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I agree with those tiers and all the teams that you posted, Lawrence, but I'm going to give some credit to a couple of other neglected teams that might spring up or post good results. RM's B team is quite capable, and although its composition depends on what RM A looks like at a given tournament, RM...

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Hey Luke, Speaking of Western Albemarle :) Welcome to the forums, and hello, though I guess you didn't think I'd be the person to welcome you here. The way to get started with tournaments is basically just to register for more of them; there are plenty of tournaments in the region that you can find ...

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3A West will be represented by Western Albemarle and Blacksburg.

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One thing I like about Sound cloud is that you can add comments/tags to specific times in the recording, so that could be used to mark which teams/topics/regions are being introduced at which time. Perhaps include a written index with each episode of subjects discussed. Noted and done! I will proba...

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Possible topics that we have considered include things like studying, running a circuit, and several others. A discussion of studying techniques is likely to make up our next podcast. We have some other ideas in the works as well, but we don't want to spoil everything yet! This above! As I've told ...

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Apologies for the unedited part, that has been taken care of now and the podcast can be found here! Comments are very very welcome.

https://soundcloud.com/xkcdlover1/high- ... -podcast-1

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Here is the first edition of the podcast! Some trouble was run into when editing this, but this should be fixed for next episode. I will be asking some people knowledgeable to make guest appearances on episodes depending on the focus of the episode, but let me know what everyone thinks! The first on...

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Western Albemarle and Turner Ashby made it out for Conference 29.

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"Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, "Here Comes the Boom" by Nelly, and the "Overture to The Bartered Bride" by Smetana. Oh, and though I feel slightly ashamed in saying it, The Motto always kinda gets me hyped for stuff.

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After some planning over the internet, the first episode of the High School Quizbowl Podcast (or Up Late with Eric Xu, courtesy of Nate Weiser and my early bedtime) has been recorded tonight and should be uploaded as soon as Alston does some editing on it! The talking members of this podcast were Pa...

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Can't believe I waded through that whole thing. Any idea for how long the preview will take to write? Also, if anyone has the technical expertise to do so, I'd be interested in talking with people about starting up some sort of a Quizbowl podcast for high school Quizbowl. I think it'd be a good way...

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Should NASAT tryouts be planned to be held on this day? I unfortunately won't be able to make it to this tournament, but this is probably as good as any tournament to start deciding Team Virginia.

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Knowledge of concepts? Can you pull up some questions from previous packet sets that similar to what's going to be on here? That question might be better answered in the mirror thread instead of the individual tournament announcement? Also, email has been sent, but Western Albemarle will be making ...

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Can't believe I waded through that whole thing. Any idea for how long the preview will take to write? Also, if anyone has the technical expertise to do so, I'd be interested in talking with people about starting up some sort of a Quizbowl podcast for high school Quizbowl. I think it'd be a good way ...

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The podcast was a cool idea I thought, from listening back on it, discounting the numerous technical issues with people dropping and bad connections. Is there any chance anyone would be interested in setting one of these up again?

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Is it possible to do this at an earlier time? As someone who does the unfashionable thing of going to bed before 10 PM, I personally would like another time, but if everyone else can make it I don't have to participate.

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RyuAqua wrote:
AlexLiu wrote:
Standard-winged Nightjar wrote:Is this happening?
IRC discussion like the one done for the college preseason poll.
I think this might be a nice way to gather information from different regions if knowledgeable folks have the time.

Seconded.

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Hey Andre!, You've come to a really good place! I myself asked this question when I was starting up, and my situation was not very different from yours (http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13710). It's sometimes daunting when you're starting to really focus on improving your team; y...

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Can we get a field update if additional teams have signed up? Not that the field doesn't have stellar competition, but having only 9 teams in a Virginia tournament strikes me as kinda small.

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Well, though I don't really feel like analyzing each specific conference/division, especially because there are so many of them, I'll only talk about the ones that I know something about. 6A: Some of these school attend non-VHSL stuff, but honestly, I have no idea who the favorite is here. 5A: This ...

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This was a great tournament, thanks so much for hosting, and special thanks goes to Kevin for getting my dad's briefcase back to me after I foolishly forgot it at Maggie Walker! Is there going to be a discussion forum set up for this?

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TedGan wrote:Do high school teams have undergraduate status?

We do indeed have undergraduate status. However, based on my ACF Fall experience, I do not believe we're eligible for DII?

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A Series of Unfortunate Events has given me exposure to tons of stuff just through the puns and allusions made, which has gotten me stuff some very weird knowledge pockets over the years from reading about stuff that is name-dropped in it.

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Are the difficulty adjustments for this year posted at the moment?

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I didn't actually buzz on it, but at WELD, there was a tossup on Francois de La Rochefoucald, the author of maxims dude. I had learned about this guy from the Frasier episode "Radio Wars," which ends with a long scene where Frasier tries to quote him and thus mentions his name over and ov...

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A couple of tournaments in, I personally believe that RM is the best team in the DC Metro area. Although they've really only won one tournament thus far, their stats are consistently the highest in the area, especially in terms of bonus conversion, where they outstrip every other team in the region....

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In round 14, in the tossup on Olmecs, the first clue refers to it possibly being a descendant of the Xia dynasty. While I don't know too much about Central and South American history, isn't that also something that could apply to the Shang Dynasty in China?

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Could I see the tossups on "Abraham Lincoln's assassination" in Round 3, "Rhapsody in Blue" in Round 2, and Thebes in Round 5?

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Wait, so that 24.57 ppb is legit then? That's a whole lot higher than what they put up at VCU Fall. Providing that that's their official A-team for the rest of the season, I would put them as prohibitive favorites of the region. Gabe is excellent at his topics, and his supporting players bring their...

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Well, top of the pack is something that I'd really hesitate to say at this point about our team. With the top 4 teams having PPBs ranging from 22.48-22.84, this area is packed with teams that are national contenders this year. Gabe, as I expected, has become an incredible generalist over the summer ...

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So after the first major tournament of the region, I think it's pretty safe to say that this year'll be very close in terms of competition.

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When you say "first year of quizbowl", would it be considered their first year of quizbowl if they had never previously competed in a non-VHSL event and had only observed, and not played, in VHSL events?

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Joking aside about negging (which I have no doubt they'll do more than a drunken Raynor......), where would everyone rank a revamped GDS with Tajin and Noah in the area? They have great overlap in a lot of parts of their knowledge, but that doesn't mean that they still won't be formidable next year.

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Good modern playwright is David Ives; All in the Timing was one of the best collections of plays I've read in recent memory. A bunch of other modern playwrights really appeal to me as well, like Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. In terms of novels, Madame Bovary is very good, as is ...

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Will this tournament not be a novice-only affair? If this is truly open to all students, wouldn't a non-A-set tournament be better for having more fair competition instead of speed-checks and buzzer races on first lines by top teams attending this sort of event?

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That Hegel tossup got basically frauded in the first 5 words by someone on my team at the VT mirror, though admittedly it wasn't the greatest used guess in the world. Also, for the music tossup on G, was the clue about the note being sol on the fixed do solefege the first line? I thought that would ...

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A Note Regarding High School Teams There will be no further discounts for things like playing short-handed or being new to ACF or quizbowl, which applies only to new college teams. Will ACF guidelines be amended to reflect this? It seems rather harsh on high school teams to deny them any shorthande...

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For those who are curious, a team of Raynor Kuang, Sid Dogra, Collin Parks, and Roger Cain defeated a team of myself, Morgan Venkus, "Carson Davis", and Madhav Kumar in a very entertaining all-star game. Max didn't play? Why not? Ladue bounced the second finals were over to catch their fl...

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jonathanmarx wrote:
Einhard wrote:with incoming Kealing students, TJ's future should be pretty secure.
Pretty sure you didn't mean Kealing.

Yeah..... meant Longfellow.......

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Seeing as it's shaping up to be a long Saturday, I thought I would put together a little thing detailing every DC-area team's performance at HSNCT, along with what I think their futures will look like. Hopefully nobody is offended by what I have to say, though generally everything I say is pretty po...

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Could I see the tossups on beauty, houses, and revolutions please?

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Pokemon packets sound incredibly appealing to me.

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perlnerd666 wrote:I think I had fun playing this.

What he said? Weird question lines up the wazoo, but I laughed a lot and still managed to get some questions, so fun tournament! Looking forward to staffing it at NSC if it's run there.

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This one didn't really go that fast in my room, although I do remember hearing that clue before about Rasta before. Maybe it was because BHSAT had a Rasta tossup that mentioned a lot of the same stuff?

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Can you post the Brecht tossup? I remember hearing epic theater in the early part of the clue and not wanting to buzz in because I figured it would be too easy of a leadin for Brecht. I think Thomas from Blair thought the same, which lead to a buzzer race once we were definitely sure of the answer.

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We have reached the cap of 12 teams, so a wait list will be started from now on. If there is sufficient interest, there is a possibility of expanding to 16 teams. May I ask, with all due respect, why you're capping the field at 12? With 5 outside staffers and a very large in-house team of potential...

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Quick question, is there a solo discount for this tournament? Western Albemarle S (solo) would like to play this, but also wants to save money for HSNCT and NASAT expenses.

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Yeah, although the high school circuit might not seem THAT far removed from the MS circuit, the college circuit has questions on people in disciplines that most middle school teams might not even know exist. Imagine middle schoolers trying to answer questions on Herbert Marcuse or college kids regul...

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I'm pretty new to writing questions, but I would be good for quite a lot of literature, history, music, or arts questions for any difficulty south of regular-season college. I will have plenty of time over the summer to contribute to whatever tournament it will end up being, and am working mainly fo...

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Other than some little issues like Haiti being called an island in one of the finals packets, the League of Nations mandates coming up twice, and one question in the second round of a packet that was on the Blitz and that didn't have an actual answer line, causing some confusion in my room, I think ...

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