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by rdunlap1125
Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt
Replies: 7
Views: 16898

Re: Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt

I happen to know that Doc Meredith at Georgia Tech had transcribed a number of the radio games, as they were occasionally used in team practices; while I suspect his files are lost at this point, there might be a small chance that they've been passed down over time -- depends on how good the team's ...
by rdunlap1125
Fri Feb 02, 2024 8:52 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt
Replies: 7
Views: 16898

Re: Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt

More color on the 1990s: Around the country, there remained some variation on packet lengths even into the 1990's, most notably at invitationals that also used clocks; in the Northeast, the early Terrier Tussles (BU) and Penn Bowls used clocks and asked for longer packets to be submitted (I clearly ...
by rdunlap1125
Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:38 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Notable Buzzers
Replies: 32
Views: 20906

Re: Notable Buzzers

The second, far less well known buzzer I want to discuss is something that the MIT team had in its possession circa 2008-2009, and brought to at least a few tournaments. This was a homemade system, I think, and the notable thing about it is that the noise it made when somebody buzzed in was a "...
by rdunlap1125
Tue Aug 23, 2016 2:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Auditions and Tryouts
Replies: 1
Views: 1953

Auditions and Tryouts

Long time player and moderator here. My wife and I have two kids in two different middle schools (happy to explain that privately), one of which has a faculty sponsor who is new to quiz bowl trying to revive a program dormant since 2013, and we've reached out to provide whatever assistance we can. (...