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Is there any difference in the registration fee structure for high school teams?

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I am pleased to announce the Mountain West site of ACF Fall 2018, to be held at CU Boulder on Saturday, 3 November 2018. Location and schedule : The tournament will be held on November 3 in the Hellems building. It will begin at 9:00 AM MDT , and teams should arrive between 8:15 and 8:45 . Additiona...

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If anyone wants a mediocre player who can get things in physics/math/CS and buzz randomly on lit/music/art/thought/chem, hit me up!

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Can we expect sites to be announced soon? We'd like to get an early start on collegiate outreach, and it really helps to have an actual tournament to invite teams to.

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I've redesigned the site to make it look less hacky. As always, let me know if you have any comments or suggestions!

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Can we see the text of the May 1968 tossup and the FTP/TCP/SSH bonus?

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It's not just a question of a four-team Groundhog Day RR vs. a more palatable schedule. It's often a question of a tournament happening at all, which could mean the life or death of QB in a region. If for multiple years, if CU has a choice of fielding N house teams, staffing, etc. to make a tournam...

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Arkansas, aka "Quizbowl Iran": F The mullahs of the Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association are determined to force Arkansas teams to remain in the quizbowl stone age, enforcing a regime of bad quizbowl questions and bizarre rules like forcing teams to lug around reference books to prot...

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I'm in the area this week and next, is it still every Wednesday? Yup! Practice will be in Hellems 251, and will keep going until the school year starts on Aug 27th (at which point we might reschedule). Also, be warned that the Colorado Shakespeare Festival sometimes uses the building---just tell th...

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Everyone in this thread is extremely correct. One thing to add: please put your tournaments on the HSQB database as soon as they're announced, not just when you upload stats. Plenty of people use the database to search for upcoming tournaments (some of them indirectly through QBNotify), and those wh...

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Did you just announce a packet submission tournament less than a week before it's scheduled? Unless the date is a typo, this strikes me as rather unreasonable.

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Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament* (either as a college student or as a high school student) prior to September 1, 2016 is required to submit a half-packet. House teams from host schools, as well as teams composed of people who ha...

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Have you tried asking the tournament head editor for exemption privately before? I have found that they are usually okay with it as long as it makes the field better. There have been some recent incidents where Person A has assumed that a certain action that goes against publicly-stated rules is cl...

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[EDIT: Although I reference SCT, my main argument applies only to ACF Fall and independent housewrites . This may not have been clear in the original post.] Last season, the CU Boulder team hosted both Fall and SCT. Both tournaments came uncomfortably close to getting canceled, and both eventually r...

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For example, it took me over a day to just do one packet as I would go through and read Wikipedia articles, and any other article about my subject(s). Is this the standard? Not sure about standard, but that sounds pretty good to me. Going on long wiki walks is a great way to learn things in-depth. ...

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I can definitely see these, and I never had access to the discussion group in the first place.
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =9&t=21172
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =9&t=21173

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During my first couple years of high school quizbowl, I was in your exact position, albeit as a science player instead of a history one. I decided to expand when our top player left, and I turned myself into mostly a full generalist (though I've always scaled a bit better on science). The trick to l...

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Colorado Quiz Bowl is a thing, but I just realized we never submitted it to this list.

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Staaats!

I'd like to thank Connor Mayers, Anson Berns, and Francis Clark-Murray for giving up their weekend to staff, as well as Eric Xu for volunteering to read a couple rounds while my voice recovered. Y'all are awesome!

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Congrats to team Nick/Jack/Lawrence/Eric for winning this! Stats will be posted shortly.

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OK, we now have 3 staffers on both days. As such, I've increased the field cap.

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Most of the team has conflicts, so we will not have practice on July 4th. Practies will resume on the 11th.

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The first mirror has been announceed: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =8&t=21458.

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The first online mirror of NASAT will take place on July 14th and 15th, with 10 packets read each day. More information is available in this thread . The registration fee is $10/person for the entire weekend, and can be paid via Venmo (to @Matthew-Mitchell-69). The tournament will be run on this thi...

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I'm pretty sure everyone in the Colorado circuit already knows about this, but I figured I'd put up a forum announcement anyway. The CU Boulder quizbowl team hosts summer practices every Wednesday from 7 PM to 9 PM. These practices are open to everyone. We meet in the Hellems building, usually in ro...

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A lot of Mountain West people have done some pretty impressive circuit building, and they need to be thanked for it! Colin McNamara deserves recognition for everything he's done at Boise State. For the past decade, Colin has been the driving force behind the Boise high school circuit and has helped ...

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US and Canadian territories have been added to the list of notification regions. Time to step up the Nunavut outreach, people!

(On a more serious note, has anyone ever considered an outreach campaign in Puerto Rico? There might be some potential for a circuit.)

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Address entry is now supported! Thanks for the suggestions, Alex and Jonah!

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Our executive team has met, and until Matt Bruce is removed from NAQT, we will not host events on NAQT questions. I have no control over whether my teammates participate in NAQT events, but we will recommend against it and will not provide funding. In addition, we will advise other teams in the area...

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I fully endorse everything written by Mike, Alston, Harry, John, and Joe. Even if the allegations in Charlie's original post cannot be proven, the blatant and public sexualization of underage women is deeply disturbing and warrants a reconsideration of Matt Bruce's involvement in quizbowl. Perhaps M...

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Could you update this thread when you fix the sign-up/email verification system for qems2? Thanks for doing this, it's been a really really helpful tool. Could you help me by filing a Github issue detailing the exact problem? Thanks. I am still getting an error associated with this. I am unable to ...

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Users can now specify units, and address entry is coming soon (now that finals are done, I actually have time to work on the site).

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Great suggestions!

I'm already using Google Maps for geocoding, since address formatting is pretty inconsistent between tournaments. It should be pretty straightforward to support address entry, though I might have to implement some rate-limiting.

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Hello, all. I've been talking to my team (8-ish people), and all of them have expressed a desire to write part of a tournament. Everyone has committed to writing 5 questions per week during the summer. Unfortunately, we have very little writing experience between us, and except for math and physics,...

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OK, let's get this over with: does anyone have any thoughts on gender and/or sucrose?

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OK, so the notifications weren't going out for a couple days because the scraper was timing out. It's fixed now.

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Firstly, awesome idea! Second, upon trying to use my college email to set up an account (.edu), I received a prompt saying that the email address was invalid. I'm not sure if it's because it isn't a traditional email server, but I might suggest including non-traditional emails like that. Hmm. I was...

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Hi everyone, As many of you know, NAQT allows you to receive email notifications for nearby tournament announcements. The hsquizbowl.org database, however, does not offer such a service, which is why I decided to make one. The site is at qbnotify.msmitchell.org , and the code is available here . It'...

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I regret to announce that this tournament has been canceled (see the last post on the main announcement).

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So I had a lot of other things spring up, and I won't have time to finish the set by HSNCT or NSC. We'll be postponing this for a year (the next mirror will most likely be at the 2019 MSNCT).

I apologize to everyone--both for having to drop out, and for not announcing it sooner.

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University of Colorado Boulder: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_3 ... iz-tourney

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Billy Joel Piano Man So wait, is Billy Joel being cut completely? This is his signature song, if he's to be included then it would be weird to not use this one. The Billy Joel pick is presumably Only the Good Die Young. While perhaps not quite as strong as Piano Man, it's still excellent. Also, as ...

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As someone on a team that's disconnected from the main circuit, I'd like to share my perspective. During our first ICT, we didn't really socialize with other teams (aside from small talk). Everyone already seemed to know each other. However, a friend of mine invited us to the afterparty, and once we...

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As far as fees go (if it's even necessary), I'm kind of hesitant about telling new schools "if you want to try quizbowl, you have to start paying membership dues." It might be better to tack a couple dollars onto the mirror fees for independently written tournaments.

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I voted "insular" and "lack of professionalism" FWIW. I think the forums are, as many have pointed out, very self-selecting in who participates and don't necessarily reflect the broader attitude. I didn't even know the forums existed until I left and then came back to quiz bowl,...

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I agree, and even if ACF waits before implementing this at regionals and nationals, it should be implemented at fall ASAP (as fall is one of the most important tournaments for retaining new players)

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I couldn't disagree with this more. Having to apply to a committee to have your tournament 'sanctioned' is probably the simplest way to put off a group of new writers. There's clearly a dearth of college quizbowl tournaments at the moment, and I'd like to encourage people to organise their own tour...

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Sorry this took so long. An announcement is now up.

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Hi all, Mons Mathstrosity II: Even Primes Redux will take place at HSNCT on Saturday night . More info about the set is here . We expect to have 8 packets, so we're setting the field cap at 7 teams for now. If you would like to play, add your name to this spreadsheet This is a doubles tournament. Th...

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We're scheduling it now. An announcement will be put up tomorrow.

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