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The Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance is pleased to announce that we'll be hosting the Kentucky NAQT State Championship on February 28, 2015. This year's championship will be hosted on the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. I, Nick Conder, will be directing this tournament with ass...

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We're dropping the house team with the understanding that the field is going to be large enough that we won't need to throw anybody out there. If we end up on 5 teams or some other unfortunate number, they may get added again.

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Does anybody know how this went?

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Nick Conder nicholas.conder105@topper.wku.edu 1. Winter clothing is always nice, especially a nice scarf or a pair of gloves. 2. A documentary DVD of some kind, preferably something historically and/or politically themed. 3. Something to hang on my wall, perhaps a poster makes the most sense, but if...

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Good news everybody! We have a decent field materializing, a lot of people have stepped up to help edit the set since Charlie disappeared, and the easing of rules surrounding who can play this tournament means many of you who had previously ruled out attending should definitely reconsider. This tour...

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People should be aware that this tournament is starting at 9AM. If a tournament host announces that they're starting at 9:30AM, they can't reasonably expect teams to know that they really meant 9AM, especially when the first notice of this was 9 hours before the tournament starts and I assume most ...

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The lack of area teams who even bothered to submit packets does concern me a bit, but this tournament is still happening. We need a field of at least 4 to make this tournament work, and since we have that right now, the plans are all full speed ahead. Getting a few more teams would make this tournam...

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I'll note that our mirror is actually on December 7th

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We also have Playoff Stats. These represent the correct order of finish from yesterday's tournament.

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Combined stats are up. Congratulations to Murfreesboro Central for winning our JV Tournament, to Campbell County for finishing 2nd, and to Manual A for finishing 3rd. Thanks to all the teams who attended and everybody who helped out and staffed the tournament. I hope everybody enjoyed themselves, a...

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Right now we have 12 teams. We'll do two prelim pools of 6, and then after lunch we'll re-bracket into two playoff pools of 6 although we'll be carrying over two games from the morning. After Round 8 we'll have an award ceremony and play a final if necessary.

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1. Morris Fiorina theorized a retrospective version of this political action while Anthony Downs thought people acquired information about doing this as the by-product of everyday life. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this action that V.O. Key argued could successfully be used to hold politicians...

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After the second competition, the Goldenrod Cup standings look like this: 1. Woodford County A (15 points) t2. Gatton Academy A (9 points) t2. Simon Kenton A (9 points) 4. Glasgow A (8 points) 5. DuPont Manual A (7 points) 6. Daviess County (6 points) t7. Calloway County A (5 points) t7. Campbell Co...

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Can I see the bonus on voting?

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We're capping the field at 18 teams. We have 13 teams currently registered and several others interested, so please get your registrations into wkuquizbowl@gmail.com if you want your team to play the tournament. Once we hit 18 we'll start a waitlist, so even when we hit the cap be sure to contact us...

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Bonus conversion was down for all the teams at our mirror compared to their performances so far this year on sets considered to be regular difficulty. Every single player or moderator I talked to at our site thought this set was above regular difficulty. A few of our moderators (perhaps being hyperb...

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After the first event of this competition, the current standings look like this: 1. Gatton Academy A (9 points) 2. Glasgow A (8 points) 3. Woodford County A (7 points) 4. Calloway County A (5 points) 5. Madisonville-North Hopkins A (4 points) 6. Gatton Academy B (3 points) 7. Woodford County B (2 po...

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Congrats to Ezell-Harding for defeating Gatton A in the first game of an advantaged final to win the 5th annual Hilltopper Invitational. Glasgow took 3rd, led by Olivia Kiser's 140 PPG in the prelims. Prelim and playoff stats are on the DB, and combined stats (including the final) should be up relat...

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Due to some unexpected circumstances, I'll be taking over the director operations on Saturday. I wouldn't expect to see many changes in how things are run. Anyway, we've got 16 teams currently in the field. If you'd like to register we can fit in a few more. If you have to drop, we'll need to know A...

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The Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance is pleased to announce the first annual Goldenrod Cup, a year-long competition to reward teams for success at pyramidal quizbowl tournaments hosted in Kentucky. The Goldenrod Cup will be awarded following the conclusion of the last tournament affiliated with this compe...

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Can someone explain the problems of dual enrolled students playing for two different teams? I don't think anyone in this thread has issues with dual enrolled students, although rules proposed to address other issues will be used by people who do have problems with dual enrolled students to complain...

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The no-penalty deadline for packets is this Sunday, so people should be getting those in. We have fairly small field with two months to go, but we can accommodate up to 12 (and possibly more) so please get your registrations in soon!

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Chattahoochee would like to invite teams in Kentucky to attend our annual tournament, the CATT! The questions this year will be a mirror of the UMD set produced by the University of Maryland. As usual, our tournament will be held on the 2nd Saturday in December (12/13/2014) at Chattahoochee's campu...

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- On R9 TU10 (shooting planes), the "9/11 conspiracy theories" clue mostly points to "friendly fire." Unless the editors reworded this clue significantly, that clue doesn't seem to point to "friendly fire" at all. The wackobirds believe that fighter jets shot down Flig...

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Our field is up to 10 teams! Keep those registrations coming in to wkuquizbowl@gmail.com Also note that this tournament is for teams of freshmen and sophomores. If you have a varsity team that wants to play at WKU this fall, we are hosting the Hilltopper Invitational on October 18 for all teams. You...

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You're not likely to draw much of a college field if you plan to use high school questions, and you've acted way too late to get a chance at mirroring most college sets. Hosting a mirror of ICCS or Delta Burke would be a better product for the audience you're trying to reach, and seems to be your be...

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Just in case teams in the Midwest (who haven't played the set at Northwestern on 11/22) are itching to play quizbowl in early December, WKU is hosting a DEES mirror on December 7. Unlike the tournament announced in this thread, our tournament will use actual college questions and won't be on the clo...

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For some reason, I doubt that Yale hosting a tournament 150 miles away is a major reason why Princeton had 14 less teams at their tournament than in 1997.

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Well there are plenty of people in the area (including me) who would be willing to put the stats into SQBS if Ezell wants. I'm done trying to reach out to people to do things when I've repeatedly gotten no response from them though.

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Fida wrote:Did stats happen?

We offered to have somebody keep stats in SQBS, but there was no response from Ezell. As far as I can tell, their scorekeepers were not instructed to keep any stats other than the game scores.

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Note that we have decided to host this tournament on Sunday, December 7.

I've also updated the field, which is starting to come together. Packet deadlines are coming and going, so get to writing your packets!

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I asked the people at UGA and they aren't hosting. There might be a mirror in the southeast if somebody else hosts.

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The top 2 teams from each division will compete in single-elimination playoffs. If I might make a suggestion: I've noticed over the years that it makes more sense determine a champion with a brief round robin playoff instead of single elimination. It would only take an extra round, and I doubt the ...

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We have a history of opening the decision on whether our college tournaments take place on Saturday or Sunday to the teams interested in attending, and this time is no different. I've already heard from Vandy that nothing would prevent them from coming either day, and I know at least one other schoo...

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If voting were to be pushed back, I think it would make sense to wait until some tournaments have actually been run. The only real advantage I can imagine to voting in the first or second week of September is that it would allow people to know if certain freshmen/previously dormant players were sho...

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Unfortunately, that knowledge isn't infinitely available. This isn't a pro sports league where all transactions are public record. On the other hand, it's the preseason; voters will have more opportunities to get informed as the season rolls on. Let me be a person to go on record saying that presea...

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Since these things never include people from the southeast, I can take part in this, probably on either day.

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:Can you all do PPB stats this time please?

In relation to this: We'd be willing to provide you with a statsperson for this tournament. All you have to do is let them go over how to fill out a scoresheet for about 5 minutes before the tournament, and enter the data in throughout the day.

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I don't really run into people who think quizbowl is a bad thing for me to be doing with my time, and anybody who has said negative things about quizbowl is usually not the type of person that spends their weekends curing cancer or eliminating poverty. When I bring up the fact that I spend time host...

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I don't really run into people who think quizbowl is a bad thing for me to be doing with my time, and anybody who has said negative things about quizbowl is usually not the type of person that spends their weekends curing cancer or eliminating poverty. When I bring up the fact that I spend time host...

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Maybe next year people will read this thread, find out which teams have roster changes, and then submit a ballot actually reflecting current reality.

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Maybe we can start by actually calling out these people for their poor jobs than just alluding to them. There seems to be some unwritten rule in this community that format doesn't matter as long as a tournament runs on pyramidal questions and on time, but quite frankly that's just wrong. When Ezell-...

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Maybe we can start by actually calling out these people for their poor jobs than just alluding to them. There seems to be some unwritten rule in this community that format doesn't matter as long as a tournament runs on pyramidal questions and on time, but quite frankly that's just wrong. When Ezell-...

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-Should the (possibly only) prize for winning a tournament be a used book instead of a trophy/plaque/medal? (which, ironically, you mentioned yourself) The very happy medium of trophies/plaques for the top X teams and book prizes for top scorers and players on top teams works incredibly well, in my...

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-Should the (possibly only) prize for winning a tournament be a used book instead of a trophy/plaque/medal? (which, ironically, you mentioned yourself) The very happy medium of trophies/plaques for the top X teams and book prizes for top scorers and players on top teams works incredibly well, in my...

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How could he get even better? Probably by doing something crazy like dual-enrolling at UVA and getting to play a full slate of college tournaments while learning from Mattbo and Tommy. Oh come on, we all know that dual-enrolling in college and playing college tournaments does absolutely nothing to ...

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The Gatton Academy plans to attend. I'll let you know how many teams when we get closer to November.

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Field (10 teams)
Alabama (2 teams)
Gatton Academy (1 team)
Kentucky (2 teams)
Kenyon (1 team)
Louisville (1 team)
Thompson/Lee Open (1 team)
Wright State (1 team)
House team

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The WKU Academic Competition Club will be hosting a mirror of DEES, or Demonstratively Excellent Educational Saturnalia on December 7 in Bowling Green, KY. I, Nick Conder, will be directing this tournament. This is no longer packet-submission, so if you wrote a packet for a discount you'll get that ...

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