James Dinan has announced the hosts of some TRASH regionals for November (in message 14369 of the quizbowl Y! group). Right now, teams in Eastern Canada have ...
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Sixth annual Vancouver Estival Trivia Open and mirror in Toronto Saturday, July 17, 2004 The Vancouver Estival Trivia Open (VETO) is the nation's ...
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May 18, 2004 7:46 am
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Here's another Rare Entries contest that you can work on over the Victoria Day weekend, and a bit beyond. You do not have to be Canadian to take part, but it...
Peter McCorquodale
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May 20, 2004 7:15 am
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If you didn't get a chance to enter the Rare Entries contest over the long weekend, you still have a couple of days. Nobody who has entered so far has a...
Peter McCorquodale
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May 29, 2004 7:31 am
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The Victoria Day weekend Rare Entries Contest closed last night. ... There were six entrants. This was the lowest number (tied with the first year, 2000)...
Peter McCorquodale
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May 31, 2004 9:58 pm
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Just thought I should clarify this, since it is probably fairly obvious that I gave that answer, Bishop Publications is actually in Orillia, Ontario, not ...
Yes! Beginner's luck. Re #3: I believe my home town of Ottawa is an acceptable answer. I didn't even think of it at the time :( Re #4: An unnamed mountain...
This is a supplement to Peter's previous post about VETO 2004 and expands on the details of the mirror in Toronto. U of T Trivia Club's 2nd Annual VETO Escapes...
The Trans-Canada Championship Match is desperately looking for a backup moderator to run a game over the telephone to Vancouver and Toronto. The moderator can...
Peter McCorquodale
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Jul 14, 2004 6:08 pm
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To the UWO alum who wrote that bonus on Canadian indie rock: I thank you whole-heartedly :-) Hanson SFU Quiz Bowl...
Are the results for the VETO tee-dot mirror going to be posted? I'm really interested in finding out about how the tournament back east went. Hanson SFU Quiz...
In the #5 and #6 match at the VETO mirror, Luke's team beat The Athenian TRASHedies 125-70 (Luke's team hit the final three tossups after the TRASHedies had...
Hello everyone, 6 teams participated in the VETO 2004 Toronto mirror and played a full round robin. Here are the standings after round robin (8 rounds...
Full team and individual stats will be posted within the next few days. Teams: * [FrSd] FARSIDE: Peter * [SFUJ] SFU Fake Junta: Hanson, Sarah, Victoria,...
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Jul 20, 2004 7:05 am
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Full VETO results for Vancouver are on the web page: http://caql.org/results/veto04.html and for the Trans-Canada Championship Match: ...
Peter McCorquodale
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Jul 22, 2004 5:55 am
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I hope this will spark some discussion. :) One of the prizes that we didn't have time to award at VETO was the one for "best question" as voted by players....
Peter McCorquodale
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Jul 22, 2004 6:24 am
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I would like to nominate Ottawa's tossup about the Dutch language, the one where the moderator spoke Dutch for most of the tossup. I thought that one was quite...
The Dutch tossup worked very nicely in Toronto, and apparently Dave was more fluent than me! However, I feel sorry for whoever was the poor moderator in ...
... about Hart ... throughout our ... question from the West ... I put some "Toronto-centric" questions in my pack. And I also had some questions with "Toronto...
... Haha, that probably would've been my favourite question (and appropriate too, since, IIRC, I was wearing a Pretty Girls Make Graves t-shirt at VETO). But...
... was more ... moderator in ... language... Yeah, that probably would've worked better as an audio question... ... about Hart ... throughout our ... question...
... the one where the moderator spoke Dutch for most of the tossup. I thought that one was quite clever and very much enjoyed it. (We were told afterwards in...
Peter McCorquodale
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Jul 23, 2004 6:37 am
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... audio question... Sadly, my audio recording capabilities were limited. Perhaps what would have been better was a warning to the moderator that they may...
... Nothing wrong with that. A player who buzzes in on "insulin" has no grounds for complaining if previously given clues have already made "insulin" an...
Peter McCorquodale
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Jul 24, 2004 2:24 am
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... Rules for student clubs? I didn't know one could reject any studemts from quizbowl. Just kidding, LOL. We should visit U of O so we can witness a...
For the two B2B packs from this year's VETO tournament, I count the following CanCon breakdown: B2B pack one * 9 tossups, including regional questions on: -...
Here is the roster from the VETO 2004 Toronto mirror: The Athenian Tragedies: Andy Saunders, Bruce, Mark Reg Hartt's Fan Club: Luke Chao, Jerome, Imelda N.,...
