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We've changed the SCT hosting process this year and are reaching out to target particular experienced hosts in designated locations. As such, there is no open host call, but we expect a complete range of sites to be announced in early November. Seeing as how it's mid-to-late November now, is there ...

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I talked to Jacob last night, but the Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance is going to sponsor a Team Kentucky for 2016 NASAT. Considering the location this shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but we hope to see lots of great all-star teams from across the country this year, just like at every NASAT held in...

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While I don't think I ever met him, David was always willing to give some advice to Kentuckians who were trying to make the quizbowl scene in his home state better, and several times posted with advice in the Kentucky threads on these boards. He once suggested that we should look into starting a coa...

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Current Goldenrod Cup Standings 1. DuPont Manual A (23 points) 2. Johnson Central A (16 points) 3. Woodford County A (14 points) t4. Campbell County A (11 points) t4. DuPont Manual B (11 points) 6. Dunbar A (9 points) t7. Dunbar B (8 points) t7. Daviess County A (8 points) 9. Russell A (6 points) t1...

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Depending on the publication, I could see a newspaper or magazine having some great specialists on things like music, art, literature, or current events. Not sure how well they would do at science, but I guess there are probably some publications out there who have top scientists who write for them.

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The current Goldenrod Cup standings may be viewed here . The next tournament affiliated with the Goldenrod Cup is the University of Kentucky Fall Championship, being held in Lexington on November 1. That tournament is the 3rd in what is right now a series of 10 scheduled tournaments that will be sco...

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Current Standings (As of October 22, 2015) 1. DuPont Manual A (13 points) 2. Campbell County A (11 points) t3. Daviess County A (8 point) t3. Johnson Central A (8 points) t3. Woodford County A (8 points) 6. Russell A (6 points) t7. Danville A (5.5 points) t7. Simon Kenton A (5.5 points) 9. Dunbar B ...

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Louisville is playing at this site. I think somebody sent an email a few days ago about that.

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Since nobody else has posted results yet:

1. Manual A
2. Campbell County A
3. Woodford County A
4. Daviess County A

Ram has full stats that should be up soon. Thanks to everybody who came to play or staff yesterday, it was a lot of fun hosting the event!

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jasonzhou wrote: UChicago (10)

I see the quizbowl player cloning labs in Hyde Park are running at full capacity this fall.

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One of the most perplexing comments on that article was about how it should have been obvious that it was Chris Kyle because there aren't many women named Taya. Anyway I did manage to figure out the answer to that question despite my liberal brainwashing by Hollywood/Obama/Lizard People so my guess ...

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Current Standings (As of September 30, 2015)

1. Johnson Central A (8 points)
2. Russell A (6 points)
3. Dunbar B (5 points)
4. DuPont Manual A (3 points)
5. Campbell County A (2 points)
6. Daviess County A (1 point)

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You can basically go play anywhere you would like. When I was at WKU we once drove 9 hours to Virginia for a tournament basically because we wanted to go to DC on our Fall Break. Obviously for your club's budget and sustained involvement, staying closer to home has some benefits. I know that Penn Bo...

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Regardless of whether TACA is worth fighting to improve or whatever, I would at least like to chime in with some more info here. Let me preface this by saying that whatever faults Rohan has, he is definitely not to blame for the mess at Vanderbilt, because it started well before he entered college. ...

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Vanderbilt finished 22nd at ICT last year, so it's not like they're not relevant anymore. To suggest otherwise is as silly as calling a tournament SPOOKY and putting their non-quizbowl members in charge of running it. Here's the blunt truth: People who don't want to play quizbowl, like the leadershi...

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For many West Virginians, disease and pollution are simply the price to be paid for economic security. That's the saddest line in the whole story. I'm always astounded how so many otherwise intelligent people seem unable to realize that regulations are not all either GOOD or BAD but different thing...

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The Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance is excited to announce the second edition of the Goldenrod Cup. The Goldenrod Cup is an annual competition that aggregates the results of affiliated good quizbowl tournaments held in the state of Kentucky. A Kentucky team who wins a Goldenrod Cup event will receive 10 ...

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Make sure your seatbelt is fastened wrote:The first post has been updated to reflect that the single-school discount will apply to teams from a single college OR teams from a single high school.

Do you have a list of sites (and if possible, what dates those sites are hosting on) yet?

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Just a quick note that the KQBA Goldenrod Cup will be awarded once again this year, and the first tournament of the sequence will be tomorrow's tournament at Glasgow. We'll have a full schedule and announcement up soon.

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Louisville is under the impression that our A team will at least consist of Kurtis Droge, Ramapriya Rangaraju, and myself. In the fall our 4th is still undecided (perhaps Megan Seldon? I'm not sure to be honest,) but is likely to be Nick Hammond pending his return to school in the spring.

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Gatton A only has Zach Wesley returning.

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grapesmoker wrote:North Dakota Partisan League (0)

Was this actually a tossup on the Nonpartisan League?

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I'm not sure how successful "Scheduling reform" has been, but I'm guessing that having a full half of the season's regular difficulty schedule confined to a four-week period in the winter, is the kind of unfortunate scheduling quirk that most people in the community were hoping to avoid.

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I'm making a separate point to note that volunteering is a real thing that people do for shit all the time, including quizbowl. If you don't feel that volunteering to help quizbowl exist is a good use of your time, then go find some better group of people to help. If you think that volunteering in g...

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These are the very strangest of quizbowl hills to die on. Yeah I was really hoping for some more serious demands when I started reading this thread. "Offer nice books and trophies, resolve protests, have bounceback bonuses and pay your moderators" is a really mild rebuke to the structure ...

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Glasgow High School would like to invite you to the Scottie Invitational to be held on August 29th. The format is traditional quiz bowl with 20 tossups with powers and three-part bonuses that will bounce back. The fee is $70 per team. An early field includes: Russell Ind. HS 3 teams Johnson Central...

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I've always been a big fan of social media presence for college teams, and I think this can extend to other organizations as well. At the very least I've found a Facebook group to be a very beneficial organizing tool, and my experience with Facebook pages and Twitter accounts really likes the potent...

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Don't mean to derail the conversation here, but since it's a fact that most people are inclined towards heterosexual preferences, it's generally pretty reasonable to assume that somebody is heterosexual unless they either say so or there are other general cues to the contrary. This on its baseline ...

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This will probably be my last post in this thread. I want to say that my main concern is about quizbowl becoming politicized. I feel like this discussion has weirdly gone in a way that could make it seem like I just don't want to hear about gay people in quizbowl. I won't claim to be a fiercely act...

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Look, you're missing my whole point about micropolitics. Personally, whether someone was gay or straight is not something I think about when I play quizbowl, because quite frankly, I don't care unless it is relevant to their work in a particular way. I don't want questions to preach to me about app...

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I think the reasonable middle ground here is to only note the author's sexuality in questions where it's important, but also to not automatically assume it's unimportant. I don't know much about Henry James, perhaps being gay was unimportant to his writing, but there are plenty of cases where an aut...

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I know the focus of this discussion is on literature and art, but I'll point out that history questions have a lot of room for LGBTQ topics, and I (and plenty of others) have explored these topics in past question writing. As we move forward, I think several of the current events topics of the last ...

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I have a few observations to make about this topic: 1) Quizbowl is perhaps the most civil and well-behaved internet community that I've ever been a part of. We have specific issues to work on when it comes to how we treat each other (and I will address some of them in this post), but I want to start...

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I wouldn't propose any sort of punishment for events that take place outside of this system. I think the carrot of having centralized, authoritative records of performance during the "regular season" is reward enough that all actors--host teams, playing teams, and writers--would largely f...

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Would anyone be up for posting their pre-season Kentucky predictions? Woodford County is going to be really, really good next year. From what I can tell, Luke was a junior and on top of that they have plenty of other able players coming back. Manual is going to be really good again next year, but t...

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Has there been any progress on exactly when tournaments are happening this fall? I know Novice is set for September and Penn Bowl for 10/24 (and I'm guessing 10/17 in some cases), but I don't think I've seen dates officially set for ACF Fall, the NAQT-style open tournament, or any other potential to...

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Fleming County has already claimed a date for next year, but all other tournament hosts have yet to decide on a date. If you're planning to host a tournament, once you select a date you should post here or email me if you want it added to the calendar. I may catch it from the tournament announcement...

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Here's a schedule for the upcoming season. I'll update it and make improvements to it periodically. August 8 August 15 August 22 August 29: Glasgow Scottie Invitational , Glasgow September 5 September 12 September 19 September 26 October 3 October 10: Fleming County Middle School Tournament , Flemin...

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On the answerline space issue: there were problems with some of the answerlines, but the set wasn't completely devoid of alternate answers. There were principles that I know NHBB to hold that were somewhat inconsistently applied in the case of alternate answers. The set was not perfect, nor was it a...

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The National History Bee and Bowl's Middle School Division is still looking for the last handful of moderators for our 2015 National Finals event in Louisville, Kentucky next weekend (Memorial Day weekend). If you have experience moderating, and would be able/interested in volunteering your time on...

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Oh yeah, let's do this. What are the current rules about playing on teams within your school's system? Louisiana Tech is also a member of the UL system. Am I about to enter a recruiting war with Jake Sundberg? ACF and NAQT rules currently diverge on this: Students at comprehensive universities with...

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I will be attending the University of Louisiana - Monroe in the fall, which means that either A) I'm done with quizbowl or B) I'll start a team (probably not as a freshman) or C) Maybe do something with UL-Lafayette (unlikely) If anyone here is at ULM, get in contact with me, because quizbowl was f...

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Will Alston and I are collaborating on an open set slated for October/November. The target difficulty will be Regionals+, with a distribution and question length limit somewhat similar to NAQT. Shan Kothari has joined the project to work on the Biology + Other Science, but we are still searching fo...

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this could provide better PR/funding opportunities for teams (i.e. Player X/Team X is ranked 33rd in the country). Is this actually a thing for collegiate clubs? It is, but I doubt it applies to the player poll. No school is giving their club funding for having the 33rd best individual player in a ...

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Vanderbilt won this tournament, with Wright State finishing 2nd. Emily Bingham was the top scorer. Stats here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /all_games

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CSQuizJags wrote:As part of the new Summer Open Quizbowl League (see https://www.facebook.com/events/1630394367179692/ for more details)

For what it's worth, that link appears to be unavailable for some reason.

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This might be an unpopular view, but I've always kind of felt that College History Bowl was basically a side event with stricter eligibility rules. It's nice in theory to determine who the best history team in the country is, but I'm not sure it's really necessary to the game; the main appeal of CHB...

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"Is this hell or Indianapolis with no way to get around?"--The Bottle Rockets, "Indianapolis" When I first started college I did not have a car, but fortunately Brian Riddle did, and he drove WKU's team to every tournament we attended during our first two seasons of existence. At...

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grapesmoker wrote:Nothing brings a team together like quizbowl travel disasters.

We should probably have a travel disaster thread at some point too, it seems everybody who has been around the game long enough has at least one horror story to share.

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