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The tournament had a Lisgar/Lisgar final, a 3rd-place Earl of March team that had the best stats on paper, a Glebe team and 7 Colonel By teams.

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Ridley College wants to host a tournament for teams in the St. Catharines area (the coach is the Niagara Reach coordinator, so some teams are on board). It is scheduled for November 30, which is a Wednesday; I haven't got a reply to see if that date is set in stone, but it may have to do with room r...

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Monocle wrote:Will this be in Brooks again?

It should be. There are no room conflicts with the new date.

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The seventh Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament will be held at the University of Ottawa on November 26, 2011. Note that this is a change from the previously-mentioned date because of room reservation conflicts. This tournament will use an NAQT IS set without computation tossups and up to 1/1 of substituted ...

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Queen's would like to have a tournament in January and UToronto is planning one for late November (19/26/Dec 3). They are expected to cater to the Kingston area and GTA, respectively, though all visiting teams are welcome. I will provide more details as they get settled. Separately, the overdue anno...

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I don't know how far you've been investigating this, but your first step should be with U of A's student group administration . Becoming a club isn't mandatory, but it does come with perks like access to money and room reservations. It looks like club formation at Alberta only needs 10 signatures an...

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On behalf of the ONQBA, I'd like to welcome Ontario quizbowlers to the new school year. I have several things to announce: Contacting the ONQBA The ONQBA now has a website, www.onqba.ca . The website will have, amongst other things, a list of upcoming tournaments , our tournament certification proce...

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In the 1970s, Ken Kowalski coached a Reach for the Top team at a school in Barrhead, Alberta: Kowalski offered RFTT as a credit course in Barrhead. Students spent the class researching and writing out possible game questions. In all, 100,000 questions were compiled. Players were selected not because...

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If you are hosting (or thinking about hosting) a high school tournament in Ontario this year and would like your tournament to appear in the pre-season newsletter we will be mailing to schools across the province, please let me know by August 31. A tentative date, name, and contact info would be suf...

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Ottawa's health sciences faculty is catered toward the student athletes and material that would be relevant to their athletic development, along with non-athlete students entering fitness or therapy related careers. One program is a track that leads to medicine. Examples of subjects would be nutriti...

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Ottawa will continue to host the oldest high school quizbowl tournament in Canada, the OQT. I will nag the current Ottawa crew to make sure it happens. November 19 seems the most logical choice, so that conflict with ACF Fall (Nov 5) and Buffalo's tournament (Nov 12) is reduced. I am encouraging th...

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Thank you to those members who voted. Our primary tasks are to have a website and newsletter ready for the upcoming school year. If you are planning a high school tournament, we invite you to contact us so we can advertise it (and certify it, when applicable). Hosts from other provinces/states are w...

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I think the most valuable thing people can do for the Wiki is interview people who were around between 1970 and 2000 to try to get information about archaic-era quizbowl before more figures from that era die or lose contact with anyone else in quizbowl who knows how to find them. In addition to thi...

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Any ONQBA members have one vote for each position, which may not be used for themselves. You should be able to vote for yourself, unless you mean that a member submitting a ballot can't throw their own name on at the last minute. With me as president, pending the approval of the incoming executive,...

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I won't know until very late if I'm available (I will attend if I can, even if only as staff). If I do come, it would be part of a longer vacation in the area, so Ottawa-area people should not depend on me for transportation or lodging.

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Who exactly will be allowed to vote in this election? Does the "having staffed an Ontario tournament" (within some timeframe?) requirement to be a voting member apply currently? Will it just be whoever's been added to the Facebook group? (Sorry if this was made clear somewhere else and I ...

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Who were the initial 10 members? In alphabetical order: Daniel Carter, Britney Castleman, Jamie Cooper, Nick Green, Chris Greenwood, Harry Rusnock, Ben Smith, Joe Su, Sinan Ulusoy, and Di Xiao. Brian McNamara gave input but had to leave early. I've set up a Facebook group Unlike, say, the Reach Fac...

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I propose that future provincials should be at least a full month before this one was in order to attract more teams. Also, what happened with the ONQBA? There's an ONQBA now. Daniel Carter will call for executive candidates and have an election. Your first comment will probably be respected in the...

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The Ontario Quizbowl Association was formed with the attached constitution, ratified by 10 initial members. More members, including those who may want to have an executive position, will be welcomed; the only condition so far on membership is that you must staff at least one "certified" to...

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The draft constitution hasn't really changed, so I guess we'll use it as the starting point on Saturday. It appears we will meet after the main tournament. For those that can't attend, I expect that no policies or executives will be decided that day; instead, there will be some form of online or ema...

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What about people who are interested but cannot make it to Guelph on Saturday? It depends on how interested you (or other people who can't make it) are. If you just want to be a member that can vote, I imagine the constitution will be open enough to allow anyone in by signing up, especially before ...

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I'm not implying that I should be in charge (or even given an executive position), but I'll offer to get a first draft for a charter out roughly a week before the in-person meeting. Prospective members can review it, bring suggestions for amendments to the meeting, and approve the charter in a vote...

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Before this Thursday, I should know if there will be space available in my hotel and/or rental car for anyone coming from Ottawa or the eastern 401 corridor. FYI the Best Western is sold out (when I tried to reserve). I'm staying at the Days Inn instead. If anyone wants to take space in my car, ple...

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In Reach nationals (at an amusement park :roll: ), KV beat out a final 4 that also had three Ontario quizbowling teams. So, when is KV going to start playing QB matches during their annual trips to Ontario tournaments? But seriously, for the past 3-4 years now, the message is clear: If you want to r...

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Before this Thursday, I should know if there will be space available in my hotel and/or rental car for anyone coming from Ottawa or the eastern 401 corridor.

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Since this is actually a topic in the trash forum about BLASTOISE, I've put my thoughts about an association in what is probably a more suitable place: the Ontario HS thread.

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This was mentioned earlier, but I'm looking for people to establish an organization for quizbowl in Ontario (an Ontario Quizbowl Association, you could say). CAQL was developed several years ago for the universities, but there is nothing for the high schools. The most suitable place to create a char...

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I will be unavailable (for non-QB reasons) on the June 18 weekend, but I may be able to help out on June 11 if I get some details through a medium other than Facebook. That tournament would also be the most practical place to finally establish the Ontario quizbowl association idea that has been floa...

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Having played Blastoise, I'd like to say that the tournament is completely inappropriate for the audience indicated by this thread. The academic difficulty is roughly at the level for the Ottawa high school teams that played (although the questions varied wildly between packets - see the round repor...

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I assume I should show up at 9 on Saturday?

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I'll probably look out-of-place playing against HS teams, but I will be playing and will have a packet (independent of whatever Ottawa is doing). I can personally provide one buzzer set.

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I have to put my two cents ihn here, as the founder of a team that's not much more than a semester old: It all comes down to communication. I knew a bit about NAQT from some surfing I did in HS, so I got in contact with a couple of people, and ended up sending two teams from my school (U Buffalo) t...

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Div II finished at least an hour later. Guelph A wins. D2 prelim stats D2 final stats Before the stats get shipped off to NAQT: - Ottawa C/Mac C was entered twice (round 14) - Queen's B/Guelph B has 0 tossups (round 11) - Queen's A/Ottawa B has 0 tossups (round 9) Also, thanks to all the Lisgar peo...

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Susan wrote:What an excellent problem to have--whatever you're doing to get your volunteers to come out, keep it up!

This doesn't account for all the staff, but in Ontario, HS students must complete volunteer hours. The large pool of Lisgar qb players are happy to oblige if we sign their volunteer forms.

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Before anyone asks, YES there will be at least a Pokémon pack of 20 tossups produced by the editors, but that's not the entirety of this tournament. Please tell me that this is a novelty packet for before or after the tournament, and not something that will decide games... Depending on how desperat...

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Any teams want to maybe try and arrange a group rate at a hotel? Not speaking as the host, but you'd be hard-pressed to look for deals at downtown hotels when Ottawa's major winter festival is on. From my experience of the last time Ottawa hosted during the festival, any teams that needed a hotel r...

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What about BOKCHOI? Or the Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament ? As far as I am aware, neither of the TDs asked for affiliation, which is a mighty shame, as Lisgar is actually considering going to PACE NSC this year. PACE changed their policy last year so that hosts have to opt-out of consideration. There i...

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I wasn't the stats person, but since the file was on my computer, an unofficial version of the stats is available at: http://uotrivia.ca/stats/bokchoi/bokchoi_standings.html

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Masked Canadian History Bandit wrote:*Earl of March - 1 team, new to NAQT

Earl of March played in the very first Ottawa HS tournament, but not since. They may be under a new coach.

I will be there in a to-be-determined capacity.

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Don't worry dude, I have it on good word that the new version of HTML will support this word filter across the Internet. I know that the original pages are fine, that's why I said links "between". But since you think I'm an airhead, you can fix these and any other statistics I've posted i...

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Fred wrote:Edit: I will use a new word filter to help teach myself the importance of this information.

And now you have broken the links between this forum and Ottawa's hosted statistics (which have "s t a t s" in the URL). Thanks a lot.

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Stats after prelims: http://uotrivia.ca/stats/oqt10/oqt10prelim_standings.html Overall stats: http://uotrivia.ca/stats/oqt10/oqt10_standings.html Two undefeated teams from the same school met in the final round of the playoffs both clear of third place by 3 wins, so they agreed that the winner of th...

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After morning RR, top bracket of 8 for playoffs is Bell A, Gloucester, Merivale A, and 5 Lisgar teams.

Patrick was top individual.

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I'm somewhat out of the loop, but I've been told that the field is 6 Lisgar, 2 Bell, 2 Merivale, Colonel By, Glebe, Gloucester, and Nepean.

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Judging by the timestamp of Brian's "back in London" post, I'm guessing that Mac could only reserve the rooms until 6 (which has been the case before). Combined with my experience that several Canadian teams have no appreciation for making a tournament run quickly, I'm not surprised they c...

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In the absence of any current Ottawa student saying so, I'll mention that the tournament has been moved to November 20 because of a room reservation conflict.

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November 13 : Ottawa Quizbowl VI @ UOttawa This has been moved to November 20; I guess no current U of O person intervened in the forum thread. Ottawa Hybrid Tournament (50% trash) [sometime around here] I doubt this will continue, since: a) U of O will use up their quota of room reservations for t...

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Stats: http://uotrivia.ca/stats/novice10/novic ... dings.html

All teams are Ottawa. Round 9 is a final. There were exhibition matches between the bye teams in the playoff RR which are not included in the stats.

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bmcke wrote:in a building TBA.

I am 99% sure it will be Brooks, which is available that day and is pretty much the only place left on campus with chairs and tables that aren't bolted down.

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For example, although most of the Canadian teams are in Region 7, I feel as though it's way easier for us to get to Ottawa (Region 2) than it is to go all the way around Lake Erie, across the border, and down to Columbus. Since all the active SW Ontario teams are, by travel distance, closer to Otta...

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