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Normally we would be all over this tournament, but i think the Delaware NAQT championship is going to be held on this day (i sure would like some certainty though). Sorry we can't come; best of luck.

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Due to my inability to secure mirrors, and the relatively small number of packets submitted to this tournament, it is being postponed until the Spring. Pending final discussion with the Maryland leadership, the target date is May 5th. Hey, is this still happening? On May 5? Is there going to be an ...

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Did absolutely anyone expect Christianburg to be anywhere near as good as they are this year? This is the surprise team of the season. I can't name a more underrated (or ignored) team. 23ppb is really really good on this set, which we heard last week and was not very easy. Notably, that conversion w...

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Pushkin's Beard wrote:GDS would like to tentatively claim May 19th for a housewrite.

What kind of housewrite is this going to be? Solely by GDS? Collaborated with other schools? We're interested in this as it's the only thing in May we'd have the opportunity to attend, other than (hopefully) Nationals.

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Leucippe and Clitophon wrote:coaching

What does that mean exactly? Their coach is not allowed to attend? Or is not allowed to give any "coaching" during the day?

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I'm going to bring CR's buzzer set and help out for moderating (or whatever else is needed) for this tournament. If there's anyone else in the tri(quad?)-state area that has buzzers they can bring, or (to a lesser extent) moderating skills they can provide, the Charter kids would really appreciate t...

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Any update on the set progression and editing? I hope it's been checked and verified by a trusted third party by this point, or will be soon.

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Just a little: both of Dhruv's negs were really from Akil, in the Longfellow and Concord B games.

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I'm thinking Mannheim didn't really have 13 negs against RM A.

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This tournament was fun. The ending was a little haphazard as teams were in random rooms for the final placement games, that many teams didn't know was happening at all. A little miscommunication there, or lack of communication i guess. Otherwise the day went fine, other than the long lunch/pizza de...

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List of villages in West Virginia wrote:Are the fields above final? I count 21 and 17... how are we going to bracket those?

Has this been resolved? Or updated?

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Really, just as was NOT done by TJ earlier this year, tournament directors need to obtain phone numbers from every coach and call them if a tournament is cancelled. Note that i think this is really not going to happen tomorrow as the chance of any snow is miniscule, and the snow we may get will turn...

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Are the fields above final? I count 21 and 17... how are we going to bracket those?

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Not that it will get us in the rankings, but we were down our second-best and "science" player at GDS last weekend. This weekend at Charter, we'll again have three-fourths of our top team, but i think we have the two or three best players so it might not matter a lot.

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I suspect we'll want to make groups of 5 or 6 and do five rounds in the morning as usual. (If, say a 19th team happens, probably a partial round robin.) In the afternoon, and if I draft the most efficient moderators for the top group, do you think we could do a five-round playoff round robin, follo...

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How are those stats looking? They appeared to be mostly complete during the tournament, with a couple kinks to be worked out.

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Rice A's PPB numbers for their first game against Texas A look a little funny.

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Notice: Whitman is really really good. These questions were pretty solid too. Thanks to HSAPQ for the first set we've heard from them this year. I'm sure the one we run in April will be great too. GDS did a good job running this. I was happy to help out. My girls had a nice time, even though we feel...

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Incredibly, we will now be bringing only 1 varsity and 1 junior varsity team to this tournament. This is the fewest we have brought since i've been a coach of this team... 6 years. Also, what an absolute joke it is that no other Delaware school is going to this competition. This is the state of Dela...

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George Mason graduated Asher and their second best player I believe, so I doubt that they will be contenders, although it is possible if no other team steps up. I don't think that they've showed up to any non-VHSL tournaments, which lends credence to the belief that they've graduated those members,...

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Maggie Walker A 780, St. Catherine's 0 St. Catherine's: Quentin Robbins 0 0 0 0, Emma Robbins 0 0 0 0, Joseph Burris 0 0 0 0 Maggie Walker A: Sarah Angelo 0 0 0 0, Greg Tito 0 6 0 60, JR Roach 0 3 0 30, Tommy Casalapsi 0 11 0 110 Bonuses: St. Catherine's 0 0 0.00, Maggie Walker A 20 580 29.00 twent...

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I would consider perhaps doing writing in middle school or college (more likely middle school) when i have a little more time. Anyway. I was reading through ACF Fall 2010 packets for practice with the kids the other day, and i came across this absolutely excellent bonus. 22. This group of primates i...

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There is no chance that we will bring the 5 teams i originally signed us up for. The combination of this tournament being moved, the state Winter Track championships, Swimming conference finals, and All-State Chorus (all of those three happening on the same day, February 11th) destroyed our teams fo...

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For the purposes of bracketing, i guess, we'll be missing our second-best player/"science player" for this tournament.

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We've sent in a registration e-mail for this. But, because of the comments in this thread please fix this set before we attend this tournament using these questions in 4 weeks. If i do not hear about significant edits, improvements, and alterations - and hear them from objective observers somehow - ...

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I'll update the field here, in time: Registered (16 teams, 13 buzzers, 1 moderator?): [/b] Haverford (PA) - 1 team Easton (MD) - 1 team Phoenixville (PA) - 1 team Georgetown Day School (DC) - 2 teams, 3 buzzers Perry Hall (MD) - 1 team, 1 buzzer Glasgow (DE) - 2 teams Thomas Jefferson (VA) - 1 team,...

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This is the announcement for the third annual Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl, at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware. We're located just southwest of Dover, less than an hour south of Wilmington, and approximately two hours east of the DC metropolitan area. The tournament will be held on April 2...

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jonpin wrote:More like KEEP CALM AND CONSISTENTLY UNDERRATE TEAMS THAT START WITH A 'K'.

Caesar Rodney starts with a "C," Jon.

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Logins don't seem to work in Firefox. I have no trouble with Chrome though. EDIT: Nope, nevermind, i can't log in under Chrome either. I click the login box and it's somewhat like it's not even letting me click it to do that. I only got in yesterday because i created an account and logged in immedia...

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"Pseudo-history," like "pop history." Johnny Appleseed, "football," "fireworks," non-academic clues, a bonus series about fashion and accessories. Stuff like that. I get why they're there, but my kids don't really care for them. I'll try to encourage the youn...

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"Pseudo-history," like "pop history." Johnny Appleseed, "football," "fireworks," non-academic clues, a bonus series about fashion and accessories. Stuff like that. I get why they're there, but my kids don't really care for them. I'll try to encourage the young...

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THIS. This was exactly the problem in our subregion as well, as i found nothing in November to attend, one tournament in December to attend, and one tournament in October to attend. Now suddenly there are so many competitions that almost every single week is full of something in a 200-mile radius f...

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I do not agree that there has been tournament proliferation. For me, the real problem is an imbalance in the schedule. SJHS has not played a full regular set since Harvard, the 2nd Saturday of November. We only went to 4 tournaments from September to New Year's Day. Besides Princeton, no NJ tournam...

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CR would be unable to attend.

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Unbelievable.

Also, possibly sending a phone message to teams would have been a good idea, as i did not know/check this until right now. Thanks.

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Tommy Tutone 2 wrote:Is this blacked out in protest of SOPA too or does my internet just suck?

Considering this link is posted on that page, yeah, it's probably "in solidarity" or something.

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The last two years HSAPQ has made additional sets out of their VHSL material. I don't know if they will do that this year or not. Through the grapevine, no, this is apparently not happening this year. An HSAPQ representative can say it for sure. I would have liked to have known this earlier, as we ...

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That works when you have a pretty good sized field. Considering the last tournament we attended at RM had a total of 10 teams playing (including a solo player and a house team), it's probably more important to just get more teams to come to this tournament than worry about giving great teams more co...

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Apparently this is the last HSAPQ set being produced this year. So, if we use it at Rider Bowl III, i apologize to St. Anselm's in particular who i guess won't be able to make it.

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A solo player seriously scored 168 points per game on this set? Shoot.

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East Africa's Maasai people and North Africa's Tuaregs were, until recently, ethnic groups that were constantly on the move with no settled residences. For 10 points each-- A. Give the anthropological term for such peoples. answer: _nomad_s or _nomadic_ peoples or _nomadism_ B. Nomads are contraste...

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nadph wrote:If anyone hasn't seen it before, this thread may be relevant.

Nikhil, thanks for that link. I hadn't seen that before. It's an interesting discussion but it doesn't necessarily work for the high school game. It gave me a few other ideas though.

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the answer lines of HSAPQ questions ... for Anthropology For comparison, here is a list of the anthropology answers for the 2010-11 NAQT IS sets (#96-#105): barter, Ruth Benedict, burial, childbirth, chimpanzees, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Coming of Age in Samoa, Easter Island, Friedrich Enge...

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I agree that bonus parts is one answer; another would be to ease up on the "author-title-factoid" approach and spend more time discussing key concepts. That, in case it wasn't clear, was the main idea of my post. It's silly that my team can 30 practically every Anthropology bonus in regul...

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I've been a Social Studies teacher now for 6 years, and i've taught a multitude of subjects: survey-level World History for 9th grade, U.S. History in 10th grade, Economics, Government, a semester focusing on the Civil War and Vietnam War, World Geography, and AP U.S. History. However this year is t...

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It's been my rule of thumb after 6 years of moderating tournaments that it's better to be extremely lenient with pronunciation. Sure, the quizbowl elites (TOP TEAMS) will say that it's better for a player to just learn the answer after getting it wrong, but i fervently disagree. I've seen young play...

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If this podcast thing happens, it'll make it easier to fill one of these things out. I just haven't seen a lot of great teams play this year so i have virtually no firsthand information.

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Remaining spots are limited and preference will be given to more competitive teams. This strikes me as remarkably unfair. Teams that wish to play good QB should be given every opportunity to play good QB, even if that is at a detriment to "better" teams. Additionally, while it is one thin...

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So it's not looking good for Delaware hosting an NAQT state championship. No one has stepped up, and i'm not sure if our school can host it (plus, as silly as this will sound to the rest of the country, teams will not be willing to drive 45-60 minutes to our school, and since basically all the teams...

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Really i just asked because of George's poll. Relax.

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