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As a PA coach in Chester County and a person who played non-pyramidal in Schuylkill County before that, I will say that Alex & Ben gave a great overview. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us. I can give some insight into the areas Alex & Ben describe, as well as some information o...

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Can confirm that registration was received. Invoices and a welcome email should be coming out by Monday.

avedantham wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:39 pm Hello,

Is there any update on the registrations/event? My team (from Parkland HS, registered as "Western Lehigh") signed up today but I didn't receive any confirmation.

Thanks!

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This area is reserved for field updates.

School (Open Teams/Novice Teams):
Great Valley (3/1)
Fugett (1/1)
Berwick (1/2)
Independence (2/1)
Downingtown (3/0)
Phoenixville (1/2)
Tower Hill (1/0)
Sanford (1/0)
Haverford (2/0)

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As of 12/17/2019 @ 2:20 PM

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Great Valley High School is pleased to announce the 2019 GVMST to be hosted on December 21, 2019 at Great Valley High School. This is a great opportunity to give your middle school students an opportunity to compete in general knowledge quiz bowl and introduce them to a pyramidal question format. We...

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Great Valley High School proudly announces the seventh annual Great Valley Quiz Bowl Tournament at Great Valley High School. This year's tournament will have both an open and novice division and hopes to bring in teams from PA and beyond. There may also be a separate middle school division, if inter...

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Team PA can be found on GPQB's website. Shoutout to CMU's Jackie Wu for organizing. Team Blue: Jakobi Deslouches (Allderdice, 12th) Noah Harrigan (Great Valley, 11th) Rishi Raman (Great Valley, 10th) Will Yaeger (Hempfield, 12th) Albert Zhang (State College, 10th) Team Gold: Austin Davis (Allderdice...

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Great Valley would like to use the Scottie for the Open Division of the annual GVQBT on January 4, 2020.

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Pennsylvania will have multiple teams in attendance.

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So I'm going to preface this by saying that my team greatly enjoyed the trip to NYC, getting to play some different teams, and meet new people. They also said they would definitely consider coming back in the future. However, there were several things that I observed and they shared with me that sho...

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At this time, details are still being worked out regarding the process for Team Pennsylvania at NASAT including--but not limited to--chaperones/coaches, travel details, and tryout process. As a result of many uncertainties, any Pennsylvania players interested in trying out and attending NASAT should...

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Coming as a coach from PA where we use Open/Novice or Competitive/Open divisions somewhat regularly, I would say that there are a few things to consider: (1) What does the field composition look like? I would much rather my players experience a few tough morning matches to have a target to improve b...

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This post will be reserved for field updates. To register, please use this link: https://www.gvsd.org//cms/module/selectsurvey/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=1526 SCHOOL/OPEN/NOVICE Penn Manor/1/1 Manheim Township/4/1 Friends Select/2/1 Carver/1/2 SLA/1/1 Henderson/2/1 Hempfield/1/1 PALCS/1/0 Wissahickon/...

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This post will be used for field updates.

Last Update: November 30
Field Update Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k4m7Zj ... sp=sharing

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Great Valley High School is pleased to announce the 2018 GVMST to be hosted on December 8, 2017 at Great Valley High School. This is a great opportunity to give your middle school students an opportunity to compete in general knowledge quiz bowl and introduce them to a pyramidal question format. We ...

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Great Valley High School proudly announces the sixth annual Great Valley Quiz Bowl Tournament at Great Valley High School. This year's tournament will have both an open and novice division and hopes to bring in teams from PA and beyond. In an effort to encourage new teams, any school that has not pa...

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Fred,
Will the results be published anywhere? Also, will the people offering the set have access to the feedback received so they can use that on subsequent set creation or edits?

bmccauley

In case it helps, here is the preliminary master schedule from the 2018 HSNCT (in two different formats). The 2018 SSNCT Open Division preliminary card system had a few matches in which teams might have played a team with a record two off from their own (because there was no way to keep the at-most...

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Thanks for the quick reply, David. I understood the cards were made before the seeding and upsets obviously make things iffy. I also get the math parts of "if you play a team with a worse record, you'll never play a team with a better record" because of the unknowns to ensure no team plays a team no...

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When brackets are imperfect (like the numbers HSNCT had this year), how is it determined for the uneven matches? Is it still some sort of seeding mechanism or is it more random at that point in the tournament--especially given the size? For example, how does the system normally get crafted for those...

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This is the tentative schedule for events held in Pennsylvania for the upcoming year. Please post any events on this thread that you would like added--links to the events post will also be added at some point. Priority of the updates will be events held in PA, though we will add events from outside ...

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If college sets are being used, a couple of teams (but I'm guessing it may not be enough for you to do an adjustment) did play Penn Bowl as well.

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There are errors for several of Great Valley B's games. I'll email you once I have the detailed scoresheets from our captain.

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Congratulations to the following players on being selected to Team Pennsylvania for NASAT 2018: Vijay Anne Michael Buffa Richard Chen Austin Davis Will Davis Jakobi Deslouches Anish Gadgil Michael Goerlitz Bryce Katch Connor Mayers Dan Nguyen Sam Scarfone Alex Schmidt Vishwa Shanmugam Jackie Wu Will...

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The following players met the aforementioned criteria and have been issued invites to the NASAT tryout to be organized by Ryan Bilger: 1. Jaya Alagar (Alagar Homeschool) 2. Rajan Alagar (Alagar Homeschool) 3. Vijay Anne (Henderson) 4. Vince Birch (Indiana) 5. Michael Buffa (Manheim Township) 6. Abha...

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The PA State Academic Coaches Association (PSACA) has taken the lead on ensuring PA Teams an opportunity to play at NASAT. As part of the coaches organization, a committee has been formed to oversee this inaugural run of the PSACA-led NASAT process. A committee of five started discussing the process...

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Don’t make fun of people for not knowing things. This is especially true if you’re an adult staffer at a high school or middle school tournament. A young player’s lack of knowledge in any area should not be met with ridicule or incredulity. It should not be a topic of conversation in a game room or...

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We have expanded the field cap to 30/30. First batch of invoices will be mailed out today.

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We have expanded the field cap to 24/24.

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The set is still available for mirroring. You can reach out to Bill in the email above or me at [email protected] for more info. Thanks!

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Field Update at of 02/27/2018

School (Competitive/Novice)
Great Valley Middle (2/2)
Phoenixville (1/1)
Fugett (1/1)
Patton (1/2)
Villa Maria (1/1)
Haverford (2/0)
Peirce (4/1)

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The field cap of 18 Open & 18 Novice has been temporarily reached. We expect to expand the field caps to 24 and 24 by the end of this week, as long as we can confirm staffing.

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I think PA seems better organized from the outside than it really is--I don't know if things like PSACA or GPQB have really made quizbowl more "legitimate" that much as of yet. Instead, we have formed a pretty strong group of coaches, college players, alumni, and others who consistently enjoy staff...

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Magritte's Pipe wrote:Congrats to Downingtown STEM and thank you to Downingtown East for running a well-organized tournament!

Great Valley seconds this sentiment.

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Registration is now open for this event...we wanted to wait until after Manheim so new teams could be contacted. Please register using the link in the main post (also linked here).
https://www.gvsd.org//cms/module/select ... veyID=1526

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Here is NAQT's relevant rule (currently designated C.4): If a player objects to using a lockout system because of religious or other reasons, the player and the tournament director may jointly devise an alternate method of signaling for that player. A designated official (who might be the moderator...

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I've seen Orthodox Jews simply say "buzz" instead of pressing a buzzer. It's then up to the moderator to figure out if the verbal "buzz" came before or after another player rang in with a buzzer. NAQT rules explicitly allow a player to "signal in an appropriate manner" if they cannot use a buzzer (...

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I've seen Orthodox Jews simply say "buzz" instead of pressing a buzzer. It's then up to the moderator to figure out if the verbal "buzz" came before or after another player rang in with a buzzer. NAQT rules explicitly allow a player to "signal in an appropriate manner" if they cannot use a buzzer (...

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A few days ago, we got a request for our middle school event about a player that cannot use electronics on the day of our event for religious reasons. As a result, I surveyed other coaches about possible suggestions/accommodations we could make to keep the player in the game and involved without vio...

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Field Update as of 11/28/2017: School/Teams/Buzzers/Mods Lehigh Valley Academy/1/1/1 Great Valley/4/1/0 Patton (Unionville SD)/1/1/0 Peirce (West Chester SD)/5/1/0 Fugett (West Chester SD)/2/0/0 Villa Maria/1/1/0 Friends Select School 2/2/0 Team Chargers/1/0/0 Independence/1/3/0 Alfred G. Waters/2/...

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I was playing around with the new layout a bit and the scoresheet seems to have some functionality issues. If you select a team and accidentally click on a player score (easier to do on a laptop with the pad click), it doesn't allow you to create a new scoresheet or add an opponent...just locks to t...

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Some tournament notes: The novice division will consist of five preliminary rounds (regardless of 18 or 24 teams). The top 2 from each prelim brackets will advance and play an additional 3 or 4 games. Full details will be announced when the field is finalized. This format will be limited as there wi...

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Current field as of 02/15/2018:

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Great Valley High School proudly announces the fifth annual Great Valley Quiz Bowl Tournament at Great Valley High School. This year's tournament will have both an open and novice division and hopes to bring in teams from PA and beyond. In an effort to encourage new teams, any school that has not pa...

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Great Valley had reached out that they plan to bring one team. Thanks!

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Great Valley High School is proud to host the second annual Ichabod Invitational, an homage to our beloved Patriot Mascot, on March 10, 2017. This is a great opportunity to give your middle school students an opportunity to compete in general knowledge quiz bowl and introduce them to a pyramidal que...

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Great Valley High School is pleased to announce the 2017 GVMST to be hosted on December 9, 2017 at Great Valley High School. This is a great opportunity to give your middle school students an opportunity to compete in general knowledge quiz bowl and introduce them to a pyramidal question format. We ...

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Pennsylvania's schedule is still a work in progress, but this link is a current tentative schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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Is it possible for Great Valley to drop the 1 moderator?

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Please see our previous quote. We are aware of this error. I can't fix it until I get back to the school on Tuesday for the paper scoresheet. It will be fixed ASAP. Thanks! The neg5 stats for Lehigh Valley seem weird: their first game against Mannheim Township A has no individual stats or ppb record...

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