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Indeed... Good luck to all, and may the best teams win!

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Just wanted to gauge interest in a possible NAQT tournament (that would also be a qualifier) in early May at Brindlee Mountain. The format would be NAQT untimed 20 TU/Bonuses. Brindlee Mountain High School's A-Team would NOT participate, but serve as moderators, etc. We need the money to go to PACE ...

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ASCA added a "small schools" state championship this year, which we won easily. It was for 1A-3A schools. We are a 1A school (Alabama goes 1A-6A). I'm actually against having six state champs based on classification, as it would make is really easy for us... We want a shot at the 6A school...

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steven-lamp said: Seeing as how we did it last week, the pools at ASCA competitions are drawn at random. We have team names on paper and pull at random to get the pools. However it comes out is how it is. Granted, the draw is supposed to be fair. My questions is this: doesn't it seem that there has ...

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For my part, I'd like to apologize for the snowball that this turned into. I kinda feel like I and my entire team came across badly in this whole thread, so I'd like to apologize about that as well. What I meant to start out as a critique just kept growing and growing... Including the point at which...

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Well, I thought I'd register to throw in my 0.02... I was a reader at the ASFA tournament... in Brindlee's pool... of the three of us readers, I believe I was the only one familiar with Scholar's Bowl at all, being on the team. So I apologize, on my part, for the other two. I will admit that many o...

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Although the damage is already done, I have deleted the questions of the worksheet as per ASFA's request.

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Steven - do you speak specifically of the game format or the way in which the road to State is structured, or both?

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Again - I am retracting everything I said.

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Yes... knowing Myles like I do, I cringed when I read David's remark about not following politics. I knew a rant was coming. But, for what it's worth, I'm gonna make Myles learn that whole worksheet.

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For what its worth - Pizitz beat Whitesburg for the ASCA Middle School Championship. Congrats to them!

-Lee

PS - Now that we have been properly distracted, can we PLEASE groan some more about Regionals!!!!

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That kinda surprises me... Russellville and Cullman were the best teams I saw this year... Whitesburg was also very strong, but I would've put my money on Russellville.

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Steven - Out of curiosity, do you know who won the ASCA Middle School State Championship yesterday? I thought you might know since LAMP hosted...

-Lee

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Another question: Are there any old PACE questions available for download and/or purchase? I'd like to start getting my team (and myself) used to the format.

Thanks.

quizbowllee

Who all is going to this? I'm very interested. It should serve as a MAJOR preview for the Alabama NAQT State Championship on April 23.

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Any idea when we might see the a list of PACE-invited teams so far? I'm just curious...

-Lee

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Edited for the following reason : Realized that NRLYAGODD's post was correct and thought better of what I said...

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Yes, Slade... In a perfect world, that would be the top 16. However, the odds of all of those teams being distributed in pools that will allow that is slim. Someone (probably us) is going to get screwed over...

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We used it at the Brindlee Mountain tournament this year in Alabama. It was also used at the Athens State University Tournament here in AL back in December.

It's a great program. It can be set to just about any format, and it's VERY easy to use. I really don't know why it hasn't caught on...

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Here are the Regional Assignments: Holy Spirit - Tuscaloosa Bryant High School Muscle Shoals Cordova Central - Tuscaloosa Belgreen Florence Fayette Holy Spirit Hillcrest Northridge Red Bay Sheffield South Lamar American Christian Academy Baldwin Middle School - Montgomery LAMP Central - Phenix City ...

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After the snowball that this caused, I feel that I should retract all previous statements.

-Lee

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My middle school team last year (who makes up my varsity team this year) set some insane records (at least as far as I know). In one tournament, we beat a team 575-60. That's the highest ASCA score I've ever heard of. In another tournament, we beat a team 480-0. That's also the first time I've ever ...

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Well, this time the questions were mainly pyramidal, and completely answerable to just about any decent team by the end.

They are also hosting another invitational at Snead on April 1 that is using an NAQT IS set.

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Snead State CC hosted a small invitational today: 1st - Brindlee Mountain A 2nd - Arab 3rd - Albertville 4th - Brindlee Mountain B The questions were written by the Snead State CC team and were excellent. I thought that they were some of the best questions I have heard all year. There were absolutel...

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We'll be at ASFA.

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I had ASFA down as a major force in ASCA this year. They are the best team I had seen so far (prior to district) on shorter, non-pyramidal style questions... At least when they played us. On another note, I thought David was a Senior... so that definately changes the way I thought things might go ne...

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I meant the top four at the state tournament. For example: Grissom, Russellville, Bob Jones, and LAMP (last year's top 4) would all get automatic bids to state this year. That would open up another regional spot for the districts that have these strong teams. I'm not really sure why so many people a...

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Yes - I meant first year in ASCA. The team captain this year is a Junior, I believe. Pizitz Middle School - Vestavia's feeder - has been VERY strong the last several years, and when they moved on to high school, most of them stuck with the game. They are definately turning some haeds this year and w...

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Sorry, David. Did the top 3 from both pools move on? 6 from one district is a lot... As for the dreaded district we went to... Grissom won. I've never seen my kids play as well as they did and still lose. We had Grissom for a good while, but they pulled out in the 15 pointers. Covenant Christian sto...

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Well... It appears that everyone in Alabama has been dead for the last month... Maybe I can pick up the conversation. As you all know, ASCA District tournaments are held on Friday. I have the list of district assignments. Who do you predict will qualify for regionals from each site? Which site(s) se...

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Brindlee Mountain High will be at both. We've already qualified for PACE and anticpate that we will for NAQT, considering its our best format...

-Lee

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Results from today's ASCA Small Schools State Championship: 1st - Brindlee Mountain 2nd - TR Miller 3rd - South Lamar 4th - Hanceville The only even remotely close match we had was the championship match, which we clinched after tossup 4 or 5 in period four... This means that even if we lose to CCA ...

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Results from Bob Jones: 1st - Indian Springs 2nd - Covenant Christian 3rd - Brindlee Mountain 4th - Arab Indian Springs and Covenant Christian were both at full strength. We (Brindlee Mountain) were missing our Sports, Music, and Science guy (strange combo of strengths...). CCA barely beat us, and I...

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Looks like there might be some interesting things happening this weekend. 3 of our apparant top 5 teams will be at Bob Jones for an ASCA-format tournament: Brindlee Mountain, Indian Springs, and Covenant Christian will all be there. I think that there is also a tournament at Bryant High in Tuscaloos...

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The only team that I know will be at the Small Schools tournament that I am even remotely worried about is TR Miller. I'm also concerned because the question writer for the ASCA Small Schools Tournament is the same as who wrote this year's Middle School Questions. And from what I've seen, they are t...

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Well... One good thing is this year ASCA added a "Small Schools" tournament. If we can win it, we will automatically qualify for Regionals. Fortunately, we are a very tiny (1A) school with a graduating class of around a dozen... Also, we are public and non-magnet. This qualifies us for the...

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Thanks. That did it. The link on this site's main page still links to the old site...

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Are there any plans to update the PACE website? I'd like to see the stats from last year. Also, is the 2005 date set in stone? We need to go ahead and make some plans... Especially since NAQT is the weekend before...

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NAQT Alabama State Championship is Saturday, April 23 at Bevill-State CC in Jasper.

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Actually, unless things change, the B'ham schools (Indian Springs and ASFA) will go to the regional in Gadsden. However, I do think it is safe to assume that one or more of the top 8 schools will NOT make it to state (or even regionals) due entirely to being in a district with other top tier Alabama...

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A few statements: jrbarry said: Do the suburban Birmingham public high schools ever win anything in Alabama? Their absence from contention always baffles me from my "next door" perch! It seems that Huntsville, not Birmingham, is the center of Quiz Bowl power in Alabama... Slade mentioned H...

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Well... distracting as the LAMP poll was, I think we might want to bring the Alabama discusions back to this thread. What are everyone's thoughts at this point? ASFA impressed me with their 2nd place finish at LAMP. Good job, David et. al!!! I think it's now safe for me to declare my top 4 in the st...

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Can an Alabama team win at PACE and/or NAQT? This year? Probably not. But, I think it will happen in the future. As biased as I am, I think that we at Brindlee Mountain have a good shot in the coming 2-3 years. I was excited about our performance at LAMP, despite coming home empty handed. We drew th...

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jrbarry said: I would like to point out that I never said my team should only go to tournaments I think we can win. I simply object to playing ON in a playoff bracket when my team is eliminated from first place consideration. We play in so many competitions eacxh year that my players have come up w...

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Tegan said Maybe this is just me (as a coach and teacher), but don't coaches have an obligation to do the right thing, and actually teach their players (who are after all students) to do the right thing? That means that when you commit to playing a tournament that, except for an emergency, you stic...

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Dr. Barry says: Team A answers a tossup and therefore earns a bonus. Team A may have beaten out Team B by only a millisecond to that tossup. To lock out 20-30 bonus points because of the knowledge based on ONE tossup which MAY have been earned only by a millisecond is NOT rewarding knowledge. Lee: ...

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OK... To an extent, I understand what Dr. Barry is saying. A team that is as talented as his goes to a tournament to win. At the point that winning (or placing) becomes impossible, it can take the wind out of your sails (as a coach and/or as a player). I think its safe to say that a team like Brookw...

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To bounceback or not to bounceback. That is the question. OK. I met Dr. Barry for the first time at the ASCA coaches' meeting here in Alabama. He was the guest speaker and he conducted a wonderful workshop on coaching quiz bowl. I admired his incredible love for the game and his dedication - both th...

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Something that really disgusts me has come up a few times this year already. In more than one instance, weak teams (or even strong teams that have performed poorly that particular day) have simply left a tournament before it was over. This was a problem at Bevill-Jasper CC's tournament earlier this ...

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OK - I think that there has been sufficient tournament action to make a shortlist of the top 5 or so teams in Alabama this year. Here is what I think, based on tournaments so far this year: In no particular order, the top five seem to be: LAMP ASFA Indian Springs Brindlee Mountain Covenant Christian...

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