olympics" thing in Reno that appears to use NAQT questions, at least in part.

tiwonge

I think we had 7 teams, total, competing last year, and 6 of them were at our "State championship." It wasn't a problem last year. This is more speculative than needed, at the moment. It sounds like Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene Charter up in northern Idaho are interested this year, and the...

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How are teams selected for these? Do they have to qualify through regional or local tournaments?

Edit: oh, I see you said the NAQT tournament was open. Do you ever have to deal with more teams wanting to play than you can handle?

tiwonge

I'm not a new high school team, but I am new to trying to coordinate statewide cooperation. I am trying to reach out to northern and eastern Idaho to see if I can encourage schools there to start and establish a circuit. Summer's not the best time to reach teachers, but I did hear back from one teac...

tiwonge

Is there any way to get contact information from schools who attend these tournaments?

tiwonge

Also consider applying for a buzzer system from Matt's Buzzers. (You may already have one now, but this is an option for teams reading this thread and looking for one in the future.)

http://www.mattsbuzzers.com/

tiwonge

Fred should have an audio recording of it. (This was my test setup for video recording, and the audio did not work correctly, so I have a video recording without audio, which isn't helpful. Ophir might have a video recording from his webcam.)

tiwonge

This was a lot of fun to read to the high school teams.

Are there results somewhere? I had to leave to catch a bus, and didn't see any results.

tiwonge

Do you want grammar/readability corrections? I'd be happy to e-mail some of that stuff (I didn't make notes, but I can go back over it) to an editor for future mirrors, if you let me know who to e-mail. The proofing wasn't bad--this sort of thing always comes up, and there certainly have been worse-...

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BYU A won the tournament, going 8-1, and taking two of three games from Colorado, who finished 7-2.

Matt from Colorado was the top scorer.

Thanks to everybody who came!

tiwonge

BYU will be hosting a mirror of the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament on April 1, 2017 Current field: BSU (1) BYU (2) Colorado (1) For more information, contact me at tiwonge@gmail.com. I am helping BYU arrange the logistics of hosting their first tournament, and I haven't yet gotten them to get on the...

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Do you know if this is for 2017 or 2018?

tiwonge

Skype mirror of Penn Bowl?

(Are there any other Skype tournaments?)

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The musical Hamilton is coming to Atlanta. http://atlanta.broadway.com/shows/hamilton-baa/ There are show dates during HSNCT on Friday night (8 PM), Saturday night (8 PM) and Sunday (1 PM and 6:30 PM). No show dates listed for Monday. I don't see anything here about ticket prices; it may be too earl...

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BYU also has a team now, and I am in contact with some people at Reed. They were going to join the circuit this year, but something happened. They were non-responsive for months at the end of last semester, but reached out to me recently. I'm hoping that they'll join us next year.

tiwonge

The situation here will probably result in no actual teams from the Rocky Mountain circuit qualifying for ICT in Division I. This is probably not good. None of the policies proposed in this thread would change that situation. That's false; limiting teams to one site would have disincentivized Colum...

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After having to postpone the tournament due to snow on 2/4, we held the tournament this weekend.

UW A went 9-0 in a triple round robin.
BYU went 6-3
UW B went 2-7
BSU went 1-8

Thanks to all the teams that came.

tiwonge

The 2017 NorthwestSectional Championship Tournament (SCT) will be taking place at Boise State University on Saturday, February 4th, 2017. Please register for the SCT through the NAQT: here Please contact me at tiwonge@gmail.com if you have any questions. (This post may be updated as warranted to pro...

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I don't think she looked. She wanted to help out here before she returned, and I suggested she help out with some tournaments there.

tiwonge

A quick google search didn't turn up anything, so I thought this might be quicker. We've got a former Boise high school student who is at Harvard. She asked me about volunteering with local tournaments before she had to leave, but there aren't any happening before then. I suggested that if she is in...

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BYU has an active team. We have Skype-scrimmaged them. If we ever host a tournament here at Boise State, I'm sure they'll come up to play. (I'm hoping to host an SCT, or, failing that, the MUT.) Andrew Hart has asked them if they'd be interested in hosting a Rocky Mountain mirror of ACF Regional, so...

tiwonge

Have all the mirrors been completed? Can this set be public now?

(Where might I find a copy of it? I didn't take good notes when I was playing, and there were some questions I wanted to take a look at.)

tiwonge

Is this the last mirror? Is the set clear now?

(If not, where is the discussion taking place, and could I get a copy of the questions?)

tiwonge

Is there any way to update that form? One student can't make it, and that makes the team eligible as an UG team.

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Boise State will be there with 1 team.

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BYU appears to have something of an active team right now. Their facebook group is active and advertising practice times & locations.

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