The Quizbowl Resource Center

Golran

OK, I'm a little bit OCD about reserving stuff ahead of time and logistics, I always have airline tickets at least a year in advance etc. so that I know everything should go well. You're completely right that I'm not a signatory, but I was going to pick up and fill out whatever paperwork I could on ...

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This tournament has been added to the tournament database in case anybody was interested. I would also like to know how interested teams are so I can go ahead and know exactly how many rooms to reserve next week. I'm currently leaning towards 12 rooms, with no dedicated stats room since I am plannin...

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I don't know what happened, but when I was reading through the science questions (I just did an empty search for science questions to get all of them) This came up: 1999 ACF Nationals - Packet by Vanderbilt - #20 Science -- Astronomy Its presiding officer had to stand upon a lava promontory called L...

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"A channel has a depth of 10 fathoms" BUZZ "MARK TWAIN!" The capitalization is very important in the way it was said. Answer: 60 feet Who wrote these questions? Don't all computation questions usually have "paper and pencil ready" or some variant at the beginning. Trip...

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I guess now seems as good a time as ever to plug the tournament I'm TDing in the spring. Is there some listserv of high school coaches' e-mails that I could send the announcement to?

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Field as of February 18, 2009:

North Hollywood (3)
Edison (1-2)
Dana Hills (1)
Arcadia (2)

Golran

UCLA would like to announce BAIT (Bruin Academic Invitational Tournament) to be held on March 7th, 2009. DATE: The tournament will be held on March 7th, 2009, 1 week after Arcadia's Carnal Embrace III FORMAT: The tournament will be a West Coast mirror of BATE, whose announcement can be find here . T...

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I'll try writing some lit and science, but I'm not really fully experienced as far as writing. My experience is pretty much ACF Fall and ACF Winter packet parts, and an American short stories tossups packet. I can probably get you about 20/20 of science and lit by January. I need something to do whe...

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I gotta ask- why were there 10 people on the Tulsa team? was it that people just showed up at varying times of the day or were 10 people there the entire time?

Golran

If I go to the WIT, I'd be interested in playing it, and by playing it I mean listening to the questions being read and watching someone else buzz in.

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Yeah, I would like feedback, my packet was the UCLA B packet. My e-mail is Golran@NOSPAMucla-DOT-edu

Golran

I remember watching that match (Finals for us too) and for most of it I was thinking fallopian tubes.

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I had a lot of fun at the tournament, and I liked how the questions were so accessible towards the end, and I had at least heard of most of the answers, even if I didn't know anything about them. The only problem I saw was a bit much of repeats, but I guess that is to be expected with so many packet...

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The main point would be so that we could get more funding, and maintain some funding for next year when we would be a "provisional" club sport which receives 0 funding from the school.

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I'm beginning the process of forming Club Quizbowl through the competitive sports office for better funding and facilities. Does anybody have experience with this type of thing? Basically we are planning on having The College Bowl Club at UCLA through ASUCLA be a group of people that get together to...

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I really enjoyed playing the tournament, it was great to have so much close competition, and the questions were extremely well written and at a very accessible level, very few tossups going dead. My only complaints are the late start and the rooms not being open, but given the circumstances I would ...

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Today at PBL mind madness (an IM tournament held by FBLA-PBL, and the questions will never be reused) Tirth negged with "The Declaration of Independence" for "The Communist Manifesto" after the question quoted "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of c...

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If looking to host a tournament, I'm sure some UCLA people would be willing to help staff. I personally would love to if I'm not already at a tournament and I can get a ride there and back. I would need to know a bit in advance so I can get time off of work.

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I considered it a bad neg because the second in a series cannot reintroduce something.

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From IS-71A (I think) @ LIFT 2007
Mod: It brought back the assault rifle-
Me: Halo
Mod: Prompt
Me: Halo 2
Other Team: Halo 3

Golran

Ward Melville had better be there...
Also, any chance of taking personal stats as well? I really want to know how my former teamates are doing as individuals, and I know you had like 3 officials in each room when I played the last 3 years.

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The first time I saw that game I hated it! It just didn't seem fun for me.

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I'll play frisbee, that is if I'm coming to the Cardinal Classic which I should be!

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As for stats, if we're going to play 12 timed rounds, there's no way we can put in individual stats quickly enough to have them by the end unless we use TAFT (we used SQBS due to a severe lack of funds). False! Try Avram's new program. We used it for our IM tournament, and it worked really well. Wh...

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Probably not going to see the question set because it's NAQT, and I'll let Chris know at practice that the stats aren't up yet.

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Whose/What type of questions are you using? What is the format of the actual rounds? Some other people here might be interested...

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And what about Irvine now that TTGT11 is delayed there?

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Last year for the HMMT I stayed at the Best Western Hotel Tria, and rooms were about $130 per night with AAA discount. The rooms were pretty nice, easily fit 4 people, and there was a free continental breakfast plus waffles. Also there was an indoor swimming pool, and the parking lot was perfect for...

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Second Slovenly Bully wrote:out of curiosity, who all plays golf in QB?

EDIT: also, yeah, golf channel = awesome

I work at a golf club. Does that count?

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But the madden curse! Farve will be out at least 1 game this year, probably more due to injury! He should have stayed retired, and if anything come back the next year!

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I've found it easier to just use a non-restricted text to speech processor (i.e. one built into a Mac, or the one that comes with the Opera web browser) and then just record the output in a sound editor. This can be a relatively good way to prepare for tournaments when you're driving to them, espec...

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A Ward Melville Team is looking into attending, they should be posting here soon, otherwise will e-mail the TD if interested.

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Some people from Ward Melville High School are looking into coming. They should be posting here soon, but if not, they should e-mail the TD if interested.

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Any idea if UCLA is going to this (I would assume the Irvine mirror)? It's barely after classes start, so it would probably be too late to start writing the theme packet when school starts. Anybody from UCLA please feel free to contact me regarding this (and what the theme would be), or if the TD kn...

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I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to take a pass for this year. Next year (march/april) contact me again as I should be in much better position. I've heard that the college transition takes up a lot of time.

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We also have a Josh Jaffe going to Indiana University. Someone want to send him an e-mail to let him know how to find the club? Send me an e-mail and I'll forward it to him. If mods say it's ok I'll post his e-mail here... so mods: Is that OK? What's yours, so I or carlo or somebody else can at lea...

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I'm interested!

And how are the Rays still in 1st place?

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I remember that there used to be a link that only worked from HS to College, and the return link gave an error when the site first came up.

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What's a move death?

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What do you think of an all-trash question with the give-away being something like:

Name this baseball player who shares his name with the toy company that produces Scrabble?

It still fits in the general classification of Trash, but it diverges from Sports Trash.

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I'd be interested, but I don't know how my parents would feel about me going to some stranger's house in Brooklyn? Any shot of a public library or similar? Does the New York public library have rooms available for group use free of charge?

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cvdwightw wrote: Matt: i answered false to your test because my schools football team sucks so students dont really care about going to football games except to hang out with friends

Our football team is so bad, we lose homecoming! Only good sport is Lacrosse, but they lost in county championships

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Is anybody besides John Brown coming to Indiana University? Anybody? Jonathan Irving, I've been told We also have a Josh Jaffe going to Indiana University. Someone want to send him an e-mail to let him know how to find the club? Send me an e-mail and I'll forward it to him. If mods say it's ok I'll...

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I'm going the other way to avoid the cold NY winters! Hello sunny Cal-i-forn-i-a!

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So here at Ward Melville the school will probably be getting a bit less active. Our top 3 scorers are going off to college, and then after that nobody averaged more than 15 ppg on NAQT/mACF over the course of a tournament. I really wish they were more active, but it was a fight even to get people to...

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I've got a friend double majoring with a minor at Princeton... Physics and Chem as majors with a Spanish minor. She also happened to have over 10 AP courses so she got out of introductory level classes (even with no credit), so her schedule was much more free to take courses for those majors.

Golran

At Yale's Spring tournament I negged on a tossup about Double Dragon after about 7 words identifying the main characters by their names with "Dueling Dragon". Major props to anybody who can beat Double Dragon 3 even with all cheat codes.

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Our team lost at the regional science bowl finals because of this (and a clock that we could not see). We thought the question was over and so buzzed, got it wrong, time buzzer went off and we ended up losing by 2 points (neg worth 4 for the opponent) The other team claimed they didn't know the answ...

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Sorry Nick, I won't be able to. I have work that day and the next, and cannot make the 4.5 hour drive down to Maryland. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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I show preliminary interest in being on a HS team. First, though I would need parental approval.

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