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- Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Missouri Quizbowl Alliance
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2244
Re: Missouri Quizbowl Alliance
It's about time.
- Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20682
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
NO DONTquizbowllee wrote:(and maybe subject my high school team to them in practice ).
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20682
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
Adam should be going to as many tournaments as he can, so they shouldn't die out that easily.ericblair wrote:I have a feeling GA Tech aren't going to be going to as many tournaments from now. I hope that's not the case though because that's one less team I'm able to beat by myself.
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20682
Re: RESULTS: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
Carey Cantrell of Tennessee A was Rookie of the Year. I see one other rookie on the individual stat section that outscored Carey Cantrell of Tennessee A; that would be Ryan Thompson of Georgetown College. He is a freshman this year who just came up from Russell High School. Credit due where credit ...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20682
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
post stats, plzkthx.
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open discussion
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17814
Re: Minnesota Open discussion
At some point (I'm not exactly sure where), answering with either of the Roosevelts would be incorrect. If you answered before this point with the correct Roosevelt, you should definitely be ruled correct. In order to avoid being ruled incorrect with answering only one of the Roosevelts after the p...
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20682
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
This set kicked our asses. (speaking for my team) Edit: apparently the phrase "take names" doesn't mean exactly what I thought it meant. Given that there 13 rounds to play, I think UTC did a nice job of attempting to finish this tournament as quickly as possible. There wasn't a lot of wai...
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open discussion
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17814
Re: Minnesota Open discussion
2. . . .The rest, though, were examples of common-link tossups with qualifying adjectives that were way too specific. I saw negs on every one of those tossups on "assassination attempts on FDR/Teddy Roosevelt," "balls," "glaciers" and "heads," and other playe...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20682
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: COTKU at UT-Chattanooga 10/18/08
I would definitely be interested in a Lit. Singles instead of a Trash tournament.
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Playoff Brackets?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1573
Re: Playoff Brackets?
I figure that this keeps a team who was placed in a tougher bracket from getting seeded lower than a worse team who had easier prelims.Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:Really, PPG first?PPG, Record, PPB.
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Playoff Brackets?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1573
Re: Playoff Brackets?
At LIFT on Saturday, we will have 6 brackets of 6 teams in the prelims, if everyone shows up. Then we will take the top 2 from each bracket..... 1) based first on record, then PPG or Bonus Conversion or Head to Head results? Record, Head to Head, PPG, PPB, then Point Differential, excluding the poi...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SNL skit
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5088
Re: SNL skit
A show that teaches you that the weight of the moon is nothing or else it would have fallen on the Earth is full of academic value.rienzi0711 wrote:Anyway, any representation of quizbowl on a TV show isn't ever going to be accurate. That episode of Boy Meets World comes to mind.
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- Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 26376
Re: EFT Discussion
That question also had wrong information. It said Clark Gable won an Oscar for Mutiny on the Bounty when he was only nominated.alkrav112 wrote:Clark Gable TU (which I have to say was a little transparent after his only Oscar-winning performance came up in the first line)
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 26376
Re: EFT Discussion
For instance, on the Leningrad Symphony tossup (and btw, everyone, please write on other Shosty symphonies, because there are a bunch that are as important as and higher quality than this one), the clue "The final movement of this piece is marked allegro non troppo and ends with the woodwinds ...
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 3 Mirror at Vandy
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6488
Re: EFT 3 Mirror at Vandy
Results from Vandy EFT:
1st - Michigan A
2nd - Michigan C
3rd - Alabama B
Individuals:
1st - Kurtis (Michigan A)
2nd - Andy (Alabama B)
3rd - Andy (Michigan C)
1st - Michigan A
2nd - Michigan C
3rd - Alabama B
Individuals:
1st - Kurtis (Michigan A)
2nd - Andy (Alabama B)
3rd - Andy (Michigan C)
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl v. Trivia
- Replies: 85
- Views: 19032
Re: Quizbowl v. Trivia
Off hand, I know last year at the HSNCT they ran tossups on Rumplestiltzkin, Merlin, Nostradamus, His Dark Materials, and bonuses on James Bond novels, and Harry Potter. With the exception of Nostradamus, I can bet those all count toward literature. If I ever sit through and review all the HSNCT's ...
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl v. Trivia
- Replies: 85
- Views: 19032
Re: Quizbowl v. Trivia
Off hand, I know last year at the HSNCT they ran tossups on Rumplestiltzkin, Merlin, Nostradamus, His Dark Materials, and bonuses on James Bond novels, and Harry Potter. With the exception of Nostradamus, I can bet those all count toward literature. If I ever sit through and review all the HSNCT's ...
- Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: *Results* DAR Invitational January 24th 2009 Grant AL
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7429
Re: DAR Invitational January 24th 2009 Grant AL
I'll be able to help, pending something unexpected coming up.
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How Often/When Does Your Team Practice?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7566
Re: How Often/When Does Your Team Practice?
UA practices 3 times a week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) from 6-8. Anyone's welcome to come to any, but Mondays are usually for A team members, Tuesdays for newer people, and Thursday for everyone.
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 3 Mirror at Vandy
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6488
Re: EFT 3 Mirror at Vandy
Do you have a list of teams coming that you could post?
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5942
Re: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
I'm not sure if the 10:30 ending time that is in question is EST or CST, but that s0unds about right as far as Eastern time goes.AdamL wrote:I heard from one of the CHS players at 9:33 saying that they'd just finished the match against Dorman.
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5942
Re: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
Cody from MLK got first in DI scoring and Todd from Dorman got around fifth or sixth, but that's all I can remember.BobGHHS wrote:So, out of curiosity, are there no individual stats at all, or was the stat disk temporarily misplaced?
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5942
Re: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
1) I'm not sure if moderators are having to go all the way back to Grote to pick up questions or what... Whatever is going on, it isn't working. Give each moderator the entire tournament worth of questions at the beginning. It seemed that the often-heard excuse on why we hadn't started was "we...
- Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5942
Re: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UT-Chattanooga 9/27/08
I know Mudkip and Dorman A made it to the semis, but I left after that.
- Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 114013
Re: Bad Negs Again
That's either Kaleb or Jesse.quizbowllee wrote:Yesterday at practice, one player on our B team convinced the captain that "Bukakke" was a famous Russian author.
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
As do I. Damn.quizbowllee wrote:Matt... the document you linked to doesn't have the President-Elect... But, I found a document that does:
http://dbtech.net/asca/documents/Agenda2008_001.doc
Now I understand your previous post...
It also seems they're changing the "buzz-in after math tossup" rule, too.
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
Fred, I have asked that question myself but got verbally bitched slapped for asking it... picked the wrong person to ask about it... but it has seemed like in the past that no matter what we have attempted to do to get some change started in ASCA something always seems to happen to make sure that w...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
Lee take a look at the president elect for the ASCA board for the next two years.... you are going to love who it is. We are never going to get anything changed in this state for a while if she is like she has been for the last few years... http://www.dbtech.net/asca/documents/ConferenceForm2008_00...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Changes to NAQT's Official Rules
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9148
Re: Changes to NAQT's Official Rules
Yeah, I'll go ahead and admit that I was not paying very much attention at all. The only part of the question I coherently heard was "the Duke and the Dauphin" and, on reflex, said the book.rhentzel wrote:A player who buzzes with the name of a book has not been paying close attention.
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Changes to NAQT's Official Rules
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9148
Re: Changes to NAQT's Official Rules
Another possibility: suppose that, during a tossup on the character Huck Finn, a player buzzes in with "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" before it specifically asks for the character. The pronoun "he" rather than "it" has been used a few times. Would you count it co...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Changes to NAQT's Official Rules
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9148
Re: Changes to NAQT's Official Rules
How about when the answer given is a more general class of something (like speciation) and the first few clues are all about a subset of that class and a player answers with that subset (like sympatric speciation) which is not listed as acceptable to a certain point in the question, even if some cl...
- Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William R. King Memorial 8/30/08: Dorman wins
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5283
Re: William R. King Memorial Tournament(8/30/08)
I believe they only lost one of their A team members last year. Mudkip (Chattahoochee) definitely played Dorman the closest in the finals (320-280 going into tossup 20) and I thought they should've taken second. The scheduling debacle happened due to a lot of teams either registering their teams in...
- Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William R. King Memorial 8/30/08: Dorman wins
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5283
Re: William R. King Memorial Tournament(8/30/08)
To anyone who went: What happened at the tournament? Who won? What were the individual results? I didn't go (obviously), but from an outside source: 1. Dorman 2. Hoover 3. Brookwood 4. Chattahoochee Wow. They were good when we played them last year at Scottsboro. I thought most of them had graduate...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
Not bad choices. Riley's really got to work on his captaining skills, though.quizbowllee wrote:A-Team for Brindlee Mountain tomorrow:
Riley Denton (11) - Captain
Kyle Clark (11)
Tiffany Rainwater (11)
Travis Morgan (11)
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William R. King Memorial 8/30/08: Dorman wins
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5283
Re: William R. King Memorial Tournament(8/30/08)
quizbowllee wrote:I'm so desperate for players, I just re-activated Taylor Lamm!
It actually might help our tournament structure if you only bring 2 teams. That way, we can have three pools of 6 and not have one pool playing another round.
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William R. King Memorial 8/30/08: Dorman wins
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5283
Re: William R. King Memorial Tournament(8/30/08)
What kind of field update can you give at this point? I don't have a field right in front of me, but I don't think we've had any new teams sign up, so here they are: Russellville American Christian Academy "Chattahoochee" Dorman (3) Brookwood (2) J. M. Tate Hoover (2) Brindlee Mountain (3...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
Reading these posts have made me nostalgic, and thus I will throw in my two cents worth on the state of LAMP. From what my coach told me, LAMP didnt fare too well at the ASCA Fun Tournament this past week. With the attendance of Andrew Conner, the main point-getter who was absent last week, LAMP wi...
- Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Possible tournament at Clemson?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3028
Re: Possible tournament at Clemson?
I will talk to the rest of the team about it Monday, but I'm pretty sure UA would be interested in coming.
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William R. King Memorial 8/30/08: Dorman wins
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5283
Re: William R. King Memorial Tournament(8/30/08)
Turns out CHS WILL be attending this tournament with 4 of its top 6 players, albeit without their coach and under a different team name...It's a long story and I will not bore anyone with the details. Good luck to everyone next weekend; I will be screaming my head off as the #1 team in the nation, ...
- Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
If I had to pick someone for the fourth spot based on what I saw last week, I'd pick Jesse or Travis. That whole "Andy's here so let's play badly" thing may have affected the others, but I'd just consider that an example of a high-pressure situation.
- Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 08-09 Pre-Season Poll Results - Congratulations Charter!
- Replies: 56
- Views: 13704
Re: 08-09 Pre-Season Poll Results - Congratulations Charter!
Doesn't Dorman return a whole team that took 4th at NAQT?
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
WRK UPDATE: Russellville and American Christian Academy have signed up to attend. Chattahoochee is officially not coming.
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
I could be wrong, but I may have an answer as to why the kids are doing better in the morning. If they're making the effort to get up an hour earlier to come to practice, then they're going to put more effort into the practice, since an hour out of your sleep schedule is far more important than an h...
- Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Tournament Goes to Eleven (October 11th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2875
Re: This Tournament Goes to Eleven (October 11th)
I may be missing something obvious, but why is the abbreviation TTGTT11 when there's only 3 t-words?
- Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
List of teams attending W. R. King Tournament: Dorman (3 teams) Brookwood (2) J. M. Tate American Christian Academy (?) Chattahoochee Hoover (2) Brindlee Mountain (2) It's suprising (to me, at least) that most of the teams are from out-of-state, with only 3 Alabama teams in attendance. Slade, any re...
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William R. King Memorial 8/30/08: Dorman wins
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5283
Re: William R. King Memorial Tournament(8/30/08)
The word I'm getting from our president is we're using this year's A-series. Not sure what number that makes it.leftsaidfred wrote:Which set are you using?
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
August 30th. I don't know much about it as far as times or fees go, but you can find out more if you email aaqt [AT] bama [DOT] ua [DOT] edu.AlphaQuizBowler wrote:Andy,
When is UA planning on having the tournament?
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: the fred morlan tournament watch thread dunbar edition
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5177
Re: the fred morlan tournament watch thread dunbar edition
Fixed.dsfcaptains2005 wrote:fred, you should come to at least one tournament in everywhere.
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 08-09
- Replies: 210
- Views: 36542
Re: Alabama 08-09
Looks like UA is going to be hosting the first tourament of the season again. If someone has a list of teams going to the tournament (if such a list exists) can post it, perhaps we can make some predictions and try to rez this thread.
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: the fred morlan tournament watch thread dunbar edition
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5177
Re: the fred morlan tournament watch thread dunbar edition
That's probably true, I honestly don't know. I was referring to fall as in fall semester.Matthew D wrote:Andy I thought UA had one on August 30th, did they change the date|?