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UT-Chattanooga will host TRASH Regionals on Saturday, Nov. 10. This is of course an open tournament with no school affiliation required. Tournament registration will begin at 9:15 AM, Eastern time, in Grote Hall, room 129. We'll have announcements at 9:45 AM and begin tournament play at 10 AM. The t...

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Big Lots. (Or maybe I should say Little Lots.) In past years the Big Lots trash tournament has been a mirror of the excellent FOGHAT tournament. As you may know, FOGHAT was postponed indefinitely. We were on the verge of canceling due to a lack of questions, but Michael Kea...

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*sigh* As you probably know, UTC has a high school tournament on Sat., Sept. 29, and a college tournament on Sat., Oct. 20. As you probably guessed, despite new improved bribes, question submissions for both to date have been sparse and/or need major revision. We're writing a lot in-house, but if an...

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As you probaby know, UTC is hosting our fall high school quizbowl, the 10th annual Trevor's Trivia/Bob Selcer Memorial, on Sat. 9/29/2007. The field is getting close to full, with 33 to 35 teams expected (the maximum is 45.) If you want in, we need to know soon. Here are the teams we're expecting as...

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Our general rule of thumb is one or two tossups and one or two bonuses on pop culture/general knowledge in each round. When there are two in a round, I usually try to make one of them what I call "respectable trash" -- mainstream movies/music/sports/gadgets/corporations/games etc. Of cours...

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The UTC Academic Trivia Association will host our 10th annual Center of the Known Universe Open (COTKU) on Sat., Oct. 20, 2007. This will be a one-day academic quizbowl tournament, held on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The tournament is designed for collegiate teams, but ...

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The UTC Academic Trivia Association will hold its 10th annual Trevorâ€™s Trivia: Bob Selcer Memorial High School Quizbowl. Named in memory of a UTC alumnus, author of a regular trivia column as well as many academic quiz questions, this will be a one-day team academic quizbowl competition in Chattan...

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Sorry to be out of touch; between vacation and an avalanche of work waiting for my return, I've let my quizbowl duties slide this month. Here are field updates for next weekend's tournaments at UTC. To refresh your memory: There is an open academic quizbowl tournament on Sat. 6/23. It will be a mirr...

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(Cross-posted from the academic discussion forum) Sorry to be out of touch; between vacation and an avalanche of work waiting for my return, I've let my quizbowl duties slide this month. Here are field updates for next weekend's tournaments at UTC. To refresh your memory: There is an open academic ...

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Confirming Byko's post, this is a regular high school quizbowl, academic in nature with only a smattering of pop culture included in the distribution. The name "Trevor's Trivia" may be confusing, but that was the title of a general knowledge trivia column by the late Bob Selcer in the UTC ...

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Apologies in advance for any cross-posting... As previously announced, UT-Chattanooga will hold two open tournaments the weekend of June 23-24. Packet submission is not required for either tournament, though there are considerable discounts available for those willing to write. On Sat., June 23, 200...

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Apologies in advance for any cross-posting... As previously announced, UT-Chattanooga will hold a delayed mirror of the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament as an open quizbowl tournament. This will be a one-day tournament in Chattanooga on Sat., June 23, 2007. This tournament is open t...

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For your scheduling convenience, here are UT-Chattanooga's tournament plans for fall 2007, and tentative plans for spring 2008: Sat. 9/29 -- Trevor's Trivia: Bob Selcer Memorial High School Quizbowl Sat. 10/20 -- Center of the Known Universe Open (collegiate academic) Sun. 10/21 -- Big Lots (trash, ...

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Here's another preliminary announcement for your scheduling convenience: Barring any unforeseen developments, UT-Chattanooga will host its eleventh annual Dennis Haskins Open High School Quizbowl on Sat., March 1, 2008. Details will follow at a (much) later date.

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This is to let you know that UT-Chattanooga will hold its tenth annual Trevor's Trivia: Bob Selcer Memorial High School Quizbowl on Sat., Sept. 29, 2007. Full details will follow at a later date.

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Full results for the 2007 Moon Pie Classic are below. Congratulations to Virginia Tech A, which defeated Kentucky in a playoff for the Division I championship, and Georgia B, which won Division II. In Division I, Florida State took 3rd and UTC A was 4th. In Division II, Georgia B was 2nd, Louisville...

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Cross-posting this to both the Moon Pie discussion and its spinoff... When I was looking through the archives, I found a discussion thread that deserves to be brought into this one. The first post does an excellent job of laying out the biggest issues that editors face, and the unfortunate consequen...

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Back to Moon Pie for a moment: When I was looking through the archives, I found a discussion thread that deserves to be brought into this one. The first post does an excellent job of laying out the biggest issues that editors face, and the unfortunate consequences, but it does so in a respectful and...

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Dumb, maybe, but not unprecedented. From the mid-Eighties through about 1997, Tennessee (Knoxville) had one of the most active programs in the country, hosting two high school tournaments and maybe two collegiate tournaments a year when that was rare. In the fall of 1997, as I understood it, there w...

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I ought to just let this thread lie, but there's something that's been gnawing at me since it started. Jerry said: Oh shit, the problem with every tournament ever and then some! I don't know what the problem with your region is, but I suspect it's because everyone knows UTC hardly does any editing a...

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Ole Griz is right. When I gave David a basic "how-to" list for editing, I neglected to mention page breaks, so I'll take the blame there. I guess I've gotten spoiled -- in the mid-Nineties when I was just an occasional moderator, page breaks were virtually nonexistent, and I've made a poin...

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Hoss Cartwright wrote: Charlie has spoiled the Southeast rotten with shitty questions. Interesting, considering your reaction to the last tournament I edited: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3562 I wasn't completely satisfied with that set myself, but if you actually read all the pa...

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Congratulations to The Trailers (Joseph Dion, Wally Edmondson, Seth Kendall, John Kilby), winners of the senior division at the RC Cola Classic at UT-Chattanooga on 4/29. Congratulations also to one of Virginia Tech's teams, winners of the junior division. Full standings, stats, etc. will follow in ...

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Oh, this is rich. Matt wrote: I don't know dude, it seems that Swarthmore somehow got the impression that "I" did the above. They could be horribly distorting the facts as many people in quizbowl are wont to do, but I'm getting kind of tired of being blamed for shit I had nothing to do wit...

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Before further debate on Moon Pie, there's something those of you who weren't at Moon Pie itself don't know: We had a switch in editors about a month ago. I got buried in a major rush project at work, and David Moore (who was originally slated to assist) bravely offered to step in and take over as e...

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Thanks to everyone who responded to our 11th-hour appeal -- ranging from some of the most experienced trash writers on the planet to a 7th grader taking her first stab at writing questions. With your help, we were able to plug the gaps and lighten the overall level of difficulty at least a little. N...

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Oops -- forgot to add a third Ooltewah team, which will be in the grizzled veterans' division since their faculty includes some serious sharks.

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As things stand now, here are the teams for this weekend's tasty tandem of quizbowl events at UTC. If you see anything amiss, please let us know at utcquizbowl [at] gmail [dot] com. There is still time and room for additional teams to register (at the no-packet rate, of course.) Since there is so mu...

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As things stand now, here are the teams for this weekend's tasty tandem of quizbowl events at UTC. If you see anything amiss, please let us know at utcquizbowl [at] gmail [dot] com. There is still time and room for additional teams to register (at the no-packet rate, of course.) Since there is so mu...

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I saw the discussion re TRASHionals, and it just happens to tie into our situation re RC Cola this weekend. Right now we have enough questions to scrape by, but a lot of them are just too hard for half the field we expect (we have 8 or 9 novice teams, including four from high schools.) Anyone who ta...

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If anyone has any news on (or better yet, from ) members of the Virginia Tech quizbowl team, please post it here. It's bad enough when you read a news story like this in the abstract, but when you know people who may have been there... [Note: Edited to remove avatar, which popped out as painfully in...

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As you probably know, UT-Chattanooga is hosting a weekend of lip-smacking quizbowl fun in late April. We'll host a collegiate academic tournament, the Moon Pie Classic, on Sat. 4/28/07, washed down with an open trash tournament on Sun. 4/29, the RC Cola Classic. We have enough novice teams signed up...

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The field for UTC's Moon Pie Classic so far stands at 15-16 teams (7 Div. I, 8-9 Div. II.) A list of expected teams follows below. (For info on the RC Cola trash tournament 4/29/07, see the Trash forum.) But first, we have fee and packet deadline changes to announce: The Moon Pie base fee is hereby ...

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For those who need a quizbowl and/or trash fix to get them through the summer, UTC is here for you again in 2007. We will host an open delayed mirror of the NAQT High School National Championship on Sat., June 23. Then on Sun., June 24, we'll hold our Summer Camp trash tournament. This year Summer C...

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For those who need a quizbowl fix to get them through the summer, UTC is here for you again in 2007. We will host an open delayed mirror of the NAQT High School National Championship on Sat., June 23. Then on Sun., June 24, we'll hold our Summer Camp trash tournament. This year Summer Camp will be a...

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I'd be glad to work with a West Coast mirror site. We also have mirrors in the works for Oklahoma and the Boston area. Stay tuned for further bulletins...

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UTC A.T.A. will host the eighth annual RC Cola Classic trash tournament on Sun., April 29, 2007, in scenic Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is a one-day trash tournament open to all players. Packet submission by each team is expected, but (as usual) there's a loophole. As with past editions, this will b...

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The 10th annual Dennis Haskins Open High School Quizbowl was held at UT-Chattanooga on Sat. 3/3/2007. Congratulations to Detroit Catholic Central (MI) A, winners of Division I (varsity), and Brindlee Mtn. (AL) C, winners of Division II (jr. varsity grades 7-10). They came out on top in a very compet...

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The Haskins field just keeps growing, and we're close to capacity. Right now we expect 37 teams -- 24 in Division I (varsity), 10 in Division II (junior varsity -- grades 7-10), and three with division unknown at present. If you want in, you'd better let us know ASAP. Please e-mail us at utcquizbowl...

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UTC has a high school tournament coming up on Sat. 3/3/07. We include a modest amount of pop culture in our distribution. I can write trash, of course, but those of you who attended high school sometime since the Carter Administration might be better qualified to judge what is and isn't suitable for...

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With eleven days to go, we now expect 23 teams for the Dennis Haskins Open High School Quizbowl at UTC 3/3/2007. There is still room for more teams. If you do want to bring a team, we need to know by Thurs. 3/1/07 at the latest, and we need to know whether your team(s) will be in Division I or Divis...

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Congratulations again to South Florida and Alabama A, winners of Division I and Division II (respectively) at NAQT Sectionals Southeast, held at UTC Sat. 2/10/07. Full results and stats follow below, but first some gratitude is in order. Our tournament staff, which ranged from veteran readers to qui...

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Congratulations to the winners at NAQT SCT Southeast, held at UTC 2/10/07:

Division I
1st: South Florida
2nd: Florida A
3rd: Vanderbilt A
4th: Florida State (also #1 for Div. I Undergrad)

Division II
1st: Alabama A
2nd: Florida B
3rd: Georgia B
4th: Vanderbilt B

Full results and stats to follow...

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Revisiting this topic, I kept thinking there were more minority-themed questions in Sword Bowl than this discussion would indicate. So I went back through the Sword Bowl 2007 (and 2006) packets, scanning through the answers for African and African-American topics. I did find fewer such questions ove...

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Add two more Division I teams to the list -- South Florida and a second team from Tennessee. We're now at 8 in Div. I and 12 in Div. II. Stay tuned for further bulletins...

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Matt wrote: I'm glad that you guys are conscientious enough to make arrangements for these things on your own, but it speaks ill of NAQT that they just sent the questions that will be used at SCT out for use at a different event a week ago. Some teams are notably less scrupulous, plus innocent mista...

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Whoops - I left out Emory (1 Div. II). So we're at 6 in Div. I and 13 in Div. II as of Tues. PM.

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Here's the field for NAQT Sectionals Southeast (at UTC 2/10/07) as we have it through 10 PM EST Tuesday 2/6. We do still have room, but we need to hear from you by Thursday night at the latest. E-mail us at utcquizbowl [at] gmail [dot] com. Alabama: 3 teams (3 Div. II) Berry: 1 team (1 Div. II) Flor...

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My comments interlined below... In the quizbowl world in the last few years, many tournaments have gravitated to either of two poles. ACF and like-minded independent tournaments have emphasized packet submission and the quality of question construction; they've also pushed for more challenging subje...

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UTC is seeking freelance questions for its upcoming high school tournament, the Dennis Haskins Open on March 3. Those who are coming to the Moon Pie Classic in late April will note that they can get deep discounts for submitting high school packets for our use. If you're not coming to Moon Pie, then...

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TRASH Southeast Regionals (11/10/07) at UT-Chattanooga

Big Lots (trash) at UT-Chattanooga Sun. 10/21/07

Trolling for freelance questions and/or mirrors (again)

FIELD UPDATE: Trevor's Trivia/Selcer Memorial at UTC 9/29

COTKU at UTC 10/20/2007

RESULTS: Trevor's Triv./Selcer Mem. (9/29/07) at UTC

FIELD UPDATE: NAQT HS NCT Open Mirror at UTC 6/23/07

FIELD UPDATE: Summer Camp trash at UTC 6/24/07

Summer Camp at UTC 6/24/07 (and open acad tourn 6/23)

NAQT HS NCT open mirror at UTC Sat. 6/23/07

UTC tournament schedule for 2007-08

Preliminary announcement: Dennis Haskins Open at UTC 3/1/08

Preliminary announcement: Trevor's Trivia at UTC 9/29/07

RESULTS: Moon Pie Classic (4/28/07) at UTC

Brief results: RC Cola Classic at UTC 4/29/07

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What you don't know...

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FIELD UPDATE: RC Cola Classic at UTC 4/29/07

FIELD UPDATE: Moon Pie Classic at UTC 4/28/07

Trash for a younger generation

BULLETIN: Virginia Tech tragedy

RC Cola @ UTC 4/29/07: novice division info, field update #1

Moon Pie Classic 4/28/2007: field update #1

UTC summer tournaments June 23-24: preliminary announcement

UTC summer tournaments June 23-24: preliminary announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT: RC Cola Classic (4/29/07) at UT-Chattanooga

RESULTS: Dennis Haskins Open (3/3/07) @ UTC (Chattanooga TN)

Field update: Dennis Haskins Open at UTC 3/3/07

Freelance request: high school level pop culture questions

Field update: Dennis Haskins Open at UT-Chattanooga 3/3/07

RESULTS: NAQT Sectionals SE at UTC 2/10/2007

Quick results: NAQT SCT Southeast

NAQT Sectionals SE at UTC 2/10/07: field update

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Freelance questions sought for high school tournament