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Also, this trend of teams leaving early seems to be continuing across GA tournaments- I recall the Norcross tournament had that issue as well. Teams not staying until the end has been an ongoing issue at Georgia tournaments this year, since teams are accustomed to single elimination playoffs and to...

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This was the most well run tournament that we have attended all year; it was also laid back and really fun! I thought the readers, the questions and everything else were perfect. Thanks to Farrah and the rest of the Georgia Tech team for all of their hard work in putting this together.

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The tossup "What do you do with a menorah?" I'm curious to know what answer they were seeking for this one. Stick candles in it? Light it? What else? The question about the sphere, Macon and Atlanta sounds kind of humorous. I'll say one thing about these horrible questions: at least they ...

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Here is the field for this Saturday's Varsity State tournament: A: Baconton Charter Galloway GAMES (high school program at Middle Georgia College) Paideia Prince Avenue Christian Providence Christian Academy Savannah Country Day Walker School Whitefield Academy AA: Bleckley County Blessed Trinity Bu...

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The preliminary rounds consisted of 10 tossups without bonuses followed by 10 tossups with bonuses. The playoff rounds consisted of 20 tossups with bonuses. That explains the jump in scores between the preliminary rounds and playoff rounds (and the relatively low overall scores) in case anyone was w...

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Those are all good etiquette rules. To that list, I would add not eating during matches. We played a match recently where the coach for the other team ate Cheetos (somewhat loudly) during the entire match. Every time the reader would start to read a question, she would start crunching; it was very d...

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I noticed that Dorman's "Season Ender" tournament on April 30 isn't on the calendar. They are using NAQT IS-103A.

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Please stop using "polity" and, while you're at it, please throw out "titular" as well.

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Ah, I didn't know that the rounds were timed. I see now that they heard 23 tossups, so that makes sense. That's still an extraordinarily impressive score, though!

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Just the score is pretty frightening. This was 815 points out of a possible 900, right? Wow!

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Thanks go out to Robert Slade, Holly Tinkle, and Greg (sorry I don't know your last name), who were instrumental in everything from stats to setting up rooms. You guys were willing and able to help out with a lot of the little things that build up, and for volunteer workers you guys were just... aw...

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This tournament is also the same day as the Georgia Varsity State tournament. I know that a number of Georgia high school players had hoped to play in the MUT this year, but they will not be able to now. Also, this may potentially cause some conflicts as college players are often called upon to serv...

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Wes,

Will you be sending out further information about the tournament soon (meeting time, location, etc.)? I have a parent accompanying the team on Saturday, since I am unable to attend, and I would like to be able to pass this information on to the parent in the next day or two.

Thanks!

centralhs

A field update would be greatly appreciated. Besides my own team, I have no idea who is planning to participate in the rescheduled version of this event.

centralhs

I heard the GSAC set yesterday at Alpharetta's mirror and I would also recommend this set highly. I thought the questions, while a little more difficult than a typical NAQT IS set, were at a level that would be accessible to any reasonably experienced team.

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Centennial is really, really good. They have not lost a game to another team from Georgia in almost a year, since the Prison Bowl mirror at Norcross last March.

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Central Gwinnett will be bringing 2 teams to this tournament.

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This was a great set of well written questions, although definitely harder than "regular difficulty" level. I would imagine that quite a few teams felt a bit overwhelmed by the questions, but they were perfect for the more experienced teams in the field.

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I just moderated a day of this tournament and I felt strongly that the tournament was too hard to be described with the following quote - "BATE is a regular difficulty high school set (roughly the same difficulty of an NAQT IS level set or a regular season set by HSAPQ)." After hearing th...

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Centennial actually beat Dorman 560-110 in the final round at Chattahoochee today. They have been seriously underestimated so far this year.

EDIT: added actual score of Centennial-Dorman final.

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Both IS #96 and IS #100 have been heard at other tournaments within Georgia (Cobb County/Gwinnett County and Savannah Country Day), so we thought using #98 was the best solution. (All of the spring sets are also in use in Georgia: #102 and #104 at Cedar Shoals on 1/29 and 3/19; #105 is the state ch...

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Wes,

Both Chattahoochee and Brookwood have already heard the IS-98 set at tournaments outside of Georgia. Would you continue with the use of IS-98, knowing that would exclude Brookwood and Chattahoochee, or switch to some other set?

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one or two teams from Central Gwinnett I have absolutely no idea who these "one or two teams from Central Gwinnett" might be. If any students from my school appear at your tournament, they are doing so on their own and at their own expense. Please have them call themselves something else,...

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Congratulations to Chattahoochee for defeating Alpharetta in an extremely close final game 340-320.

Prelim stats:

http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/rr ... dings.html

Playoff stats:

http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/rr ... dings.html

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I suspect the reason it's "unfortunate" has more to do with the horrid corruption of bouncebacks that IHSA uses rather than bouncebacks themselves being inherently bad. As someone not particularly familiar with the IHSA format, it would help me if you could elaborate on what "the hor...

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In Georgia, most tournaments run by high schools use bouncebacks on bonuses. I have not attended any tournaments outside of the southeast (other than the HSNCT) so I am wondering what the norm is in other parts of the country. Do high school run tournaments generally use bouncebacks on bonuses or not?

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Central Gwinnett will probably bring one team. It's too far out to be able to say 100%, but I can let you know for sure once we get into second semester. I would love to see a mirror of Maggie Walker's GSAC set as it's always a strong set and I don't think it's ever been used in Georgia before.

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The field is being expanded to include 28 teams. This should be the final field, unless teams drop out during the week. Registered -- 28 teams: Alpharetta -- 1 team Chattahoochee -- 2 teams Rabun Gap-Nacoochee* -- 2 teams Grayson -- 2 teams Cedar Shoals -- 2 teams Woodward* -- 2 teams McIntosh* -- 1...

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I am trying to find as many "outside" readers as I can, then I will try hitting coaches up to see if they will agree to read. I would really hate to turn any teams away solely due to a lack of readers.

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Interest in the Harvard Fall Tournament mirror has greatly exceeded expectations. A rather long waiting list is now forming. The only detail keeping us from expanding the field is a lack of readers. If you are able to read at the tournament OR if your team is able to provide a reader, PLEASE let me ...

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The field has now reached 24 teams and is currently closed. We now have a number of teams on the waiting list. If I am able to secure enough readers, we may expand the field. If you are a local college student (or a coach) and you are available to read on November 13, please let me know ASAP. Regist...

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Here are the results from the GATA Fall Tournament held this past Saturday. There were 2 sites for this tournament: Bleckley County High School in Cochran, GA and Chattahoochee HS in Johns Creek, GA. I'll try to post more complete results (with stats) later. A few notes about the Chattahoochee site....

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What should I be studying? I tried studying some literature and some other things on the "You Gotta Know," but they never came up in practice, so I got really discouraged! Don't get discouraged just because the things you studied didn't come up at your very first tournament. They will com...

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I have looked through the History Bee and Bowl website and I am interested in having a team participate from my school. I am not completely sure that I understand about the Intramural History Bowl, though. At what point in the year would we need to hold that? If our State History Bowl is not until M...

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81 teams are signed up for the GATA Fall tournament this Saturday. See field update below. As I stated in my above post, we are desperately in need of experienced readers to make this event run smoothly. If you are anywhere in or near Georgia, we could really use your help. Please e-mail me at cathy...

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I have heard the Jewish holiday of Sukkot pronounced more than once by readers/players as "suck-it". One of my pet peeves is readers who pronounce non-French words as if they were French. There are other examples that I can't think of right this second, but one that comes to mind that irri...

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Central Gwinnett High School (Lawrenceville, GA) will be hosting a mirror of the Harvard Fall Tournament on Saturday, November 13, 2010. Questions will be written by members of the Harvard University quiz bowl team but please note that this tournament is not a college tournament; it is being written...

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Readers are desperately needed for the GATA Fall Tournament on Saturday, October 16, at Chattahoochee HS in Johns Creek, GA. The number of teams in the field has greatly exceeded what we originally expected so we are worried that we won't have enough readers. If you might be available for read for o...

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Mr. Edelstein: Is there any chance that we could get a copy of the questions used in the playoff rounds? I would really like to use these rounds at practice to review what we missed. (Plus we never heard the semifinals or finals so those would be useful for practice, as well.) Thanks for running an ...

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Another related thing I hear people who don't want to play quizbowl say is that it merely tests "rote" knowledge. I think there is a mindset, even (especially?) among smart people, that discourages knowing lots of things. Many people don't like so-called useless information or the people ...

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Central Gwinnett will be bringing at least one team and we may be able to bring two. I can let you know for sure after our practice on Wednesday.

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Bainbridge has already registered for the GATA Fall Tournament so I think that, unfortunately, they will have to come off the interested list as well. Georgia teams will have to choose between Alabama's tournament and GATA Fall since they are using the same set.

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Hopefully, there are a lot of interested players coming up from the Georgia middle schools this year because otherwise a lot of teams seem in danger of dying out or at least weakening considerably within the next few years. Since this appears to be somewhat of a rebuilding year for most J.V. level t...

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Unlike recent years in Georgia, I'm not sure there is any one team that stands out as a dominant favorite for J.V. this year. And I'm not aware of any one standout J.V. player, like Adam Silverman from Centennial the past two years. Chattahoochee had a very good J.V. team last year but I don't know ...

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Centennial Olympic Park, the Aquarium and the World of Coca Cola are all grouped together right by the Georgia Dome and an easy walk from the Hyatt Regency. The NAQT website says that the High Museum is also within walking distance, which it isn't (unless you want a really hefty walk as it's in midt...

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There probably will be less midwestern teams in Atlanta since many of them probably have competed in Chicago every year largely because it is an easy travel distance from where they live. However, I believe that the difference will be made up by the large number of Southeastern teams who will compet...

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Coach K wrote: Have Brookwood and Chattahoochee set their dates yet? Yes, Brookwood will be on November 20 and Chattahoochee is on December 11. I don't know how often Danville would want to make the trek down to Georgia but we would love to have you at our tournament as well. And November 13 it wil...

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Could a Georgia Mirror be held on the same day as the main HFT (11/13)? That would be the only good date to hold a tournament in Georgia in either November or December due to the Chattahoochee and Brookwood tournaments, Thanksgiving, and the SAT.

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Some of my players have used the DK "Eyewitness Companion" series of books and found them to be very useful. This series contains books on Art, Music, Opera, Architecture, and Film, among others. They provide a good overview of the topic at hand and contain interesting tidbits of informati...

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White Plains netted 30, given the title of the Spanish edition of Hemingway books, and identifying the original English titles. Klein then netted 30 on COOKING 101." I actually thought this sentence was a joke until I looked at the link and saw it with my own eyes. In 2008, Georgia engaged in ...

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