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Weighted Companion Cube wrote:I'm surprised that I haven't seen any bad jokes about Andy having attended Shady Side High School

I think it was Matt who coined "shadysidefreude" yesterday in the chat.

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Andy, I, like so many of the other posters, both in this thread and the others, paid large sums of money from either our personal, team, or student activities accounts to play you, in "good faith," at a tournament you had secretly rigged in your favor. We run four or more high school tourn...

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Corry wrote:I'm going to Amherst College next year. I'm not sure if they actually have a legit quiz bowl team (though Amherst did recently attend the last NAQT SCT Region 1). Hopefully they do, because I'm looking forward to playing college quiz bowl.

PAGING JORDAN BEKENSTEIN

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If Andy Watkins Buzzes.

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So I've watched you play, and basically it looks like you try to be as aggressive against teams that have no business beating you as you are against a team you are going to have to push yourself to the limit in order to beat. I can see how keeping yourself on your toes for that is good, but you may ...

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This tournament is going to have an initial field cap of 18 teams. That cap is subject to change based on availability of staff and rooms.

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Congratulations to Maggie Walker "A," the champions of the 2013 VCU Spring TOurnament, by nature of their clearing the field. Montgomery Blair finished second at 8-2, and Thomas Jefferson A was the last team left standing after a three team tiebreaker for third place, edging out New Kent A...

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Stats for the prelim rounds are available at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

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ValenciaQBowl wrote: with the hardest working dude in quiz bowl, Paul Kelson,

What a weird way to spell "Matt Bollinger"

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Tale of Mac Datho's Pachycephalosaur wrote:All of this is well-taken. Next year, I request that teams be rated as Ig Nobel winners.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

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I have been informed that this tournament has received Platinum Certification from PACE, meaning that the top 25% of the teams in this tournament will qualify for the National Scholastic Championship in College Park, Maryland, to be held June 8th and 9th.

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This is the general announcement for the 2013 Virginia Commonwealth University Season Finale Tournament. This is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be held at The Collegiate School on Saturday, April 20th from 8:30 AM until shortly after 4:30 PM. LOCATION, DIRECTIONS, PARKING: The tourna...

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Thanks to all the editors that made this year's Regionals, as I really enjoyed playing this tournament (especially the tossup on "Mao's wives"). But I have to disagree with you Chris on what you said about how Regionals should be harder than other supposed "regular difficulty" to...

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mithokie wrote: Note that Maggie Walker and TJ will play up in the 6A classification for Scholastic Bowl.

Everyone from the VHSL I have asked has told me this motion actually was rejected and that Gov will be in Group 2 and TJ in Group 5, even for Scholastic Bowl. Where did you see that this will be the case?

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Presumably along some hypothetical standard of "if this team WERE to play ICT, how would that team finish?"

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Are Longwood and Maryland C undergrad?

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Is it possible to make a schedule with more than 10 games even without a 12th team? Rounds are capped at 20 minutes, and some teams are travelling from pretty far away to play just a little over three hours of quizbowl. 18 rounds of UVA vs Penn vs Maryland on the Knot go go go Yeah you guys go be D...

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Firmly stick to the full-line switch at the half. Even taking out the player who answered 7 toss-ups in the 1st half. You must take that player out, he's answering too many questions. Building on this, coaches should switch to as many possible combinations as possible over the course of the tournam...

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If only certain tournaments at some point in the year were limited to teams that had met certain performance thresholds at other tournaments throughout the year. Like, I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly you are trying to put forward here. Are there specific examples of incentives you would...

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Richard Montgomery defeated Maggie Walker Governor's School's "A" team 425-330 in the first game of an advantaged final to win the 2013 Metro Richmond Invitational! Congratulations to both teams, and also to Georgetown Day School for finishing in third, and to Thomas Jefferson "A"...

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This is the general announcement for the 2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Spring Tournament. This is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be held at New Kent High School on Saturday, March 16th from 8:30 AM until shortly after 4:30 PM. LOCATION, DIRECTIONS, PARKING: The tournament wil...

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As a side note, it appears registration for the Washington site has already been closed.

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This tournament has received Platinum Certification from the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence, so the top 25% of the field will qualify for their national championship tournament on June 8th and 9th, 2013 in College Park, Maryland.

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Split from the Harvard Fall discussion . --Mgmt. And just a note on randomization: We took the answerlines for each round as a list and put it through the list randomizer on random.org so unless there's something wrong with the pseudorandom number generator that website uses, I'm just going to say ...

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Is the emergency packet closer to the initial 13 or the 2 finals packets?

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What is crossover? Crossover typically features taking a "rebracketing" but having a team only playing the games against teams in the new bracket that they did not play in the prelims. For example, if a tournament has two brackets of eight, and the top four in each make the playoffs, you ...

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Congratulations to the Early College at Guilford's "A" Team on winning this tournament undefeated. "Rocket Science Academy" finished in second. Thanks to all teams for coming out today. Additional thanks go to all of our staffers who came today to help us out. Thanks again to And...

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Guilford has the one game advantage.

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VCU would like to tentatively claim April 20th for the annual VCU Season Finale Tournament on the Yale BHSAT tournament set.

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so obviously 22 teams is non ideal so if any other teams are looking interested in signing up for this please let me know.

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This is the general announcement for the 2012 Metro Richmond Invitational Tournament. This is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be held at New Kent High School on Saturday, January 12th from 8:30 AM until shortly after 4:30 PM. LOCATION, DIRECTIONS, PARKING: The tournament will take pla...

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This tournament is exactly one month away, and we already have 4 teams signed up. We hope to see many more teams register as we get closer to the event.

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My team just played Cave Spring and New Kent at the Cavalier Classic and defeated them both handily, although that may have been due to good game placement, as Cave Spring had just gotten off a crushing loss to Dorman, who'd crushed everyone at that tournament. Cave Spring's not the same powerhouse...

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Full results from this tournament can be found here . I just wanted to take this opportunity to to thank our guest staff, because without them, this tournament could not have been nearly as smoothly run as it was. Our thanks go out to Evan Adams, Tommy Casalaspi, Dave Porter, Daniel Hothem, Jimmy Re...

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Hey folks, I am going to place a 16-team cap on the field, with a possibility to expand to 18 if we are sure that we can staff that. We will still take registrations beyond that, but teams will be informed that they are on the waitlist (including their position on it) and the list in its entirety wi...

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In all seriousness, what on earth did I just read?

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The announcement has been edited to reflect our PACE Platinum Certification, meaning that the top 25% of the field will qualify for PACE's National Scholastics Championship in June 2013!

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This is the general announcement for the 2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Winter Tournament. This is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be held at New Kent High School on Saturday, December 1st from 8:30 AM until shortly after 4:30 PM. LOCATION, DIRECTIONS, PARKING: The tournament w...

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This is the general announcement for the 2012-13 edition of the VCU Fall High School Tournament. This is a high school academic quizbowl tournament, to be operated by the quizbowl team at Virginia Commonwealth University, and held at a local high school in Richmond, on Saturday, October 13th from 8:...

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ADD 10 buzzers being brought to Chicago Open (Waivers-July 21)
DROP a shipping crate of cookies

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Apparently I'm a really sh---y writer

Perhaps that is part of why this set was apparently really really bad.

Anyway, as to your other point of having host look over packets before using a given set, that is a question security nightmare waiting to happen.

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Douglas Freeman and New Kent will be co-running the Metro Richmond Invitational in mid-January, tentatively on January the 12th.

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We probably won't have the SQBS reports up until all the prelims and tiebreakers are over, but we are about to starting tweeting individual game results from rounds 1-3 at #pacensc. Specifically the @PACENSC account will be tweeting and including the #pacensc hashtag, as will other accounts of peop...

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Fred wrote:Who's the Diablo Jr. of quizbowl?

I mean it kind of has to be Matt Bollinger, since he is the best today.

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As to Virginia Beach, if I recall correctly, multiple VHSL districts in that area limit tournament attendance to something like 1 or 2 non-VHSL events before VHSL is over.

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Fred wrote:I do love that comments on the article and elsewhere have already gone to the various "ACF so impossible/lengthy/etc , signed, someone from 1994" things.

Hey man this is a GAME not a DISSERTATION DEFENSE. Also, doorstops are long now? What the hell doorstops is this guy using?

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Benjamin Cooper Awards. PACE has voted to award the Coopers as follows: -The Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Award is hereby awarded jointly to David Riley of Loyola Academy and to Linda Greene of Auburn High School. -The Benjamin Cooper Young Ambassado...

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Packet submission, costs, and discounts This tournament is a limited packet submission event. Because we are writing 10 editor packets, we need six submitted packets to get to our target of 16 total. The first six usable packets we receive will receive a discount based on the following table. The r...

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NKBoughner wrote:
Longstride wrote:Clover Hill would like to register 1 team and 2 buzzers. We would also like to register for the travel discount.
HA.

go to here and bring me back a cheesesteak with mushrooms and I will personally cover the cost of said discount.

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