--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "sdwebb91984" <sdwebb91984_at_y...> wrote:
> Just as a recommendation, your two sons will probably want to have
> another two players with them, just for the usual four person team.
> Find some other home-schoolers or some such thing. Your kids are
also
> pretty young, so I can't really tell you anything about the middle
> school scene in Michigan, and, being from Georgia, I know only a
> little more about the high school scene. If you want to check out
> some tournaments, try www.hsquizbowl.org it's a pretty large list
of
> tournaments across the country. Of course, at 10 and 12 they're a
> little young for high school.
A further addition, check out the stanford archives at
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CollegeBowl/Archive/ or the ACF
archives at
http://www.inform.umd.edu/Studentorg/maqt/acf/questions/questions.html
to get an idea of college format. While in high school my team
practiced with these mostly when there wasn't a tournament looming
overhead. Also, if you attend a tournament, keep the questions to get
an idea of what is scholars bowl knowledge and what isn't.