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Due to the loss of some teams from our small field due to the weather this weekend, our tournament will be postponed until an as yet determined date (hopefully in March). Thanks for your interest.

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For the VHSL Scholastic Bowl format, we have 30 toss-up questions per match with no powers and no bonuses. There is also a directed round of 10 questions to each time that can be bounced back and stolen. In SQBS, I used the Lightning Round option to track the directed round points for each team. Doe...

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The Blacksburg High Academic Invitational is moving from December 14, 2019 to January 18, 2020. The question set will still be NAQT: IS-186.

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We are moving our tournament to Saturday, January 18, 2020 with the hope to increase participation by not having our tournament so close to winter exams. While all schools are welcome, we strongly encourage participation by Virginia schools that are looking for a final tune-up before Post-Season Sch...

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Blacksburg High Academic Invitational on 12/14/19 using NAQT IS-186

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Blacksburg High School in Blacksburg, VA will host the fifth Blacksburg High Academic Invitational on Saturday January 18, 2020 . The tournament will be using NAQT's IS-186 for our question set. We will seek affiliation with PACE for qualification for PACE-NSC. The tournament will give teams a chanc...

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Blacksburg HS would like to register 3 teams. I sent an e-mail as well.

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We are actively seeking additional registrations for our tournament this Saturday, January 12. We would love to see you in Blacksburg on Saturday. If you are planning to attend, please make sure you let me know no later than Wednesday 1/9. However, we are also actively monitoring the potential for a...

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A registration form is attached to this post that you can use to register for the tournament. You may also e-mail me with the equivalent information.

We hope to see you in January.

BHS Invitational V 2019 Registration Form.pdf: (160.64 KiB) Downloaded 127 times

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THIS TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE FORECAST FOR SNOW THIS WEEKEND. WE WILL EXPLORE A POSSIBLE RE-SCHEDULE FOR A DATE LATER IN THE SPRING. Blacksburg High School in Blacksburg, VA will host the fifth Blacksburg High Academic Invitational on Saturday January 12, 2019. The tournament will be...

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Here are Virginia's relevant eligibility rules (which apply to the state's Scholastic Bowl competition.) From Virginia High School League Eligibility Rules Found at: https://www.pwcs.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Migration/Instructional%20Programs%20Curriculum/Health,%20PE,%20Driver%20Ed,...

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Blacksburg High School will host our fifth Blacksburg High Academic Invitational on January 12, 2019. The tournament will be a mirror of CAST. More information will be attached to this post when it becomes available.

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Blacksburg High School will be hosting the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational V on January 12, 2019. We will be mirroring CAST.

mithokie

Does anyone know which question sets that NAQT is using to build VHSL sets this year?

In other words, what question sets are VHSL teams prohibited from playing on during 2018-2019?

Thanks,

mithokie

According to the VHSL, the "First Level Deadline" is January 26, the "Next Level Deadline" is February 9, and State is February 23, presumably at William & Mary. Due to the VHSL's latest realignment, the "First Level" may consist of a Regional championship or an optional District one based on local...

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Also note that the preferred dates for VHSL competition are one week before the deadline dates, Regionals on 1/20 and Super-Regionals on 2/3 with States on 2/24.

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Metro Richmond Invitational 4 on LIMIT

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3457/

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Virginia Tech Winter on BISB

Prelims: http://neg5.org/t/4Jn-jtXte/stats/team
Playoffs: http://neg5.org/t/VkiSJ-IYl/stats/team

Remembering that this was on PACE-NSC rules, so that PPB numbers may be hard to use since I don't remember how Neg5 deals with bouncebacks.

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Region 3A-West
Champions: Cave Spring
Runner-Up: Western Albemarle

mithokie · Re: Virginia Tech Winter Tournament [BISB] 1/30/16 Can we get a field update?

Can we get a field update?

mithokie

Is it possible to add FB login? It would make it easier to get staffers to sign up the day of the tournament, rather than running around and making sure everyone registers ahead of time so that I know their usernames and can add them. I've never used mongoose, so I don't know how complicated gettin...

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Conference 32 had their tournament last night. Cave Spring took 1st with a 5-0 record, followed by Blacksburg at 4-1. Both teams advance to the Region 3A-West tournament on Feb. 6.

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SQBS Stats have now been posted on the tournament database page for the tournament.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3437/

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We used the Neg5 system for stats this weekend. It is a little buggy, but has great potential. Unfortunately the tournament database will not accept the html files produced by Neg5, so I have them linked below. I will type the info into SQBS later for the tournament database. Honaker dropped due to ...

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Also noted from BHAI in Blacksburg, VA this weekend: 1. When creating a new phase, it would be greatly helpful to have an option to carry games forward or not. Even better would be to have an option to specify which games to carry forward. In our format, we only carried forward games from prelims th...

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I am pleased to announce that we have gotten Platinum certification from PACE which means that the top 25% of our field will earn bids to PACE-NSC in Chicago, IL this year.

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Cody,

Will that still be on CALI, or will you be using a different question set for the Season Finale?

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Post Reserved for Field Updates. Field Cap (24) Field: (Teams - Buzzers - Staffers) (21/24 - 13 - 5) Chrsitiansburg (VA) (2 teams, 3 staffers) Tazewell (VA) (2 Teams, 1 buzzer) George Washington (WV) (1 team, 1 buzzer, 1 staffer) Rappahannock County (VA) (2 teams, 1 buzzer) Narrows (VA) (2 teams, 1 ...

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Blacksburg High School will be hosting a tournament on January 16, 2016. The tournament will be played on the Maryland Fall set. The tournament format will be played with some form of pool play followed by re-bracketed playoffs to ensure that all teams will get as many competitive and meaningful mat...

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Blacksburg will be mirroring Maryland Fall for our Blacksburg High Academic Invitational IV on January 16, 2016.

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Perhaps Blacksburg is cursed in selecting question sets this year. First HSAPQ announced they would not write a regular season ACF style set this year, and now Kirstin Strey has informed me that there will not be a SCOP Spring set this year. We are seeking other options at this point and will announ...

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You might be able to 3D print one if you have access to that technology.

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I liken the difference between the sports analogy and what we are talking about with quizbowl to the difference between many of our popular team sports and golf. Golf is a game of honor. The player is responsible for assessing penalties to her own card and to counting her own strokes and signing the...

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Is this tournament happening? Is there a field update? I sent a registration e-mail 2 days ago, but have not gotten a response.

mithokie

Blacksburg will be mirroring SCOP Spring on 1/16. Also some of the NAQT sets have been decided according to NAQT.com . I see VCU on 10/17 as IS-148 New Kent on 11/21 as IS-149A Johns Hopkins on 10/3 as IS-149A Centennial(MD) on 11/8 as IS-151A Georgetown on 10/31 as IS-150 UVA on 11/14 as IS-150 VCU...

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Most VHSL districts and/or conferences use the HSAPQ supplied VHSL questions for regular season play. There are a few districts that use archaic formats for their regular seasons and that is a problem. Another problem is that the volume of play form VHSL varies widely from school to school. At my pr...

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Blacksburg will not be using an HSAPQ set for the BHAI in January. We are saddened to learn that HSAPQ will not produce a 20/20 set next year, as this set typically gave VIrginia teams an extra opportunity to play HSAPQ produced toss-ups before VHSL competition. We will seek to mirror a 20/20 set in...

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Not complaining, just wondering if there was a way to decrease the number of unequal record matches. I understand that there may not be. With the Maggie Walker match that you just cited, I now count at least 4 matches where High Tech A played with a record 1 better than an opponent. Is there a reaso...

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Interesting, High tech was our 4-0 opponent when we were 3-1. So, they played at least 3 games where they were playing a teams with a worse record. This policy of matching up teams with uncertain records does make it easier to determine how many even-record matches there will be in a given round, bu...

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We missed playoffs due to losing 5 games in prelims. What I say next is not meant to complain about the system just because it worked against us. We were the only 3-1 team that had to play a 4-0 team. We also had the unfortunate luck of drawing a 6-2 team when we were 5-3. We played 4 teams that end...

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Let me say this as the PPB guy: PPG is better for seeding within one tournament site. Most tournaments seed based on PPG (if they're not playing off ties) when teams come from the same bracket, but PPB when teams come from different brackets due to the unequal schedules. With the card system, teams...

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Blacksburg High School would like to claim January 16, 2016 for the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational IV, possibly on HSAPQ's 20/20 set.

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How does the distribution for HSNCT differ from IS sets. I know that there are not computation TU at HSNCT. Do those questions all go to math?

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Congratulations to Cave Spring A for winning the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational III on Saturday March 14, 2015. Christiansburg A forced a final match at the end of the playoff bracket by getting 4 of the last 5 toss-ups including 3 powers to erase a 65 point deficit and win by 20. In the fina...

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Playoffs are happening now. Cave Spring A and Christiansburg A are in contention for the championship and Cave Spring B and Cave Spring C are competing for the 3rd place trophy.

The Complete stats are being updated below.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _complete/

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KIPP Pride dropped Friday morning, and we added a house team to keep the field at 8. We are running a full round-robin for prelims and splitting to 2 groups of 4 for playoffs. Stats are being updated as the tournament progresses and are linked below. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2696/sta...

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Any schools that are interested in competing at our tournament on Saturday need to make contact with me about registration no later than Wednesday to ensure your spot in the field. I recognize that the SAT on Saturday may be keeping some teams from making the trip this weekend. With that in mind, we...

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We are under two weeks away from out tournament. Registrations are beginning to come in. Please don't miss out on this opportunity to compete on the pi day of the century in Blacksburg.

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Much of this information is available on NAQT's website here: http://www.naqt.com/hs/state-organizations.html Many of the organizations on that page do not promulgate good quiz bowl. We should have a list in hsquizbowl that exclusively points to organizations dedicated to high quality competitions....

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I thought I could jumpstart this by providing links below. If you know of links to any state specific message boards or sites, please respond to this post and I will add them to the list. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California *****Northern California *****Southern California Colorado Connecticu...

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