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UC Berkeley will be hosting a mirror of the 2012 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament on April 7th. We plan to start the tournament at 9:30 am in Dwinelle Hall. Correction : Berkeley will be following directions posted in the original MUT thread and emailing quizbowl@umn.edu to actually ask if they c...

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Someone should pester Fordham into attending this, although one of their players told me they probably wouldn't actually play a tournament until next year because they are a newly formed team. I believe they went to watch a tournament at Columbia once though, so someone from there might have their c...

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eliza.grames wrote:Logistics: Details to follow in a few months.

See Mike Cheyne's post about the Minnesota site for this information.

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Field:
St. Thomas Academy (2-3)
St. Paul Central
Minneapolis South (2)
St. Agnes

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Claremont says that it is okay if there are both southern and northern California mirrors, so if someone in the Bay Area wants to host that is fine.

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I didn't hear anything about a Berkeley mirror before now, so Claremont College will be hosting a mirror on April 14, which they just confirmed.

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Just a note about eligibility that we finally put up on the main site: This tournament is for undergraduates. You can be any year in playing as an undergraduate as long as you are in a typical degree-earning program. By undergraduate, I am defining as "have not earned a bachelor's degree" ...

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Primarily the latter. As it is, we have yet to receive confirmation that we'd actually have the space to hold a tournament regardless of what set we eventually use. Let me know if you find that you have a space and staff to host a mirror; in the meantime, I'll hold off on actively seeking out NE ho...

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Stony Brook could try to provide the NE mirror for this instead of a high school tournament (only because we do not want to butt heads with my old high school's tournament), but we would need quite a bit of help. Do you mean you would need quite a bit of help with logistics and planning to host a t...

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mtimmons wrote:Maybe this is somewhere earlier in this thread but what is the date of the Minnesota site?

Whoops, I forgot to ever add that - thanks for the reminder! It will be on 4/14.

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Field:
Minnesota (2-4)
Carleton (2-3)
St. Olaf
Lawrence

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we wanted to make sure hardly any...math got into the set (because I don't know anyone who takes computer science or calculus as a freshmen). It's hard to write on math that is accessible to freshmen and sophomores, because at that point most people have only taken basics, algebra, and geometry. In...

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1/1 Physics or Computer Science 1/1 Chemistry or Math 1/1 Biology or Ecology 1/1 Earth Science or Astronomy This part of the distribution seems to be a little random, I can understand ES/Astronomy being paired in an "or" and Bio/Ecology also, but I wonder what your rationale is for having...

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South Carolina has added a second mirror on the east coast. I just wanted to make it clear that this was not an oversight of the VCU mirror, and that VCU told South Carolina that there was not overlap. We still have no mirrors west of Minnesota. If you are interested, please contact me relatively so...

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The University of Minnesota will be hosting ACF Regionals on February 18, 2012. This is a regular difficulty tournament that requires packet submission. Logistics : Location is TBD until I book rooms. The tournament will start at 9:00am, which means teams should arrive by 8:45am. Registration : If y...

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Does anyone have a list of coaches in Wisconsin I can contact regarding History Bowl at Beloit on Jan. 21? I don't have one for Wisconsin, but I'll tell you how I made one for Minnesota that took less than 8 hours. Use NAQT's website, search for schools in WI (the only search term you should enter ...

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1) College Bowl questions were sold under a license of one-time use with the express agreement that you will destroy them afterwards. You were not buying the physical packets, you were buying the right to run one tournament on them. 2) It is obvious that the intention of the thread was to have some...

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I might add that, under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, hsquizbowl.org and it's moderators are protected from vicarious or contributory copyright infringement because of notice-based liability. The only reason that a forum should be locked for questions of copyright violation under DMCA is if h...

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In light of the topic I posted about CBI packets that I need to get rid of being locked by Matt Weiner, I'd like to make a note about copyright law and why that topic should be reopened. 1 - CBI does own the copyright on the actual expression in the packets, and the way the facts were arranged, beca...

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We have boxes and boxes of old CBI questions that are getting kicked out of their storage space. All of the bins are labeled "Pre-1997 CBI" and contain some delightfully bad questions. If anyone wants some of these, shoot me an email (grame012 at umn.edu) and I can save some for you and g...

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Susan wrote:In the spirit of CBI, I am going to call the internet cops on you for attempting to distribute those rather than destroy them, as I vaguely recall we were told to do with old CBI questions.

Is that because they're terrible, or because CBI owns the copyright on them?

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We have boxes and boxes of old CBI questions that are getting kicked out of their storage space. All of the bins are labeled "Pre-1997 CBI" and contain some delightfully bad questions. If anyone wants some of these, shoot me an email (grame012 at umn.edu) and I can save some for you and gi...

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This tournament has been set for March 24th, which is now reflected in the original post along with other pertinent information.

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MUT has finally been set for 4.14 unless there is an outcry.

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Although I think given how lenient the restrictions are for Fall Novice and Minnesota High School Novice are they're very different than a 9th and 10th grade tournament. I think the number of players in Minnesota ineligible to play Fall Novice was around 10. Which makes sense if you look at the sta...

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Well in that case, NAQT has it right and it no longer matters and people have access to the full stats and can write up their own rankings and post them wherever they want to. I'm not changing mine, because A) Chaska B had a lower PPG; B) They had a worse W-L record than STA A; and C) I can write my...

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I think Chaska B should be ahead of St. Thomas A as Chaska B was third in the Auric bracket and St. Thomas A was fourth in the Durey bracket. This is how NAQT has it too. We never actually played those matches to decide though, and even though they were higher in their bracket, they had a much lowe...

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Sorry it took so long to get the final rankings - I had to go through the stats and fix some spelling errors. There was no match to decide between 5th and 6th place, so Armstrong A and Chaska B are ranked based on PPG during playoffs. 1. Central 2. Wayzata A 3. Chaska A 4. Minnetonka A 5. Armstrong ...

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These kinds of things are also really going to mess with finding a good date for NASAT tryouts if the University of Minnesota ends up trying to do them. That wouldn't be a big tournament though, and it shouldn't be too hard to find a weekend that works for like 10-15 interested people or however ma...

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When will the date for this tournament be decided? If it's going to be on the 28th, it'd be nice to know that before the end of the semester so that we have time to put teams together, rent vehicles, etc... It'd also be helpful to know the date since we (and I presume other teams as well) aren't abl...

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This is just a little thing, but it's impacted me twice this season already and will probably affect others as the year progresses. When scheduling meets, if at all possible could TD's try and work around SAT/ACT test dates? I just found out that I cannot play GINVIT, a meet I like and was looking ...

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mtimmons wrote:So, are the NASAT tryouts happening or not?

No, because apparently people are just going to complain about them, which gives me zero motivation to organize them.

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Field: (35)
Minnetonka (3)
Mpls South (2)
Wayzata (3)
St. Paul Central
Hudson
Chaska (6)
Armstrong (5)
Cooper (3)
St. Thomas Academy (2)
Chanhassen (2)
Eden Prairie (3)
St. Agnes
Orono
Red Wing (2)

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I don't think it's just a problem in the Madison area (although I have no idea what happens around there). We usually have a few teams from Wisconsin (LaCrosse area) come to GINVIT. I think another Wisconsin (and Minnesota) problem is that there aren't any active universities in the northern half of...

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Unless you guys have come up with some brilliant way to do tryouts, I don't really see the point. I think anyone who follows Minnesota quiz bowl or looks at some stats can tell who the best players are pretty easily. You're welcome to figure this out on your own - I was just offering to facilitate ...

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suchacardinal wrote:On an unrelated note does anyone know when the Minnesota Novice Tournament is being rescheduled for?

Sometime in the spring - right now it is dependent on when Penn Bowl ends up being hosted. It will probably be in February or early March.

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Cheynem wrote:I'm not 100% sure we have rooms for what it's worth.

EDIT: If we do, I'd be up for it, although I wouldn't have much time to write anything.

We do have rooms on Sunday, but the building doesn't open until noon.

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Minnesota will be sending 1-2 teams to this, but nothing is confirmed yet.

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Also, we're interested in hosting a mirror of this, but we have to hash out a few things related to staffing since we have a lot of new people with little experience in this regard. Waterloo emailed me first about hosting a mirror, so that solves your staffing problem! Ouch... I don't see how that'...

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Minnesota will be sending some number of teams to this (probably 2). I'll confirm once we get things sorted out to avoid a superteam.

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mhayes wrote: Also, we're interested in hosting a mirror of this, but we have to hash out a few things related to staffing since we have a lot of new people with little experience in this regard.

Waterloo emailed me first about hosting a mirror, so that solves your staffing problem!

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Matt Weiner wrote:VCU mirror date is TBD, in fact.

Fixed.

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Minnesota will be collaborating on Illinois on writing MUT this year. Questions will come from Illinois players, packet submissions by younger Minnesota teams, and the editors/writers of the tournament. This year's central writing team/editors are, in no particular order, Andrew Hart, myself (Eliza ...

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I would like to play without having written a packet, if that is possible. Yeah, we'll figure something out for you and Gautam. You'll probably be playing with Joe and a Minnesotan. Just to clarify: this team would not need to submit a packet, right? Or, if it would have to submit a packet I can be...

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I'm announcing this on behalf of Kyle Houston, the Committee Chairperson of the 2012 NAD College Bowl Championship. In previous years, NAD College Bowl has only been open to three universities, but it is expanding this year to accept deaf teams from any universities. Date and Location : The 2012 NAD...

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Additionally this year, top scorers will be invited to form the Minnesota All-Star team for the National All-Star Academic Tournament. I really hope the system is more complicated than just taking the top 4-6 scores. Eh, working on some other system. We might just use Collegiate Novice packets to r...

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The University of Minnesota will be hosting our annual winter tournament, the Gopher Invitational (GINVIT), on Saturday, December 3, 2011. Like last year, GINVIT will be held in Blegen Hall on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota; the building address is 269 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455...

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As is reflected in the original post, this tournament has been postponed/rescheduled for a date that is yet to be determined. There was a lack of interest in a tournament this early in the year, as many schools have not yet started their season. We hope that in rescheduling for a later date, more te...

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Yeah, I forgot to add STA to the list. Thanks for the reminder though - I'll send out a follow-up email tonight to coaches/teams encouraging them to attend.

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Are there actually any Sunday side events? I guess there's Auroni's event if people wanted to run that here. I also would note that it seems especially optimistic to expect MO to be finished by 4:00, but we have never really had problems by going over aside from the doors locking. I wasn't sure if ...

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