Missouri Quizbowl Message Board

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We got 5th losing to 2 of the teams that made finalls. We didnt play well but i wouldnt say we were one of the worst. And i would just like to thank you east buc for teaching me what sportsmanship is I understand now that talking about which teams are good and which arent is poor sportsmanship. But ...

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I personally dont really think its that bad of sportsmanship this isant like football or basketball you dont have to have any natural talent at all to be good at academic bowl all you have to do is work at it. The teams that score 5 points in a game obviously dont care about academic bowl so I doubt...

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What are some of the worst teams everyone has played or seen this year? Some of the worst teams I have seen are stockton, lincoln, marionville, and bronaugh. And if anyone think its mean to talk about which teams are the worst its the own teams fault if they dont want people talking about how awful ...

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Normally no one on the team other than me studies at all but amazingly everyone has been studying recently, but our school doesnt give ap tests.

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We have this one jv player who listens to the digimon soundtrack before every meet does that count?

The rest of the team is forced to listen to the basketball players on the team play some rap song called we ready where they yell we ready over and over for 5 minutes.

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is UMR Division 2?

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How about the pep rallys the teams still get even when they lose every single game no matter the pep

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and is there any sports that umr is good at because no offense but around my school umr is made fun of all the time because of how terrible the sports programs are

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lol well thats college i know our high school team dosent make much

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Honestly i dont really care about the publicity but extra funding so we could actually go to the tournaments we wanted to would be nice

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How much money does a football program that hasnt won a game in two years bring in? the answer is not much

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i know how you feel we go to state and the school newspaper writes about half a paragraph about us. Now the football team that didnt win a game for the 2nd consecutive year now those guys need the last 3 pages of the newspaper.

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adu is just a short term fix as soon as he grows up he wont be anything special to non soccer fans i mean the u.s. had pele playing here and even that couldnt get soccer really going

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you didnt say the crew you said the other team so i assumed you were talking about the chiefs which do sell out every game. Seeing as it seems pretty unlikely any mls soccer team is selling out every game since the league is almost going under

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well i mentioned the wizards so i assumed we were both talking about arrowhead

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?? you know the soccer world cup the biggest sporting event in the world they were going to host it at arrowhead but the stadium didnt meet the requirments so they wanted a ton of rennovation which is why the world cup never came to arrowhead

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They were going to have the world cup there but the world cup commitee had too many demands. They wanted the first like 3 rows of seats taken out and wanted the whole field raised like 3 feet.

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ya it is a great field they were seriously considering having the world cup there back a couple years ago

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lol ya mls those cash cows. the last wizard game i was at was their final playoff game at home before they got knocked out. Me and my grandfather were sitting up in the box all by ourselves its usually crowded with about 50 people for chiefs games. the first 3 rows of seats werent even filled in the...

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lol dan snyder isant exactly a normal NFL owner, surprisingly enough most of the owners are smart enough to make some money-- My grandfather is on the sports authority for the chiefs so iam pretty sure lamar hunt is making out pretty well

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The NFL is making money, and i guess if you consider nascar a sport they are making a ton of money

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oh dont worry they have an exciting dinner planned at the rain forest cafe. Who cares about state when you can pay 14 dollars for a salad at the rain forest cafe?

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batman and robin was terrible but without the original batman movie and the superman movies they wouldnt have ever released the spawn movie. And i dont know about you but to me the NHL isant exactly looking like a business to try and make any money in right now.

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Some players just dont want to try and put in the work to get better---we have a player on our team who is skipping state so he can go on the senior trip to worlds of fun. The year before he skipped districts because he had to get a hair cut. He had the talent to be good if he worked at it but some ...

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Just because the movie spawned all the marvel movies doesnt mean it was really sucessful. I mean they didnt even have a sequel that was released in theater. Not to mention macfarlane was sued by a hockey player for slander, wasted a bunch of money on a minor league hockey team, and all the spawn vid...

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I wouldn't his only really sucessful franchise was spawn and when was the last time you heard anything about spawn?

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I mean the guys not exactly raking in the money any more if hes not careful he could end up being another mike tyson

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well it better be for three million dollars

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I didnt mean investment as in he would resell the ball--but as an investment in owning a record

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Paying 3 million dollars for the ball was just a bad investment especially seeing as he bought barry bonds 73 home run ball for well under a million dollars. I mean who was he bidding against when he bought big macs ball, himself?

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Sammy hit 66 thats pretty close to 70

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Richland how badly did you guys lose to thomas jefferson when you played them? Viburnum lost like 230-400 to them in the game i saw.

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Well seeing as sammy sosa broke marris' record the same year it seemed pretty likely someone would break it quickly. Not to mention back in the day there might be one guy who hit 50 home runs in a year and suddenly everyone was hitting 50.

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It just seemed like a waste of money seeing as the record was broken like 3 years later

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Sometimes the questions just arent in the teams favor. Bolivar averaged 340 at districts then scored 180 and lost in the semi finals. Every team has their bad games. Its just unfortunate that some teams have their bad games in the playoffs

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haha hope to see you there

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I havent seen wca play but i seriously doubt any of them would beat kim kerr at literature.

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mcfarlane? isant he the guy who wasted 3 million on that mark macguire home run ball.

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Well look at the history of the show how many of the activites that bobby participates in are shown positively?

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Iam sure king of the hill will probally show quiz bowl in a negative light

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This year we are leaving right after school and spending the night at the holiday inn up in columbia. Where the two seniors get thier own room and the other 5 members of the team get to stay in another.

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I was just asking because i have a minivan you could probally use

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What do you need for transportation like a large van?

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k, thanks for the info

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How many tournaments do you guys usually go to in a year?

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In college when a team goes to tournaments and things like nationals do the players have to pay to go or does their college pay for it?

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I hope there is a better team in class 2 than college height because they were pretty terrible this year

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I would nominate eldorado springs coach dave renn. He has taken eldo to state in only the schools third year of competition, and back in the day when he was at mt. vernon he won state and took a team to nationals. How many coaches have taken two different schools to state?

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Because he answers all the questions hes a bad team member?
mabey nobody else answers the questions because they dont know anything.

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El do is new this is just the schools third year of competition

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