I want to start a contact list of anyone interested in quiz bowl in either a university or high school. The point of this is so that potential high school...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 15, 1999 5:03 am
... Unfortunately, this is true. The American tournaments insert the token Canadian tossup that can be easily powered by us. Not very intellectually ...
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Gabriel Desjardins
4gmd1@...
Apr 14, 1999 11:29 pm
... Don't be naive, son. Canadian QB is something completely separate from American QB. After 4 years, I'm convinced of it. Everyone understands (or almost...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 14, 1999 11:06 pm
... You forgot to add a title for "Canadian"; :) It's nice to know that you had a good time there. I myself have never had the pleasure of meeting any of the...
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Bruce Lin
brucelin@...
Apr 11, 1999 12:42 am
Hey, thanks for the early result! I hope you had a good time there despite the painful record. (Aside: I found last year's NAQT ICT to be rather too much ACF...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Apr 11, 1999 12:34 am
Hi everyone, Thanks to my team's desire to go home slightly early, qb-canada will scoop qb in posting some unofficial results to the tournament! Quick results:...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 10, 1999 9:03 pm
Now that membership of this list contains a fair number of participants from CQC'99, I would like to get some discussion going (even if it is three months too...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 6, 1999 3:45 pm
What an unfortunate date for me. Though I am heading to Vancouver after this school term, I will not arrive until at least April 28. I would have loved to...
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petermc@...
Apr 6, 1999 2:58 am
As some of you know, the University of Washington is hosting a novice NAQT tournament on Saturday, April 24. Yeah, OK, it's not in Canada, nor is it even...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 5, 1999 6:12 pm
... Actually, it was just Jeremy from Earl Haig that bothered me. We have some Earl Haig grads at UW and they are pretty good. ... I've been using the...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 5, 1999 6:11 pm
... This brings up an interesting point about Reach in general. What is it that makes a good Reach player? Is it having lots of knowledge about a large...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Apr 5, 1999 1:58 pm
... From: Bruce Lin <brucelin@...> To: qb-canada@egroups.com <qb-canada@egroups.com> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 1:32 AM Subject: [qb-canada]...
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Bruce Lin
brucelin@...
Apr 5, 1999 5:32 am
Hi guys, Okay, so the old reach stories drew me out. We had a couple of Earl Haig and Timmins graduates at Queen's. Mark Jeays, Chris Rescorla come to mind. ...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 5, 1999 4:50 am
Since university quiz bowl doesn't seem to be generating much response to on this list, I will go back to the good ol'days of high school Reach to get you guys...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Apr 3, 1999 11:02 pm
I agree with David's observation that a Canadian CCT would probably not be the greatest idea. David and I are are thinking of possibly hosting a joint...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Apr 3, 1999 3:02 pm
My project is finally done so once again I have time to post with impunity... Congratulations to Waterloo on applying for (and probably receiving) an NAQT ...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 28, 1999 6:41 am
It has recently come to me that one big hurdle that must be overcome if university quiz bowl in Canada is going to be success is that of apathy. It is clear...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 23, 1999 9:05 pm
Looks like Waterloo is hosting the NAQT 2000 SCT (unless someone else _really_ wants to). Does Western or Queen's want to run the Conference Championships in...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 23, 1999 12:16 pm
I've put up the pictures we took at CQC. The complete stats are also available for download. It's not too pretty since the photos are B&W. I'm gonna try to...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Mar 23, 1999 3:19 am
I've decided to give the idea of the CAQL a little respectability by throwing together at website in the 10.5 Megs I have left over at geocities. The...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 22, 1999 11:59 pm
... We had 10 teams in the first two intramurals at Waterloo. The one we held in March was 14 teams, one of which was a high school. I usually get way too...
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kpeskin@...
Mar 22, 1999 11:59 pm
... I know that a Cornell, we were able (on a few occasions) borrow/rent buzzers from other teams for a few dollars for a weekend--I think we did this once few...
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Gabriel Desjardins
4gmd1@...
Mar 22, 1999 10:07 pm
... Queen's has held intramurals every year since 1987 except 1993. The typical draw is between 24 and 32 students. It's impossible to get organized before...
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Z Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 22, 1999 8:20 pm
... We are also sending invitations to McGill, Dalhousie and other Eastern universities. Of course, they would get a big discount for coming large distances....
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 22, 1999 8:20 pm
... Any idea why Reach is so suspicious of the university QB community? ... See my other post about question writing concerns. ... A loosely organized league...
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petermc@...
Mar 22, 1999 10:45 am
<version.32.19990319235402.0108921-@...> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/list/qb-canada/?start=3 ... This sounds promising....
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Gabriel Desjardins
4gmd1@...
Mar 21, 1999 8:02 pm
... Hah...Bruce Lin and I tried this two years ago. Paul Russell was ridiculously suspicious of us, and kept acting like we were trying to sell him a vacuum...
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Zhan Huan Zhou
zhzhou@...
Mar 20, 1999 6:26 pm
Hey everyone, It's time to get the ball rolling on this mailing list... I think that Waterloo is putting in a bid for NAQT 2000 Canadian Sectional. I am not...
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David Thorsley
dthorsle@...
Mar 20, 1999 6:26 pm
Thanks to everyone for helping start up qb-canada! The main reason I started this up is that I wanted to have a publicly available forum for our discussions,...
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dthorsle@...
Mar 17, 1999 1:34 am
Quiz Bowl Canada is a forum for discussing academic quiz competitions in Canada at the high school and university level. Group Manager:...
