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StPickrell wrote:I believe the outside exploits of noted poet J.J. Reddick should be remembered, as well.

That's something I'm pretty sure the entire UNC quiz bowl team can get behind.

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#3: Maryland Ballsy. I like Maryland; although I thought that was a bit too high a seed even for me, after looking at their schedule again I can more or less get behind this. Gotta have Clemson in over Florida State, though. Clemson has a 7-6 record in the ACC (once you give them the Duke games tha...

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I also did these ratings without access to CollegeRPI.com's in-depth stats. I am now a subscriber to their area, so I should be able to update things more often and with better numbers. I haven't been to CollegeRPI.com in a long while, so I don't know what they do or don't have, but Ken Pomeroy lov...

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E.T. Chuck wrote: (That's not really the case with Public Libraries Quiz Bowl unless you really want to experience sheer pain in quiz bowl.)

Just confirming that Dr. Chuck isn't kidding here. I shuddered a bit when he mentioned PLQB just now.

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A personal nitpick I had was with a particular question involving large floating objects, where I thought the answer that was provided was not broad enough (although I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss the exact question yet, not sure exactly what the policy on that is) If you're talking about ...

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Your Genial Quizmaster wrote:and a buzzer that started smoking

Come again?

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I'll save Sara a few seconds here:

UNC-
Sara Garnett
Brice Russ
Michael Buchanan
Graham Rowe

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Out of curiosity, does anybody know what's going on with NC's Panasonic team this year?

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While this topic has got me thinking about it, I'd like to give major kudos to the only two teams at ACF Fall Mid-Atlantic who had to drive more than an hour home (Maryland and South Carolina) for sticking around and playing a two-game final. Especially after playing 12 games over 14 rounds. But yea...

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Senate: Democrats 51 (plus Lieberman plus Sanders) Bernie Sanders? He's not trying to run for the Senate is he? You mean Jeffords right? He's running for Jeffords' soon-to-be-vacated seat, if I recall correctly. Also, would the Powers-That-Be change my last post so the url tag actually works? Sorry...

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I play fantasy everything else, why not. House: Dems 225, GOP 210 Senate: GOP 50, Dems 48, Sanders & Sore Loserman 2 Governorships: Dems 28, GOP 21, Governators 1 VA-Sen: Webb by 1%. I'm wary about this pick for a few reasons, but I don't really see Allen winning this. DC Mayor: I have no idea. ...

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Stats are now available at http://www.unc.edu/~rbruss/acfall06/ .

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Minnesota and Tampa Bay

Remaining: (Atlanta, Baltimore, Carolina, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Miami, New England, NY Giants, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, BYE)

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I tried to gauge interest for an ACC quiz bowl tournament last winter, but too many random issues came up; it eventually essentially turned into AWET. I have a feeling that an ACC tournament hosted in the Carolinas would have a decent shot, mostly because we've managed to remain fairly geographicall...

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Why the heck not:

Houston and Tennessee

Remaining: (Atlanta, Baltimore, Carolina, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Miami, Minnesota, New England, NY Giants, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa Bay, BYE)

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KilroyWasHere: St. Louis (2), Detroit (3), Oakland (5), Buffalo (6), Washington (6), Jacksonville (7). No byes left If you have this sort of stuff easily accessible, when you get a chance, would you mind letting me know where I used my second bye? I'm pretty sure I've recorded all my teams correctl...

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Yeah, we should get this going again. Here's some of my fun ones from practice this week, in a round from the 2006 DII ICT (which I hope is fine?):

Given: Legionnaire's Disease
Actual: Tornadoes

Given: Sebastian Janikowski
Actual: Chris Bosh

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10) San Diego
9) $Texas
8) New England
7) Florida
6) TCU
5) Washington State
4) New York
3) Baltimore
2) Georgia
1) Philadelphia

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10) Ohio State
9) Jacksonville
8) Virginia Tech
7) Oregon
6) Cincinnati
5) Texas Tech
4) San Diego
3) Utah
2) San Francisco
1) Chicago

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That's the same day as ACF Fall, so don't expect many college teams to be able to help volunteer, unfortunately.

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Cleveland and Philadelphia.

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cornfused wrote:Fine... Green Bay and Miami.

See? Nothing to it.

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Got my first knockout last week, might as well keep the streak rolling.

NY Jets and Detroit

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10) Cal
9) Arizona (Cardinals)
8) Navy
7) Connecticut
6) Indianapolis
5) Wake Forest
4) Notre Dame
3) Pittsburgh
2) Seattle
1) New England

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Well, that was a trainwreck of a day for me.

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10) Pittsburgh
9) Miami
8) Carolina
7) Illinois
6) Dallas
5) Central Florida
4) Denver
3) New York
2) Auburn
1) Florida State

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St. Louis and--might as well get this over with--New Orleans.

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10) Notre Dame
9) Colorado State
8) Chicago
7) Indianapolis
6) Texas Tech
5) Carolina
4) Ohio State
3) Baltimore
2) Minnesota
1) Jacksonville

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Arizona, Philadelphia

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Hooray for having a working computer again, even if I missed last night's games. Considering how much I know about college football, that's not much of a loss.

7) Notre Dame
6) Arizona
5) UNC
4) Miami
3) Memphis
2) California
1) Utah

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Sure, I'll play. Yahoo has a knockout league set up under slightly different rules, if that would make it any easier.

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The closest analogy that comes to mind is of the Polgar sisters (Judit Polgar and two others whose names escape me), who were taught chess extensively from a very early age and now rank among the top 10 female chess players in the world. Judit may still be #1, actually; I haven't kept up much with c...

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Does anybody know if Dwight Kidder's contact list is being updated for 2006?

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UNC is tentatively planning to hold the 2006 Tar Heel Cup on October 7th, but this date isn't official yet.

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Tarheel Cup will likely be in October, and if Duke is doing HSCS with me, we'd probably have to do it in November. The reason why I say this is because of the football schedules at both schools. Due to an unholy combination of our home football schedule and other schedule conflicts, we're currently...

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Congratulations!

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Finally , the AWET wrapup. My apologies for the delays. Complete stats are available at http://www.unc.edu/~rbruss/AWET/AWET_standings.html . I'd like to thank a host of people, including Chris Frankel, Chicago and anybody else who submitted a freelance packet that I'm overlooking; Dr. Emil Chuck, ...

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Matt Weiner went 10-0 and captured the individual scoring award, neg prize, and overall championship for AWET I. Virginia A and Maryland A took 2nd and 3rd and Eric Douglass (solo) and Leo Wolpert (UVA A) took the same places in scoring. More stats and a really long list of thanks and acknowledgment...

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Duke will be the 11th team for AWET.

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I need one more team to participate in AWET this Saturday to keep us at an odd 11. If I get a firm committment from a team to play by 11:59 PM today, I'll allow you to enter for the minimum fee of $50. This applies to interested local and/or previously-Duke-bound high schools, masters teams, and sch...

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Okay, after having one team express interest before ultimately being unable to join us, I'm back at square one. I'll be crossposting this like mad due to its urgent nature, so my apologies in advance. I need one more team to participate in AWET this Saturday to keep us at an odd 11; if I get a firm ...

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That's a pity that the Duke Academic Festival looks to be on the rocks this year; I remember it being one of the few high school tournaments my team did and having a good time, despite getting more or less creamed. NC State had to withdraw their registration for AWET Monday (for justifiable reasons)...

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I have no idea if UNC would be able to host something like that, but I imagine we would at the least have a few volunteers. I personally wouldn't be able to do the 22nd, though.

-Brice

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In case anybody's waiting to make sure this gets off the ground before emailing me, so far I have received definite or tentative interest from the following teams: South Carolina (x2?) VCU Wake Forest Maryland Virginia Tech (x2?) Considering I haven't heard back from a couple of likely suspects yet ...

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Out of curiosity, is there anybody on any of these teams looking at attending UNC this fall? I'm glad to hear the tournament went well, by the way--I meant to ask you all if you needed help with buzzers or moderating, but it completely slipped my mind. If you (or any other area schools) are having a...

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I apologize for the lateness in responding to Brice's email; I am hereby confirming that we are indeed going to be doing a packet swap with UNC. Sorry for any confusion. Considering the time it took for me to get everything together on our end, no apology is needed at all. Also, I forgot: the no-fe...

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Alright; I haven't gotten final confirmation from Jerry on this, but I'm going to go ahead and announce this so people can begin working on their packets. If I find out there are any changes that require a change in the tournament setup, I will post them ASAP. UNC's Carolina Academic Team is proud t...

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UNC is currently planning a mirror/packet swap of BUTT/Aztlan Cup (which we should be making an official announcement for in the next day or two) for the same day, but I think we're far enough away from each other that we shouldn't be dipping into each other's pool of prospective teams too much.

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This may be from a non-DI SCT packet, but the disconnect between my brain and my mouth was so great on this one I don't think I'm giving much away.

Wrong: Henry James
Right: Henry Adams

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