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itsthatoneguy wrote:This looks awesome. However, I don't think Michigan is going to CO and I really don't want to drive there all by myself to play quiz bowl for one day.

Even if Michigan isn't going, you are highly underestimating the number of quiz bowlers who live in the Detroit area.

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Sorry about the delay in getting stats up. DCC A did take first, followed by DCC B and Northmont. Stats are up here: Prelims Playoffs Lol, can someone please check DCC A's match against Brighton B. I am pretty sure they did not get 10 points on 16 bonuses heard...That would also change their bonus ...

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Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast wrote:From what I heard, DCC A was first, DCC B was second, Northmont was third, and Novi A was fourth.

Hey guys, sorry about this. Mark ran this tournament in my absence, but he didn't have access to the web space. Stats are done, and we'll get it up ASAP.

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Interested.

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We're still taking teams. Registration is cut-off on Wednesday night at midnight.

Broad-tailed Grassbird · Re: Michigan NAQT State Championship (4/17/10) Just have your coach email us.

Just have your coach email us.

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:Hey, would you guys like some staffing help? I'd be willing to come assist.

Most definitely Nolan. Email us.

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Wells Hall,

Mark should be sending out an email at the end of this week.

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master15625 wrote:Oh.

I thought it was the 16-17; I guess I was wrong. Thanks for the heads up.

Nah, NAQT states is the 17th. Hopefully our good quiz bowl can overshadow the following week's bad quiz bowl.

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Michigan State University’s Academic Competitions Club is proud to announce the Michigan NAQT state championship on April 17th, 2010. This tournament will be using NAQT invitational set IS-95. As of now the field size has not been determined, but we will likely be running a divisional round robin fo...

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Just to restart the fire, who will be attending the worst tournament ever on April 23-24? I never did get a realistic idea for reforming that craphole. I'm debating boycotting it all together, and I won't be on the "leadership team". I am sorry, what do you mean by Worst Tournament? What ...

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Just to restart the fire, who will be attending the worst tournament ever on April 23-24? I never did get a realistic idea for reforming that craphole. I'm debating boycotting it all together, and I won't be on the "leadership team".

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The field cap is 36, so we are still taking teams.
Field Update- 23 teams so far:
DCC (2)
Novi (2)
South Redford Thurston (2)
Hartland
Mason
Brighton (2)
Troy (2)
Dewitt (2)
Okemos
East Lansing
West Bloomfield
NB Huron
Royal Oak
Northmont (OH)
U of D Jesuit
Tippecanoe (OH)
Frankenmuth

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This is not any different than having separate varsity and JV divisions on different questions. Considering the number of teams, it's very doable, as long as you have enough volunteers and buzzers. I would go for it.

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I'm declaring myself a free agent. I do sports (baseball being my weak spot), I'm pretty well rounded in every thing else.

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I completely agree with this. If a team is going to spend $50-100 to play, they better get a full day's worth of quiz bowl. Too many teams at tournaments still play 6 rounds of quiz bowl, and then either go home, or get rocked by a regional power (this was literally every quiz bowl tournament I play...

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bump, less than 1 month until this one (and my MCAT is on this day, so the only time you may see me is at registration).

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Whig's Boson wrote:If NAQT adopts a Friday-Saturday schedule for ICT, I vow to skewer them in the medium of video.

This is what did them in.

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Playoff Results
https://www.msu.edu/~cbowl/RB2010/rube_ ... dings.html

Updated Prelims:
https://www.msu.edu/~cbowl/RB2010/RUBE_standings.html

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Cantaloupe (disambiguation) wrote:
stats wrote: DCD A had 26 ppb.
God, I hope that's the error you were talking about.

Nope. DCDS is a little deeper than I initially thought. PPB is where that comes through a lot.

I'm working on playoffs now.

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master15625 wrote:What would the tournament on the 27th of March's Questions be?

IS-94.

NAQT States is IS-95. I'm trying to work on mirroring something, but I need to see if it still exists (pre-nats tourney mirror).

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Also special thanks to the following teams who are either newly formed, or haven't been to MSU for quiz bowl in a long time: University Liggett, Cheboygan, Thurston, Carson City, and anyone else I missed. Finally, I apologize for the postponement, as well as the prelims being slightly unbalanced. We...

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I was really impressed by Country Day A and Catholic Central A. Both are legitimate contenders to win a national championship. They are head and shoulders about the rest of the state. Dewitt played a split squad today, so their As for a NASAT team, I sat in on 1 match the whole day, and playoff stat...

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We just got finished packing up down at Wells. Detroit Country Day A finished 9-0, sweeping the round robin playoff bracket of Detroit Catholic Central A, Detroit Catholic Central B, and Troy A. 1) Detroit Country Day A 2) Detroit Catholic Central A 3) Detroit Catholic Central B 4) Troy A Prelim sta...

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Round 1: bonus on baseball stadiums renames (U.S. Cellular, Progressive, Rogers) Everyone at UIC probably passed New Comiskey on the way to the tournament, this happened at ACF Fall as well with the Robie House. Round 3: tu Carl Edwards bonuses on The Waste Land (Eliot, chess, Buddha); former cast o...

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Thanks Nalin. I was wondering, is it possible to keep stats at this tournament as well, mainly for the purpose of the NASAT? The deadline is approaching and there needs to be some sort of way for people to calibrate who are the best to go. Yeah, I basically made it a rule that MSU has to do individ...

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Is there any change? The tourney is within 5 days. I sent this out early this morning to coaches: This Saturday's tournament will be at Well's Hall, with registration in C-105. Wells Hall is located on Red Cedar Road across from the stadium. The actual location can be found here: http://maps.msu.ed...

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The astrodome was a total hose, but maybe I missed some sports clue. I would be willing to bet (and I know someone on the other team did this in my room and I was right behind him) that there was a lot of "Katrina refugees were moved here" neg-with-Superdome "from the Superdome"...

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The baseball-lit bonus was awesome... but was there any hockey or soccer in D2? Really? I thought that bonus was awful. There was, just off the top of my head, a tossup on the San Jose Sharks, the aforementioned Alex Ferguson and Hand of God questions, and a tossup on New Zealand that mentioned the...

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One more thing. Joey accepted "Thermometer" for the "Calorimeter" tossup. I should have protested, but I didn't realize what had happened until 2 rounds later when I was talking about the question, and how I got outbuzzed during power. When a moderator says correct answer, you ju...

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According to the NAQT rules, judgment of misconduct is between the team or players involved and the tournament staff. The opposing team's consent is not required for sanctions to take place. (Read section K here ) Ok, fine. "For official NAQT events, the tournament director must, following the...

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The baseball-lit bonus was awesome. The prompt on the easter island stone heads was confuzzling. The distillation bonus was a fail. I felt like the difficulty on the D2 set was very hit or miss. Some tossups were going dead based on the answer choices being too hard. Some bonuses seemed too easy. I ...

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I would like to preface this thread by saying, I find it hard to run a quiz bowl tournament, and I've been playing for ~10 years now, so I need to give UIC props for what did get done. Registration: Why would you not have any small or medium t-shirts? Breakfast: Very nice. Orange juice was meh, acco...

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Humpty Jackson wrote:Windy roads=cannot drive as fast as expected. Will definitely be later than the assigned time.

We heard some things about going into a ditch, did everything turn out ok?

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i played at the dreaded UIC.

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Thank you all who participated in the 2010 NAQT Challenge at UIC for ACUI Region 8. Here are the results for the event by standings without the stats. If you would like stats in full please email me at rvega1@uic.edu. Congratulations to the winners. # Div Name W L 1 1 U. of C B 11 1 2 1 U. of C A 1...

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I'd be interested in moderating for this one, if you need any.

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In the extremely unlikely chance that someone either wants to give me a ride or help pay for my train ticket to Chicago and provide me a place to crash, I'd be willing to lend my help with staffing. It's probably not feasible at this point, but I guess it's worth putting out there. I'm assuming you...

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I emailed the coordinator today, this is a particularly interesting excerpt of her reply: "As for the format, we were hoping to do double elimination brackets , but numbers are low so now we are considering round robin to get fair play for all. We will finalize the details tomorrow and I will l...

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The sketchiness of this tournament bothers me.

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We're thinking about coming, just to make your field list ambiguous. Definitely maybe, but its the beginning of our spring break, so it's a ?

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We're coming to with 2 D2 teams.

Any word yet on staff discounts, or is UIC finding some secret source of readers who can read 24 question rounds?

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Novi2010 wrote:Did you get my email Nalin?

yeah, just replied.

I'll let everyone know what the deal is with teams once I figure out exactly how many more I can take.

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you left out basketball, other than that, I think thats a fantastic distribution.

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I just found out this tournament got postponed to February 13th. Is this actually true? Yes, this is true. Room reservations got screwed up. I should have posted this up earlier, but I notified all the coaches as soon as I could. A few teams are dropping due to scheduling conflicts, I'll let everyo...

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i'm a bit disappointed by the biology. why are we asking for _G-protein-coupled-receptor_ when most of the clues points to the very much canonical _G-protein_? very early in that question, it was clear the answer is G-protein, but i was negged, and i presume others as well. Frizzled was the keyword...

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Third, I encountered the same issue as Ahmad with regard to the Straight Outta Compton tossup. There were two parents in my room when I read that tossup, and they didn't seem to respond all that well to its content. "Caveat emptor" is definitely a legitimate response here, but at the same...

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Why are some sites offering highly varying discounts from other sites? I noticed that the UIC site isn't even offering a staff discount, while some are offering up to $30 for staff. Same thing with distance discounts. Seems strange.

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What about bad tournaments that are free?

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Another very well run tournament.

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