Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
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Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
The Bergen County Academies is pleased to announce the Bergen Open Academic Tournament (BOAT). BOAT will take on April 5th at 200 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack NJ, which is conviently located in Northeastern New Jersey, meaning teams from NJ/NY/PA/CT/DE and even further can easily attend. For now I know very little of the details except that it will be NAQT format. If you are interested in attending, please let me know by posting a reply or emailing me at [email protected]
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The NAQT site says the tournament is set for March 29th and that the set # is 74. However, that set number is being used at Temple, which we were hoping to attend. I'm also unsure about this, but I believe that the Millburn tournament is also on the 29th of March, however it may have been moved to the 22nd. Is there any other possible set you could move to, possibly an A series or maybe 66 (While a little old, has only been used once).
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Thanks. Just keep me/everyone else informed on what packet it is/probably will be. I'm hoping it is something other than IS-74 which will free us up for Temple, but its all your decision and more than likely we will go with your tournament if it is IS-74.aarcoh wrote:yeah...we're going to talk to naqt about geographic exclusivity which we should probably be able to get
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anyway....
i talked with naqt and they should hopefully move the tournament back to april 5th
The questions are not that easy. The problem is there are no other regular packets other than is-74. they ere either a-level packets or state champhionship packets, or something else weird
so i leave it up to you, my fellow quiz bowl players to help me out. three choices.
1. use the original is-74 set and you wont be able to go to the temple tournament
2. use a-level questions (im really not in favor of this, i think they're way too easy)
3. get questions some other way, such as writing questions (bear in mind that no one on our teams has ever written before) or acf, or something else
i talked with naqt and they should hopefully move the tournament back to april 5th
The questions are not that easy. The problem is there are no other regular packets other than is-74. they ere either a-level packets or state champhionship packets, or something else weird
so i leave it up to you, my fellow quiz bowl players to help me out. three choices.
1. use the original is-74 set and you wont be able to go to the temple tournament
2. use a-level questions (im really not in favor of this, i think they're way too easy)
3. get questions some other way, such as writing questions (bear in mind that no one on our teams has ever written before) or acf, or something else
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As stated before, DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl is also using IS-74. As is CMU, I believe.1. use the original is-74 set and you wont be able to go to the temple tournament
I believe regionals is available! No, seriously, there seems to be a real supply/demand problem in the area. Are not enough people house-writing?3. get questions some other way, such as writing questions (bear in mind that no one on our teams has ever written before) or acf
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Seton Hall Prep is also planning to attend Gonzaga. (As well as DACQ if we can.) What about packets from last season or regionals? I agree that A-packets will mostly be buzzer races but how many of the top fifty are you hoping to attract? As there are VERY few NAQT events in New Jersey this year (Rutger, Princeton, and Chatham) I whink that you will probably draw quite a few local teams. I am sure that the A level packets will work just fine. (Just be careful with your pricing ... PLEASE! A few years ago we received an invite to a BCA tournament with a cost of something like $100 per team!) Let us know. I am sure that you could also attract HHH, Kellenberg, and perhaps even White Plains and Greely.
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yeah...at the moment nothing is really planned out too well, except for question set
but the registration form will basically be like every other form for an naqt trnt, similar pricing and all
when i have more info ill let you know
but the registration form will basically be like every other form for an naqt trnt, similar pricing and all
when i have more info ill let you know
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Could you send information/registration & whatnot to [email protected] ?
Colonia hopes to send 2 teams.
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For the moment I'm going to have to hold off on details for the tournament because it may not actually run. Our incompetent administration is giving a very hard time and being the idiots they are, may tell us we can't run a tournament EVEN THOUGH they told us about a month and a half ago we could run it. Anyway, I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but we're doing our best to get this thing running at any cost. I'll keep you guys updated if anything happens.
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I presume you got all their commitments in writing, right? :)
Besides, I don't know why you all can't be a PACE qualifier... no one's interested???
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I really don't what kind of commitment we initially got, it was our advisor and another student who I think handled.
Plus the administration is so bureaucratic with so many different "boards" that all it takes is one to not allow the tournament and the whole thing will be called off. Again, I apologize to all the teams that were interested but this is not how I wanted it to be. It MIGHT still run but as of this moment we can't say anything for sure. We let you know one or another next week. (we have break this week).
Plus the administration is so bureaucratic with so many different "boards" that all it takes is one to not allow the tournament and the whole thing will be called off. Again, I apologize to all the teams that were interested but this is not how I wanted it to be. It MIGHT still run but as of this moment we can't say anything for sure. We let you know one or another next week. (we have break this week).
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
Any more news? I really hope this tournament runs, as it would be probably the last oppurtunity for my team to get a bid to Nationals.
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
For all purposes, the tournament is dead. I will probably post an official "death notice" soon.
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
Sorry to hear about the pending cancellation of BOAT, which my teammates and I had looked forward to attending. Since several teams would like another shot at qualifying for Nationals (or at playing against teams of that caliber), what if Moravian were to host a tournament on April 5th using the same IS-75A packet?
I'm being a bit impulsive, of course, as I haven't run any of this by my teammates, coach, or administration. We couldn't host our annual fall tournament for Lehigh Valley schools, however, so our administration might welcome an opportunity for us to raise funds. As long as we manage to recruit enough readers and staffers, then I can't foresee ourselves running too afoul of the Moravian administration.
According to a quick search on Mapquest, it takes slightly over an hour and a half to drive from Hackensack to Bethlehem. The Lehigh Valley is almost equidistant from Philly and NYC, and we're also poised to lure local teams, some of which are very talented, from territory in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Again, NOTHING I've written here will be official until I consult the powers that be at Moravian. It's not the eleventh hour quite yet, so I'm hopeful that we can step in and run this NAQT qualifier in Bergen County Academies' stead.
My name is Ben Schenkel, by the way, and I'd be grateful if any of you could help out at this *hypothetical* competition. As soon as I propose this idea to and get a response from our administration--be it yea or nay--I'll follow up on this thread right away. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to contact me either on these boards or on Facebook!
I'm being a bit impulsive, of course, as I haven't run any of this by my teammates, coach, or administration. We couldn't host our annual fall tournament for Lehigh Valley schools, however, so our administration might welcome an opportunity for us to raise funds. As long as we manage to recruit enough readers and staffers, then I can't foresee ourselves running too afoul of the Moravian administration.
According to a quick search on Mapquest, it takes slightly over an hour and a half to drive from Hackensack to Bethlehem. The Lehigh Valley is almost equidistant from Philly and NYC, and we're also poised to lure local teams, some of which are very talented, from territory in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Again, NOTHING I've written here will be official until I consult the powers that be at Moravian. It's not the eleventh hour quite yet, so I'm hopeful that we can step in and run this NAQT qualifier in Bergen County Academies' stead.
My name is Ben Schenkel, by the way, and I'd be grateful if any of you could help out at this *hypothetical* competition. As soon as I propose this idea to and get a response from our administration--be it yea or nay--I'll follow up on this thread right away. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to contact me either on these boards or on Facebook!
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
Actually ... Seton Hall Prep is thinking about running the same packet on April 5 in the event that Bergen needs to cancel. We have already received permission to run the tournament at school. We are located in West Orange, NJ ... about 20 miles outside of New York. If Bergen had to cancel would teams be interested in making the trek here?
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
I would greatly enjoy it if Seton Hall could pick up this tournament and keep it running. You could definitely count Bloomfield in.SHP Pirate wrote:Actually ... Seton Hall Prep is thinking about running the same packet on April 5 in the event that Bergen needs to cancel. We have already received permission to run the tournament at school. We are located in West Orange, NJ ... about 20 miles outside of New York. If Bergen had to cancel would teams be interested in making the trek here?
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
BOAT is officially, 100% dead, due to our incompetent, corrupt and bureaucratic administration who can spend thousands of dollars on electron microscopes that they don't even use yet can't give us a couple hundred for a tournament that would have probably made money. They are a bunch of idiots who are out of touch with reality. But enough ranting.
Yes Bergen would definitely come to a tournament at Seton Hall, and I will email all the quiz bowl coaches that emailed me about BOAT and tell them about the tentative Seton Hall tournament.
Yes Bergen would definitely come to a tournament at Seton Hall, and I will email all the quiz bowl coaches that emailed me about BOAT and tell them about the tentative Seton Hall tournament.
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Re: Bergen County Academies Tournament 4/05/08 (Hackensack, NJ)
Seton Hall, you can count on Kellenberg being there.
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If you could, could you email my advisor with the information for the tournament fees etc. etc.SHP Pirate wrote:Actually ... Seton Hall Prep is thinking about running the same packet on April 5 in the event that Bergen needs to cancel. We have already received permission to run the tournament at school. We are located in West Orange, NJ ... about 20 miles outside of New York. If Bergen had to cancel would teams be interested in making the trek here?
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I know you and my advisor have met before so it should be a formality. I'd say theres a 100% chance of us coming, just email her with the info.
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