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scquizbowl wrote:They cut our budget a lot, like other schools, and we might not go to as many tournaments. Hopefully, we can make it to your tournament.

Then pay out of your pocket. Or start a fundraiser. Other than for Nationals, our school didn't give us a dime this year, but that didn't stop us from going to 13 tournaments. You guys will be good; don't miss a chance to compete if you can.

Then pay out of your pocket. Or start a fundraiser. Other than for Nationals, our school didn't give us a dime this year, but that didn't stop us from going to 13 tournaments. You guys will be good; don't miss a chance to compete if you can.

I'm under the impression that Joe and the other (possibly hypothetical) dedicated James Island lack a coach like you who is dedicated to getting them to more and better tournaments and helping them raise the funds to do so, so the feasibility of this advice might be the bigger issue. Whatever the situation, anyone who's looking to raise funds for their team should know that there are tons of people here who would be happy to help you figure out how to do so. I'd be interested to know if Caesar Rodney or other programs have come up with funding strategies beyond the normal slate of hosting tournaments and what not to deal with the recent cuts.

DumbJaques wrote:I'm under the impression that Joe and the other (possibly hypothetical) dedicated James Island lack a coach like you who is dedicated to getting them to more and better tournaments and helping them raise the funds to do so,

Hm, thanks, i guess.

so the feasibility of this advice might be the bigger issue. Whatever the situation, anyone who's looking to raise funds for their team should know that there are tons of people here who would be happy to help you figure out how to do so. I'd be interested to know if Caesar Rodney or other programs have come up with funding strategies beyond the normal slate of hosting tournaments and what not to deal with the recent cuts.

Yup, the best thing we did this year (which made us at $500-750 and still counting) was a discount card fundraiser that Trey found here: http://www.buyforcharity.com/city-savings-card Especially if you live in a small town and you have a lot of small businesses that have close ties to your school (or would like to), this works great.

But heck, the other thing we did (that made us about $300-400) was just asking for money from businesses and prominent people in the area. I can imagine that a place like James Island/Charleston would have tons of richer business/donors than little Dover Delaware, so that may work even better. We wrote a very professional letter explaining why quizbowl is an important activity for the school (as opposed to just all the sport championships our school wins all the time) and how we don't get any funding for it. So, yeah, we begged a little, but i'm not going to complain about the few hundred bucks we got from it.

A high school students vs. faculty competition with questions would be proud of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWm0Y8TKv0

We still have our coach, of course. These questions are horrible. They also use our buzzers, that we have used since 1984 for every practice. Half of them are about Carmel High School, and the "host" looks like he's 12 years old. He's probably a high school student.

Here's another Brain Game, from WRAL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBxMQfmA ... re=related

Some It's Academic from this year, T.C. Williams, Edison, and Osbourn Park (3 schools I've never heard of)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnrhc15TyI

Would this be the same T.C. Williams as the one whose football team was portrayed in Remember the Titans?

quantumfootball wrote:Would this be the same T.C. Williams as the one whose football team was portrayed in Remember the Titans?

It would indeed.

DumbJaques wrote: I'm under the impression that Joe and the other (possibly hypothetical) dedicated James Island lack a coach like you who is dedicated to getting them to more and better tournaments and helping them raise the funds to do so, so the feasibility of this advice might be the bigger issue.

Chris, if you are referring to Mrs. Meek, the Head Coach at James Island, I can assure you, having known her for over 20 years, that she is an excellent Coach and certainly dedicated to getting her players to compete as much as possible. James Island has for many years competed in the best tournaments (and continues to do so) in our part of the country. I am unsure of the reason as to why you would make that remark without knowing the history of James Island's participation in tournaments over the years. I personally know that the school system James Island is in supports quiz bowl; however, the only school that competes outside their local tournaments is James Island. This is a result of Mrs. Meek's efforts and desires to build a nationally competitive quiz bowl program over the past 20 years.

jrbarry wrote:I am unsure of the reason as to why you would make that remark without knowing the history of James Island's participation in tournaments over the years.

I'm pretty sure Chris is referring to Meek's refusal to take JI to HSNCT and NSC, forcing them to go to NAC instead.

Sir Thopas wrote:

jrbarry wrote:I am unsure of the reason as to why you would make that remark without knowing the history of James Island's participation in tournaments over the years.

I'm pretty sure Chris is referring to Meek's refusal to take JI to HSNCT and NSC, forcing them to go to NAC instead.

Has JI been to more than just the 2007 HSNCT as national tournaments (obviously not counting NAC or ASCN) in its past?

Here are a few clips from my school's local TV competition that I just got around to uploading. Enjoy them in all their current events-filled, one-liner, meandering trivial glory. Also, I like to think I'm now a bit less....enthusiastic when answering than I used to be.

Lightning Round (all current events!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp9qv480o14
"Academic" Round vs. our main private school rivals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrX6d16e3xg

I'll post some more if I have the time to upload them.

Quiz Kids, the televised quiz bowl event for Northern California.
http://www.vimeo.com/album/70031/page:3

Here are some old quiz bowl videos:

1986 Wildwood, NJ Knowledge Bowl (sitting around a couch, and they only know 4 of the Big 10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr-dtuIy ... re=related

Here is a video of a 9th grade quiz bowl competition in Mankato, MN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIRQ73L ... re=related

Clip from McDonald's Quiz Bowl in Fargo, ND (with a Ronald McDonald sighting!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99yvy2_hJjw

scquizbowl wrote: Here is a video of a 9th grade quiz bowl competition in Mankato, MN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIRQ73L ... re=related

It should be noted that this isn't a 9th grade competition. This is a Minnesota Knowledge Bowl regionals. And yes, every team does get 15 seconds to answer.

Tidewater Challenge from WHRO, 1986 (Granby vs. First Colonial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5mmBxN ... annel_page

Granite State Challenge: Merrimack vs. Portsmouth Christian, early 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdNZ2T7V ... 8&index=24

A promo for High-Q, Riverwood vs. Norcross, 1987 (they showed this in primetime)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G954jQpc0vo

Some old Challenge from NJ, Millburn vs. Livingston, 1993:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYolZF2 ... re=related

WPSU's Scholastic Scrimmage, Bradford vs. Westmont-Hilltop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_JjWd2 ... re=channel

The Championship of Scobol Solo on Facebook. The lighting was bad so we could project the scores and timer behind the students.

JackGlerum wrote:I only posted this in the UChicago Regs thread, so here it is.

Chicago A vs. Minnesota A

Sorry to necro this, but the packet for this game seems oddly nonexistant.

We're really searching for videos.

Here is one of a tournament in the Kansas City area, the biggest tournament in the school's history, with 12 teams :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GIOixQFqas

Here's an It's Academic episode from 1983. It's much like what it is today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_83-7BFIE

Here's some WGAL BrainBusters from central Pennsylvania:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCP3uaNDl8

Searching youtube reveals that they've posted a bunch of rounds, possibly the entirety of the 2009 tournament. It hasn't changed much since I played the first season.

Charbroil wrote:

JackGlerum wrote:I only posted this in the UChicago Regs thread, so here it is.

Chicago A vs. Minnesota A

Sorry to necro this, but the packet for this game seems oddly nonexistant.

http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... regs09.zip

The Brown/Miami B Packet

Shcool wrote:The Championship of Scobol Solo on Facebook. The lighting was bad so we could project the scores and timer behind the students.

Hey...could you put this somewhere other than Facebook (youtube?). If this is the Solo I think it is, then I'd be interested in seeing what it looked like to the audience.

There used to a video of a CCHS Faculty vs. Faculty game (with questions by Jerry, Tony, and Paul) online, but I'm not sure what happened to it. There's also a regularly televised local scholar bowl show, Hi-Q, that CCHS plays in. I have a VHS of a game at home, and there are some DVDs at the school, but nothing online. Which is a pity, since Ben wrote all of our introductions.

The video was taken by Abid and posted by Lloyd. Contact the Auburn team if you want it in some other form.

At our 2010 FCCAA State "Brain Bowl" tournament this past weekend, Brevard Community College decided to broadcast every round. Here is a link to it. I would strongly advise watching Valencia, Seminole, or Chipola play, as the other teams struggled to convert a majority of the tossups.

Dorm bowl semis from this year, format: 30 minutes, 30 tossups, 10 sec after tossup to buzz and answer, correct for a 1-part bonus, 20 seconds after completed to answer. 10 pts for correct TU, 20 for correct bonus, -10 for incorrect interrupt TU. Video can be downloaded at: http://www.filesavr.com/p4280058

Here's the final round of a 1983 Reach for the Top game between Thunder Bay and Timmins.
Here's the final round of a 2009 Reach for the Top game between UTS and London Central.

See if you can spot the difference. Hint: it's a trick question.

I found a video from an It's Academic match from earlier this year, involving Thomas Jefferson vs. Maret and Sherwood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNFWVmwu ... re=related

http://www.powertolearn.com/challenge/region.php?id=1
http://www.powertolearn.com/challenge/region.php?id=2
http://www.powertolearn.com/challenge/region.php?id=3
http://www.powertolearn.com/challenge/region.php?id=4
http://www.powertolearn.com/challenge/region.php?id=5

The homepages for each of the 5 regions of this year's "The Challenge" You can get the videos from the link of the side conveniently labeled "View Episodes."

We're in the Long Island section, Region id=3 and we play St. Dominics, Elmont, and Mineola.

I have no idea how I managed to stumble upon this set of videos but here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/user/nhptvadmin# ... 5M9ODW-mt0

This is their most recent game, which is also the final. The new season will begin next fall: http://www.youtube.com/user/nhptvadmin# ... 5M9ODW-mt0

The game is called "The Grante State Challenge" and it features teams from across New Hampshire competing against each other for a monetary prize and a shiny trophy. The famed Phillips Exeter Academy participated last year, but I believe they couldn't participate this year due to regulations saying that a team can only play every other year. The game is most 2-3 sentence tossups combined with some painfully simple math tossups and sporadic elementary school spelling questions, but it's still fun to watch.

My former teammate at James Island, David, is one of the players on the Manchester Central team. Nice find. He was on the 2008 Brookwood video that I posted when we won that tournament.

This is apparently the NY state quizbowl championship, for what looks like middle schoolers: Does anybody know where this is from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IPPZwe5Xk8

http://www.wcmu.org/tv/quizcentral/qc_m ... ckOff5.mov

And now for something completely different............the "Kickoff Show" for the fifth season of WCMU's "Quiz Central".

There has been plenty of Quiz Bowl on TV over the years, insofar as "Quiz Bowl" started off as a television event (and then evolved beyond that).

I don't ever recall seeing a "Season review/upcoming season preview" type program included with the televised QB competition programming. Which makes the half-hour video linked above quite notable, not only for being the first of its type, but also, all things considered, being pretty well put-together.

I think some of the "highlight segements" could have included more of the tossup questions to give context to the answers being given, but the interview portions are quite interesting, and mixed in well with salient moments from the competition in the previous season.

This is the district Academic Games championship in UT, as this all leads up to a national tournament. They have actual time clocks like a real sports event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Quz3BUvoc

If any of you missed Terrill's Jeopardy viewing party at ACE camp, here is two videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv1SUyL2RTI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRblLQ6d2S4

They still have Public Library in NC (Davidson County), and here is a short video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VUm2V6LGQ&feature=fvst

scquizbowl wrote:This is the district Academic Games championship in UT, as this all leads up to a national tournament. They have actual time clocks like a real sports event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Quz3BUvoc

This appears to be from National Academic League, a.k.a. "quiz bowl-esque activity for sports fans and rules lawyers" (note the argument over whether a grammar question asking for the past participle is correct if the word "have" is/is not included).

I've been considering buying a rule book just to post some of the more hilarious NAL rules.

We're almost running out of videos, so we're going international today. Here's some school kids from Australia who bungle a question about wasps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZAR9JNONYo

Here's some quiz bowl from the Lehigh Valley (WLVT's Scholastic Scrimmage) from 1989. This is one of the cheesiest sets I've ever seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlfEwae ... re=channel

DeMatha, a school known more for basketball, wins on It's Academic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjjDlHcshHQ

Polk County Academic Tournament, from Florida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppunyGv0va4

scquizbowl wrote: Polk County Academic Tournament, from Florida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppunyGv0va4

The section from 1:24 to 1:53 really demonstrates how awesome this format is.

Yeah. Why do they need seven judges? One for each team?

They are subject judges.

scquizbowl wrote:
Here's another Brain Game, from WRAL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBxMQfmA ... re=related

OMG this is old. Not that Brain Game is a great example of quizbowl, but it's changed a bunch. Much more recent shows are here.

Eric

Here is a quiz bowl match, JV from Michigan, Saline vs. Pinckney. What match lets people walk in during the middle of it:

http://vimeo.com/8178771

This is the 2006 NC Public Library Championship, one of the last years it was viable. Hoggard (Cobra Kings) played Northwood.

http://www.podcast.tv/video-episodes/Fi ... 42018.html

Part of the Australian Grand Final for It's Academic, from Sept. 28.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30HN7OJRAnY

A clip from Whiz Quiz, way up in Western New York. Lame questions with an old host (who's on the New York Yankees?):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zShQEyMBnOs

This show has been on for 30 years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7rTDUqW ... re=channel

A story about an It's Academic team, Bethesda-Chevy Chase:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_AVEGb9Mc0

I believe I can probably find some videos of the Comcast Challenge in case anyone wants to laugh at what Henry Gorman looked liked when he was a sophomore

Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:I believe I can probably find some videos of the Comcast Challenge in case anyone wants to laugh at what Henry Gorman looked liked when he was a sophomore

Please!

Here's a episode of It's Academic from last week (Sherwood, Herndon and Flowers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRyJYsajj4

An Academic Bowl game from Linn County, MO in 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2oNox8InRU

The 1987 Varsity Quiz Bowl games have been reposted: (Thibodaux vs. Ocean Springs). This includes questions about whether numbers are odd or even, and the Ocean Springs team being disadvantaged by asking a question about Louisiana (they're from MS).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URx45xL14S0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii3ixvfk ... re=related

He also has videos from Nov. '86.

Rumors of Tri-state-dominating trivia game show The Challenge's death have been greatly exaggerated:
http://www.msgvarsity.com/tv-shows/the-challenge
Easy multiple choice and random Complete 180 categories abound.

scquizbowl wrote:The 1987 Varsity Quiz Bowl games have been reposted: (Thibodaux vs. Ocean Springs). This includes questions about whether numbers are odd or even, and the Ocean Springs team being disadvantaged by asking a question about Louisiana (they're from MS).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URx45xL14S0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii3ixvfk ... re=related

He also has videos from Nov. '86.

how in the world did they keep a straight face when being asked if numbers were odd or even? A 4 year old could have gotten that question.

Bay Area Quiz Kids. Make of it what you will.
http://www.quizkids.tv/Shows.aspx

TJ on It's Academic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI9TZun_oEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSMuAE8UxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RDz2fFnxc4