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bsmith

If Lisgar sends the "A" team they had at my local tournament, it would be 4 people who went to the HSNCT last year. They won't win the tournament, but they should do well. A Canadian national championship is on the same weekend, though, and Lisgar is a favourite to win that. I'm confused o...

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Financially, we're probably not at this point, but perhaps a financial incentive may be the only way to entice teams to run a sectional. And I mean serious "cash-money" (waive registration fee PLUS some housing subsidy?). I don't know if NAQT has the ability financially to do this. That's...

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Another packet deadline is this Saturday, and the final deadline is March 10. There have been no new registrations since the last update, but some more interest came out of the Canadian SCT. EDIT: this post is now for field updates. Registered: Carleton A (* P) Carleton B (* P) Lisgar A (* P) Lisgar...

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Maryland A qualifies, but not North Carolina, despite UNC finishing with a better record. Does NAQT override the S-value to ensure that a lower-record team doesn't "leapfrog" qualification ahead of a higher-record team at the same SCT? Or is this only between different brackets?

bsmith

Briefly:

DI Overall (9 teams): U. of Toronto
DI Undergrad (3 teams): U. of Ottawa
DII (16 teams): U. of Toronto

bsmith

such that the top D2 team goes unchallenged in the playoffs for the D2 title. A similar situation may arise of 1 UG team amongst 3 open teams in the top bracket. They wouldn't go "unchallenged," they would have earned the higher placement by having a better record in the prelims, when the...

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Understood and not arguing the point. Just wanting to be sure there isn't some other alternative. I agree that I don't just want to give you guys 10 rounds in D1... ideally want to go for a minimum of 12. A 443 subgroup works... but I just think it's a bit weird to deal with that group of 3. I'll s...

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After two discounts going by, I have three submitted packets. I hope more teams are planning to take advantage of the remaining discounts. There are five teams signed up: -Carleton (2 teams) -Lisgar CI -Brock S. -Trivia Hall of Fame It's nice to have local interest, but I'm assuming there will be vi...

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Do we still have a qb team in Toronto that has 25 people who could staff it well? I don't think there's even 25 people in the whole country who could staff it well. Toronto will not be practical until U of T starts accommodating room bookings. The VETO mirror is limited to 8 teams for a reason. Als...

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I'll gladly chip in money for extra readers to come by. I'd rather help cover a good reader's dinner than deal with 10 rounds of student federation executives (no offense to the skills of the execs, of course). So readers, please drop by. Niagara Falls is a great tourist area for the Sunday, even th...

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Start at 9. Allowing lunch and 25 minutes per round, you should have fifteen rounds done by 5. Just keep the playing rooms reasonably close together, and have a single person pick up every scoresheet and hand off the next packet (helps to avoid losing things and picking up the wrong packet from the ...

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Will D2 questions be used again in high school sets? If so high schoolers can't be at the tournament (or would have to help out in D1 only). I can't remember if questions were shared between SCT and high school sets happened last year, but I know that it happens every year with the ICT D2 questions...

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ImmaculateDeception wrote:
dsfcaptains2005 wrote:That is also the same day as the day scheduled for Spotswood ACT II. This conflict may result in watered-down fields in both tournaments.
SCT is a college tournament, dude.

MaS

ACT II and the Cavalier Open are both on March 17.

bsmith

Can it be assumed that no one has bid for the ICT, or is the location just being kept secret until the SCT has passed? In the past, the ICT location was listed at about the same time as SCT locations. (ps: this is not for my personal information, as I'm about 80% sure I will be staffing instead of p...

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The 2006 Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament was held November 18. 5 teams participated: Lisgar CI (Ottawa), Gananoque SS (Gananoque), and newcomers Frontenac SS (Kingston). The results after the double-round-robin are available here: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/oqt06/oqt06_standings.html We used an unc...

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At the OQT held today, Lisgar A beat Lisgar B 550-100 in the final. Gananoque A went from 0-8 after the round-robin to a third place finish after pulling two upsets. James Cooper from Lisgar A was again the top scorer, posting just under 90 ppg. Full results coming Monday, when I return to my home c...

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The third edition of the Ottawa Hybrid Tournament will take place on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at the University of Ottawa. All are welcome to participate. Fees: $60 for the first team from a school/organization, $50 each for additional teams. Minimum fee of $0. -$10 for each working buzzer system -$...

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The fact that this went until the end at VETO says more about the quality of teams at VETO than about this question. Umm... I know that most VETO teams would probably lose to any team consisting of you, but is the brushing aside really necessary? Several participants at VETO are aware that the ques...

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7) Has anyone attempted videoconferencing matches or scrimmages (even using internet streaming USB cameras)? If you have experience with videoconferencing classes, what is involved with setting up a schedule to do this? (I know the summer Canadian mirror tournaments have a "final" that us...

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The tournament will be held at Lisgar Collegiate Institute (29 Lisgar Street in Ottawa for those who care to use MapQuest). There is a website available. It will provide more information: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/OQT06.html Interested teams (Sept 21): -Aiken (Aiken, SC) -Earl of March (Kanat...

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The 2006 edition of the Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament will be held on Saturday, November 18, starting at 9 AM. It will be held at either the University of Ottawa or at Lisgar Collegiate Institute (both are a stone's throw apart in downtown Ottawa). I, Ben Smith, will be the director. The tournament is ...

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Seeing Lisgar reach the playoffs made my day. I was, honestly, expecting to console them after a triple-digit final ranking.

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Lisgar Collegiate from Ottawa will be attending NAQT. The school board and City of Ottawa have thrown in a lot of support for this, so hopefully the team will come up with some good results.

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Does anyone know where teams should be parking during the ICT? Or if there is more than one lot, which one would be best in terms of cost and proximity to the playing buildings?

Thanks.

bsmith

To that end, would it be a good idea for us (PACE and/or ACF or whoever) to create a webpage with a non-definitive (since that's impossible for the internet) list of web-based resources to write questions? A (good?) starting point would be Dwight Kidder's old Reference Desk: http://www.fraughtmachi...

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grapesmoker wrote:Also, some advice:

Protip #1: don't put your guerilla trash tournaments on the same day as packet-submission tournaments that were announced months in advance.

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Results, based on what knowledge I have: The initial round-robin stats are listed here: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/oht2broadbent/oht2broadbent_standings.html Elimination playoffs were held. The final 4 were McGill B, Dick Pound's All-Stars (McGill A), the triviahalloffame.com team, and The Wor...

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Stats for the NAQT SCT held at McGill last weekend are up. DI: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/canSCT2006/canSCT06DI_standings.html 1. Ottawa A (UG) 2. Brandeis (UG) 3. McGill B (UG) DII: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/canSCT2006/canSCT06DII_standings.html 1. Queen's 2. McMaster 3. McGill

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ACF "nationals". :w-hat: I'm assuming that ACF would have no problem welcoming Canadian/British/whatever teams for their highest-tier tournament (perhaps it has be done already, I don't know). Thus, the term "nationals" would not really apply. Sorry. Last year, press and school ...

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As if people will vote for Ottawa, but... Assuming the drive gets arranged, the NAQT team will be: Tamara Vardomskaya Dan Barber Philippe Marchand (and possibly one more undergrad) The McGill team should be the same that went to the 2005 ICT in D2. I have no idea if Queen's, SFU, and UBC are taking ...

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I know that Ben Smith up in Ottawa made a big deal about having used one of the Windows emulators (I can't remember which one specifically; I've never used a Mac and don't particularly intend to) in order to use SQBS...so that might be an option, I'm not sure. VirtualPC is the "official" ...

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To cross-post an announcement by the U of Ottawa club: "Hello all, The U of O Trivia Club is proud to announce that we will be hosting a second edition of the Ottawa Hybrid Tournament. For those unfamiliar with the OHT, this is an academic/pop culture "mixed" tournament with questions...

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I believe UWO hosted the regional tournaments of Reach for the Top a couple of years, but not quizbowl.

Anyway, the top three teams were all interested in exploring the format further. They would gladly go to (NAQT) Nationals if funding was not so much of an issue.

bsmith

Hello, The 2005 Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament was held November 19, 2005. It was the first-ever high school quizbowl-format tournament in Canada. Six teams attended the NAQT event held at the University of Ottawa. In the end, Lisgar B of Ottawa took the championship, taking a perfect winning record and...

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Sorry to sound nitpicky/confused, but should all references to "American" in the above announcement be interpreted as "North American"? Or only American?

Ben Smith.
(on a Canadian team)

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E.T. Chuck wrote:I know Western Ontario ran a HS comp once upon a time.

UWO did the London-area regional tournaments for Reach for a couple of years... I don't know of any independent or quizbowl-format events they did.

bsmith

On a related note, has anybody ever tried to extend the high school quiz bowl circuit into Canada in the way that college quiz bowl has done? Does anybody know about the state of academic competition to our north? Chicago is a pretty Canada-friendly location for a tournament. I'm running a high sch...

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One of the prelims brackets had Chicago, Harding, Virginia, Florida, and UT-Knoxville. That's the 1 and 3 overall finishers, two of the three-way tie for first in the second bracket, and the winner of the third bracket. So that's 1, 3, 9, 9, and 17. Rough. EDIT: Yeah, I forgot to mention that it wa...

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The first Ottawa Hybrid Tournament was held this past Saturday at the University of Ottawa. 14 teams competed in a tournament featuring a mix of "trash" and academic questions. 2 pools of 7 teams played a round-robin, followed by a bracketed split of upper 4/lower 3. Final standings: Upper...

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Another person and I have been editing packets for an upcoming tournament. This is our first experience with editing a tournament, so I don't know if the following is normal or not. We have noticed straight copying off of websites in tossups. This ranges anywhere from a sequence of three adjectives ...

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To add: If any schools are interested in hosting a mirror (or partial mirror) of this hybrid tournament at a later date (probably any time in April, May, or June), please let me know. There will be at least 13 packets available (possibly up to 16 if the expected latecomers trickle in), and I am very...

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There are 2 spots available for the Ottawa Hybrid Tournament on March 19, held at the University of Ottawa. It is a half-academic/half-trash open tournament, with several packets written by participating teams (packet submission is not necessary for admission). It is untimed, and lames and powers wi...

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3 Canadian teams coming, the most yet...

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There was probably as much Canadian geography in this set as there was philosophy[/i] I think the Canadian geography is just an easy source of Canadiana for NAQT to keep teams north of the border happy (notice about 2 questions on Vancouver each year?). However, we would be much better catered with...

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Since division 2 has been mentioned: I think Alfred got burned out of a D2 bid because of the format of the Canadian SCT. Their 6 losses came to D1 teams and the one D2 team that finished ahead of them. They did great in the full round-robin, but were then squashed by a top 4 bracket with D1 teams.....

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NotBhan wrote:In the Northwest, was that a D1 or D2 field? (More specifically, were y'all using D1 or D2 questions?)

Northwest was an interesting situation of a majority D1 field playing on the D2 packet set.

bsmith

I'm sure they mean well, but after getting the same message from the yahoo list, the Canadian list, my university's club list, and to myself personally (twice), I hit the "block sender" button.

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My easy prediction: no Canadian teams will win titles ;) But don't write off Toronto (D1), McGill (D2) or Ottawa (D2) (or our west coast teams if they decide to make the trip). Give us a good run of non-American questions, and we'll pull the upsets. Heck, we might even get out of the bottom bracket....

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