A Sea Of Red

Cider Jim wrote:Yes, when we go to tournamments, varsity is Liberty A, JV is Liberty B, and Novice (freshmen) is Liberty C. Yes, there is trash talking in Quiz Bowl.

If anyone is interested, here is a link to the stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

I hope the trash is talked in the most pretentious vocabulary possible.

LU's Quiz Bowl teams recorded 17 total wins at the NAQT Sectionals held on Super Bowl Sunday at UNC.
Varsity wins:
1. Virginia Tech, 320-205
2. Roanoke, 400-65
3. Washington & Lee, 265-240
4. Roanoke, 460-120
5. Liberty C, 445-55
6. Liberty B, 160-360
7. Elon, 360-155
8. UNC-W, 360-25
JV wins:
1. Washington & Lee, 220-195
2. UNC-W, 170-90
3. Virginia Tech, 235-135
4. Roanoke, 160-115
Novice wins:
1. Liberty B, 220-210
2. Roanoke, 130-95
3. Roanoke, 210-185
4. UNC-W, 200-50
5. Virginia Tech, 145-110

Our best win was coming from behind 0-130 and beating Washington and Lee 265-240.

I would imagine there is some contempt held towards from the "academic" institutions. Is that the reality or are you and the team respected out there?

LU has won so many games against the top-tier academic schools that our teams are very much respected. I'm FB friends with many of the coaches.
My favorite part is when we can beat state schools on evolution questions, which just happened again yesterday!

That is particularly sweet.

Cider Jim wrote:LU has won so many games against the top-tier academic schools that our teams are very much respected. I'm FB friends with many of the coaches.
My favorite part is when we can beat state schools on evolution questions, which just happened again yesterday!

Kewl

Cider, do you think LU's teams will ever get to the point where they are putting up a decent fight against some of the best A teams in the nation (Top 25) because if I recall, that level of quizbowl is an entirely different monster altogether. I hope one day the Flames can bring home that national title.

In the past 4 years, we finished in the top 20 nationally TWICE: we were ranked 20th in 2014 and ranked 14th in 2015 (that year we beat Ohio State and Michigan) . This year, we finished ranked 51st nationally (upper third), but were 3rd in our region, only losing to Virginia Tech and NC State; our best win was over Princeton.

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... nt_id=9063

https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-value ... up_id=1044

The Big South tournament is next Saturday in High Point, where we are 10-time champions.

What is the difference between Division 1 and Division 2 for quizbowl?

Division I is for players who have been to nationals before; Division II is for players who haven't been to nationals. The key is to take only seniors to nationals, so you can play Division II until they graduate. Many of the Division I players are also graduate students.

So what is your team? NAIA?

DII is what undergraduate teams are that have no players who have gone to nationals.

Purple, isn't NAIA what you played at Judson, or was it NCCAA?

Cider Jim wrote:DII is what undergraduate teams are that have no players who have gone to nationals.

Purple, isn't NAIA what you played at Judson, or was it NCCAA?

It was both. Nationally ranked and everything

Our varsity Quiz Bowl team won its 11th Big South Conference championship in 13 years, going undefeated in conference play.
Liberty over Gardner-Webb, 450-65
Liberty over Radford, 250-130
Liberty over Presbyterian, 345-205
Liberty over High Point, 360-90

Congrats

LU scored 4 wins at the Tarheel Novice Tournament at UNC:
LU over Duke, 250-210
LU over NC State, 275-80
LU over Elon, 255-230
LU over LU-B, 160-115

It looks like your recruititng efforts are paying off.

LU's 3 teams earned a total of 11 wins on Saturday at the Early Fall Tournament at Virginia Tech, and the varsity team earned a third place trophy finishing 6-3.

Varsity wins:
LU over UNC, 205-85
LU over UNC-Charlotte, 145-55
LU over VA Tech, 205-80
LU over Washington & Lee, 210-40
LU over LU junior varsity, 210-125
LU over LU novice, 175-95

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/52 ... standings/

I heard WVU was a No-Show at VT Quiz Bowl today.

Sources say no one was smart enough to read a map, or program a GPS to Blacksburg.

Ballcoach's sources are RiGHT once again.

LU's Quiz Bowl teams scored 10 wins at the NAQT Sectionals at Virginia Tech, including one game that went into overtime:
Liberty over UVa, 310-105
Liberty over Roanoke, 340-95
Liberty over Washington & Lee, 505-10
Liberty over South Carolina, 260-240
Liberty over Eastern Kentucky, 305-300 (OT)
Liberty B over Washington & Lee, 250-110
Liberty B over Roanoke, 155-115
Liberty C over Wofford, 200-110
Liberty C over Liberty B, 195-175
Liberty C over WVU (forfeit)

UVa's novice team came to LU last Saturday to scrimmage our novice teams. LU won 3 out of 5 games by these scores:

LU novice A over UVa novice, 300-175
LU novice B over UVa novice, 380-145
LU novice A over UVa novice, 435-105

Washington & Lee's novice team is coming to campus Thursday for a another scrimmage.

Is all Quiz Bowls scrimmages , or are some actual games ?

Ballcoach, most of our games are at tournaments, but we are scrimmaging UVa, W&L, and Tech this week rather than driving all the way to Pittsburgh for a novice tournament at Carnegie Mellon University.

LU's Quiz Bowl team competed in 3 tournaments last fall semester and scored 24 wins:

Early Fall Tournament (UNC—Oct. 5)
LU (varsity) over NC State, 300-65
LU (varsity) over VA Tech, 270-75
LU (jr. var.) over VA Tech, 225-110
LU (novice) over South Carolina, 250-90
LU (novice) over NC State, 170-50

ACF Fall Tournament (Duke—Nov. 2)
LU (varsity) over NC State, 215-155
LU (varsity) over VCU, 325-175
LU (varsity) over Virginia Tech, 220-190
LU (varsity) over Wofford, 255-165
LU (varsity) over Elon, 255-105
LU (varsity) over Virginia Tech, 325-100
LU (jr. var.) over UNC, 205-165
LU (jr. var.) over Wofford, 265-210
LU (jr. var.) over Virginia Tech, 340-65
LU (jr. var.) over Elon, 215-125
LU (jr. var.) over Virginia Tech, 305-110
LU (jr. var.) over VCU, 250-250-135
LU (jr. var.) over NC State, 210-185
LU (novice) over NC State, 220-165
LU (novice) over Virginia Tech, 220-190
LU (novice) over East Tennessee, 260-225
LU (novice) over VCU, 275-175

UVa Open (UVa—Nov. 16)
LU (varsity) over VCU, 120-65
LU (novice) over VCU, 65-55

This spring semester, our Quiz Bowl team has tournaments scheduled at UNC (Jan. 25) and Auburn (Feb. 8 ). Note--since LU's football team won the Cure Bowl last month, I changed the title of this thread.

Kudos on the team successes and on changing this thread's name!