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- Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Prelim. announcement: NAQT HS NCT Open Mirror at UTC 6/20/09
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4280
Re: Prelim. announcement: NAQT HS NCT Open Mirror at UTC 6/20/09
I will be attending as well as a free agent. Does any team need an extra player? Otherwise I will team up with Harry. Hey David John, you might not remember me from your time at ASFA, but I was one of the players on the JV team while you were a senior. I'm currently on a team with Mark Morris (alum...
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Prelim. announcement: NAQT HS NCT Open Mirror at UTC 6/20/09
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4280
Re: Prelim. announcement: NAQT HS NCT Open Mirror at UTC 6/20/09
I will be attending as well as a free agent. Does any team need an extra player? Otherwise I will team up with Harry.
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Fall Southwest at OU, 11/8/2008
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1094
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Fall Southwest at OU, 11/8/2008
ACF Fall Southwest was held today at OU with a very small but dedicated field of teams. We would like to thank the Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy of Austin and Langston University for coming today. The Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy finished first followed by OU B. Full standings and stats are...
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8
- Replies: 47
- Views: 33219
Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8
The ACF Southwest Tournament at OU is still being held. We have 4 teams signed up plus two house teams. Only one team is submitting a packet (Langston). The rest are new to ACF. The teams attending are as follows: Tulsa Langston Central Arkansas Liberal Academy of Arts and Sciences OU (2 teams) Dav...
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8
- Replies: 47
- Views: 33219
Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8
The ACF Southwest Tournament at OU is still being held. We have 4 teams signed up plus two house teams. Only one team is submitting a packet (Langston). The rest are new to ACF. The teams attending are as follows:
Tulsa
Langston
Central Arkansas
Liberal Academy of Arts and Sciences
OU (2 teams)
Tulsa
Langston
Central Arkansas
Liberal Academy of Arts and Sciences
OU (2 teams)
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Fall Southwest at OU, 11/8/2008
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1094
ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Fall Southwest at OU, 11/8/2008
The Oklahoma Academic Team is excited to host the ACF Fall Southwest Tournament at the University of Oklahoma on November 8, 2008. Tournament Cost ACF Fee Structure applies ( http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acf/acf.html ): Base fee: $120 Buzzer systems: -$5 each Staffers: -$10 each Laptop: -$10 each (max ...
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DATE CHANGED: Boren Cup XXIV (4/26/2008) at OU (Norman, OK)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 838
Re: Boren Cup XXIV (3/1/2008) at OU (Norman, OK)
After cancelling the tournament this past weekend due to lack of teams, we have decided to instead postpone it until April 26. Details have been updated on the main post and our website. More information to come as the tournament date draws closer.
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: ICT Warmup @ OU- 4/5/2008
- Replies: 1
- Views: 985
Re: Announcement: ICT Warmup @ OU- 4/5/2008
The fee section has been updated on the main post. So far Mississippi State and Tulsa have expressed interest in attending.
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: ICT Warmup @ OU- 4/5/2008
- Replies: 1
- Views: 985
Announcement: ICT Warmup @ OU- 4/5/2008
The Oklahoma Academic Team will be hosting a mirror of Maryland's ICT Warmup on April 5th. If you have not read the threads concerning the other two tournaments involved, it will be a NAQT-style timed tournament using questions by Matt Weiner and Jerry Vinokurov written in the style and difficulty l...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DATE CHANGED: Boren Cup XXIV (4/26/2008) at OU (Norman, OK)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 838
DATE CHANGED: Boren Cup XXIV (4/26/2008) at OU (Norman, OK)
I invite all interested high school teams to attend Boren Cup XXIV, the semiannual high school tournament hosted by the Oklahoma Academic Team at the University of Oklahoma in Norman on Saturday, April 26, 2008. The registration deadline is Wednesday, April 23. This year, Boren Cup will use question...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Sword Bowl Mirror at OU - 2/2/2008
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1496
Due to Tulsa cancelling their registration just prior to the registration deadline and no other teams other than UTD expressing an interest in attending the tournament, we have decided to cancel our mirror of Sword Bowl. With only two teams from one school attending, we feel that there is not enough...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Sword Bowl Mirror at OU - 2/2/2008
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1496
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Sword Bowl Mirror at OU - 2/2/2008
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1496
Announcement: Sword Bowl Mirror at OU - 2/2/2008
The Oklahoma Academic Team will be hosting a mirror of UTC's Sword Bowl Tournament on February 2nd, 2008, a week after the main tournament and the same day as the Drake mirror. It is going to be a standard mACF-style tournament with the question difficulty aimed at novice players although all colleg...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moon Pie Mirror @ OU (4/28/2007)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4424
In regards to our games against Harding, in the first one Harding and we were going back and forth on the scores until the last two questions when they pulled ahead decisively. We were also aided by the question difficulty and a string of really easy bonuses for both sides were we were 30ing left an...
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
- Replies: 127
- Views: 59270
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
My random picks for the teams making state, based entirely on past impressions and the little snippets of info from this forum: Bob Jones Brindlee Buckhorn Grissom LAMP St. Paul's Baker Springwood ASFA Hoover Indian Springs Southside Russellville Muscle Shoals Florence Holy Spirit At least I got 11...
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
- Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
Hey Lee...does Bob Jones still have that asshole from last year that tried to start a fight with every team he played at NAQT State at Marion?...(they beat us by 300...just one of those matches...we were doing well in points...and they just smashed us...they were arguing with the reader about junk ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
The list has very few surprises on it, at least in terms of the teams I know more about. Three teams that made it to state last year did not qualify for Regionals (Bayside, Hillcrest, and Northridge), but not of those teams were among the top contenders there anyway. From my old district, the teams ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Movie
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12104
Apparently the movie is coming out in full release March 9 here in the States. Has anyone seen any other movies with Quiz Bowl depictions? The only ones I can remember are the QB/AD-esque game in The Day after Tomorrow, the College Bowl-like show in the Disney made-for-TV remake of The Computer Wore...
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: South SCT (02/10/07) hosted by Ok State
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16195
Well, after the 9 preliminary rounds, they had the top four seeded teams play each other in a round robin bracket along with having the other similarly lower seeded teams play each other in separate brackets. The fourth seeded team, Texas, lost all their games in the 4 team round robin and they had ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: South SCT (02/10/07) hosted by Ok State
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16195
- Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
- Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Stock phrases
- Replies: 34
- Views: 16075
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Embarrassing Answers/powers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7667
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
- Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
So how's the quiz bowl scene going in Alabama? I noticed the Hoover Invitational was held a couple of weeks ago and ISS won with LAMP in second. How'd y'all fair Lee, and was my former high school in attendance? If anyone cares to know, I'm now a member of the OU Academic Team and have been to a few...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What happened here?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6053
As the captain of the third place team in the tourament (2.5 Men) and the fourth highest scorer (Kareem-Abdul Murdock), I hope to shine some light on what happened. The format of the tournament rounds was 2 periods of 8 10-point tossups with 30 point bonuses plus powers, negs, and supernegs. The fir...
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
As far as Bob Jones...they may be good but honestly, who would ever want to play against that pompuous asshole they have returning. (pretty sure the asshole was a junior last year) He nearly started the first SB fight I have ever seen at Marion last year. He graduated last year and now attends UA, ...
- Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MTV uses HSQB show in commercials
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3044
- Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2006-2007
- Replies: 185
- Views: 81984
A little incentive to win ASCA State this coming year: After we won last spring, my coach worked with the state Department of Education to put together a financial package so that the state would pay for our trip. They did it so that it'd be available for future state champions to use for their trip...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowler in the New York Times
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23601
- Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
The buzzers are little plastic boxes with a single button on top that sit in the center of the table. The 4 team members sit around the table and all place a finger on a corner of the buzzer. The team also has two calculators, a periodic table, and a sheet of constants with them. Each of the three r...
- Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
Here's my overall take on the tournament that I posted in the Panasonic thread: ASFA had a wonderful time representing Alabama at Panasonic. We didn't particularly care for the format of the games, but everything else was very well done. Rounds: In the first round, we came in last mainly due to the ...
- Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The 2006 Panasonic thread
- Replies: 54
- Views: 28668
ASFA had a wonderful time representing Alabama at Panasonic. We didn't particularly care for the format of the games, but everything else was very well done. Rounds: In the first round, we came in last mainly due to the superb performance of Virginia and Colorado and also because of negs erasing a l...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The 2006 Panasonic thread
- Replies: 54
- Views: 28668
As a little warning, everyone make sure they bring their rain gear. Florida gets thunderstorms about every afternoon in the summer, and it looks like Alberto is forming in the NW Caribbean right now. The models are showing it hitting central to northern Florida around Tuesday. If it presents any ser...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: high school-to-college thread, redux
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5617
I know that as a HS coach I would like to know which college teams are active so that I can aid my players on future planning ... http://www.collegequizbowl.org/Maize/ This is the place to go to find out about that. I will be attending the University of Oklahoma, which has a pretty good team from w...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354961
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The 2006 Panasonic thread
- Replies: 54
- Views: 28668
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 145416
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:35 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Garnering Interest
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6101
Another thing that might help is using incentives to get kids to attend practice. I'd suggest offering free food and/or drinks (if your school allows that) at one or two practices to get people in the door. You could also ask your teachers to incorporate a buzzer system into their classroom activiti...
- Sat May 27, 2006 10:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
- Wed May 24, 2006 1:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
- Sat May 20, 2006 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
- Thu May 11, 2006 9:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic Representatives and All-State Teams
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16881
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
We'll just be attending Panasonic and not the others mainly because most of the team will be out of the country when the other tournaments take place, and the school should cover our expenses for it. I watched the DVD of the championship match they sent us, and the questions were as bad as I imagine...
- Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama '05-'06
- Replies: 452
- Views: 205308
Congrats to all y'all at Brindlee Mountain for being NAQT State Champions. I can't say that I'm surprised by the results; it looks like my law of revenge applied itself again (it states that a team will beat a certain team in the playoffs if they lost to them in the preliminaries). Well, now that al...