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I'm bumping this to point out that we're hosting MUT in less than two weeks in Bowling Green, KY. There are a lot of teams within a 8 hour drive of our campus who have yet to play this tournament (basically everybody in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia...

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My uncle was on the academic team when I was a kid, and my parents used to take me to watch the games. A few times the team would let me practice with them, and while 5 year old me was not really useful, I knew a handful of things and liked having a buzzer that made cool noises. My elementary school...

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The solution isn't to punish teams who leave early; the solution is for TDs to have reasonable expectations about when tournaments will end and communicate those predictions with teams interested in attending. The problem with reasonable expectations is that plenty of teams show up to tournaments w...

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I agree with Jonah that strange situations where a tournament falls apart should be excluded from a discussion of regular practices. But in the many, many cases where this happens at a relatively normal tournament: I'm seeing two schools of thought on how a tournament should operate and be treated b...

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If both teams forfeit the game we use to decide who wins the tournament, then I'm not sure either team deserves to win the tournament. Maybe the 3rd place team does, if they're willing to play the whole tournament, but I'm not committed to that. What I know is that we don't give out these tournament...

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I have a few times that may be considered the lowest points in my career, although how I've responded to each of them is probably why I'm still playing quizbowl: 1) KAAC format (especially for middle schools) in 2003 was pretty horrible, but we didn't know anything else and so we pretty much were wr...

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Right now we have some semblances of a field forming. Tomorrow or Monday I'll try to email some more teams to figure out exactly what our field will look like. Right now I have:

Field
Louisville (1 teams)
Vanderbilt (1 team)
Wright State (1 team)
WKU (1 team)

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I don't currently have plans for the month of July, and I've always wanted to go to CO in some capacity, so I'm a free agent for this. I know some US History and a little bit of post-1900 history in Europe and Latin America. I'd prefer to play with somebody who knows other things. Unfortunately I d...

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I'm going to be pursuing a PhD in Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville starting this fall. I plan to continue playing quizbowl at UofL.

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College History Bowl (1000-1)

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In the course of studying for ICT, I wrote a packet of super-hard (but by no means impossible) history questions that I can read to people in the hotel on Saturday night or Sunday morning if there is enough interest. The packet consists of 21 seven-line tossups without powermarks that follow the di...

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Victor's original point - "experienced players, please don't just try to bulldoze your way into points (and think about if that's how you're coming off even if it's not your intent)" - was a good one. It's a good point, but I'm pretty sure everyone who has been in quizbowl for a while has...

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Victor's original point - "experienced players, please don't just try to bulldoze your way into points (and think about if that's how you're coming off even if it's not your intent)" - was a good one. It's a good point, but I'm pretty sure everyone who has been in quizbowl for a while has...

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But in the last 7-10 years, since my kids started being teenagers, we've seen all kinds of food, brought by all kinds of people, for teenagers to social non-quizbowl events, at all times of day or night, and seen it go mostly uneaten/thrown out because everyone 's on some sort of "diet"--...

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I think of Fred's rankings similar to KenPom rankings in college basketball, which are based on offensive and defensive efficiency. There is no way to perfectly predict performance (which is why we play the season) but there is a place for a statistical ranking using the most non-biased statistics w...

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Is there a plan to have an open online (or offline) mirror of this as there was last year? Yes, we will do this. I myself look forward to playing it again, as long as the date works. It would be good to do this prior to NHBB high school Nationals for HS teams who are interested in trying a harder s...

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Based on the results posted from the Kentucky NAQT State Championship, the following teams earned Goldenrod Cup points: 1. Glasgow A (10 points) 2. DuPont Manual A (9 points) 3. Gatton Academy A (8 points) 4. Ballard (7 points) 5. Woodford County A (6 points) 6. Dunbar (5 points) 7. Eastern A (4 poi...

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Congratulations to Glasgow High School for winning the 2015 Kentucky NAQT State Championship with a 10-0 record. DuPont Manual finished 2nd, Gatton Academy finished 3rd, and Ballard finished 4th. Olivia Kiser was the top scorer of the tournament. You can currently find stats here , and at some point...

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Kentucky: http://www.kentuckyquizbowl.org

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I want to play CO History so I'll probably be around in some capacity, although part of me just wants to staff the main event. But if you want somebody who may answer a handful of (mostly-US) history questions, neg a lot of other things that you probably know, and maybe help current events/pop cultu...

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I don't currently have plans for the month of July, and I've always wanted to go to CO in some capacity, so I'm a free agent for this. I know some US History and a little bit of post-1900 history in Europe and Latin America. I'd prefer to play with somebody who knows other things.

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We have 16 teams currently registered for this Saturday's tournament. I know it's likely that teams will add or drop, and I know we'll be in flux for a little while, but I would like teams to have their registrations (how many teams, buzzers, and staffers they are bringing) locked in by 9 PM CT on T...

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Posted this in the middle school forum thread, but posting it here as well. Middle school state is being postponed due to Snowpocalypse '15. We'll be able to confirm an alternate date once schools are back open to check the facilities calendar. Also, Nick, to the best of my knowledge, Glasgow MS ha...

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The WKU Academic Competition Club will be hosting a mirror of the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament (MUT) in Bowling Green, KY on May 2, 2015. This tournament is aimed at collegiate academic teams and high performing high school teams in the southeast region. Location The tournament will likely tak...

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WKU is hosting a mirror of the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament on May 2, in lieu of a late-spring high school tournament. High school teams attending national tournaments are encouraged to register anyway, as this set is not quite collegiate regular difficulty and the levels of questions and comp...

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Coldblueberry wrote:There's just more stuff to ask about and more people that know this stuff.

On the whole I'm not sure this is a good standard to base the quizbowl distribution on.

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We're missing hundreds of bonus points in both games against South Carolina I will fix this in the morning. Thanks! I sent you an email with what scores/info I have from those games (which I checked at the end of each game with what I heard from the scorekeepers,) and also another instance involvin...

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We're missing hundreds of bonus points in both games against South Carolina

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My understanding of the Missouri circuit is that, at least in the last couple years, tournaments held at the University of Missouri do not draw well for a variety of factors. I would suspect that was true for this year's Regionals as well, especially considering the healthy number of teams attending...

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We have 13 spots left in the NAQT Kentucky State Championship tournament, which will be hosted by the Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance at WKU on February 28. Teams are encouraged to register as soon as possible, with more information about the tournament located here . To register, please email wkuquizbow...

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I will say that I personally am open to amending the rule such that it starts the clock upon the first time someone plays a college tournament, at least for UG status if not D2, and gets rid of the time-since-high-school provision. I think this is a fair step, and one that recognizes that people wh...

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I don't see why the number of years since high school graduation matters at all when it comes to quiz bowl; to me, what matters is quiz bowl experience, and this is why there is value in awarding UG and DII titles in addition to the overall title. I think this is an important point that has, quite ...

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If UG and D2 titles weren't important there would be no point in having them in the first place. My understanding is that these titles exist to give less experienced players time in quizbowl so they can adjust to how hard it is to actually win things, and allow new teams to have more reasonable path...

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Players can no longer extend Undergraduate eligibility by taking time off from college or quizbowl. I'm fine with keeping the eligibility clock running for students who remain in college without playing quizbowl, but I find it ridiculous that students who take time off from college are going to be ...

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We currently have 11 teams registered for this with a month to go. If you haven't registered yet, do so soon, because you're running out of time to compete for a state championship.

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gyre and gimble wrote:Is there going to be a West Coast mirror?

Or for that matter, a Southeast mirror? There's a big hole in a 500 mile radius around the state of Georgia that could probably be filled with the slightest bit of outreach.

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Based on the results posted from the Fleming County Academic Tournament, the following teams earned Goldenrod Cup points: 1st Place - Johnson Central (10 points) 2nd Place- Russell A (9 points) 3rd Place- Dunbar and Daviess County (7.5 points each) [(8+7)/2] 5th Place- Simon Kenton and West Jessamin...

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It turns out we're not coming to this, so you can take us off the field/spreadsheet/whatever.

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Auroni wrote:Thanks to Nick Conder for the American Colossus audiobook series!

You're welcome!

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Thanks to Fred for a copy of The Thin Blue Line!

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I think last year we talked about what we all felt was the actual best music of 2013, which I found much more enjoyable. But since we need a narrowly defined list to vote on, let's dispense with discussing the pile of crap that people listened to on the radio this year. First I'll highlight a few so...

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Special Dishonorable Mention: One Direction - "Story of My Life": A solidly average song that commits the mortal sin of making it slightly harder for me to find the vastly superior Social Distortion song of the same title. If they'd just covered Social D they'd have the top song of the ye...

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I sent my gift yesterday. Amazon projects it to arrive sometime between December 15 and December 31. I'm optimistic that it will be there by Christmas.

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EDIT (12/7, 9:16 AM) Kentucky C dropped yesterday and Gatton dropped this morning due to illness. We won't be using a house team and instead threw together an 8 team, 10 round schedule on the fly. Round 1 is underway and stats will appear periodically throughout today.

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How many packets are there in the final set?

EDIT: Never mind, I think I found that it's 15.

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Purdue and Notre Dame have active teams. You're in a pretty good location with several active teams in all of Indiana's neighboring states as well.

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The field is currently at 10 teams. I'll send out an email with logistical information later this week, possibly as early as Wednesday. If you're planning on dropping teams, or if there's somebody out there on the fence about attending, I'll need to know ASAP.

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I think it's clear that Kenneth has no idea what in the hell he's talking about, and I'm astounded that ASU ever had a team if he had any hand in its founding. There are teams all over the country who aren't perceived as the top school in their state that have teams, and considering that UIC has nea...

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Field
Apollo
Ballard
Eastern A
Eastern B
Dunbar
Gatton A
Gatton B
Glasgow A
Glasgow B
Manual A
Manual B
Woodford County A
Woodford County B

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The Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance will be hosting the Kentucky NAQT State Championship on February 28, 2015 at WKU. To register, please email [email protected]

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