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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:I hope you find an eleventh team so you can support a bye.
In the event that no team materializes out of the ether, we'll be fielding a house team of my novice freshmen, for that very purpose.

Why isn't Danville sending a team? It's not like they have to travel far. Or at all.

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powerplant wrote: DuPont Mañuel

Nice one.

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I will be there on an "open team" with Scott Blain and Cole Phelps from Grayson County, along with a guy who graduated from Grayson County in 2007. We'll have 2 people for the Visual Arts tournament and will be bringing a buzzer system. I haven't played quizbowl in 9 months (although that's better t...

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I'm kind of glad it's gone. This tourney has drawn some good teams away from real nationals the last couple years, including the KY State Champions (Johnson Central, who won NTAE) last year. Hopefully

goes the way of Panasonic sometime soon.

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grapesmoker wrote:Are teams intending to come to this?

I'm talking to some other people at WKU about this, but nothing is definite right now.

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:
Frater Taciturnus wrote:
Carangoides ciliarius wrote:1) What's up with the person only voting for 15 teams?
Which voter is this?
Whoever "Noreiga" is?

The post on the front page indicates that a Kevin Noriega voted in the poll. I have no clue who that is.

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Well, last night I moderated 3 rounds and watched a 4th at the 12th District tournament, so I figure I'll give some observations on the question: 1) Definitely improved. They're not perfect yet, but I applaud KAAC for another step in the right direction. 2) With that being said, there was a lot of v...

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Hey guys, do you know any good websites with alot of information on music theory, composers, and stuff that is relevant to competitions? I'm pretty new to quizbowl and I'm assigned Music Theory for my "specialty" and I'd like to get to know it alot better. Thanks for the help, Burt Welcome to quizb...

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I'm really liking this field so far. I'm definitely going to talk to some 3rd Region teams about coming, and hopefully some will do so.

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Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote:I'm surprised Horace Greeley didn't get any votes.

*insert 1872 Presidential Election joke here*

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WKU will be there with one team, although if the other people interested in going aren't able to make it, it will just be me playing solo.

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This is an intriguing idea. I think it'd be an interesting ecumenical pursuit if people from different denominations collaborated on the set, and maybe even different churches could compete on it as well.

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FCPanther wrote:Any districts actually get to play today? When are most people planning to make things up, our district (38th) will go on Monday.

As far as I know, the 12th District (Grayson, Edmonson, Ohio, and McLean) is planning to make up the Written part on Tuesday and the Quick Recall on Thursday.

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As a second-year coach of a second-year team, the challenge I'm facing is not in question quality so much as answer-line accessibility. The kids I coach simply don't know enough answers to make the game fun. "Good quizbowl" is for good teams. We, simply put, aren't. We recently played an NAQT A-pac...

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OK, I've held off saying much about this because I don't want to jump into the crossfire. However, I need to say something that I feel is pertinent to the discussion that has arisen. Over the last year (about the amount of time I've frequented this place), I have been told by a few people in the qui...

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The writing guidelines KAAC has posted on their website ask for questions that most people would recognize as improved or possibly even good. If the GovCup questions follow the ideas they've lined out (multiple clues in descending order of difficulty, etc.) then they should be better questions.

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I agree with you on the thing about different regions. In my opinion, everyone here is tied together by quizbowl, and where someone is from doesn't make their arguments any more or less valid.

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District competition is scheduled for this week. Naturally, that means there has to be snow in the forecast...

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Social Science is definitely underrepresented in NAQT in my opinion, especially considering that it covers a wide range of important topics like Psychology, Economics, and Government. Also, having nearly 2/2 geography in a match is a little bit too much if you ask me, espeically considering that Geo...

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I think it's a great idea, and one I plan on using with Grayson County. I'm not yet sure if we'll be able to get the Middle School team to agree to it, but I would like to see them get to 1 or 2 HS tournaments this semester. I know several middle school teams that attend High School JV tournaments o...

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"Hey guys, some people believe that bad things are actually good and fake things are actually real, and it's important to cater to those beliefs because--" Because they are very set in them and it's going to be difficult to change their minds. Going into it full force and telling them everything th...

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Charles brings up a good point, which is basically location. In places like Illinois or the Mid-Atlantic, good quizbowl (or even average quizbowl) is easy to find, and on most weekends at that. I'm thinking more along the lines of places like Kentucky, Missouri, etc. where it's much more rare. There...

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The main argument for attending poor tournaments seems to be that they prepare teams for state-based competitions while good quizbowl does not. Until such competitions are improved, is that argument sound?

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As I was browsing the Illinois section I came across a statement that made me wonder about something: Stop going to tournaments run badly and with bad, unfair rules. Should teams attend local tournaments that are ran on bad questions and in bad formats? Kentucky really doesn't have a great schedule ...

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grayson77 wrote: our coaches don't really want to risk trudging to West Virginia in the snow.

I just want to note that I was all for sending a team to West Virginia regardless of weather, but I don't make scheduling decisions.

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Has anyone in Kentucky thought about mirroring the Collaborative Middle School Tournament? I think it would be really interesting to see how KY middle schools do at good quizbowl.

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If you look at the actual numbers of teams that play quizbowl tournaments in Kentucky, or any other state under these systems, the number gets much closer to what you would expect in any normal circuit. To construe Kentucky as a state where every team is into quizbowl is ignoring what's actually go...

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I am convinced that the key to KAAC's success (success = 90% + participation rate in HS) is that it's quiz bowl-type product, QR, is one piece of the Governor's Cup, instead of being a stand-alone product as it is in other areas. I understand it started with top-down support from Government. Howeve...

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I'll admit that I had plenty of fun with quick recall. But I had even more fun playing quizbowl.

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I am considering creating a similar program here in North Carolina. Unless you’re the Governor of North Carolina, you’re gonna have a hard time replicating it too much. It’s a function of our state government, and it probably wouldn’t be as successful if it weren’t. OK, for a moment, everyone pleas...

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You should never say "titular event" in the first line of a toss-up on The Lottery. Just Sayin'. If you buzzed in and got the tossup off of "titular event" than I have two things to say: 1) Great job. 2) Don't make a habit of that. As someone who used to be way too buzzer drunk, I can assure you th...

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We're roughly 4 hours from both UT-Knoxville and a bit closer to IU-Bloomington. If we decide to go to SCT this year we'll have to make a decision on whether to make the slightly shorter trip or go to Knoxville and play in our region.

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Does Lexington HS even have a quizbowl team? No, because it doesn't exist... Now, there is a Lexington Catholic, Lexington Christian, Tates Creek, Sayre, Bryan Station, Lafayette, Henry Clay, and Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lexington, KY...but no Lexington High School. I'd have to say that's probably a...

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Right now Louisville and Centre are the only KY schools with actual functioning programs that compete in quizbowl. Western Kentucky will join those two either next semester or next year. Transylvania, Georgetown, Pikeville, Eastern Kentucky, Murray State, Pikeville, Ohio Southern (which is in Northe...

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One of the biggest problems I've seen recently is that Grayson County is very inconsistent. I was like this as a player, and I was hoping that the team's inconsistency would fade now that I have graduated. But it hasn't. I've noticed wild swings in our team's performance from game to game, and even ...

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Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS wrote:
soaringeagle22 wrote:3) Luke Maupin is extremely good. He put up 130 points on our team yesterday, and that was the best performance I have ever seen..
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/vcuwinter/2/a ... duals.html

I should have distinguished that as the best I've ever seen personally.

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A few observations from this tournament: 1) I thought the event was very well organized, and the hosts did an excellent job of making sure everything went smoothly. All of the moderators we came across were pretty good, and we really didn't have much problem throughout the day. 2) Dunbar B is fast. ...

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Well, I'm in the process of establishing a team here at WKU, and I could give you the whole recruiting pitch on why we deserve a look. But since you're more interested in leaving the state I can't really help you much.

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centralhs wrote:Maybe we should require people to answer immediately after buzzing in.

This is the rule in Kentucky and it's absolutely terrible. Even a split second pause is hesitation, and half the time the person goes ahead and says it as the moderator is calling hesitation.

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we had a kid ruled incorrect because a question asked for the site of a battle, and he responded with "Battle of ________." He was ruled incorrect because "the question just asks for the site, and you named the battle." This is one of the most terrible rulings I've ever heard of. If it happened at ...

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We also have to jump forward an hour because of time zones (fun fact: my home in NE Grayson Co. is close enough to the line that my cell phone tells me it's an hour ahead of what time it is occasionally) so we probably won't be getting to the area until after 8 PM Dayton time. Seeing as Ohio is a bi...

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If teams are good enough to play up to the next level, then they shouldn't be prevented from doing so. If middle schoolers are good enough to compete on the high school level, then let them. If high schoolers are good enough to compete with college teams, then let them! Saying that top teams getting...

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Blitzing rules vary all over. A lot of highly regarded formats accept it. KAAC (Kentucky format) only allows for extra information so long as a student isn't "fishing for an answer" which is interpreted by most people as not really allowing students to blitz. Also, there's a rule only needing to pro...

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I'm not sure about official rules, but I'd think if it's obvious you're player knew the correct answer then I would go ahead and award the points. Mainly because the most dreaded words I've ever heard from officials are "Well, your technically right, but the paper says..." C.S. Lewis wrote the Chron...

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As far as I know, Grayson is interested. Once I get confirmation, I'll get you the contact info.

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I do think it'll be interesting to see how teams from the two states compare, but there are some big abscences from both states that leads me to believe that it won't be a true read on how each state stacks up against the other. But for fun comparisons, this tournament will be great. As far as I kn...

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I do think it'll be interesting to see how teams from the two states compare, but there are some big abscences from both states that leads me to believe that it won't be a true read on how each state stacks up against the other. But for fun comparisons, this tournament will be great.

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My personal coffers are empty because coffee, my debit card learned this morning, ain't cheap. I hear ya man. East Midwest (OH, PA, KY) Centre College This makes me happy. Now I just need to convince the other few people at WKU that I know are interested in quizbowl to come to Danville with me in F...

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People should definitely consider relations here, especially since most of us wouldn't be where we are without them. I would have blown off quizbowl for my graduation, because I have some relatives who never got the chance to go to high school, and it's definitely a big deal to them when one of us g...

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Random draws are usually not the most fair way to do things, as has been discussed in the quizbowl community on multiple occasions. If you're going to run a tournament, you should make an effort to provide balanced pools, or at least pools as balanced as possible. This might require people to put in...

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