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Black-throated Antshrike · Re: ARMY NAVY @ Richard Montgomery HS (Yale Mirror) 5/21/11 Nor Charter

Nor Charter

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We are registering for this. You can count us in for 2 teams. We can bring 5 buzzers if that will help expand the field.

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I could probably write some if you need some non-bio science or history or maybe some math

EDIT: I can also add some social sciences, non- classical myth, certain literary periods, and other things depending on what you need. Also I'd like to edit the physics and chem if possible.

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Charter would be interested in attending this if it was moved back. If it stays on 5/21 a lot of us would be crunched due to senior exams.

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Wow I am really impressed that the field has swung back to where it started - most of the teams in grades 7 and 8. That's a good thing. I note that you are combining 5-6 and 7-8. The reason we split the grades in the past was that the 8th graders pretty much dominated. With 14 teams in 7th grade, m...

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I have. We are activally trying to foster quizbowl anywhere in Delaware. We did get a team from Dover this year though. Would you be interested in helping out the tournament and seeing some of the rising quizbowlers?

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Since the field has been filled, I will only extend the field size up to 54 if I get six more teams that wish to compete.

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Prof.Whoopie wrote:St. Anselm's is trying to get a team together for this. I should find out for sure next week-ish. Is there still space in the field?

yes there is.

Sorry about not updating the field sooner, but I've been swamped all this week with exams

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After discussing it with my team, it looks like we'll not be able to attend: sorry

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I am pleased to send out invitations to this years Charter Challenge on February 5th, 2011. We will be using the NAQT middle school set. The new format for the questions can be found here: http://naqt.com/ms/middle-school-quiz-bowl.html Teams: This competition is open to any 5th to 8th graders. Fiel...

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any mirrors announced?

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Actually I do remember there being multiple bonuses where you could receive five points: very odd.

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We might come to this. It is a bit further than we typically would travel, but depending on what we have going in the next couple of weeks (doesn't appear to be much) we might make an appearance, at least one team, maybe a second

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I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone that attended this tournmanet. I had a great time hosting it as well as reading for some of the best teams in the Mid-Atlantic. Along with this I would like to especially thank Tressler as well as Dave Madden and Mr. Brown who gave up their Satur...

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Ok so tmorrow is the big day. If there is anyone that is worried about being late you can email at [email protected] to get my cell so you can contact me.

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:
Matt Weiner wrote:
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Given that bleach is wildly popular within the anime community
if only
Except that it is the highest grossing and rated anime in both the US and Japan.
words can mean multiple things now?!

Dear god that can't be allowed

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Matt Weiner wrote:
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Given that bleach is wildly popular within the anime community
if only

Except that it is the highest grossing and rated anime in both the US and Japan.

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Ok so we're two days away. Those teams that still haven't confirmed the number of teams, you know who you are, it would be really helpful if you told me how many are coming so that I can start finalizing the brackets

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I get it. I'm up against the entirety of quizbowl here. I just feel differently than the vasy majority that are opposed to it.

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But...they have! There are and have been and will continue to be tossups on like Spirited Away, Pokeymon, probably some Naruto or Dragonball questions here and there at all kinds of tournaments. If you're saying it should go beyond that, I have a feeling those will not be converted by enough of an ...

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EDIT: I would hesitate to overstate the proportional representation of noxious body-pillow-toting social midgets in the entirety of "people with some interest in anime", but if you take out some of the aforementioned Weinerian pep, there's an extremely valued point to be made about how a ...

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Joe, you clearly have not spent enough time around anime fans on a college campus if you don't understand that the people Matt Weiner described are in fact a huge part of anime's core fans. Dear god... there are strange people that like something?!!!? I never would have known. Thank you for informi...

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I don't care about the fact that something like Spirited Away is technically anime; if a good writer wants to write a question on a reasonably well-known movie, they should go ahead and do so. The problem is with the other 99% of anime and anime fans writing questions. Anime fans are famous for the...

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Weiner is saying, albeit with some delightfully typical Weinerian pep, that anime DOES come up in trash tournaments. The reason it doesn't come up more is that to do so would start to result in some inaccessible questions, as anime, like all sorts of things with fervent minority followings (wrestli...

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Here is my Simple English Wikipedia conclusion to the argument. Spirited Away and Pokemon get asked plenty. They will continue to get asked plenty. No one is saying they should stop being asked. Anything that is a legitimate topic within the movie or TV categories, that also happens to be anime, ca...

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I don't care about the fact that something like Spirited Away is technically anime; if a good writer wants to write a question on a reasonably well-known movie, they should go ahead and do so. The problem is with the other 99% of anime and anime fans writing questions. Anime fans are famous for the...

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I'm opposed to it on general principle because I find the stuff absolutely noxious. However, that by itself isn't necessarily a good reason to get rid of it. A better argument would be that any moron with a modicum of exposure to American popular culture can be expected to be able to answer a quest...

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This is dumb. Of course anime is a legitimate thing to ask about and if you ask about it in the right ways it makes for a good tossup or bonus. There are plenty of anime answer lines that would be answered by a vast majority of the field at lots of tournaments (stuff like Spirited Away, AstroBoy, t...

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So I started by asking whether or not there would be any anime at Penn Bowl, and as I don't intend to blow up that board with generally unrelated discussion, I started this. I just wanted to kind of see what everyone else's opinions were on the subject. Most tournaments have a 1/0 or 0/1 distributio...

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True but even the best written tournaments will still have bonuses that swing way on the hard time occasionally. I really do not understand what this sentence means, but the idea behind lames was that people used to write bonuses about three minor Nascar drivers. Since a good bonus will include an ...

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DumbJaques wrote:If you write a tournament that does not suck, you don't need lames.

True but even the best written tournaments will still have bonuses that swing way on the hard time occasionally.

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:
The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:
joenguyen90 wrote:ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl Trash III @ UPenn 2/13/11
1/0 or 0/1 Comics
does this happen to incorporate Japanese comics? (i.e. manga and anime)
No.
Lame
I imagine there will be none of those either.

oh god please say there are lames this year..........

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:
joenguyen90 wrote:ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl Trash III @ UPenn 2/13/11
1/0 or 0/1 Comics
does this happen to incorporate Japanese comics? (i.e. manga and anime)
No.

Lame

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joenguyen90 wrote:ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl Trash III @ UPenn 2/13/11
1/0 or 0/1 Comics

does this happen to incorporate Japanese comics? (i.e. manga and anime)

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Edward Powers wrote:To whom should our checks be made payable?

Charter or Wilmington Charter of Charter School of Wilmington or anything else along those lines

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grapesmoker wrote:
DumbJaques wrote:I mean really, do you have any idea how much Jerry Vinokurov wants to play my physics packet?
I don't think words exist that appropriately describe my desire to do this.

I would really like to do this as well

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Umm I know im a bit late to the party but why was magnetic monopoles considered to easy? I got it fairly early. It seemed sort of obvious because it was a particle that hasn't been discovered and has a field. I can think of very few examples in the hs cannon that would fit that. I assume you mean &...

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Umm I know im a bit late to the party but why was magnetic monopoles considered to hard? I got it fairly early. It seemed sort of obvious because it was a particle that hasn't been discovered and has a field. I can think of very few examples in the hs cannon that would fit that.

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Charter would like it to be TTGT11 format from last year.

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jonathanmarx wrote:Out of curiosity, what will be done about computation tossups and bonuses at this tournament?

they will be crossed out and replaced with other tossups and bonuses

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mastaloo wrote:
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Ok so we're a little over a weak away and the field is looking great. For those schools that have a range number or a question mark (?) could you please try to come up with a more definite answer by noon this Friday? thanz :)
Watch your spelling, champ.

eh never been one of my strong points

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Ok so we're a little over a weak away and the field is looking great. For those schools that have a range number or a question mark (?) could you please try to come up with a more definite answer by noon this Friday? thanz :)

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There is no field cap; at this point I should have enough staffers to run it without problem

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J. W. Robinson Secondary (VA) would like to register 1 JV team for this tournament. We are considering bringing a 2nd JV team as well-- I'll let you know ASAP if we have enough kids to make it happen. Oh, and we will bring one buzzer set. Thanks. This brings us up to potentially around 40 teams. We...

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Kellenberg will attend with 2 teams, 3 buzzers and one moderator.

got it.

the field keeps looking stronger with each day; please keep up the registrations. :)

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I believe I can probably find some videos of the Comcast Challenge in case anyone wants to laugh at what Henry Gorman looked liked when he was a sophomore

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The fields starting to really shape up. You can still register more teams up until the day of the tournament. There is no limit on the number of teams from a school. Also please feel free to bring more JV teams because the division is currently under represented :)

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Charbroil wrote: As for benefiting the schools because they have to write, I think more high school teams are going to be kept from playing ACF tournaments than are going to decide to start writing packets, but that's just conjecture. I know that this hasn't affected my team, (namely we haven't had...

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Wow this is awesome!!!! I was wondering if I could possibly have a copy of it cuz i think alot of kids on my team would enjoy playing this at practice?

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