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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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(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...

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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...

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South Carolina won't be able to make it. Good luck!

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, after consultation amo...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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South Carolina would like to register for this. We'll bring 2 buzzers and 2 readers.

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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...

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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...

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I'd say there's a pretty good chance South Carolina will be here, but it might coincide with exams.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Well, disregard my previous post. We're still expressing interest.

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South Carolina is withdrawing from this tournament. We'll probably have some teams at MUT here, though.

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South Carolina is interested in bringing 2 teams to this.

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Is there any more info on the North Georgia regional?

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Is there a reason South Carolina isn't on there?

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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...

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-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...

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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...

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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 full of new teams, a ...

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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...

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Thanks Chris; it's a definite possibility that we'll be coming to VCC, which is always a good trip.

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I heard that there might be a regional for the Southeast in the works. Is there any news on that?

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Oh man. Too bad it's on Sunday. South Carolina would like to come, but that might make it impossible.

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Thank you, Mr. Little Helper. That tournament was awesome. Also, this.

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Linus and Lucy

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Waitresses

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Wesley Willis
I Want an Alien for Christmas
The Waitresses
Mannheim Steamroller

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Christmas Time Don't Let the Bells End
Christmas at the Zoo
Carol of the Bells
Merry Christmas...If That's Okay

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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.

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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

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region

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...

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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.

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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 objections t...

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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 experienced po...

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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?

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I’m glad you posted about this because I think it will help address perhaps the most destructive myth about college quizbowl: the myth that your school cannot have a good quizbowl program if you're not at an elite university that is chock full of former high school greats. Yes, most of the “top 25” ...

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Okay, let's continue the discussion of the thread focusing on the "why did you ask about X when Y is more askable and gettable by teams?" Let's not. This is almost always not a productive approach to tournament criticism. Most of your examples don't hold up particularly well. "The Weary Blues" - it...

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I think Mike Cheyne's ideas are pretty good; new players who are interested in getting better should consider using them. Other things mentioned in this thread are also useful. I want to expand on one thing Mike said: 2. Take a packet or listen to a packet at practice. Write down some things you don...

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