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| just a reminder/update:
remember that THIS SUNDAY, 20 AUGUST 2006, will be our first meeting. since there are mandatory hall meetings that night starting at 7, we probably won't all get up there (the physics lab) until 9 or 10... but basically, we're going to go off of the assumption that you'll come as soon as you can after mandatory hall meetings are over. this will be a very important meeting, as we'll discuss the date of packet submission to the officers, as well as finalize a practice time for the rest of the year.
so we'll see you in the physics lab as soon as possible sunday night... we won't be long, promise... if you're not there by 10, we're going to start at 10 at the latest, so we can get pearson home before midnight (you know, with the new 'do and all, he turns into a pumpkin... part and parcel of the fairy-godmother-granting-all-of-our-wish-for-p-to-shave deal).
peace out, kids.
OH! and if you have met anyone whom you think would be interested in the group and/or fairly good at it (we're not above active recruitment, people... if frats and sororities can do it, so can the geek squad), please let them know about this sunday's meeting!
eeeeexcellent.
-c | | |
| *ETA*: NOTE THE NEW TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT IN SEPTEMBER! -c.
hello!
so... we haven't really kept up with our over-the-summer ambitions. just as a reminder:
"
We discussed the usefulness of the study guides; we decided to make up
a quick "quiz" aka-speed checks--for each study guide. So, people
who turned in study guides, you're ready, you just need to come up with
10 questions from things on your sheet, by the date listed below.
Those who didn't do their study guide need to do that by the date
listed below, as well as their quiz. We'll be receiving one study
guide a week, and one quiz regarding the previous week's study
guide. Once the below pattern has been completed, we'll start
back at the beginning with new assignments. This WILL continue
through the summer, but will be every 2 weeks, and the quizzes will be
posted online. More info on where that is. Also, here is a link to our ALL NEW forum, where we
can ... do something special. Perhaps post questions and stuff,
so that if we want a clarification on a question, we can put it up for
the group to see. That'll also be a way for EVERYONE to announce
when and where they've posted their quizzes. SO, here is the
calendar for study guides/quizzes:
April
9-Pearson (basic chemistry part I)
16-Hal (law/politics)--Chris, this is when you need to have your biology sheet done and printed out.
23-Chris (biology)
30-Krystin (classical lit)
May
7-(begin online posting)Catie (modern lit)
21-Nate (myth)
June
4-AJ (biology)--Mack, your theatre sheet needs to be done and posted by this date
18-Mack (theatre)--Hippie, this is when you need to have your psych sheet posted by.
July
2-Hippie (psych)--Pearson, once we've determined what your next will
be, this will be when you will need to have the sheet posted by.
16-Pearson--Krystin, have yours posted by this date
30-Krystin--i need to have mine posted by this date
August
6-Me--Nate, you'll have your sheet done by this date.
20-Nate's quiz, beginning of semester"
so we're obviously not doing that over the summer, seeing as how classes start in like, 4 weeks.
so assume that we'll start all this back up when school starts back. how does everyone feel about the first practice being Sunday, AUGUST (thanks Celestia!) 20th, physics lab, 8 pm? We'll just talk about the upcoming year and stuff, and figure out logistics for our new-and-improved (nevermind the impossibility of the aforementioned phrase) study-sessions.
just for your knowledge:
upcoming tournaments that have been announced (thus far)
Tournament--Where Held--Date
Early Bird--Berry--Sept 16
Juniorbird--UGA--Sept 30 (I couldn't compete, I don't think, but it would be good for you younger kids  )
COTKU (Center of the Known Universe)--UTC--Oct 21
Junior Tournament--Berry--Feb 24
CBI Regionals--FL State (?)--Feb 22-25 (exact dates TBA)
later, taters. See you on the 20th, if I don't hear major groanings beforehand.
-catie
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| This is a call for players for Moc Masters (and, by extension, for Muck Masters). The tournament is open; even alumni are invited (and Friends O' SAB, if interested, should be on standby). It's academic. And if we're going to write questions, we need to start pretty well now.
Here is the (corrected) tournament announcement.
The big point is this: If we write questions, and can get the questions in by July 15, the fees for the tournament are $40, which I can convince any ol' provost's office to approve in a heartbeat.
If we aren't going to write questions, it's $120 (which might be a stickier wicket, especially if alumni/friends are on-board), but we have to know if we're going by July 15.
So: If you are available, make yourself known, and quickly.
This is the backwards UTC tournament weekend. Academic games are on SUNDAY; trash is on SATURDAY.
Greetings to all fair SAB peoples from Ontario, by the way. When news breaks out, I break in to my vacation. :)
- pearson
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| Y'know, there hasn't been an update on here for pretty much forever. So here you go.
There are three tournaments I'm looking at as school starts:
UTC: Muck Masters and Moc Masters, August 19/20
(Both are packet submission. Muck Masters is trash, to be played
on SATURDAY; Moc Masters is academic, to be played on SUNDAY.
Fields for both tournaments are open.)
Berry: Early Bird, September 16
(No packet submission required, fees are usually cheap, and hey, it's at Berry)
UTC: Center Of The Known Universe (COTKU) Open and Big Lots Clearance Open, October 21/22
(COTKU is academic packet submission; Big Lots is a mirror of Northwestern University's FOGHAT tournament)
Feedback on these tournaments, and on the prospect of assembling two
academic and one trash packet during the fall semester, is much
appreciated.
And, once upon a time, wasn't there some talk about getting study
guides and quizzes out...? No accusation or nothing, I'm as slack
as anybody else on this front...
- pearson
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| A.J. got asked to read a regional middle-school tournament this past Saturday, and, well, I asked him to report. So he did.
So P man asked me to write about how things went at Model Middle School on May 6th when I read questions for their tournament. I had a lot of fun. I had to get there at 8:30 for a readers meeting, but that didn't start until 9:30 or so. I didn't have a clue about any rules, nor did they tell me any, but it was easy enough to figure out. Kathy Rogers (person in charge of tournament) had 15 teams playing so we played seven rounds and then a championship round. After the first round someone asked me to please read slower. I had two rounds that were both tied at the end 10 all (one point for each correct answer, 30 questions per round). The round after that I read for the Model team and I forget who else. Well, I forgot to clear the buzzer before the last question and the answer was "oxygen" and both teams were buzzing in, but if Model had gotten it right there would have been another 10 all tie. I just told both coaches that I was going to read one of the alternate questions to make it fair. Well, the other team got it so the score was 11 to 9 and then the coach for the Model team contested and I told her that reading the other question was the only thing I thought would make it fair. I told her I was sorry for not clearing the buzzers, and I think she was cool with it.
Something funny for the end here. One question (these things are only a sentence or two long) went something like "this is the sensation produced when the mouth secretes mucus after being dry" The Cedartown Middle School team buzzed in and the little boy said, "like...boogers." The whole room burst into laughter and I said "like....no." The correct answer was "thirst" and I told the Cedartown coach that would have been the gloriously wrong answer for the round.
The Cedartown team did win the tournament that day, so I was glad. But yeah. That's about it. Reading for Middle School was a good experience and you should all do it sometime if you can. Kathy will appreciate it tons. Most teams didn't know that there are nerds in college who play academic bowl type stuff, so it would be a perfect chance to make that a known fact. | | |
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