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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Does anyone have contact info for Moravian?

You can email me at [email protected], or facebook message me (Gordon McCambridge @ Moravian Academy '11).

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Moravian had our first practice yesterday. We return two from last year's HSNCT team. We're still not sure about our two other spots, but we had a nice turnout at practice and we hope to find two or more people to fill those spots. We will probably continue to play more in the NJ/NY area this season...

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Who won PAC?

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If it's naqt or similar, we'd be interested.

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Caesar Rodney HS wrote:Wait, Hunter didn't win? Or make the finals? How is this possible?

Dante (Bichette) wrote:Hunter will be bringing two teams, made up of fragments of the B and C teams.

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I think Moravian's in there. Can we see a field?

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Moravian sent a registration email, but never got any response. Did you get it/are you expecting us?

slimg · Re: Prison Bowl II (1/31/09) Will there be JV?

Will there be JV?

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Despite the fact that our exclusivity rules treat eastern and western Pennsylvania separately (to reflect typical travel and tournament-attendance patterns), NAQT still only has a single Pennsylvania championship. (And all Pennsylvania schools are eligible and encouraged to attend it.) Thanks for t...

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la2pgh wrote:If I remember correctly, Moravian and State College/Shady Side are in different "states"

Does this mean we are not allowed to attend a State Championship hosted in the western half of the state?

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Does anyone know where/when the (NAQT) Pennsylvania state championship will be?

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Is anyone going to the Penn Manor tournament?

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I'd be curious to see what teams showed up to this tournament. Are there results anywhere? Since it was only a scrimmage, we didn't make a big deal about getting results, and some of the scoresheets went missing. The field was: Stroudsburg (2) Jim Thorpe Pius X Freedom Salisbury Moravian (2) Schola...

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Last Saturday (9/27) we (Moravian) hosted a "scrimmage day" with some of our local schools. It was a good opportunity to introduce the other teams to the NAQT format, which none of them had played previously. Our showing looked promising, with both our A and B teams (teams were mixed, not ...

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Unfortunately, due to lack of interest, the Moravian Academy Quizbowl Team has had to cancel its MANIAC tournament. We appreciate the support of those teams who were interested in the tournament and we hope to be able to try again in the future.

slimg · Re: MANIAC (Moravian Academy) (9/27/08) Field Updated

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Caesar Rodney HS wrote:It's "Caesar Rodney" by the way.

sorry, my mistake

slimg · Re: MANIAC (Moravian Academy) (9/27/08) Field posted

Field posted

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Registered:
Bloomfield (0-2)
Charter (5-8)
Sailsbury
Freedom
Pius X

Interested:
Stroudsburg

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Invitations got sent out today to the local schools in our area. If you are not one of these schools and want to attend, just fill out the email application.

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Even though invitations have not been sent out quite yet, we are going to begin registration via email. To register, please send an email to moravianquizbowl@yahoo.com with the following form included in the email (copy/paste recommended). School Name: ___________________________________________ Num...

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Prices will be $50.00 for the first team $40.00 for each additional team $10.00 discount for each buzzer system brought to the tournament Registration will begin at 8:00 AM and the first round of play will begin at 9:00 AM Each team will be guaranteed roughly 6 preliminary rounds of play. A single e...

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STPickrell wrote:Another thing that a mid-level team might consider is getting an alumnus and/or other QB 'expert' to edit the house-written set.

What constitutes an expert?

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Our date has been reset to the 27th of September.

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Bradford both times ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastic_Scrimmage )

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I assume this is a local Pennsylvania competition? I've honestly never heard of it; mind edifying us on its format and such? Sure. They're two different competitions, one run by Lehigh Valley PBS and one run by State College PBS, each with different formats. Moravian competes in the Lehigh Valley c...

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Entering into the the new season of Scholastic Scrimmage, I wanted to open the discussion concerning this years competitions.

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Just to clarify- I don't have any problems with the Harvard tournament. I just knew the most about yours from our teams attendance, so I used examples from your tournament

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The quality of the field is not an unknown when teams start signing up, even if those teams coming have no control over the questions they will be asked. Just because the field of a housewritten tournament is strong, it doesn't mean that the tournamnet will be a good, fair one (ie Dorman A vs. Mora...

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I've just been notified that the tournament will not take place on the orginal date. It will still be in the fall, hopefully close to the orginal date. Actual date TBA.

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You bring up another problem with housewrites: assurance of quality for the other teams in attendance. Quizbowl teams are forced to make a huge commitment of time and funds in order to attend a tournament to which they have no assurances (ie Moravian or State College going to Yale, or, on a much lar...

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With housewritten tournaments becoming more and more abundant, I was wondering if they are truly better than buying questions from a company. It's obviously more lucrative for a team to do a housewrite, but can they provide the same or better experience than company questions? What are your thoughts?

slimg · Re: MANIAC (Moravian Academy) (10/25/08) Thanks

Thanks

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Does anyone know how to change the name of the thread now that we have an official name? I tried contacting the moderator but that was unsuccessful.

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The name of the tournament will probably be the Moravian Academy Northeastern Interscholastic Academic Competition (MANIAC).

(Don't think that because the tournament has "Northeastern" in the name, only northeastern schools can come. We just needed an N for the acronym)

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From personal experience, group practices are a mixed blessing for freshman (and other new players). Group practices show very quickly who can really play with the A-team, in my opinion, much more accurately than any test. Within the first week of practices, it becomes obvious who the strong newcome...

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Princeton's using IS-77, an odd number, so I think that IS-78 will be an A-level packet

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I was told 78A by the people at NAQT, but you do point out a discrepancy. I will look into that.

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We will be most likely be using IS-78A, if anyone was wondering which packet we will have.

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I forgot to mention, we're located in Bethlehem, PA. For those who aren't familiar with Bethlehem, it is 60 miles north of Philadelphia and 8 miles from the New Jersey border.

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Moravian Academy will be hosting the Moravian Academy Northeastern Interscholastic Academic Competition on October 25, 2008. We will most likely be using an NAQT A-level packet. Time and price are still being decided. We hope you will be interested.

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We did not get a single geography question all day. Also, for the first half of the preliminaries, all "pencil and paper ready questions" were chemistry, not math. I appreciate the effort of the Yale team, but it did not measure up to an NAQT packet set.

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2. THE QUESTIONS- I want to start out by saying that the semifinals packet was pretty good and the first round of the playoffs packet wasn't bad. But, the rest of the packets were just horrible. Some individual questions may have been alright, but for the most part, they were terrible. For example,...

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Are you expecting two Moravian teams?

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How do the jeopardy style questions compare in difficulty with those of NAQT?

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