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So after the last few weeks of discussion this community has had about boundaries and making this place a more safe and inclusive environment, your decision Will to have a high schooler TD a college tournament bewilders me. I understand that we are in different circumstances than usual, but that doe...

I think you need very strict length control and bonus timing So the latter point is going to be extremely difficult to uniformly enforce across an entire tournament unless every room has a nats caliber reader in it (which most local tournaments definitely do not have!). Bounceback timing is arguabl...

Here's another argument in favor of bouncebacks: let's pretend you're a player who only contributes on 2/2 per game and absolutely nothing else. Let's furthermore assume that you're on a middle team which gets an average of 10 tossups per game. Across a 10 game tournament, this means you are "contr...

I respect that other people may not enjoy or feel as comfortable with online play, or find it so decisively inferior a product that they decline to participate. I hope to see Jacob and his teammates at ACF Nationals 2021, should it happen. It will be an honor to defend the ACF Nationals title as pa...

Chicago's team is full of dinosaurs.......

The preseason discussion will be happening this Saturday, September 14th on the Preseason Discord at 8:00 pm EDT.

The Others Receiving Votes and the final, mystery number 25 team have been added to the poll post above. With the poll finished up I would like to have a season preview discussion, followed by a write up similar to the one done last year. For those interested in participating in the discussion, the ...

Voting has finished. The 19 Voters were Wonyoung Jang, Ben Miller, Jacob Reed, Taylor Harvey, Jonathen Settle, Vishwa Shanmugam, Ryan Rosenberg, Alex Damisch, Jaskaran Singh, Matt Mitchell, Richard Yu, Charles Hang, Kai Smith, Ryan Bilger, Moses Kitakule, Daniel Hothem, Chandler West, Bradley McLain...

A reminder that the poll will be closing tonight at 11:59 PM, so any last minute ballots should be completed and sent in very soon.

Copying off of Jakob’s excellent idea from last year, I’ve created a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NLVZMrGntLJJaMZbg2G7uuaRZUtZmwNfE6zc4PFp5K0/edit?usp=sharing which will mark the departing and arriving people from last year as well as the team’s likely composition for this ye...

This is the annoucement for the preseason poll for collegiate teams Please do not post ballots in the thread. Please do not vote for high school teams. You can vote for B teams. Ballots must contain 25 teams. Please email them to me at [email protected].com by September 6. For reference here are ...

I know we had a generally disappoitnitng SCT performance, but I would mostly attribute that to Vishwa performing extremely poorly. We will be workng on Vishwa’s general coordination, balance, and teammwork skills to help him hopefully improve from his subpar SCT performance. I would urge voters to l...

Voting has concluded for the poll. We had 9 voters: Michael Borecki, Jas Singh, Wonyoung Jang, Anishka Bandara, Jacob Augelli, Rohan Venkateswaran, Rohan Vora, Vishwa Shanmugam, and Max Shatan. Thank you to all of them for their participation and help in making this poll a success! 1. Maryland Terra...

This is a reminder that you have three days to vote on the DII Poll if you wish to do so.

This is an announcement for a DII Preseason Poll. The teams we are voting for are teams that intend to play/ are eligible for ICT DII (or intend to play just ACF Nationals). So because of the limited size of DII we are limiting the amount of teams you can vote for to ten. Anyone can vote who thinks ...

I am going to the University of Maryland and will definitely be playing quizbowl as well.

Hello Everyone, This is a preliminary post gauging interest in tryouts for 2018 Team Tennessee. We will be competing at NASAT. (More details about what NASAT is are here http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21031&p=343144&hilit=Nasat#p343144 ). If you are interested, please fill out ...

This is awesome! As a long time player of the Middle TN circuit, I'm really excited about a team trying to bring standard quizbowl practices back to the region. Look forward to attending!

dnlwng wrote:Something that complicates things further is that HSNCT is a lot different than the NSC, at least for a few teams. Some times (TJ and DCC) are somehow gods at both, but I'd put my own team (a lot) higher in a NSC/housewrite ranking than in a HSNCT/NAQT ranking.

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Could we get a field update?

Alright so I've finally gotten around to my preview for middle tn teams this year. First, my school Battle Ground Academy. After winning the Middle Tennessee championships, we return everyone. First is me, the neglord who sometimes get history and humanities buzzes when I don't Self destruct http://...

I would definitely be interested in playing/writing a packet if a mirror was within driving distance

I thought I would get the discussion started on the state of Tennessee quizbowl this year. I thought I would start this thread off by talking about the teams in my area, Middle Tennessee. First off my team, Battle Ground . The A team this year will be composed of junior Cameron Clark, a science spec...

Aidan, I think it depends on how you look at failure. I know for a fact that you were one of my favorite players on the circuit and you were always really fun to play against. I have a lot of memories of the matches we played. I'll remember the time Rohan got so exasperated with Youssef that he drop...