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Lawrence Simon

Thank you again to everyone who played this set! I was not able to find a time to run a second mirror, but one of the participants requested to use the set for a closed mirror which is why it's taken me some time to follow through on posting the packets. I made some small edits to the set between re...

Lawrence Simon

Thank you to everyone who played this set and to Jack Mehr for reading so we could have two rooms. Congratulations to John Lawrence on winning the tournament! John had both the most overall points and the highest point total in Room 1 in the last round. Point totals from today's tournament are poste...

Lawrence Simon

I just sent out the email to those signed up to play tomorrow that included links to the Discord rooms.

Please let me know if you signed up and did not receive this email ASAP!

Lawrence Simon

Yes this is still happening tomorrow and I am planning on sending out logistical details later today.

Also, there is still room for more to join tomorrow's tournament if anyone's interested!

Lawrence Simon

We're now at the point with signups where I would prefer to have two rooms of this set playing in a ladder format to make sure that we're not overcrowding one room. If you are interested in volunteering to moderate the second room of this tournament, please fill out the Google Form below. Moderator ...

Lawrence Simon

If you can shanghai some people into reading, you could also consider running multiple rooms in a ladder format. I agree that this would be a fun way to keep the rooms from getting too crowded. I'll start asking around for moderators, but in the meantime, if you are interested in reading for this s...

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Is there a way to have a format that doesn't involve like 50 people playing a shootout? If there's enough interest based on responses to the Google Form that reading the set once gets too many people to be manageable I would definitely be okay reading it on multiple occasions to spread those number...

Lawrence Simon

Hello friends! I have been working on a three-packet, tossup-only mini-set of questions on musical theatre that I've named The Hal Prince Memorial Tournament that I'm planning on reading on a Discord server some time at the end of July. This set is aimed at a Nats-level difficulty, with the goal to ...

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I would play this depending on the weekend

Lawrence Simon

I will definitely be able to staff this at least.

Lawrence Simon

I generally liked the Econ on this set for what there was. I can agree that all of it is subject matter that's come up in the Econ classes I've taken and was very much applicable for what most college students usually learn.

Lawrence Simon

Thank you to all of the teams that came out to this year's Virginia NAQT State Championship as well as the great staff that made this tournament happen. In particular the many staffers from VCU that assisted in this tournament. Congratulations to our top brackets finishers: Thomas Jefferson A in 1st...

Lawrence Simon

The official NAQT policy for this is stated thusly: State Championships and Qualifiers are restricted to teams from a single state unless other arrangements have been made with NAQT at least 7 calendar days before the tournament. This is especially the case when teams don't have a state championship...

Lawrence Simon

With 21 teams now signed up we're officially closing the field and look forward to having our whole field here in Charlottesville on Saturday!

Lawrence Simon

There is still plenty of room in our field for any team wishing to register for the 19th! Please get those registrations in by emailing me at [email protected].

Lawrence Simon

We still have plenty of space in our field for more teams so feel free to sign up!

Lawrence Simon

Field Update as of March 14 School (teams/buzzers/staffer) Fort Defiance (1/2/0) Kettle Run (1/1/1) Western Albemarle (1/2/0) Cave Spring (3/2/0) Maggie Walker (3/1/0) Robinson (2/2/1) West Point (1/1/0) Home School Out of the Box (2/0/0) Thomas Jefferson (3/2/0) Edison (1/1/0) Quince Orchard (1/1/0...

Lawrence Simon

For those interested the UVA Quizbowl team would like to hold tryouts for a Virginia NASAT team during lunch at this event if there is enough interest from those attending. If you're interested feel free to message me along with the names of any other teammates that might be interested in trying out...

Lawrence Simon

Crazyflight wrote:
Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:Yeah but I thought I heard something about her changing schools.

Also need help with http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/25 ... etail/#t18
I'm fairly certain that, of the people on that team, only Tara graduated.

This is correct.

Lawrence Simon

While playing on A-sets does allow good teams to split and qualify numerous teams for Nationals, I think in terms of self-regulation a big aspect that should be taken into account for teams that can be ranking 7-3 at HSNCT is their own amusement and sense of reward becoming diminished. What I mean i...

Lawrence Simon

After another great year on the DMV circuit, maybe the best since I've been playing, it's sad for me to consider all of the talent from our area that's graduated. Still, having seen all of the talent that was on the circuit this past year, I'm also very excited to see how the circuit plays out for t...

Lawrence Simon

Unfortunately due to a number of problems, Maryland will no longer be attending this year's NASAT. I'm sure it will be enjoyable for everyone who attends though!

Lawrence Simon

I just took a quick look at the rankings from this year and the past two years and this is not only the most teams our area has had in the Top 10 since I've been in high school, but it's also the most we've ever had in the Top 50, that number being 8. I think that this proves that this year's teams,...

Lawrence Simon

I used to write for the Alternative History wiki after I got into Harry Turtledove novels in middle school and the several years I spent writing for it has definitely helped me, especially with my knowledge of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Lawrence Simon

I will be attending the University of Virginia and will likely try my hand at college quizbowl.

Lawrence Simon

So is this still happening on May 9th?

Lawrence Simon

We played them at the only HSAPQ Regionals that I was aware of in February. The tournament was attended by 6 teams who played a double round robin so we played them twice in the prelims. They ended up going 10-1, losing to us once in the prelims before beating us in the final match. I know that the ...

Lawrence Simon

Will the questions you guys are writing be power-marked?

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Will the list of those who make the poll be released before or after the poll? In the case of their names remaining undisclosed I understand the reasoning for this as well.

Lawrence Simon

Kinda adding on to what Will was talking about: no team is going to drop a tournament, especially at the last minute, just because they think it'll be funny. Usually it's due to an emergency. For example, at the most recent VCU Winter, our main science players weren't able to go for good reasons: on...

Lawrence Simon

We at QO would like to thank VCU for running an excellent and efficient tournament. This was QO's first time attending a VCU tournament, at least as far as I remember, and we certainly enjoyed playing against such a great mix of teams, especially those from outside our usual area of competition. Hop...

Lawrence Simon

In a slight paraphrase of Professor Samuel Oak: "There's a time and place for this argument, but it's not here."

Lawrence Simon

I personally used a great deal of flashcards as a sophomore and a little bit as a junior for basic list recognition on works of lit, art, and music and their associated writers, artists, and composers. While this is very good for name recognition and get buzzes when it name-drops a work, as question...

Lawrence Simon

I think that you bring up a very real trend in regional quiz bowl Vasa. As for Maryland competitions the only really consistently occurring one has been the Centennial Invitational, which began at 54 teams in 2011, 66 in 2012, 72 in 2013, and 81 in 2014, which shows a steady, and overall sizable inc...

Lawrence Simon

Alright with the sort of rush one can only get from finishing an AP Euro paper, for some reason I felt like returning to this thread. I think that, even though this year has hardly started (I count 18 non-Nationals competitions coming up after the new year) I already can tell that this may be the be...

Lawrence Simon

Could I see the tossup on "Ulysses?"

Lawrence Simon

Could I see the entirety of the "Watchmen" and "David Fincher" tossups? I liked the trash at this competition as well as the general lit and art and would like to thank everyone for helping to run it!

Lawrence Simon

So considering APs are basically done I'll just start this up again as well: I agree with Nathan about the rankings and each of the three tiers. As for the teams next year I think that it's safe to say that Western Albemarle and Richard Montgomery will again be on top. WA returns Eric, who will some...

Lawrence Simon

So although I have never played in MSNCT, I have played on them and invitational middle school questions for practice as a freshman. My suggestion would be to look at NAQT's You Gotta Know list of authors and works and memorize them if you haven't already, as well as learning their major plot points...

Lawrence Simon

I am rather unfortunately of the poor behavior of my school's team at this competition. Unfortunately our coach was out of town and myself and my co-captain were pre-occupied with other events which we could not avoid. I am extremely sorry if any team did not enjoy this tournament as much as they co...

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Yeah, my bad, that's definitely worth mentioning.

Lawrence Simon

So we're a little more than half-way through the year at this point, and the DMV area is in one of its most competitive years in a while. Based on what I've seen (ie very subjective) there are three distinguishable tiers in our area: the first one, made up of RM, Western Albemarle, and Maggie Walker...

Lawrence Simon

Can I just say how hilarious it is now to look back and see that Eric considered his team "mediocre" just a year ago? My how things change, guess that shows a lot of good, hard work.

Lawrence Simon

Having just played on half of the set 131A yesterday, I too can attest to the number of people who were unhappy with the young adult literature that appeared in the set. In the morning I counted two, possibly three, questions of the kind, out of those I found that only one was "widely" converted, ar...

Lawrence Simon

I wasn't as much accusing anyone of conspiracy as I was just trying to open the subject up for debate, sorry if I seemed belligerent to that degree.

Lawrence Simon

I just happened to have been listening to "I'm Not That Girl" right before the match, which happened to be the first clue in the tossup. The coincidence astounded me, the fact that I powered a Wicked questions astounded everyone else in the room.

Lawrence Simon

Actually, come to think of it there was an Elphaba tossup at HSNCT 2013.

Lawrence Simon

Not to mention Sunday in the Park with George, Rent, and Next to Normal, which have all won Pulitzer Prizes and have never come up in quiz bowl. And I'm not just talking about NAQT but sets in general, if I needed to make that clear.

Lawrence Simon

So when I was a wee freshmen, in the spring of 2012 I first looked at NAQT's You Gotta Know List about Composers and noticed that Andrew Lloyd Webber appeared on the list twice: once for his 1986 magnum opus "Phantom of the Opera," and also for his musical "Cats." However, in my recollection of even...

Lawrence Simon

Why, may I ask, was the set power-marked? Also any idea where this set will be mirrored in the DC area yet?

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