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- Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU OPEN TRASH (8/14)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12066
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU OPEN TRASH (8/14)
Bryn Reinecke and me need two teammates for the VCU Open Trash. Feel free to contact me at ericd25 at hotmail.com if you're interested in joining our team.
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU Open 2011 (08/13-08/14)
- Replies: 96
- Views: 25901
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU Open 2011 (08/13-08/14)
Bryn Reinecke and myself need two teammates for the VCU Open. Feel free to contact me at ericd25 at hotmail.com if interested in joining.
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Football Game Dates
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3289
Re: College Football Game Dates
But like, the only date listed between September 7 and Thanksgiving that doesn't have a conflict with a "major" game is October 8? Can we host more than 1 tournament, or what? Like, I totally said in my first post that teams shouldn't not host solely because there is a big game on a weeke...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Football Game Dates
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3289
Re: College Football Game Dates
If no one else is gonna say it: Maybe the South wouldn't be such a joke in the college quizbowl realm if its quizbowl players didn't routinely miss tournaments to watch football on television? It's not like they are ON the football team. No one wants a conflict with other events when hosting someth...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Football Game Dates
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3289
Re: College Football Game Dates
Those really aren't problems, Alex, nobody hosts anything right after Thanksgiving and Iowa State doesn't have a team, so I expect us at MU to literally be the only people affected by such a conflict. I went ahead and added that game anyway. I'm not sure what the plans are for that area of the coun...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Football Game Dates
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3289
Re: College Football Game Dates
The games listed in the post above basically involve major programs with a focus on the Southeast since that’s the region that seems to have the most conflicts with football and because it’s the region I’m most familiar with. I also have sprinklings of Big 10 games and a few others that caught my ey...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Football Game Dates
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3289
College Football Game Dates
I thought it would be useful to have a listing of some major college football games that could potentially impact college quizbowl scheduling, attendance, logistics, etc. This list basically begins in mid-September and goes through the weekend before Thanksgiving, which seems to cover most of the fa...
- Tue May 03, 2011 1:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: High Schoolers in College Tournaments
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5936
Re: High Schoolers in College Tournaments
(1) First, I think there is some merit to the idea that we have college quizbowl and high school quizbowl for a reason: circuits can most naturally form and be justified based on level of education and there's a place for strict rules. If there's a concern marketing the college circuit because ther...
- Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
- Replies: 82
- Views: 27438
Re: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
Greetings, HSAPQ is pleased to announce that the following teams' bids for the National All-Star Tournament have been accepted: Texas: Head coach: Chris Romero Player 1: Thomas Littrell Player 2: Benji Nguyen Player 3: Jiawei Li Player 4: Jonathan Xu Player 5: Roger Cain Player 6: Carlo DeGuzman Dis...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moon Pie Classic at UT-Chattanooga 4/30/2011
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22363
Re: Moon Pie Classic at UT-Chattanooga 4/30/2011
South Carolina won't be able to make it. Good luck!
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 57582
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
I will point out that in my opinion rewarding teams who have easy matches and run up scores on weaker opponents is nothing more than praising the bullies for being bullies instead of rewarding the teams that fought hard for the wins they received. That said I believe W-L should always be the first ...
- Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 57582
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
One more thing I'd like to emphasize is the lack of communication with Minnesota. It's not really good form to run a tournament in such a radically different manner without mentioning it to the people who wrote your event. Part of the reason Minnesota wrote 14 rounds was give teams plenty of rounds ...
- Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 57582
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
Anyway, this tournament had some good aspects that I'll mention later, but.... I also wish to comment regarding my "TD fiat" at the end of the tournament. To my knowledge, all parties who were taking issue with the scorekeeping system had been informed of the "quality" (which, af...
- Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20716
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
Are you people just too polite to object strenuously when bullshit like this happens at a tournament? Maybe that's a problem. Well, this is just laughable. The problems are the tournaments themselves and not our genteel Southern courtesy. While what happened at NGCSU should never be done again and ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20716
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
I did want to bring up one more challenging issue for this thread. One thing any team (Southeast or otherwise) must do to get nationally competitive is to consistently attend national, DI-level tournaments such as DI ICT, ACF Nats, and Chicago Open. All of the best regions annually bring a bunch of ...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 57582
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
South Carolina would like to register for this. We'll bring 2 buzzers and 2 readers.
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20716
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
Geography-wise, as I noted earlier, the Southeast could really use more tournaments in Atlanta. It's an ideal location that's close to lots of quizbowl-playing schools. So, just a bit of idle speculation... as far as features unique to the Southeast, is it at all possible that the outstanding streng...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20716
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
I mean, trashing an entire region based on one tournament seems a little much. The Southeast has hosted several good tournaments this year, and this thread clearly has people from the Southeast posting who are more or less interested in making this region better. Out-of-region guys like Charlie Dees...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moon Pie Classic at UT-Chattanooga 4/30/2011
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22363
Re: Moon Pie Classic at UT-Chattanooga 4/30/2011
I'd say there's a pretty good chance South Carolina will be here, but it might coincide with exams.
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moderating for Your Own Team
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3542
Re: Moderating for Your Own Team
I moderate for South Carolina all of the time. I've never been biased for or against them in any match. I can't imagine the fact that I read to them at practice gives them an advantage over their opponents. In my 12 years of involvement in quizbowl at the college level, I can't remember a tournament...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20716
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
I'll have more to say on this later, but Chris's point about a lack of grad programs is valid. As a former grad student player myself, I've certainly never complained about the presence of grad students in quizbowl, but it definitely doesn't help the Southern quizbowl scene to have so few grad stude...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at UCF: March 5, 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6238
Re: ACF Regionals at UCF: March 5, 2011
Is it possible for South Carolina to still register for this regionals? We'll bring a buzzer system, and Bryn and myself will be available to read and whatnot.
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANCELED: ACF Regionals 3/5 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1662
Re: ACF Regionals 3/5 @ NGCSU
Well, disregard my previous post. We're still expressing interest.
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANCELED: ACF Regionals 3/5 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1662
Re: ACF Regionals 3/5 @ NGCSU
South Carolina is withdrawing from this tournament. We'll probably have some teams at MUT here, though.
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANCELED: ACF Regionals 3/5 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1662
Re: ACF Regionals 3/5 @ NGCSU
South Carolina is interested in bringing 2 teams to this.
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 139653
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
Is there any more info on the North Georgia regional?
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preliminary D-Values
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4283
Re: Preliminary D-Values
Is there a reason South Carolina isn't on there?
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 18633
Re: Critique Jonah's questions
Eric, moderators who are not experts can't possibly know when they're being lenient enough and when they're being too lenient. At this event where being too lenient could be the difference between a team getting a bid to nationals or not, it is unreasonable to expect most moderators to go along wit...
- Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 18633
Re: talk about individual questions here
-Syncretization was not accepted for Syncretism. Fuck you, name-redacted moderator from this match. I think you're being a bit hard on the moderator. As was pointed out here , lacks of alternative answers put moderators in a bind. I mean, how's a mod who's never studied or heard of the subject supp...
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 18633
Re: talk about individual questions here
re: Ethnic History of the Vilnius Region Once I get my hands on the set, I might be able to comment a little more, but yeah, there were a few times as a mod that I felt put into a bind on the prompting/accepting answers side. One tossup that I thought fit this description was the DI one on unemploy...
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 18633
Re: talk about individual questions here
I felt some prompting was insufficient in this set. Things like the tossup on "yo mama" left a lot of new players confused, and in my room a player buzzed in, said "mother," and I decided to deviate from what was on the page and prompt her. I think stuff like that, for a field f...
- Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18662
Re: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year?
Kay, if you can start a team at Emory, you'll be a quizbowl hero. Seriously, there's no reason on earth why that school shouldn't have a competitive team every year, and it would be a perfect place to host tournaments. Nick's link looks helpful. Starting a team would take some work, but it's possibl...
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 139653
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
Thanks Chris; it's a definite possibility that we'll be coming to VCC, which is always a good trip.
- Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 139653
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 Global Announcement (February 26, 2011)
I heard that there might be a regional for the Southeast in the works. Is there any news on that?
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
- Replies: 82
- Views: 27438
2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
High School Academic Pyramid Questions announces that it will be holding the second HSAPQ National All-Star Academic Tournament on June 11-12, 2011 at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. The tournament will convene at 8:30 AM on Saturday, June 11 and run until about 6 PM, then conc...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at W&M 2/27/2011
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14058
Re: ACF Regionals at W&M 2/27/2011
Sure; VHSL is a definitely a good reason to host it on Sunday, if I do say so myself. Hopefully I can find a way to bring our team up there. We'll figure it out.
- Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New Guy to a "New" Team
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1920
Re: New Guy to a "New" Team
There's been lots of good advice in this thread. I would like to say that the college circuit in the Southeast desperately needs teams to host tournaments, so I would think that most people would just be glad to have a tournament to go to even if it isn't done 100% perfectly. Anyway, me and Bryn Rei...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at W&M 2/27/2011
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14058
Re: ACF Regionals at W&M 2/27/2011
Oh man. Too bad it's on Sunday. South Carolina would like to come, but that might make it impossible.
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
Thank you, Mr. Little Helper. That tournament was awesome. Also, this.
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
Wesley Willis
I Want an Alien for Christmas
The Waitresses
Mannheim Steamroller
I Want an Alien for Christmas
The Waitresses
Mannheim Steamroller
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
Christmas Time Don't Let the Bells End
Christmas at the Zoo
Carol of the Bells
Merry Christmas...If That's Okay
Christmas at the Zoo
Carol of the Bells
Merry Christmas...If That's Okay
- Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
Re:
Merry Christmas I Don't Want to Fight Tonight
Christmas in Killarney
Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
Blue Christmas
I miss the Otters. I didn't like voting against Stevie Wonder either.
Christmas in Killarney
Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
Blue Christmas
I miss the Otters. I didn't like voting against Stevie Wonder either.
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 37974
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
Fairytale of New York
I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus by Standstill
Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas by MST3K
Bar-B-Que by Emmet Otter's Jug Band
I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus by Standstill
Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas by MST3K
Bar-B-Que by Emmet Otter's Jug Band
- Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Establishing successful programs at smaller schools
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2325
Re: Establishing successful programs at smaller schools
Firstly, the fact that you haven't received many replies doesn't surprise me since most people are never put into this situation. Most people that post on these forums are in fact at major institutions and do not have this problem, hence they don't have the capabilities of seeing things in a way th...
- Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2010 Discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 10709
Re: Delta Burke 2010 Discussion
Yeah, thanks for putting Delta Burke (the tournament!) together. I always find it a good tournament to read at practice for novices, and this year's version (of the tournament!) looks good as well.
- Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2010 Discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 10709
Re: Delta Burke 2010 Discussion
That's a good point. I have nothing against people talking through questions they thought to be too hard or answer lines that seemed frustrating. I was just expressing my objection to discussions in which people tried to use arbitrary "ranking" systems of notability or merely threw out ob...
- Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2010 Discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 10709
Re: Delta Burke 2010 Discussion
I'm a little bit confused about the discussion, and since I'm something of a veteran quizbowler, I wonder if perhaps some of the younger players trying to discuss tournaments are also confused. It seems like oftentimes when people say, "X is too hard," lots of posters, especially more expe...
- Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF rule change regarding high schools
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5799
Re: ACF rule change regarding high schools
Let me just make sure I have this right: does this rule change require a college team to write a packet if one of its players played in a collegiate event of any kind before 9/1/09 when said player was a high schooler?