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This is a list my wife Bryn came up with. We check it every tournament we host, and it usually works. Some of these things are more important than others. Tournament Direction Checklist Pre-tournament: Obtain contact info for teams As teams commit to attending, ensure that buzzers and staff commitme...

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region · Re: NAQT South Carolina State Championship at USC (3/31/18) Stats

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At high school tournaments late in the year, college clubs can and should be finding out where seniors are going and getting their contact information; that way, they can help new freshmen set up clubs at their school and invite them to tournaments. Yeah, this is a good idea. I always give a plug f...

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Congratulations to Dorman A for winning the South Carolina NAQT State Championship, winning 2 out of 3 matches against runner-up Dutch Fork A. Dorman B finished 3rd and Dutch Fork B won the J.V. title. Thanks to all of the teams and their coaches/parents/chaperones/drivers for their attendance. Than...

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As many other posters have mentioned or made an inference to, the lack of new collegiate teams in most areas (teams like Swarthmore and Bowdoin are nice exceptions to this!). I think this is related to the lack of outreach option, but I'd like to hear what other people think as well. Outreach helps...

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I voted for a few things, but there are some nuances that I'd like to point out. Please note that I'm not blaming incoming high school quizbowlers for college quizbowl's ills with what I write below. I completely understand and there's nothing wrong with being the hypothetical folks I describe below...

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I played the Auburn mirror of this tournament yesterday. I enjoyed the tournament, and thanks to the writers and editors. Probably most of the issues have been discussed at this point. Some of the bonus leadins were overly long, which is something I'd like writers to control in future tournaments. I...

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I'd upgrade The Eagles, The Police, John Denver, and Dire Straits. They were definitely more prolific and produced better quality music over this decade than, say, the Isley Brothers. Oh, those were just the bands that came to my head after putting in the top list. Definitely not saying that The Po...

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....but I think I would substitute solo Neil Young for CSNY, and as much as I love Kool and the Gang, I think the Eagles had a bigger decade. Also, what is Skynard? I intended for solo Neil Young is included in the CSNY. Anyway, Skynyrd (sp.) was southern rock. They did Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabam...

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Cheynem wrote:And Starland Vocal Band.

Goes without saying.

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Seems like this exercise could have best been done the same way the NCAA does things--give autobids to 40 or so "must-have artists" and then assess the one-hit wonders. I broke down must have artists. It's...a lot. Definitely no way to double up. Abba Rolling Stones Bob Dylan David Bowie ...

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Hopefully I'm not too late to the party My pick for Bowie's song is Heroes My pick for the Rolling Stones' song is All Down the Line or Tumbling Dice Another artist who had an amazing seventies output is Stevie Wonder. This is Superstition's game to lose, but I think all of the following are also d...

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The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2018 NAQT State Championship Tournament on March 31st. I will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to an...

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I'm moderating tomorrow and was wondering about the electronic scoresheets. Is there any info out there on how to use them and stuff?

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This is a neat thread and as a frequent TD it's made me think about book prizes and prizes in general. I'm a big fan of book prizes. When I was in college, they weren't really a thing. We usually got individual trophies, which were appreciated, but I would have rather gotten books. I've won books at...

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I always go to our library booksale here in wonderful Columbia SC. Like Jacob, I come away with bags of books for not much money. It's listed on http://www.booksalefinder.com/, so I have to think there are lots of other great book sales out there with similar deals. One thing I have done in the past...

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I'm glad some input was helpful. I just downloaded chrome, and it works like a charm now; don't know why I didn't think of doing that. Thanks for putting in the work to make this program happen. Several teams at the site expressed enthusiasm about the possibilities of recording the buzz points. As a...

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Just want to give my experience with this thing. I haven't read the whole thread: I just want to explain how it went with me and Bryn in our room. I got to the site at Georgia Tech this morning and was told we'd be using a new electronic system. That was my first notice that we'd be doing this at th...

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Here are the stats.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /playoffs/

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

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Congratulations to Dorman A for winning the USC Fall Tournament. Riverside finished 2nd. Dorman C finished 3rd overall and won the JV championship. Thank you to all of the teams who participated, the coaches, and our incredible staff. Special thanks to my wife Bryn, who, despite a recent health scar...

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This tournament is now capped. Anyone interested in registering a team can feel free to let me know, and we'll put you on the waiting list.

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I'd like to thank all of the teams who have registered and expressed interest in our Early Fall Tournament! Due to the high interest in this event, I am capping the field at 30 teams and limiting the maximum number of teams to 1 for new registrations. If more teams than this express interest, I'll d...

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The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2017 USC Fall Tournament on September 30th. I will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to answer any an...

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Thanks for doing this thread, coach. USC is thinking of doing September 30th as the date for a fall tournament with NAQT questions. Please post here or message me if you have other ideas. I'd like to get the announcement out in the next week or 2.

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Last summer's VCU side event weekend was one of the most enjoyable tournament experiences I've ever had, so I trust the VCU folks implicitly to put together good events on both weekends based on what they consider to be the most reasonable logistics. Also, thanks to the VCU folks for agreeing to tak...

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This is certainly an important thing. As someone who's been at it for a very long time, it's never been easy figuring out who the contacts of college teams are. Several attempts have been made over the years to remedy this. It's definitely a challenge. The last attempt at a directory that I remember...

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Don't mean to sound like a broken record (pun intended!), but could we add the Chuck Berry rock tournament to the list of possible tournaments spreadsheet so we can gauge interest on that?

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For the veterans in the circuit, how do you all usually go about selecting side events for a side event weekend? A straw poll is my best idea so far, but I also don't want to mirror too many of the ones that will be at CO already. Last year's VCU weekend basically had us doing everything available....

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Could we consider adding the Chuck Berry rock tournament as part of the weekend? If not as a formal tournament then perhaps as a shootout event.

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I would very much like to play this at HSNCT.

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Nevermind.

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Congrats to the Dorman Bulldogs (Geoffrey Thomas, Jason Fern, Chase Fleming, and Lee Holden) for winning the South Carolina mirror of (This) Tournament is a Crime. Various USC house teams rounded out the rankings. Stats are here . Thanks to Ben Ingram and Caitlin Sperka Thomas for coming down to sta...

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Congratulations to Dorman A, who won the 2017 South Carolina NAQT State Championship Tournament. Southside B finished 2nd and Dutch Fork A finished 3rd. Dorman C won the JV championship. Full stats will be posted tomorrow. Thanks to all of the players, coaches, and staff. Special thanks to Ben Ingra...

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In order to make this tournament a little more affordable, I've reduced the base fee.

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Just wanted to note that this event is a little over a week away and I've updated some of the information in the announcement. We still have plenty of room for new teams to register!

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I wanted to give an idea of what driving into town was like for my team. Our team stayed at some cheap hotels in Secaucus. For a variety of reasons, we drove into town. In case anyone is driving into Manhattan from NJ or the outer boroughs, I found that traffic wasn't too bad. The tolls are expensiv...

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My wife and I would be interested in playing in this, depending on the date.

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I've set up a spreadsheet where people can put their proposed teams down, or mark themselves as interested free agents. Please e-mail me to officially register, though.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina will be hosting a mirror of (This) Tournament is a Crime on Saturday March 25th. I, Eric Douglass, will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams prior to the tournament and am happy to answer any ...

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The Academic Team at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2017 South Carolina NAQT State Championship tournament on Saturday, March 18. I, Eric Douglass, will be the tournament director. Further details are below. I will be in contact with all teams pri...

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The scarf was not mine or Bryn's. Thanks for hosting; see you all at Regionals!

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I'm going to write a sequel to a packet a wrote a few years ago for this thing called The Pain of Quizbowl Past. This year's iteration will be more of the same. Basically 20 or so questions playing around with incidents in my personal and quizbowl life that have caused me pain. I think the last iter...

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I'm comically rusty at this point, but I used to be a pretty good history player. One thing I've seen younger players make mistakes with when studying history questions is to get too narrowly focused. I've seen lots of players commit to things like "knowing everything about the Civil War" ...

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South Carolina still plans on bringing a team. Is there any word on a field update?

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Cheynem wrote:While a fantastic sketch, the basic set-up of this sketch is pretty similar to Larry David's Kevin Roberts sketch from last year.

Definitely. I loved Kevin Roberts for most of the same reasons.

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I might have a little to post later, but obviously this tournament had some issues on copy editing which must and I'm sure are being addressed. On the plus side, and this is from a reader's perspective, I thought the music tossups were really good. They seemed to tone down some of the score-heavines...

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I'm gonna need some David S. Pumpkins analysis, here. I'm pretty obsessed by that sketch. I had just gotten home from a long, rough day of moderating Penn Bowl at UGA and decided to watch SNL because I needed a break. I was just checking the QB forums to look at stats from the day and was half payi...

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Congratulations to USC A for winning the USC mirror of the NAQT Novice Tournament. Special thanks to Northeast Alabama Community College for making the trip to Columbia. It was a blast hosting for all of the new players and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. Here are the stats: http://www.hsquizbow...

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I've updated the field for this tournament, which is taking place this Saturday on the 24th. We would love to have a few more teams sign up, so please let me know if you're interested.

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As someone who usually plays CO on teams that finish in the lower-middle of the field, I'd obviously really be against restricting the field to "good" teams, whatever that means. For one thing, often teams that finish near the bottom of CO are teams that would be pretty darn competitive ev...

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