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Field (48/48) Glasgow (KY) A Glasgow (KY) B Glasgow (KY) C New Haven A New Haven B Sullivan A Sullivan B Sullivan C Montgomery Co. Hallsville A Hallsville B Hallsville C Mexico A Mexico B Houston A Houston B Palmyra A Palmyra B Oakville Parkway South A Parkway South B Fatima A Fatima B Hermann A He...

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This is also posted on the MO Message Board . As I don't deal with updating on this board often, any changes in the field will show up on there long before it does here. Coaches, I am happy to announce the 5th Annual Washington High School Invitational Tournament (WHIT V) on December 7th, 2019. It ...

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Could I see the bonus on "Sumer is icumen in?" (I think it's round 1).

I can't remember what the other two parts were. There weren't many 0's on bonuses in the room I read, and that one in particular stuck out to me.

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We're planning on running out for hot dogs and ice cream, and maybe look at the FLW stuff out in Oak Park. I don't know when we'd all get back, but if this is still going when we do, count me in.

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Offering a decently-sized discount to organizations that can bring staffers, ideally one or more of the best staffers in their state, could help alleviate some of that need.

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Louisiana A defeated Hallsville A in the first game of the final to take WHIT IV. Fort Zumwalt North A defeated STL Patriots to take 3rd. Full stats can be found here . This tournament always takes a massive effort from a lot of people. Big thanks to: WHS and WMS Team members, James Collier, Katlynn...

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I've gotten points before from having listened to Slate's Whistlestop podcast, hosted by John Dickerson. The early episodes are much more history-focused, but now it's more about "lessons from history and what they can imply moving forward."

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What I focus on in reading is establishing a flow - keeping moving from tossups to bonuses without having to shuffle a ton of papers, etc.. That, and eliminating "down time" goes a long way to making a game move quickly. If you have to move papers around or have to uncover your scoresheet, it gives ...

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After realizing that 36 teams is a much better schedule than 32, I've moved the cap to there.

And...we're full.

I need to check with some possible other moderators' availability before I expand the cap, but it will most likely happen. Teams that register now will be put on the waitlist.

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Field (36/36) Sullivan A Sullivan B Hermann A Hermann B Hallsville A Hallsville B Hallsville C Montgomery Co. Oakville Rolla New Haven A New Haven B Calvary Lutheran A Calvary Lutheran B Palmyra A Palmyra B Eureka Houston A Houston B Orchard Farm A Orchard Farm B Orchard Farm C Arcadia Valley St. J...

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Coaches, I am happy to announce the 4th Annual Washington High School Invitational Tournament (WHIT IV) on December 1st, 2018. It will be held at Washington High School, at 600 Blue Jay Drive, Washington, MO, 63090. The tournament will be in the 20 Tossup/20 Bonus format. We will be using “Powers,” ...

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I'm interested and will be there.

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Specifically for Psalms, there are no other Biblical texts that people would write music for Well, there's the Gospels - Passions, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis . Really any Canticle - which is by definition a song not from Psalms. Steve Reich changed style by setting one of these texts in uneven meter...

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Missouri B should include Ben Husting from Helias.

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That's a fine place to start. Just remember Rule #1 - It has to be fun . That's fun in the sense that watching TV is fun. Not fun in the sense that "you get that feeling of satisfaction after working at a goal" kind of fun. He won't be there, not at that age. As long as he's in the mindset that "lea...

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NSC (PACE) offers more bang for your buck as far as: 1 - Number of games. You'll play at least 18 matches that count towards your final placement. HSNCT's format guarantees you only 10. 2 - Level of competition. At least one of those games, no matter who you are, will be against somebody in the top ...

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Not that it matters much for this, but just to clarify for anyone else wondering - WHIT is Washington High School's tournament, not Washington University. The two schools are about 45 miles apart and are not affiliated with each other, other than regularly providing great staff for each other's tour...

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I came up with something for that, once. I like making sure that the top 2 from each bracket proceed out of prelims, just in case I seeded it all wrong. Prelims: 7 groups of 6. Playoffs: Top 2 of each bracket, plus 2 wild cards (however you determine those) - snake seeded into 4 groups of 4 for roun...

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I complained after the first round. Compared to using StatsLive or something like Neg5 (which I still haven't done), digging around in a spreadsheet after trying to read at speed and keep a game from dragging is pretty tough. There were big gaps of time in that game just to accommodate my having to ...

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We have hit our initial cap. Our move to the high school building gives us the room to expand if needed, but I'd need to verify on staffing numbers before I go that far. Further signups will go onto the waitlist for the time being.

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Teams (48/48) Wellsville-Middletown Central (St. Joseph) Hallsville - 2 Southwestern Piasa (IL) Pilot Grove - 2 Parkway North Hannibal - 2 New Haven - 2 Calvary Lutheran - 2 Holt Parkway South - 2 Clever - 2 Houston Sullivan -2 Orchard Farm - 2 Hermann - 2 Eureka Oakville Tuscumbia Cuba - 2 Rolla F...

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Coaches, As it's a bit way down this spiel, I'm including another link to the registration form here. I am happy to announce the 3rd Annual Washington High School Invitational Tournament (WHIT III) on December 2nd, 2017. It will be held at Washington High School, at 600 Blue Jay Drive, Washington, M...

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The market for the hazy gap between SCOP, MSNCT and high school regular is pretty full for this season at this point, (WHAQ II, DEFT, SCOP, SOLON, etc.) and that's where this set sounds like it's headed. Guaranteed 1/1 Chemistry and 1/1 Physics doesn't sound at all like a middle school set. NAQT doe...

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I'm confused. Is this in addition to, or a replacement of this set?

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I need a teammate. I'm much better at older stuff than newer. Could use someone who knows newer music/movies/how to keep me from falling asleep at the buzzer at 11pm.

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I grew up on a pretty bad format: Kentucky's Governor's Cup was all I knew existed back when I graduated in 1996. When I first took on sponsorship of our Middle School team here at Washington (MO) eleven years ago, the only tournament we would enter all year was a middle-of-the-week after-school tou...

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The bonus with moving screen was in packet 5, bonus 15.
At Washington, it was heard in 21 rooms.
Going 0/10/20/30, it went 7/7/6/1.

The bonus with Martin Sheen was in packet 8, bonus 7.
At Washington, it was heard in all 24 rooms, at 9/6/5/4

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Results are here.

Top 12 (should be earning a PACE NSC bid):

1. MICDS
2. Louisiana A
3. Marquette
4. Eureka
5. Rock Bridge A
6. Hallsville
7. Calvary Lutheran A
8. Orchard Farm A
9. Rolla
10. Tuscumbia
11. Parkway South B
12. Webster Groves

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In my experience, the qualities that make a player a good captain and the qualities that make a player a big scorer rarely overlap. A player that can do both is extremely rare. My favorite move is to name quieter players who probably wouldn't get a lot of points per game (if any) as captain. #1 - it...

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This tournament has been Platinum Certified by PACE, meaning that the top 25% will qualify for their National Championship in Chicago, June 10-11.

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David Dennis, whom I work with on a regular basis coaching the Washington High School team, edited all of the science (with a few comments/some oversight by Eric) Bear in mind, my last science class was in 1997. I teach choir. This definitely fell in the "someone's gotta do it, guess it'll have to ...

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...and we hit THAT cap in less than 48 hours.

I've gotten some other staff that's told me they can make the date, and I'm pretty sure I've got staff for 48, but I want the chance to sit down and line that out before I commit to opening the field further.

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...and we've hit the initial cap in under 24 hours. Bumping that up to 42.

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Field (48/48) Wellsville-Middletown Tuscumbia Parkway North Hannibal (2) New Haven (2) Holt Houston Ft. Zumwalt North Parkway Central Clever (2) Calvary Lutheran (2) St. James Hallsville Mexico Webster Groves Northwest Cuba Central (St. Joseph) Parkway South (2) Pleasant Hill (2) O'Fallon Township ...

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Coaches, I am happy to announce the 2nd Annual Washington High School Invitational Tournament (WHIT II) on December 3rd, 2016. It will be held in Washington Middle School, the same building as last year’s event. The tournament will be in the 20 Tossup/20 Bonus format. To encourage players, we will b...

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the miscellaneous tossups on Woody Guthrie. What all were the clues in this one? We were looking for the lyricist, right? That tossup had the room in knots. I was thinking Guthrie the whole time, but I finally risked the neg on This Land is Your Land because I was pretty sure he had a hand in writi...

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I was thinking it during the organ section, but recognized the Kyrie. Took a stab at that point because, just..., I had to.

Tell me that tossup ends in the Sanctus...

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This was just great to play. - I'm not musically educated and don't know why "Kyrie" is a text but "Magnificat" is a genre. The only thing I can really think of is that you almost never see a Kyrie published as a stand-alone work, but you do see several Magnificats done as such. Same for Stabat Mate...

dwd500 · Re: ACRONYM IX @ HSNCT - May 29, 2016 We filled it, sorry.

We filled it, sorry.

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The team from "Washington" has two seats open - It's currently myself and Charles Hang.

We'll take anyone with a pulse at this point.

Or not.

Pulse optional.

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I also recommend finding the reading lists your local high school provides....Typically these are very "Great Canon" works, and pretty enjoyable Your mileage may vary depending on your district , however. I'm not saying that some of these aren't worthwhile, but as for books that come up , there's s...

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2+ hour drives? Let me tell you about the fly-over country. Our tournament that we hosted last year did a really good job of drawing local teams, most were only 30 or so miles away. Our local teams are, with a couple of rare exceptions, awful. On NAQT IS-142, all 24 teams combined averaged less then...

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I had a homeschooled student who would come to our building only for my Select Choir class. She only moved to homeschooling around April, however. I technically had to clear her for our festival performance (I have to deal with MSHSAA in music as well :roll: ) but she was actually a full student at ...

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The Last 21 Stanley Cup Winners wrote:Also, the robot should sign up for a consolation mini-tournament.

"QANTA would like to fit in one more game before flight leaves."

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Like I said, I don't know what my schedule at PACE will be like, but I'm driving in with Jacob O'Rourke and we've got plenty of room in the SUV for buzzers. I'll bring what all I think will work. If I'm free, I'll read. I am staffing at HSNCT, but I'm in Jeff Hill's car and I don't think 5-6 boxes o...

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Washington has roughly 4-5 sets of buzzers that can be coaxed into working for a few rounds at a time. I don't know much about my personal schedule at the event, but I can most likely staff - you don't want me on your team if it's a science packet.

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It really depends. What do you need these Freshmen to be? Do they need to be contributors to your top group, or do they need to be support for a B or C team? Middle Schoolers (and even slightly older/younger) just want to be good . They need to feel some level of accomplishment in something. The fac...

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Not sure how else to reach you - your user name is not a valid email, and I've tried to leave a pm.

Washington HS would like to register two teams.

Could you also post something on moquizbowl.com? That board has a lot more traffic from coaches in the state than this one.

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They wrote 4 regular sets this year, (MS 07-10) another sign of the growth of MS Quiz Bowl. Just at first glance/gut feeling, tossups were fine. Science was a little harder than last year. History level was about the same as last year. I'm worried about literature. It seemed in all of our games that...

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My understanding of this type of system is that it's used by a few bible quiz circuits.

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