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or BDAT. Just chiming in here to say that the BDAT editors did indeed realize their tournament was far too hard, and have enlisted my help in editing their set for next year which should be completed in the Fall (we are shooting for October). Sounds like somebody remembers that i'm the guy that com...

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Great.

So i never got a hold of Haverford despite actually calling their coach's house (don't ask).

And Walter Johnson just dropped out. So i have no idea if we'll have 15 or 14 teams tomorrow.

Anybody want to bring another team? Or any school want to show up to this?

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A couple schools, namely Haverford, i have not heard from in a month or two. Please respond or expect me to track down a phone number at your school and bug you Friday, especially Haverford as you signed up for the Blue Hen Invitational and did not show up to that tournament in March. And notably a...

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A few people did not respond to the e-mail. It is likely that the Delaware State e-mail service will be completely down on both Friday and Saturday (unfortunate timing) so please respond tonight, or please write to my personal address, andrewchrzATgmailDOTcom to confirm your attendance and give a ph...

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Okay, we can definitely go. I'll e-mail shortly. Thanks for hosting this tournament on what will be an excellent warm-up for Atlanta.

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The official e-mail was just sent. If you did not receive a copy and are coming on Saturday, please let me know.

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Okay, looks like 15 is our final field unless i get a last minute registration today. I will take them up to about 5pm. Otherwise, we'll figure out a scab team of younger CR players to fill out the field. I'll draw up the brackets and get out a mass e-mail tonight. Thanks to everybody for signing up...

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We're stuck at 15 teams at the moment, so we would love another one to sign up. Please do, by Wednesday. I am sending the official You Are Coming To This Tournament e-mail Wednesday night, so that's your last chance.

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Sorry to hear that Anderson. This wasn't a weekend that would have worked for us, otherwise we'd have made the drive up since you came down to us last year.

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What's the goal for the length of these questions? I don't want to get out of control here. But in 10-pt. TNR font... like, around 7 lines at most?

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Alright let's start talking about bonus questions. Round 1 Lascaux-Chauvet-Paleolithic - Kudos for putting in some answers that never come up in quizbowl. But, yikes, the first two are real hard. I teach an Anthropology class and i don't even make them know those cave names. Honestly, just asking fo...

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I'll let you know Joe. I really appreciate your offer.

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We may need moderator help at this tournament by the way. I counted on at least somebody bringing a competent moderator but literally no teams are bringing any coach who has volunteered to do this. Why is that, by the way? I volunteer at every tournament we ever attend, and i would do it without any...

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Okay, last reminder about this tournament. We're at just 12 teams now, but can probably handle a few more. If i don't have a registration e-mail by Wednesday morning, you're not coming. It's that simple. Everyone who does register will get a mass e-mail by that evening with additional information, d...

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I will ask this again, for what feels like the 5th or 6th time. Is GDS holding a tournament on May 19th? If so, is it being run on the NAQT DII set? If so, please post an announcement for it and confirm the whispers through the grapevine that are all i've heard so far. We would love to play this tou...

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Pressure is a form of stress, and ought to be promptable at least due to the clue about the bulk modulus (though I neglected to include that prompt; it has been added for future tournaments using the set). Ah, that sucks. I was reading to my own team who buzzed and said "pressure" in the ...

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RyuAqua wrote:So what if the trash tossup is last?

It really just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I read a game that went down to the last tossup and, eh, i guess since i hate trash so much, it was tough to swallow a great game ending on that question.

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I always feel like a whining, complaining idiot who just isn't as smart as a bunch of 17-year-olds in these sorts of threads, but once again i just think certain tossups were too difficult to be tossed up. I only have the first 10 rounds of this set, but here's what i noticed. I'm only commenting on...

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This was a well-run tournament. Any time that CR can be home from a competition after 10 games at just barely after 6pm, that's pretty awesome, considering we always have the longest drive of anybody. That's because of good moderators, a small field, and a bunch of good teams getting lots of questio...

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It really depends on the field. If you have a bunch of schools that are part of the elite quizbowl cabal (that sounds a lot more menacing than i intended), then i'm sure they know what a neg prize means, and that it's just supposed to be a silly fun thing. But if you've got a lot of new teams, or yo...

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So, hey, this tournament is in a week, and SIX schools have proclaimed interest but have refused to confirm or deny their attendance. Suggestion: say you're coming! We have plenty of room. I'm going to make Wednesday the final day for any changes or additions to the field. That's the day i will be s...

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A shame man. Keep up the good fight. Delaware knows your pain.

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Stop complaining about things being too easy. Quizbowl tossups are not written for solely TOP. TEAMS. and this is a good thing, or tournaments would have even less than 12 schools attending them.

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A few more registrations have happened, but we would love a lot more. Anybody coming to St. Anselm's tournament, why don't you hop on over to Delaware next weekend for more good quizbowl? My school e-mail appears not to be working, so if you'd like to register, you can use my other address instead: ...

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Just another reason why using timers invites gamesmanship and twists of the rules, and should be used in as few situations as possible.

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A small field for sure, but a seriously stacked one. The playoff bracket is going to look like a mini nationals event. Cool. Should be a great day next Saturday.

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1) Host a middle school event every year. I make sure I get face time with our middle school feeder school teams every year as host of the state Middle School Championship. It is a lot of extra work, but we make about $1000 on the event after snack and t-shirt sales, and the kids know who I am as a...

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Josh, your post is awesome and has lots of great advice, as well as a mature and flexible attitude that coaches need to possess. But this: We do, however, have 35 people regularly coming to practice and enjoying themselves. Wow, holy crap. CR is a school of 2000 kids and we struggle to get more than...

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I'm wondering why, Fred, you take the time to list the over PPG of each team for each tournament. This statistic is a highly dubious one to compare any teams. If you look at CR's PPG, you'd assume we just can't score a lot per game, but that's because we keep qualifying for the playoffs in these tou...

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For the record, the Constitution and its constituent parts are not laws. Really? This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the la...

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At the past two tournaments or practices I've gone to, I have gotten questions based off school names from this forum. For example, I read a sample NHBB packet and got a question about the state quarter with Caesar Rodney on it because of that school being on this forum. Sweet. The art teacher at o...

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I'm interested in this, if that's okay. I'd like to write questions, and i might play. Can i decide later if i'd like to participate? I can start writing tossups though.

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Our first team from Delaware officially registered! Thank you Glasgow High School, yet another school playing in their first pyramidal tournament ever. It's going to be exciting seeing so many new teams at our competition.

Sign up, everyone else, as soon as you can!!

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This tournament is in three short weeks. I sure hope more teams sign up, including that list of interested ones. We'll have plenty of staff for a larger field!

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CR's captain, Alexa Andaya, has been accepted at and will attend Stanford University. She's been playing quizbowl for 4 years and is pretty good, but might be intimidated by the college quizbowl scene. I've encouraged her to give it a shot though if she can, so i hope she does.

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Okay. We'll come to this with a team, buzzer, and myself. I'll send an e-mail shortly.

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This was a fun tournament with good people all around. Thanks for hosting, TJ kids. As always, it's a pleasure of mine to help out. I enjoy moderating here every time. These were good questions. But rounds did begin to get harder after lunch. I'm not sure if this was written this way on purpose, but...

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With 18 teams registered, the schedule will be as follows: Teams will be divided into three brackets of six. Each bracket will play a five-game round robin. Teams will then be redivided into another three brackets of six by taking the top two teams from each bracket and grouping them together, then...

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Is this tournament running paperless? Should i bring my laptop if you need another one?

See you tomorrow morning. Thanks again for letting us sign up. I hope it doesn't mess with the schedule too much.

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Mount Pleasant's coach e-mailed me (after not responding to about 4 or 5 of my e-mails in the last two days) the same thing that you got. I was under the impression that Concord had signed up, when they hadn't. I was also under the impression that Mount Pleasant would have two teams, when apparently...

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A regular B and C Team member of CR, Jalisha Braxton, is going to Princeton as well. She might be interested in playing casually there. Another B Team member (and occasional A Team replacement), Rachel Grunden, will be headed to Haverford. Again, i think she might be interested in playing there as w...

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We can come to this, and i have my group that wants to do it. If we signed up at the 17th team, we don't want to screw things up, but if John and his kids want to join with someone else to keep it at 16 when we jump in, that's great. Let us know if you would rather have CR there or not. We'll come i...

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Sorry that we registered so late, my school's always kind of late on these things, and I'm the only one with an account on the forums. Nobody seems to want to sign up, including our coach. Is it possible to reschedule this for a later date? Concord has an interest in hosting. We were going to call ...

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Nevermind. This tournament was cancelled about a half hour ago with no prior notification or notice. Let's hope we get our money back for the bus we had to charter.

Thanks everyone for your lack of interest.

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The Delaware NAQT tournament was abruptly and surprisingly cancelled about a half hour ago with no warning. This is the state of Delaware quizbowl. Is it too late to sign up for this tournament? I will officially register this later afternoon or evening once i have word from the girls that they can ...

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I also hope it's tacitly assumed here that the person recording the match has gotten the permission of all parties involved to do so. I've seen instances in the past (mostly by overeager parents in high schools) of folks recording without even letting the moderator know. It's just as important, by ...

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As i mentioned before, this tournament is in serious need of help. We need competent moderators and buzzer systems. I'm trying to locate all i can (including contacting CR alumni) but there's only so much i can do when it's a tournament my school isn't even hosting. If you're in the area and availab...

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What sets did you think you're doing to use? A college set? Something else just not heard in this region?

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We have to clear everything with our coach first and business office first, and since it's a bit late in the season, a lot of people have prior commitments already, and I'd have to gauge interest first before we can do anything and see if we can get drivers too. I know for sure all of A team (me in...

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This is just an idea but if you want more team diversity you could invite some of the local middle school teams. Some of them are really good and could give some of the high school teams a run for their money. It's a bit late but maybe a couple more dedicated teams from schools the Independence and...

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