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kcommo

I would, however, also offer some thoughts on various things. I think the centrally timed system, as Kevin pointed out already, is not ideal. With such a large event, and a wide range of moderators, some timing is no doubt necessary. Using a central clock though, has some issues, as I pointed out h...

kcommo

First of all, I need to point out a correction. We had a data entry error in the fifth-place game in which Hanover A beat Queensbury A 355-270 but the result was initially input as a Queensbury win. My apologies to both teams. Now to address David's points: 1. How was the outreach done for this, par...

kcommo

We had 66 teams from 28 schools for the Pre-Holiday Academic Tournament in South Burlington, Vt., on Friday, something I never would have believed possible until the last year or so. Part of the attraction is probably the uniqueness, that this is the only big tournament open to everyone in Northern ...

kcommo

It was indeed at 66 team field from 28 schools in four states. And if the number of upsets are any indication, it was one of the most competitive tournaments we've ever had here in Vermont. In the 48-team varsity bracket, seventh-seeded Middlebury A came through undefeated to claim the title with a ...

kcommo

Looks like we're going to have a final field of 66 teams -- 48 varsity, 18 novice. It's updated above.

kcommo

Thanks, Graham. Got the registration from Murph and I've added you guys to the updated list above. Looks like we're going to have another record field.

kcommo

While we're still taking registrations for anyone interested, it's looking like we're going to have another big field from all over Northern New England and New York. Here's what I'm expecting so far (Updated as of 12/6): South Burlington (VT), 8 varsity, 1 JV Champlain Valley (VT), 2 varsity, 2 JV ...

kcommo

I was greatly impressed by the heavily local makeup of the MIT field last weekend. As someone who's been following New England quiz bowl back into the mid 90s, that' something I've never seen before in Massachusetts. I'm assuming the new WBGH TV show has a lot to do with the explosion of new Eastern...

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars’ Bowl is pleased to announce it will be holding its sixth annual Pre-Holiday Academic Tournament (PHAT VI) on Friday, December 7, at South Burlington High School in South Burlington, Vt. This tournament is open to all high school academic teams and will be played on NAQT que...

kcommo

Golran wrote:Were all teams from Vermont?

Yes, assuming you count Hanover, which is in New Hampshire but competes in the Vermont Scholars' Bowl. This is a fairly informal event so we don't make any effort to recruit out of state, though other schools are welcome if they come to us.

kcommo

Great to see so many Massachusetts schools involved in this, and doing quite well, too. Looks like a step forward for New England quiz bowl.

kcommo

We ended up with a field of 16 teams from nine schools for today's Sue Pasco Opening Tournament, and the Hanover A duo of Graham Reid and Matt Jin turned in a dominating performance to win the title by three full games. It was a closely contested battle for second place between four teams and Essex ...

kcommo

Here's a field update (as of 9/17): Essex 2 teams Lamoille 2 teams +/- North Country 1+ Fair Haven 1-2 South Burlington 4 BFA-Fairfax 1 Burlington 1-2 Mount Mansfield 1 Montpelier 1-2 Hanover 1-2 Total: 15-19 teams Also, it's looking like we will definitely have enough volunteers to play through the...

kcommo

Sets for the Vermont fall tournaments are NAQT 114A for Pasco and NAQT 117A for PHAT.

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl will again be running two NAQT tournaments this fall: the Sue Pasco Opening Tournament on Sept. 22 at Essex High School and the Pre-Holiday Academic Tournament on Dec. 7 (a Friday) at South Burlington High School. At least tentatively, I'm the tournament director for b...

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl will be running the 14th annual Sue Pasco Opening Tournament at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vt., on Saturday, Sept. 22. This is our annual kickoff tournament -- a semi-formal event, featuring candy prizes and primarily intending to serve as an introduction to ...

kcommo

I'm glad to hear this went well. Congrats on pulling together a solid field and for running things the right way with the untimed format. I wish I had the confidence to do the same for my events. It's too bad more Vermont teams didn't make the trip over for this but I'm guessing some coaches were pu...

kcommo

For the reasons mentioned above, Hanover is a longtime member of the Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl, our official statewide league. All the other schools in the field are within Vermont. Also, it should be noted that both Essex A and B have qualified for HSNCT. NAQT informs me Essex A takes the qualifyi...

kcommo

We had a field of 24 teams from 10 schools for the Vermont NAQT Championship tonight at Spaulding High School in Barre. In what was primarily a two-team race for most of the night, South Burlington A went 9-0 and beat Hanover A in the final, 355-240. Those two teams should be earning NAQT nationals ...

kcommo

Glad to hear you guys are putting this together, Gabe. Good luck!

kcommo

Burlington High School held its first middle school tournament in about a decade today and our first using NAQT format and question. The field was small -- just six teams from four schools -- but we were pretty pleased with the questions and the level of play. The B team from Mater Christi School (B...

kcommo

Thanks, Kevin. And thanks to Eric, yourself and your teammates for your organizational efforts. It might not have been the smoothest tournament, but we managed to get it done. And speaking of done, results have now been posted online here: http://www.scholarsbowl.org/phat11final.sqbs_standings.html ...

kcommo

We ended up with 52 teams from 21 schools for this. Hanover won impressively, winning each of its playoff games by at least 200 points. That's a team that has really raised its game this year, as a strong showing at Harvard showed. That said, the surprise of the tournament was Middlebury, a team pla...

kcommo

The field above has been updated. I'm surprised and thrilled to say the expected field has gone past 50 teams now.

kcommo

I don't think physical space is going to be a problem so I don't think we'll have a hard cap. I will confirm that by Monday.

If you guys are going to bring at least two people who can read and you buzzer systems it shouldn't be a problem for you to enter three teams, and possibly more.

kcommo

Glad to hear it, Gabe. The tournament wouldn't be the same without you guys. Just so you are forewarned, however, with the field as large as it is, it's questionable how many more teams I'm going to be able accept off the current waitlist. Thus, if Hanover is hoping to enter more than two teams, it ...

kcommo

Looks like we're going to have another record field. As of right now, I'm expecting (updated 12/1): South Burlington (VT) 8-9 teams (2 novice) Essex (VT) 4 Mt. Abraham (VT) 4 (3 novice) Champlain Valley (VT) 2 Colton Pierrepont (NY) 3 Fair Haven (VT) 3 Rice Memorial (VT) 3 (1 novice) Montpelier (VT)...

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars’ Bowl is pleased to announce it will be holding its fifth annual Pre-Holiday Academic Tournament (PHAT V) on Friday, December 2, at South Burlington High School in South Burlington, Vt. This tournament is open to all high school academic teams and will be played on NAQT ques...

kcommo

After several late dropouts and additions, we ended up with a field of 23 teams from 10 schools. South Burlington went undefeated A won the title, but only after edging otherwise unbeaten Hanover, 445-420, in one of the highest-quality matches we've seen in Vermont. Both of those teams have the bulk...

kcommo

School's planning to attend as of 9/18: South Burlington 5-6 teams Hanover 3 Fair Haven 2-3 Essex 2 Burlington 2 CVU 1-2 BFA-Fairfax 1-2 Lamoille 1 Middlebury 1 St. Johnsbury 1 Thetford 1 Total 20-22 teams It should also be pointed out this tournament has been certified as a PACE gold event so the ...

kcommo

The Vermont Scholars' Bowl functions a lot like a season-long league. We run seven regional tournaments between October and early December and then hold playoffs starting in midwinter and ending on the first Saturday in April. I direct the Sue Pasco and Pre-Holiday tournaments on behalf of the leagu...

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl will be running the 13th annual Sue Pasco Opening Tournament at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vt., on Saturday, Sept. 24. This is our annual kickoff tournament -- a semi-formal event, featuring candy prizes and primarily intending to serve as an introduction to ...

kcommo

\Anyway, I've been in contact with Robert Hentzel about organizing an NAQT tourney in Hanover this spring. Whether or not that comes to fruition, we are definitely going to begin more actively promoting good quiz bowl up here in the Granite State. Gabe, I can't tell you how delighted I am to hear t...

kcommo

We had our state finals over the weekend up here in Vermont, and for the third time in four years, Hanover won the title. As I understand it, they will be heading to NAQT nationals. All in all, it was a pretty good season for us. We had three or four strong teams by local standards, a lot of extreme...

kcommo

I'm happy to say this tournament came out really well. With a mixed team thrown in, we ended up with 18 teams from 10 schools, and from everything I've heard, everyone had a good time. The only neutral-perspective drawback I can think of was just how much Champlain Valley Union dominated. CVU put al...

kcommo

We're looking at a field of about 17 teams for this event tomorrow, including most of the area's top teams.

Projected field
South Burlington, 4 teams
Champlain Valley, 3
Essex, 2
Fair Haven, 2
BFA-Fairfax, 1
Burlington, 1
Hanover, 1
Montpelier, 1
Spaulding, 1
Thetford, 1

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl is excited to announce it will be playing host to the fifth annual Vermont NAQT Championship next month at Spaulding High School in Barre and invites all the state's high schools to take part in an exciting evening quiz bowl matches. This year's tournament will be held...

kcommo

The file is an excel worksheet. I'm assuming you'd need to download it and open it a compatible program to make it work.

kcommo

It was actually 11 teams from five schools.

If anyone else is interested, Garrett Combs sent along partial results and I've posted them here: http://www.scholarsbowl.org/QFTN.xlsx

kcommo

This tournament did happen, with a field of seven or eight teams from Vermont and New Hampshire.

I understand the top three finishers were South Burlington (VT), Hanover (NH) and Fair Haven (VT) but I've not seen any kind of official results.

kcommo

We had a great turnout of 40 teams from 21 schools in four states for the tournament tonight, making this the largest tournament we've ever run here in Vermont. The level of play seems to be improving too, and Champlain Valley A put up the best numbers we've seen up here in a tossup-bonus tournament...

kcommo

The field above should be more or less final now. If we hold at 38 teams, that would be, to my knowledge, the largest tournament ever held in Northern New England, so obviously we're pretty excited about the response.

kcommo

Thanks for your interest, Gabe. Hanover's participation's the one thing this tournament has been missing the last three years.

Anyway, the deadline is the Tuesday before the tournament, Nov. 30. Hope you guys can make it.

kcommo · Re: PHAT IV (12/3/2010 at South Burlington, VT HS) Field updated.

Field updated.

kcommo

Unfortunately, we're using the same set as the Yale fall tournament, so most of the Connecticut regulars are out of the picture. But, if there are any other teams down that way that are interested in the trip, we would definitely be glad to have them. Realistically, though, the range we can draw fro...

kcommo

Here's the schools that have registered (as of Dec. 1): South Burlington (Vt.), 5 teams +/- Essex (Vt.), 4 Fair Haven (Vt.), 3 Champlain Valley (Vt.), 3 Ticonderoga (N.Y.), 2 Colebrook (N.H.), 1 Westport (N.Y.), 2 Colton-Pierrepont (N.Y.), 2 Dolgeville (N.Y.) 1 Emma Willard (N.Y.) 1 Lebanon (N.H.) 2...

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars’ Bowl is excited to announce it will be holding its fourth annual Pre-Holiday Academic Tournament (PHAT IV) on Friday, December 3, at South Burlington High School in South Burlington, Vt. This tournament is open to all high school academic teams and will be played on NAQT qu...

kcommo

Congratulations to South Burlington High School on winning today's Sue Pasco Opening Tournament. We had a field of 19 teams from 11 schools and SBHS recovered from a first-round loss to finish 8-1-1 (3-0-1 in the A playoffs) and win the tournament for the second time in three years. Champlain Valley...

kcommo

Looks like we're going to have a field of 10 or 11 schools and around 18 teams for SPOT on Saturday. Here's the field as it stands: Burlington, 2 teams Hanover, 2 teams North Country, 1 team South Burlington, 3 teams Mount Mansfield, 2 teams Essex, 1-2 teams Fair Haven, 2-3 teams Middlebury 1-2 team...

kcommo

The Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl is delighted to announce it will be running the 12th annual Sue Pasco Opening Tournament at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vt., on Saturday, Sept. 25. This is our annual kickoff tournament -- a semi-formal event, featuring candy prizes, meant to serve as an intro...

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