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The field is now finalized (see first post), and all is well with the world...

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Hey, where can we park?

Yeah, I've been asked that already, it's a good question. I'll let teams know via email.

By the way it looks like there will be 22 teams total, which works out okay format-wise.

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Oh TJ, where art thou?

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The registration deadline is in 24 hours, and that includes not only teams I haven't heard anything from, but also the interested teams I have listed. I'm making one exception for WSSU because they didn't know about the tournament till I think Sunday and now they're probably coming pending coach app...

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The registration deadline is in 24 hours, and that includes not only teams I haven't heard anything from, but also the interested teams I have listed. I'm making one exception for WSSU because they didn't know about the tournament till I think Sunday and now they're probably coming pending coach app...

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See the college thread for a more up to date field. Looks like only MLW, TJ, and DC Area United will have high school teams at the tournament, and even with TJ I haven't heard from them for a while.

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Sorry, that was in the original full word document announcement I sent, but it's not here. It's Tucker Hall room 120. I'll remind everyone who's coming by email though. And thanks Mike, just let me know the moderator situation soon. Edit: and oh yeah tell Charles he'll get free breakfast and lunch i...

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For those who don't know already, it will in fact be a combined field. I'm still waiting on Penn, UVA, VCU, 'Nova, TJHSST, and the Citadel to confirm their attendance and the number of teams/buzzers/volunteers/other discounts they'll have. Also, Mike - is the number of UMD teams holding steady at 2 ...

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The Citadel has a team? Did not know that. Yeah, it's a college bowl only team, so this would be their first non-CBI appearance if they make it. Liberty used to be CBI only but then started playing in a couple NAQT tournaments the past year or two. Actually we wanted to get Washington & Lee, an...

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Field update: High Schools (not a separate field though): TJ (3) D.C. Area United (Dan Leifer?/Dan Puma/Shantanu Jha/others?) Interested Teams: The Citadel Penn (may be more than 1) UVA (may be more than 1) VCU SVU Villanova - 2? Officially Registered Teams: UMD - 2+ (based on the post in this threa...

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Hieronymus BOSCH Appreciation Day EFT Mirror at W&M: http://wm.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19559069224

I mainly created it to try to gather more volunteer staffers, but whatev.

EDIT: OH CRAP WRONG THREAD WHO'S RETARDED DER....

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Something I found on facebook FTW:
http://chip.justgotowned.com/

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I ordered trophies today, and at that point I only knew of 5-6 high school teams that were coming. So I ordered no high school trophies, just a Division II trophy. However, later today I discovered that Howard is coming and that Robinson is interested. So there will be a Division II field with a sig...

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I ordered trophies today, and at that point I only knew of 5-6 high school teams that were coming. So I ordered no high school trophies, just a Division II trophy. However, later today I discovered that Howard is coming and that Robinson is interested. So there will be a Division II field with a sig...

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Sweet, it looks like the William & Mary College Bowl team might play. I'm making them pay the entry fee like a normal team though, so if they play and we have a house team, it could be a fight for the ages between them (also the teams that play college bowl that come will see that it's not us th...

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High school teams should let me know by Thursday if they're coming, because that's the latest I can make a decision on whether to have a separate high school field (basically I'll do it if it gets to 8 teams). You don't have to officially register by then and if you really don't know you can let me ...

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High school teams should let me know by Thursday if they're coming, because that's the latest I can make a decision on whether to have a separate high school field (basically I'll do it if it gets to 8 teams). You don't have to officially register by then and if you really don't know you can let me ...

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Yeah I plan on going no later than 6. I was thinking of about 10-13 rounds (and it might be that only a select few play in the last couple rounds anyway.) It all kind of depends on the number of teams we get too. I'll likely move the cap up to at least 24 now that it looks like the high school divis...

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This thread is in desperate need of upping. Also, a field update: Strong interest or confirmed: MLW (2) TJ (3) Combined GDS/Gonzaga/Whitman Howard Tucker Somewhat interested: Robinson Collegiate I really want to be able to run a separate high school division, but it can only be guaranteed if we have...

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How is that even possible without, you know, NAQT questions? Or maybe he was referring to NAQT HSNCT's pairing and room listing matrix??? lol quint...

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Depending on field size and if we get enough high schools to warrant a separate division or not, we might have a Division II, but we'll see. The high school division is on life support now (only like 3 teams have shown a lot of interest, 3 more are shaky), so that increases the likelihood of just r...

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A bunch of registrations have come in lately, which is good. Remember, you haven't officially registered until you let me know the number of teams/buzzers/volunteers you'll be bringing. The buzzer situation looks like this: Duke - 1 UNC - 2 VCU - 1 NC State - 1 Liberty - 2 UMBC - 1 or 2 UMD - 2 CMU ...

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Shamelessly bumping this thread. Also, note the field update. I'll just edit it every time we get new teams - you're more likely to see me update this than our actual website. It's good to see that The Citadel will be making what I believe is their first non-CBI appearance. Also, Duke and Penn may s...

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Steroid McBlooddoper wrote:Good to see VCU still hosting tournaments after Weiner's departure from the school. Maryland should be bringing two-ish teams to the tournament.

Yeah William & Mary will bring some number of teams, probably 1-5 depending on how the corral of recruits pans out and how many drivers we can get.

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Other then the occasional anomaly team (well, all I can think of is Lakeside 05) there is nothing else good in the whole western US. Mission San Jose '05. Santa Monica '06 (Edit: Actually never mind, now that I read Charlie's post again I see what he's saying, BESIDES Cal no one in the west ever do...

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charlieDfromNKC wrote:Marc Guerci to William & Mary

Jesus Christ I just got at least 40 new recruits today who all played in high school, putting our total incoming recruit count near 60. True story.

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As a member of the other team in the game referenced by Wall of Shawarma , I'd like to state up front that nobody on my team would have gotten the tossup, even from the giveaway, so this particular stall ended up being utterly irrelevant. I'd then like to note that this particular stalling buzz was...

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In a timed game, it makes sense if you're up somewhere between 10-40 points to buzz with 5-7 seconds left on a tossup with a rambling incorrect answer that'll kill the clock. So I wanted to see what people's intentional negs are (that aren't blitzes), later we can vote on the most hilarious and the ...

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BuzzerZen wrote:Taft will launch within a week. If you signed up for a coupon on the teaser site, you'll get it when we open up registration. In the meantime, check out the sample tournament, to which I plan on adding more pretend data.

I forgot, how much of a discount was the coupon good for?

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leftsaidfred wrote:Isn't that why RMP is one category? Because so many things are tightly tied together?

Yeah but usually college packets aren't supposed to have more than 1/1 of each component of RMP.

And I'm down with Bruce - Ganesh and Amaterasu are definitely Religion.

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I agree with Andrew in that these are still just dogs. His offenses aren't really on par with, say, Elijah Dukes, Myers, Wil Cordero or Jason Kidd. I don't know what other stars have done serious damage to actual human beings. Still, why can't $10 mil a year encourage you to find a hobby where you ...

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What set this comes from is still up in the air - I'm waiting to hear back from Brown about using EFT, but there are lots of juniorbirds out there for first or second year college questions that would be easily appropriate. EFT probably wouldn't be a good idea, as William and Mary's EFT mirror is p...

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At the last Penn Bowl UNC brought two Judges they knew were broken, resulting in clap-bowl games. So yeah, the Judge obviously isn't indestructable. Also in close calls I've seen cases of lights flashing on both the red and green side, providing for much hilarity and question replacement. Bottom lin...

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Governor's Richard Montgomery Gonzaga Thomas Jefferson (well, not directly, but come on, like they wouldn't come, it's in MD) MLK State College Walter Johnson Garfield Heights "North Kansas City United Quizbowl Association" Hunter East Lansing Whitman Wayzata Culver Academies Eden Prairie...

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I should probably mention something about the CNU/JSR combo. Since this tournament is geared toward less experienced players, for the most part no master teams with mixed affiliation or with anyone not enrolled at an institution of higher education will be allowed (graduate students are welcome thou...

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The Early Fall Tournament II Mirror at William & Mary: Hieronymus BOSCH Appreciation Day (Ballin Outrageous Shiznet the College Hosts) will take place on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in Williamsburg, VA. Registration will be from 8:30 am to 9:15 am with rounds starting at 9:30 am. We're running b...

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The Early Fall Tournament II Mirror at William & Mary: Hieronymus BOSCH Appreciation Day (Ballin Outrageous Shiznet the College Hosts) will take place on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in Williamsburg, VA. Registration will be from 8:30 am to 9:15 am with rounds starting at 9:30 am. We're running a...

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W&M will likely be there - the date sounds good to me, but then again W&M does everything about two weeks later than everyone else.

Perhaps they chose the date as a means to slowly destroy CBI? That alone is a very commendable reason.

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I just heard from Dwight Kidder that he's finished this year's edition and will have it up pretty soon (I'm guessing within a week). W&M leads all Virginia schools so far, w00t

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I think I powered that nauru tossup, actually, on something about mining phosphates. Although I like Nauru more than anybody should. WHOA I'm not the only one! I missed power by one syllable, only because I was too slow on buzzing on the phosphate stuff, and I was thinking "Wait, they can't be...

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Talking to the administration may or may not help with funding, though more often than not it leads to a brick wall. What can be more useful is trying to find one guy with the ability to spend a lot of school money however he wants, and then convincing him of the worthiness of quizbowl. When I start...

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The bitter taste still lingers and if those are examples of the quiz bowl revolution, I want no part of it. This consumer will spend his money elsewhere, bad tournament or otherwise. Wait, so are you saying you'll avoid some tournaments just because the teams are good and happen to be selective? As...

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Also, it can make players pay less attention to their own individual stats I don't really buy this argument...for one thing, if you keep the same pseudonym the whole tournament, it's not really any different from using your real name the whole tournament (in terms of keeping track of individual sta...

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Speaking of that this upcoming year we will have I think four Matts besides me, though two of them might not be extremely active. This past year the W&M CBI team had three Matts, all of whom lived together in a triple, and we basically recruited the best of them into the quizbowl club. I think g...

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So who's reppin North Carolina anyway?

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DC statehood now!!! Why not treat DC as a state, eligible for the same number of slots as any other state with comparable results? It's not as if Marion Barry High School would be showing up. ;-) Otherwise your proposal is a good idea. It may not be implementable until after next year, when we have...

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Yeah from what I understand the IB draws people from anywhere in Montgomery County, but not outside of that, so it certainly helps.

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I don't think they'll go with multiple sites and pay for teams to travel to the playoff site, that would lose them too much money for a tournament that probably only returns marginal profits already. In another thread a month or so ago we talked about how they could cap it at 256 -128 play on Saturd...

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It looks like this date will increase our odds of having two teams, but it's probably going to be 1 for the HSNCT mirror.

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