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- Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3515
Re: GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
To clarify the eligibility restrictions: Novice/JV teams must be either new to weekend tournaments (TV participation does not count against this) OR have a team that consists entirely of sophomores or younger. At this point, we are still waiting on confirmation from a number of schools and a lot of ...
- Wed Jan 08, 2014 9:23 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How much to expect from players as a coach
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1500
Re: How much to expect from players as a coach
I think the watchword is "facilitate" rather than "obsessively micromanage." You can do a lot as a facilitator and it seems more important to me to cultivate a culture of learning within your team rather than obsess over every buzz in practice and at tournaments. Hold regular pra...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
The All-West TN band competition just announced its concert date and it, unfortunately, happens to fall on Feb. 1st. Given that half our team will likely be there, we can't run our tournament on that date. Since I've heard the possible History Bowl at St Benedict isn't happening, we'll take the Janu...
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3515
Re: GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
Running Field Update (as of 1/20):
White Station (1 V, 2 JV)
MUS (2 V, 1 JV)
Houston (1+ V)
Lausanne (1 JV)
Brighton (2 V)
Cordova (1 V)
Collierville (2 V)
Whitehaven (1 JV)
Hutchison (1 JV)
Bolton (1 V)
Munford (1 V)
Freedom Prep (1 JV)
Possible:
Benton (AR)
Dyersburg
White Station (1 V, 2 JV)
MUS (2 V, 1 JV)
Houston (1+ V)
Lausanne (1 JV)
Brighton (2 V)
Cordova (1 V)
Collierville (2 V)
Whitehaven (1 JV)
Hutchison (1 JV)
Bolton (1 V)
Munford (1 V)
Freedom Prep (1 JV)
Possible:
Benton (AR)
Dyersburg
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
We have now added a JV portion to GATT (Feb. 1st) using the SCOP novice set. We will continue to use JAMES for the Varsity level. Invitations will be sent out by the end of the week to all teams in the area and we will work to recruit new schools to the traditional KBowl circuit. We will be competin...
- Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3515
Re: GATT (Germantown TN, 2/1/14)
[Edited out old information, see above post for updated information]
- Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2462
Re: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
Cancelled due to alleged impending ice storm. Jan. 11th is also out as a date now due to the massive All-West Band auditions, which will decimate our field and reader group. I am open to other suggestions, but the calender now looks full until Feb. 1st, which is our other previously scheduled date. ...
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2462
Re: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
We are monitoring the weather and will be dependent on the decision of the Shelby County Schools board as to whether or not we can run it this weekend. If classes are cancelled or dismissed early on Friday, then we will unfortunately also have to cancel activities on Saturday. If we are forced to po...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 12:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
As for the state tournament, the reason that teams like Oak Ridge don't attend is not the lack of prestige or the unconventional format, but rather the fact that it's an overnight tournament. I did not realize this. That's another added random inconvenience and disincentive to attend, since it basi...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
Houston A and Collierville A's PPBs at the WSHS tournament were quite impressive, perhaps even good enough to break into the top 100 in the Morlan ranking (both had just one round that dropped them below the 25 PPB threshold too). MUS A is also up there and the stats WSHS posted leave out their 500+...
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
We still have a couple of slots for our Dec. 7th tournament open if anyone who hasn't yet heard the JAMES set wants in. If I don't hear from anyone else by Thanksgiving, I'm going to open it up to C teams. Germantown's February tournament (on IS 133A) is going to have to move to Feb. 1st due to the ...
- Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WSHS High School Tournament in Memphis, TN on November 23rd
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5710
Re: WSHS High School Tournament in Memphis, TN on November 23rd
I'm sure Victor/Zach will be along later to post full official results and stats, but for now the brief results that I saw were: 1. Houston A 2. Germantown A 3. Hoover 4. MUS A Semis Houston A def. MUS A 310(?)-300 Germantown A def. Hoover 315-295 Finals Houston A def. Germantown A 400-205 Great tou...
- Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Young adult literature
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10072
Re: Young adult literature
The YA literature in the IS-A set we heard today (IS-131A) did not go over well at the tournament I was at. Other coaches complained about it and I didn't see much of it converted by the players. Definitely recommend it gets taken out or pushed into the trash distribution.
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2462
Re: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
We've expanded to 18 total, but that's going to have to be our field cap (we'll aim at 24 for our Feb. 1st tournament). If Farragut can confirm one team, then that will be the final spot. New format for 18 teams: Morning Round-Robin between 3 balanced brackets of 6 teams each. Afternoon rebracketing...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
The West TN History Bowl happened yesterday. Final results were: 1st- WSHS A 2nd- Lausanne Semis- Germantown A and St Benedict The scheduling was a little weird and the delays were pretty bad, but the teams really seemed to like the pyramidal questions and the competition was quite good. I think thi...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Mississippi 2013-14
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5187
Re: Mississippi 2013-14
I found links to the stats and playoff brackets from Murrah's tournament along with this nice write-up by the Murrah coach. It looks like they tried timed rounds, which explains the relatively low scores and variance in bonuses and such heard. Note that Germantown (MS) is separate from my team Germa...
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2462
Re: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
We are closing in on our field cap. If there are any teams from further afield who are interested in attending, please let us know ASAP since we've gotten enough interest to fill up our field if these teams all commit to coming. Also, on the very outside chance that there are other teams around with...
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 8:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SWAG III in Bell Buckle, Tennessee
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2460
Re: SWAG III in Bell Buckle, Tennessee
Since last year it took forever to get results from this, I'll pass along that I heard the following results:
1. Ezell A
2. USN A
3. Ezell B
4. White Station A
Quarterfinalists: BGA A, Columbia Central A, USN B, Daviess County
1. Ezell A
2. USN A
3. Ezell B
4. White Station A
Quarterfinalists: BGA A, Columbia Central A, USN B, Daviess County
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2462
Germantown Fall Invitational (Germantown, TN) 12/7/13
Germantown High School will be hosting the Germantown Fall Invitational (GFI) on December 7th, 2013 and would like to invite your team to attend. GFI will serve as a qualifier for the 2014 NSC national championship tournament and will use the JAMES question set (pyramidal questions with powers), whi...
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 7:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Mississippi 2013-14
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5187
Re: Mississippi 2013-14
Itawamba A and B finished 1st and 2nd, respectively, at the Ole Miss tournament last weekend. Semifinalists were Collierville and MUS, Quarterfinalists were Madison Central A and B, Bolton, and FACS. Itawamba is definitely a program on the rise and they appear to be one of the few teams in MS that v...
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:20 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Non-pyramidal question sources?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12691
Re: Non-pyramidal question sources?
I agree that the direct bull-in-a-china-shop approach likely won't work, but I definitely think that you can come at it indirectly and be quite successful. For instance, note that pretty much all varsity-level tournaments on NAQT questions qualify for both NAQT and PACE nationals. You can simply hol...
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:42 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Non-pyramidal question sources?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12691
Re: Non-pyramidal question sources?
The truth is there simply aren't any large, free online troves of bad quizbowl questions. Most of the large speedcheck companies that used to exist are defunct and even Questions Unlimited now is starting to tack towards the general realm of pyramidality (albeit with plenty of funn along the way sti...
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:09 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Non-pyramidal question sources?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12691
Re: Non-pyramidal question sources?
The students do like pyramidal questions, but if every other team in the area is training on buzzer-beaters, then we're at a natural disadvantage. Also, the questions contain lots of grammar and math that you don't see in NAQT tournaments, so we're at a disadvantage when it comes to the fast math a...
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:12 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Non-pyramidal question sources?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12691
Re: Non-pyramidal question sources?
You are likely playing under the auspices of the AUK, aka "Academic Hallmarks." The guy who writes them has the entire state of Colorado under his thrall along with parts of the rest of the West like Nebraska (and other enclaves). The best thing you can do is to start running tournaments o...
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
Top total scores from the prelim rounds of the MUS tournament (very much AUK questions) with each round power-matched by points: 1430 Houston (Won Tournament) 1150 Collierville (Runner Up) 900 Collierville B 880 White Station A 860 Cordova 830 St Mary's 830 Briarcrest A 830 Briarcrest B 820 Bolton A...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 1:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3515
GATT (Germantown TN, 1/25/14)
The Germantown High School Knowledge Bowl team is pleased to announce the first Germantown Academic Team Tournament (GATT), to be held at Germantown High School in Germantown, TN on January 25th 2014. We look forward to welcoming a wide-ranging field from across the Mid-South area to Germantown this...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
Alright, so what's the process then for joining TACA? The website doesn't give many details. There's a tournament using AUK questions, the wait-to-be-recognized rules, single-part bounceback bonuses, round pairing by scores, and other interesting elements at MUS tomorrow. Not many teams in the area ...
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
Rather than require an arbitrary number of in-state tournaments, why not have regional "qualifying" tournaments, then one smaller but very competitive (perhaps double RR?) state tournament featuring the best teams? This would make the travel burden easier for teams from West TN since we on...
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Split thread: "Venting and vituperation" and sexism
- Replies: 83
- Views: 24365
Re: Split thread: "Venting and vituperation" and sexism
It only takes the keywords on Google search "2013 NAC quiz bowl" and that very thread is the second result when the search turns up. You say this like it's a problem. [...] that those who moderate this site condone those statements. I certainly hope those who moderate the site condone the...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: State of the board discussion thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19226
Re: State of the board discussion thread
Nothing huge, but I feel that potshots like this are unprofessional and nonconstructive and I think that senior members of the board should try to avoid them, especially in tournament announcements. I don't want to start a huge argument by calling out Matt but I could imagine that coaches and admin...
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
I'm still unsure what West TN teams have to gain out of joining TACA other than to fulfill a requirement to attend the state championship. It would be much easier to recruit West TN teams to the state championships (and hopefully good quizbowl) without having them go through these hurdles of joining...
- Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee '13-'14
- Replies: 120
- Views: 70568
Re: Tennessee '13-'14
Germantown High School (West TN) would like to claim either Jan. 11th or Feb. 8th for a tournament. If any potential attendees have a preference for one date or the other, let us know before we get final clearance for one of those days. Look for a full tournament announcement out soon.
- Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:52 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LOL Chip Bowl
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3544
Re: LOL Chip Bowl
There's always been a bit of an unholy alliance between Chip and the Dude in Durango who runs AUKademic AUKmarks. Colorado and Nebraska teams enraptured in the AUK often attended ChipBowl nationals and it seems like Chip didn't try to make inroads in those states. What's the future of Academic Hallm...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Improving as a geography player?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7427
Re: Improving as a geography player?
Use the highest points not as an end in themselves, but rather as a gateway to a country's geography. The highest point in a country is often in a mountain range, and often in the highest mountain range in that country. Start looking around from there and you'll start to see some interesting sights....
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 3:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moderator don'ts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6527
Re: Moderator don'ts
Like everything in life, there are plenty of exceptions to some of the rules here. Prompting for an answer at the end of a tossup. It's not in the rules, so don't do it. If I'm reading to a newbie team, you can bet I'm going to tell them to buzz after the toss-up ends. Many times they're really scar...
- Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Good Quizbowl Media Strategy (or lack thereof)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 25034
The Good Quizbowl Media Strategy (or lack thereof)
It's frustrating to see many stories like this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and more all praising Chipbowl nationals and holding the NAC up as a big accomplishment. In contrast, I saw a small smattering of news coverage of HSNCT teams and even less for PACE. I found...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 12-13
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28302
Re: Tennessee 12-13
Why don't most tournaments in TN report stats? Same reason too many TN tournaments still use single elimination playoffs, non-seeded prelim pools, no powers, and, worst of all, worksheets (my favorite from a Munford tournament many years ago: give the average land speed of these animals within 5 MP...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 12-13
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28302
Re: Tennessee 12-13
Hey, I was thinking of hosting a middle school tournament this year in memphis, although I am wondering if there are enough middle school teams in the area to make it worthwhile. Welcome to the boards! Good to see another Spartan posting here. There is a team for sure at Schilling Farms Middle and ...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NAC
- Replies: 89
- Views: 47058
Re: 2013 NAC
Thanks for all the corrections people have emailed or PMed me. I'll keep updating them as I get them. I found a couple of other Cross schools, but none of them indicated that they had a quiz bowl team of any kind. It could just be a Holy Cross shorthand too. There are actually a ton of other quiz te...
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NAC
- Replies: 89
- Views: 47058
Re: 2013 NAC
So in case anyone wants to get involved in outreach towards these Chip Teams, here's a map I compiled using all the middle, jv, and varsity level teams from the Qunlimited website. There are of course some cases where I couldn't tell ("East" High for instance) and had to guess what school ...
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NAC
- Replies: 89
- Views: 47058
Re: 2013 NAC
There's a good argument for changing the phrase "awful people" in that sentence to "awful person". Having worked with them and gotten to know them over the last couple years (and Brooks for longer than that), there is nothing whatsoever bad to be said, as people or as moderators...
- Tue May 28, 2013 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NAC
- Replies: 89
- Views: 47058
Re: 2013 NAC
Has anyone ever considered inviting some of these teams to pyramidal tournaments? Many of these teams DO know about good quizbowl now and do attend pyramidal tournaments during the year; in fact, I'm increasing convinced most of them know exactly what they're doing. As Pingry showed this year, you ...
- Mon May 27, 2013 2:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 12-13
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28302
Re: Tennessee 12-13
So this was a pretty good showing by the TN teams, easily one of the best in years since the golden age of TN quizbowl back around the turn of the millennium. Also note that McCallie went a respectable 5-5 (0-4 start, then 5 wins in a row) and that St. Benedict at 4-6 was the first Memphis team at H...
- Wed May 22, 2013 2:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 Benjamin Cooper Award Recipients
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1791
Re: 2013 Benjamin Cooper Award Recipients
Since I will unfortunately not be able to be at the NSC this year, I will make my appreciatory acceptance remarks here online. First, all credit to Dwight for setting up a successful framework for the outreach effort. Before he got sidetracked with 'real world' work (as I am now), Dwight's quizbowl ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 12-13
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28302
Re: Tennessee 12-13
There was another quizbowl(ish?) tournament yesterday at UT-Martin that attracted 25 teams from elementary (!) through high school. I had never heard of any other NW Tennessee quiz bowl competition before, but they mentioned that they were using NAQT rules though apparently not NAQT questions. That'...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ABC 2013 @ Vanderbilt University (3/30) [IS 124]
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5638
Re: ABC 2013 @ Vanderbilt University (3/30) [IS 124]
The SQBS stats link on the HSQB Database page for this tournament appears to be broken.
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 4:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 12-13
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28302
Re: Tennessee 12-13
Today, Houston High School (next to Memphis) ran a tournament on some kind of bad question set. This, of course, is exact same day that the TACA State Championship was taking place at TN Tech. This is a massive coordination failure, especially since several good, competitive teams weren't at the sta...
- Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT security review: three more cases
- Replies: 61
- Views: 23354
Re: NAQT security review: three more cases
I don't really care about the whole Harvard cheating argument, beyond as a general call for people on the Harvard team and at every other school to keep a much stronger out for people who seem like they could be cheaters. The people who aren't Daichi on last year's Chicago team that stuck to their ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 12-13
- Replies: 51
- Views: 28302
Re: Tennessee 12-13
There used to be tournaments at UMemphis sponsored by the Engineering Dept. (they had awesome massive wooden trophies, which were pretty cool, plus an annual spontaneous piano play-off competition during the lunch break), but I believe the person who organized those went off to MUS or Lausanne where...
- Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: HELP US. 3 DAYS LEFT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6958
Re: HELP US. 3 DAYS LEFT
Also, if you're finding Set C questions too easy, I highly encourage you to come play some regular quizbowl competitions here in Southern California on good questions and against the best competition West of Texas. There's an upcoming tournament at Arcadia on March 23rd (<4 hours drive from Vegas) a...