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The USA is playing Italy on Saturday the 17th at 3:00 PM in the FIFA World Cup. I think many, many people will want to watch this game. Maybe some event can be scheduled around the second half as the first half will probably conflict with some of our games.

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they blow in any format where they can't confer, like NAQT...

The inability to confer in NAQT and other pyramidal formats is probably the only rule which I do not support.

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I think the top few players on the east coast could put up similar PPG numbers. Chris Ray would probably be able to do this playing solo over the course of 8 rounds on 22-24 questions a round (just like this Basileus player) against people who didn't buzz at all on introductory level NAQT packets. ...

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I was playing as Honus although it's not my real name.

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You had a sick number of powers per game Ted. Good work.

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Suprising results. How close was the game between Gonzaga and Half Hollow Hills? We played Gonzaga in the prelims and defeated them soundly, but lost to Half Hollow Hills by quite a bit. Unfortunately for us, Gonzaga got their revenge by beating us on the last tossup in the quarterfinals. Well run t...

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Notjustolddeadwhiteguys wrote: TJ's graduation is that night, and we seniors are trying to see if we can thread the needle and make it back in time, and then fly back down for playoffs the next day.

Hardcore man.

BTW, will I be the only one avidly checking scores in the FIFA World Cup throughout the tournament?

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The only team I know of that was caught cheating is, I believe, Seneca Valley from Montgomery County, Maryland in the early 1990s. Apparently one of their players pretended to be some random school and ordered a disk without his coach's knowledge. He then went through the disk and looked up all the ...

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Well, if you are forced to postpone, you'll probably attract a few other teams (namely, us). Would you allow more teams to register?

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Something about 1350 volunteers in 1961...

Peace Corps

Good work, my teammates almost require me to get all questions pertaining to the peace corps because Sargent Shriver's former home is in my neighborhood (as if that gives me some sort special knowledge of him?).

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I really enjoyed each of the questions individually, however I had a few issues with the distribution. There were way too many questions on psychology, Islam and economics. Also there were far too few questions on American History and Greek/Roman mythology. Anyways, you guys did a good job running t...

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I'm wondering if there is a contigency plan for tommorrow. If it continues snowing at the rate it is now, we could have a rather nasty attendance situation tommorrow at the tournament.

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I don't understand why you want high school teams to be composed of players all from the same school, yet you want colleges to only have quiz bowl clubs that don't necessarily play with eachother at tournaments.

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We don't have a "state tournament series," but for our "state championship tournament" Maryland and the District of Columbia use NAQT.

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Look at NAQT's sample packets. You'll see the A level packets are considerably easier.

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I think this is the final list of teams: Allentown Bergen Academy Bergen Academy B Chase Collegiate Colonia Columbia A Columbia B Conestoga A Conestoga B East Brunswick Easthampton A Easthampton B Gonzaga Half Hollow A Half Hollow B Irvington A Irvington B Kellenberg A Kellenberg B Lenape A Lenape B...

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Isn't it just John Cage?

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I really enjoyed the questions in the playoffs . I would also like to commend UVA on running the tournament so smoothly (with the exception of that unavoidable late start). I look forward to the Cav Open in the in the Spring. I found the preliminary rounds of the tournament to be somewhat frustratin...

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GRISSOM IS GONNA FEENIS EVERYONE'S TODDS!!!!!! No, really man, they are. :eyebrow:

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As of two weeks ago: Colonia Columbia A Columbia B Conestoga A Conestoga B Easthampton A Easthampton B Half Hollow Hills West A Half Hollow Hills West B Irvington A Irvington B Manheim A Manheim B Millburn A Millburn B North Shore A North Shore B Northport Pennsbury West A Pennsbury West B Pingry A ...

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Me: trilobites for Leonardo da Vinci
:hose:

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I always wanted to go to Brookwood's tournament because a tournament with 120 teams sounds pretty cool. Maybe I'll be able to get my team to Vandy's spring tournament which is almost as huge.

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Also, other than RM, has anybody here played us? Unfortunately, most of the teams represented on this forum have not played you in a regular season tournament. I guess thats what happens when you skip the dozens of tournaments in the Washington area with strong, competitive teams in favor of going ...

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My reconnaissance tells me Auburn is pretty solid on NAQT questions. Hopefully they'll show up at nationals.

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Maryland Academic Quiz Team.

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A power neg on the Mid Atlantic Ridge for punctuated equilibrium just 5 minutes after our team had actually been discussing punctuated equilibrium.

Captain Morgan for Captain Barbossa(from Pirates of the Caribbean).

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I have learned that, unfortunately, she thought "TC" was T.C. Williams, a local school. She wasn't aware that this tournament is 800 miles away. Sorry for wasting your time, us Washingtonians don't mean to be so bothersome. Overall, I suppose it is exciting for a school (yes, an all girls ...

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Maybe those results are skewed by the 2(?) games which they played against Team Virginia. After all, TJ is a math and science magnet.

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If I'm thinking of the right game, that was Oppenheim. Knowing him, that buzz probably had a lot of justification.

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This Centennial is in Elicott City, Maryland.

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I think we'll end up sending 2 and possibly 3 teams rather than the 1 we've already registered. I'm suprised some more local teams like Charlottesville and Spotswood aren't signed up yet.

Edit: Ha, I started writing my post before MamaFlanagan posted.

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I'm not sure who else this applies to but.... At least one of the second round taping dates has been changed from April 8th to April 22 due to conflicts with the spring break of the District of Columbia as well as Montgomery, Fairfax, Prince George's and Prince William County. Two players from our t...

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A few bad negs of my own from this week:
Most preferred trading partner status for most favored nation status.

The opera "Vanessa" for playwright Richard Sheridan.

The Algonquin Round Table for NBC.

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I do believe our precious little quiz show is getting its own holiday:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.RES.471:

Next up in committee, National

Day!

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AP Statistics Honors English 12 AP Art History AP European History AP Biology AP Biology Lab Advanced Philosophy (3 hour class, one night per week) Quantum Physics (second semester) ....I'm trying to decide whether I should audit MV Calculus second semester when I'll have more time because college a...

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First, I'd like to thank TJ for running an excellent tournament. Yet again, you have pulled it off, flawlessly. Now onto a reflection on team performances: I'd first like to express my own disappointment in my team's performance today. We got 7 powers put up against us by a very strong team from Gov...

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I think I saw in a thread a few months ago that someone said that having a quiz bowl class was "tantamount to cheating." I definately don't think having a quiz bowl class is cheating. Chris's (DumbJaques) opinions mirror my own in his explanation for some of our attitudes towards a quiz b...

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I have never heard of any school in the D.C. area having a quiz bowl class. Furthermore, I think that most of the coaches would be opposed to the idea of a quiz bowl class on the principle of it. Luckily, my school has a completely open lunch so we are able to run practices during the school day any...

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This tournament is very stacked. My only two predictions are that no one goes undefeated in the prelims and to me, Raleigh Charter has the best shot of winning.

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I was wondering what setting you all put your buzzers on. I know the venerable Humza, formerly of RM, used to "Set buzzer to stun!!!" I'm more of a buzz to kill kind of guy myself.

This post is almost as cool as

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Do you have any of the game scores available? More specifically, I'd like to know how the Walton-DCC and Walton-Dunbar games went.

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Anyone know who will be attending?

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Most teams are lucky to get a tiny little blip about themselves in their tiny little local paper once during the year, and major newspapers generally overlook it completely. The only reason why my team has been in the newspaper this year is, ironically enough, because we won "It's Academic.&qu...

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(indeed, more popular than it is in the DC area)

I don't think theres a single city in the country with half the quizbowl strength or popularity as Washington except for possibly Atlanta and Chicago.

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I don't think it will be difficult to find 81 schools in the Washington area with three intelligent students willing to compete (or perform) in a television show on NBC. There are many schools, such as Northwest, in the area with decent teams that are not in the "It's Academic" bracket and...

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I don't know if any of you have heard but Giant is cutting their funding of "It's Academic" to $10,000 total per year from $40,000 per year. Now the payment of teams is much more top heavy: only the teams that make the finals get any money ($2,500 to 2nd and 3rd and $5,000 to the champion)...

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The ACT tournament at Spotswood High School wasn't close to any places that sold food (or anything else for that matter); however, the host team did an excellent job providing food for the competing teams which kept everyone satisfied. In the case of my school, we are within a 10 minute drive (or wa...

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The 25 public high schools in my county and all of the county's private schools are invited to participate in the Montgomery County Beltway League administered by my coach. No higher authority has any involvement in the league. I hope that eventually the league does become more official although I d...

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For example: if calculus is part of the distribution, then you are alienating almost everyone who is not a senior. This year, our entire A team has already taken AP Calculus and was very active during calc questions this past year. Nevertheless, I don't think computational math questions have a pla...

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We are starting school on August 29th, which is early for us. I intend to have one practice the week before school. I hope we'll begin our normal practice schedule on the first day of school during our lunch. We have to get going early because I know of seven events in the DC area before the end of ...

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