Re: CBI Nationals

• From: castrioti <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:53:34 -0000
• Message-ID: <b8p2iu+2qh8_at_...>

> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, jeremycec <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > 
> > 1) Is Montana State active on the open QB circuit?  
>
 --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Hanson Ho" <hansonho_at_s...> wrote:

> Nope, Montana State is definitely *not* active.  We tried inviting 
> all the CBI Region 14 teams from last year (including Montana 
State) 
> to our tournaments this year through their CBI contacts, but only 
one 
> team, Washington State, responded, coming out to ACF Fall last 
> November.  There are only two active teams in our region, Univ. of 
> British Columbia and Simon Fraser, neither one of us playing CBI 
> because of financial reasons.

Alas, the lack of QB in the Rockies (U.S. or otherwise) and 
Intermountain areas. I seem to remember stats from U of Montana at 
some Pacific Northwest tournament of the not-so-distant past, and the 
ACF website says Colorado went 6-8 at ACF Nats in 1995 (anyone know 
anything about that?) Is Brigham Young still dormant? Didn't U. of 
Utah write a packet for something on the Archive? I played on a 
masters team with someone from Idaho in my West Coast days who 
claimed to have played in high school. These states DO have high 
school quiz bowl programs, though they play mainly Knowledge Master 
or the Questions Unlimited format, and exist in isolated "pocket 
circuits" where there are only 3-4 teams that play each other once a 
year (the Cochise County and Las Vegas circuits come to mind). Where 
do they all go? 

--Wesley (maybe happy about the location of Simon Fraser...)