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The Dead Celebrities (Tim Young, Tricia Southard, Dan Greenstein, and their friend) won the first game of an advantaged final over the Maryland house team. The prelims went something like: Dead Celebrities 6-0 Maryland house team 5-1 The Handiquacks (Penn people + me) 4-2 VCUVA (Evan Adams, Will But...

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The other thing is that there are things considered circumflexes in other languages that use other symbols. For example, in romanized Uzbek, they use the apostrophe symbol.

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klebian wrote:My coach got a list of teams participating in the mail today, along with Day 1 matches. 20 teams signed up. This tournament appears to be very near its death.

Does this mean that they're going to have fewer teams playing at a time in the playoffs, or will only two teams miss it?

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Could someone please post the "purring" question?

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The biggest surprise of the day, in my opinion, was that Ransom Everglades went 8-2.

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Who won the freehand cartography competition?

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I'm still coming to staff.

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I certainly did not kill my argument. How can we say that Charter was better than Booker T? They lost! On questions that variously… punish deep knowledge and "hose" you if you buzz in early are so obvious that everybody knows the answer and whoever hits the buzzer first wins aren't about ...

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The links aren't working.

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I am apparently now playing on Penn's team.

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I had never heard of Licking Heights, and lived a county away from it doing physics demonstrations for a bunch of local school districts for four years.

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I find it strange that with lots of teams and so few games, that Defiance and Beachwood are playing each other in the prelims, assuming that these are the Defiance and Beachwood from Ohio.

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Did one of these discussions happen last week? If so, was it just a rehashing about A-sets and computational math, or was anything new brought up?

dxdtdemon · Re: Fake Trashionals at Maryland (6/7/09) I guess I am now a free agent.

I guess I am now a free agent.

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There are a few Kentucky teams that are just outside of the top tier, but could still finish in the top 15 or 20. I'm thinking of Dunbar, Dupont Manual, and Simon Kenton. Also, there's a team just across the Ohio River (Walnut Hills) that is pretty good, too, and seems to do a lot better than expect...

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I realize this doesn't matter since they already qualified for NSC four other times, but didn't Fisher Catholic also qualify by finishing in the top six at the Ohio NAQT state championship?

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With the continued delays of the production of this set, is this still going to happen, or are you going back to your packet submission trash idea?

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I'm a fan of the reduced-value bounceback just because the answer (or answers in OAC) that one team gave can often narrow down the answer space for the other team.

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It may have just been something that I misinterpreted from reading the chat transcripts, but I thought that in the first one, it said that NAQT was suspending making A sets, and in last night's chat, that there would be four A sets next year. Was the suspension being referred to just a suspension in...

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hwhite wrote:
BuzzerZen wrote:
theMoMA wrote:Today's the last day to tell me your wrong ideas about who is good.
1. Ike Jose
2. Doug Yetman
3-25. Various hypothetical versions of Charles Meigs
Fixed.

Now it's fixed.

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NAQT sells literature frequency lists. There's also a somewhat out of date free frequency list from Carelton College, which can be found here: http://orgs.carleton.edu/quizteam/Literature.html
EDIT: included link

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evilmonkey wrote:
JackGlerum wrote:Headed to DePauw.
Thats great! Apparently they used to have a fairly active team - i'd bet you could revitalize that.

They hosted SCT five years ago. I'm not sure how long after that it was that their club died.

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Tegan wrote:I could do the knitting workshop, and Laird could do the Drivers Ed workshop (provided he gets his license back by then).

I didn't realize that anyone else in the quizbowl community actually knit. All I have to say about that is, k1p2, yo.

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scquizbowl wrote:
New Richmond High School vs. Blanchester HS district championship match, OH

This is a league championship match. There is no such thing as a "district championship" in OAC play.

EDIT: Also, since when did anyone go through two OAC packets and call it "halves" of one game?

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new entrant into the Illinois-Missouri debate for "region with wackiest quizbowl standards." Dwight, you forgot Ohio in your "wackiest quizbowl standards". Also to Doug, I think that Sue will let :chip: moderate at the OAC state championship for p...

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I don't know if what sports questions get answered at academic tournaments is a good representation of what gets answered at trash tournaments, but it seems like a lot more of the soccer questions are getting converted than the other non-"big three" sports, and most of the rest of them bei...

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Take a look at the 2001 New Trier Scobol packets from the Stanford Archive. I think they are at least close to what you are looking for.

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What does computational spelling involve? Something using the number of letters that a word has or something?

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olsb25 wrote:You might want to drop us down a bit, since we're showing up with a 2-man team, which has about as much lit knowledge as I may have gained from editing Buzzerfest.

Is Dan Humphrey still showing up for DII?

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I predict that Jacob Durst will realize that his teams always seem to perform way better than predicted at NAQT national tournaments in odd-numbered years, and channel that spirit to get into the DII final against Case Western Reserve. In the second game of the advantaged final, with the score tied,...

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I'm just chiming in to point out that I don't believe either of those activities are as widely participated in as Matt suggests. Going to middle school in the most affluent district in Kansas City where they always went out of their way to bring in evidence that they were elite, I would expect them...

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Anyway, I remember taking part in a written mythology competiton for late elementary school/early middle schoolers. While it was almost entirely Greco-Roman stuff, there was a portion of the test that you had to do one of a certain number of categories of "other" myth. I was just wonderin...

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I think the above distribution is a pretty good starting point, however, I was just wondering what the "whatever" in the physical science distribution was supposed to be. I assume that in most rounds, this would be a really basic chemistry question (well, it could be acidic :smile: ). Anyw...

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You also should put a lot of earth science stuff in, as it seems to be emphasized a lot more at the middle school level than at others.

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Is this tournament also going to be a side event at the Maryland mirror?

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First of all, to some of the people on this board who keep posting about bussing whenever this topic comes up, some states have bus driver's unions who require that all extracirricular clubs get bussed even when it's a really tiny club. Fortunately, many principals help the smaller clubs find loopho...

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What was the deal with that South Dakota video? It seemed like they were using the video to promote the internet service, and only stuck around for one dead tossup.

I could not get the California one to work.

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I meant the trash tournament if there was one, however, if there's any Central Asian literature, I might actually get a lit question right that wasn't off of fraud for probably the first time ever.

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Since I will actually be in the area that weekend, I was just wondering, does staffing the main tournament give you any discounts for the other tournaments?

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Wearing plaid helps me concentrate.

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In Ohio, where there is no uniform policy, there are some teams that have uniforms anyway, and many who don't. Those who don't have uniforms dress appropriately, but very few dress up unless the tournament mandates it. I think that people might get slightly more dressier when it's the state tourname...

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Dan Greenstein wrote: Does anyone have a documented or even anecdotal account of a gatorade-type dunk after a quizbowl victory?

I think I remember hearing about one of the teams in the Mahoning County League having done this once, but I might be mistaken.

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I've found that while having carbohydrates before a tournament can be beneficial, it actually really hurts the first round or two after lunch. I agree with what Mike said about the snacking on fruit. It really keeps you awake.

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I believe in the Tournament Announcment section that it said that the tournament will happen in April sometime.

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How come some of the teams in the prelim stats only played eight games? Did some teams leave early?

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It's working again for me now.

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Is the Ohio board working for anyone else right now? I just seem to get a whole bunch of error messages.

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I guess they would be headed towards the level of Ohio quizbowl, where trash tournaments have become popular enough to have mirrors. EDIT: There is only one trash tournament, and I believe it's tied into an academic one. Also, there are many tournaments in Ohio that run on NAQT/HSAPQ questions. SECO...

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I don't know if anyone who isn't from Ohio cares, but this thread from the Ohio board is kept updated with the teams that have qualified for nationals:
http://www.createphpbb.com/phpbb/viewto ... mforum=oac

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If these are the real stats, did Kenston 2 and Hawken 3 really play to a 0-0 tie?

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