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Cassian

Is there going to be a live blog or some other coverage for MSNCT other than just forum updates? We're going to encourage Kealing's coach to have a Twitter feed during the weekend, but we're not sure if that's going to happen.

Cassian

James, I think the biggest problem that Fred (and the people who vote in the polls) have had in ranking Cistercian is that you guys have only very rarely played with your full team this year. We in Texas know that Cistercian is a good team, but it's difficult to pin down where you are in relation to...

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I've been getting quotes the last couple of days on flights to Atlanta from Austin, and even 60 days out we're looking at nearly $500 flights. These prices are so high that I'm considering chartering a bus to get us to the tournament, which as you might imagine isn't ideal since the drive is somethi...

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Donald, I sent you an email to register LASA A earlier today. We aren't sure we're going to be able to put together a B team at this point, but we're going to try. I'll register them separately if that becomes necessary and if there's still room.

Cassian

LASA will be bringing mostly B and C team players. It doesn't look at this moment like any of the A team will be there (unless they change their mind in the next couple of days).

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LASA is sending a hybrid team - we're split between swimming regionals and Science Bowl Regionals in College Station. Not sure about anyone else.

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LASA is of course in for this with all four teams, pretty much regardless of when it is. Also, we'd love to see Bellarmine come down to Houston. I hope you guys are able to make it.

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Lily - Please take this as LASA's 'expression of interest' for somewhere between 2 and 4 teams. I'm going to send out an official email to my QB parents in the coming weeks to see what the numbers look like, and I'll get back to you via email as soon as I know something. We had loads of fun last yea...

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Well, this is what I get for ignoring the forums for a couple of days and actually having a life... Not having seen Fr. Gregory's original post, I will not comment directly on what he may or may not have said. I will, however, comment on a few things to make LASA's position clear. 1. LASA's A team p...

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As to the LASA B / St. Joe's match in the playoffs, this sounds right to me, but I have no real clue. I fully support Coach Powers's (and Benji's) version of events, and I have no problem with those stats being entered into the official record.

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For the record, I've never been to Moscow, so I'm guessing the map that used to be on my classroom wall was either from Paris or London (or maybe Berlin). Maybe next month I'll pick up a metro map from Tbilisi though - I bet that one is pretty interesting. As for your other point, I'm not certain wh...

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Are there high school players out there using pseudonyms? I'm shocked and dismayed...

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Coach Powers - I can tell you from our perspective what happened on Sunday. First, Hunter is a very good and dangerous team. They have very deep knowledge and are very quick on the buzzers. Plus, they seem to be a bunch of very nice kids. Second, LASA A had something like 13 or 14 negs combined in t...

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Any news on the field for this? Not that I mind our kids playing Hunter a bunch of times, but I'm hoping some more teams are coming...

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I was wondering the same. LASA is considering coming up for this, but I won't know for sure until later in the week.

Cassian

FYI, that wasn't actually our B team at TQBA Kickoff. The team that won Kickoff was 2 seniors from our D team and 2 freshmen from the E team. We were missing 3 players at Kickoff, so we had to do some mixing and matching - we made ad hoc teams in the gym at Seven Lakes before the tournament started....

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Of course, I'm not sure what teams Fr. Gregory was talking about, but it looks like teams from Cisterson and Cistercion did quite well... Just kidding. Really, despite some spelling errors in the stats, Kickoff was quite a nice tournament. This was the biggest field I've ever seen here in Texas, and...

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Here are the stats for Kickoff (well, the varsity ones anyway).

http://www.texasquizbowl.org/d/10kickoff/V/

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This tournament is happening. We currently have 11 teams registered in the high school division and 6 in the middle school division, and we're looking to pick up a few more by the end of the week. The tournament will be held at Harmony Science Academy in Pflugerville (just north of Austin). We'll po...

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Andy -

At this point, it looks very likely that LASA will be sending two teams to HFT. I'll send you a confirmation email once school's started to officially register, but for now, put us down for two.

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I think the debate over the seeds is interesting, and I would also like to see the seeds and how they were reflected in the construction of the prelim brackets. It seems to me that with the format of the prelims and playoffs at NSC, unless you are one of the top 8 or 10 seeds your initial seeding ma...

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I wanted to comment, especially since it was LASA’s first NSC. As I told Mike after the all-star game ended, we enjoyed ourselves tremendously and we’ll certainly be back next year (and hopefully with more than one team). Some of the great things about this tournament – The questions – They were ama...

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I'm pretty sure LASA and Seven Lakes are staying at the Best Western near GMU. We're boring quiz bowl people - it's likely we'll be reading tossups the night before.

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LASA had to forego its planned mirror of this since we didn't get enough middle school teams to register for our April 10 tournament. TQBA took the set and used it for the inaugural Texas Middle School championship yesterday. Stats can be found here - http://www.texasquizbowl.org/d/10msstate/ Most o...

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We looked at the Best Western and the HI Express - both seem to have bus service to the GMU campus and are right about the same price. I think we're going with the Best Western.

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As the coach of another offending school, I would also like to put in my two cents. While I don't foresee our C team finishing in the top 10, they certainly have a legit shot to finish 5-5 or 6-4. We worked extremely hard brining our C team (all freshmen) to the point they are now, and I think they ...

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For the record, LASA's A team (minus Shen, who played with a team of freshmen) and B team captain staffed the tournament. We filled out 4 LASA teams with our B team playing 3-handed, our normal C team (all freshmen), and D and E teams cobbled together to round out the brackets. Had we had more teams...

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Fred - I've tried to get in touch with you about some of these same issues. I think I've worked out some of the logistics, but if you could take a look at the emails I sent you and get back to me with some of that information, that would be nice. Particularly, we're still trying to figure out where ...

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Mr. Johnson - You should email Chris Romero at the address provided in the tournament announcement for further information. I don't think he checks the boards regularly, so it's best to email him directly. We'd of course love to see you there. It should be a strong field of Texas teams (LASA's 3 tea...

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LASA will of course be there in full force, and we would love to see all of the teams from the region make it if possible. This was a great tuneup for HSNCT for us last year, and we'd love to see an even stronger field this year.

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I have all the ACF Fall tossups on mine from ACFDB. I use it to read practice sometimes, and we used it to read tossups in the airport on the way to Prison Bowl.

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I would like to echo everyone in thanking Hunter (and Lily in particular) for putting this together. It's a shame so many teams had to drop, but we certainly enjoyed getting out of Texas and playing some different teams. Dorman and St. Anselm's came as advertised - our games with both could easily h...

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Lily and everyone -

We did bring a fifth player, and Aaron is willing to play on a scab team if there are others available to play with him. We can sort it out in the morning, but I wanted to put it out there for the consideration of those attending.

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We're in the city too. I'm standing in the lobby of MoMA waiting for the guys right now, and I think we saw Dorman earlier. We had a little weather delay but nothing major. We'll see everyone tomorrow.

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We're coming too unless something funky happens and our flights get canceled outright. We're supposed to get in at noon on Friday, so even with massive delays, we would make it for Saturday morning.

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Lily - Though I agree that the second option you suggested is more unfair (especially to the teams in the smaller prelim brackets), I can say that we'd be in favor of that option over the first one. Basically, we're in favor of any option that gets us into 8-team playoff brackets where we can get th...

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Just out of curiosity Kay, where was it posted on the Polk County web site that the tournament had no funding? I haven't been able to find the quoted statement from your post, but that's probably because their search function isn't very friendly. I'm curious because I just got an email from another ...

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Just FYI - we've gotten approval from the UGA folks to move this to April. It looks like we're going to hold this tournament at UT in Austin on April 10. Our original date proved to be a terrible choice since just about every school around here has a 4-day weekend due to Presidents Day. We'll post f...

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I was wondering that as well. Any news on other teams registering? We made our hotel reservations earlier in the week, and we're all looking forward to what looks like a great tournament.

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Yes, it was mainly down to us. We were trying to get out of Lafayette by 4 or 4.30, since the drive home is almost 7 hours and the guys all had homework to do this weekend (including studying for an essay for my class). Also, a couple of the other teams canceled in the days leading up to the tournam...

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First of all, I'd like to thank people for saying nice things about us. We did return all 5 of our players from HSNCT 2009, and 4 of those are juniors this year. I personally am not sure where I would rank us - we've had some quality wins this year on the college circuit (thank goodness Henry, Zach ...

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We at LASA are in the process of putting together a team at Kealing MS, which is our main feeder middle school. We had our first practice with them last week, and we're looking to get them to a couple of tournaments this semester. What is the prevailing opinion among those of you with experience coa...

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LASA hosted one of the first mirrors of this set in September. We had 12 teams ranging from fairly experienced (our hybrid B team, St. Johns) to true novice (Cistercian C, LASA C, Westlake HS playing quiz bowl for the first time ever). We thought about making it a JV or 40-rule tournament, but we de...

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Much as we would have liked to attend this, we have committed to Prison Bowl in NYC, which is going to be our only out-of-state trip until NSC and HSNCT. Good luck with this though - I hope you guys are able to pull it off.

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LASA would be interested in coming to this. We had planned on attending WoQB on the weekend of 3/6, and now we're looking for a spring tournament since WoQB (at least the VA version) was canceled.

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