SWATA - Revision history

Kevin Wang at 16:25, 4 February 2021

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Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

2020-05-15T13:56:00Z

Circuit History

Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

2020-05-15T13:55:26Z

Circuit History

Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

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Circuit History

Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

2019-12-22T20:11:05Z

Circuit History

Charlie Perkins: /* Purpose */

2019-12-19T02:02:29Z

Purpose

Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

2019-11-11T01:00:03Z

Circuit History

Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

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Circuit History

Charlie Perkins: /* Circuit History */

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Circuit History

Em Gunter: Linked to Fred Campbell's Page

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Linked to Fred Campbell's Page

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 |citystate = Virginia
 |status = Closed Circuit
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+'''SWATA''' is the Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance, a loose organization of [[Scholastic Bowl]] and quiz bowl teams in the westernmost 13 of Virginia's counties; its acronym is deliberately-erroneous. SWATA tournaments are currently open to schools from the counties of Lee, Scott, Wise, Dickenson, Russell, Washington, Buchanan, Smyth, Tazewell, Bland, Wythe, Grayson, and Carroll Counties, as well as the independent cities of Norton and Galax.
 ==Founding==

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 | Jan. 4, 2020
-| Tornado Invitational III (Richlands)
+| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6268/stats/round-robin_%28final%29/ Tornado Invitational III (Richlands)]
 | [[Honaker]] A (9-0)
 | [[Virginia High]] (8-1)

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 | Jan. 4, 2020
 | Tornado Invitational III (Richlands)
+| [[Honaker]] A (9-0)
+| [[Virginia High]] (8-1)
+| [[Gate City]] A (7-2)
+| [[Richlands]] (5-4)
 |-
 |}

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 |-
 | Dec. 14, 2019
-| State Line Showdown II (Virginia High)
+| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5930/ State Line Showdown II (Virginia High)]
 | [[Honaker]] A (10-0)
 | [[Gate City]] A (8-2)

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 | Dec. 14, 2019
 | State Line Showdown II (Virginia High)
+| [[Honaker]] A (10-0)
+| [[Gate City]] A (8-2)
+| [[Virginia High]] (7-3)
+| [[Lebanon]] (4-6)
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 | Jan. 4, 2020

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 Teams in the SWATA footprint are continually faced with drives of 4.5 and 5+ hours to reach Virginia's "quiz bowl center", stretching from Northern Virginia down to Charlottesville and Richmond. To put it in perspective, any given team from the SWATA footprint is closer to at least ''four'' state capitals than they are to Richmond; most SWATA schools are closer to six or more. Furthermore, the westernmost portion of Virginia's Lee County is the only place in the U.S. where one is closer to ''nine'' other state capitals than to their own.
-Exacerbating that issue is a lack of funding for quiz bowl from school systems in SWVA; the region's schools have continually received far less funding than the remainder of the state, meaning that schools in SWVA tend to focus on athletics and simply "staying afloat". Many teams in the area are self-sustaining, i.e. operating with no financial contributions from their school or county school board. Thus, many SWATA tournaments feature significant discounts for new teams in their 20-20 circuit, including free entry for first-time teams (beginning in 2018-2019). SWATA's efforts to improve accessibility, team skill, and public awareness about the game have led VHSL Scholastic Bowl Commissioner [[Fred Campbell]] to dub SWVA a "hotbed of quiz bowl".
+Exacerbating that issue is a lack of funding for quiz bowl from school systems in SWVA; many teams in the area are self-sustaining, i.e. operating with little-to-no financial contributions from their school or county/city school board. Thus, many SWATA tournaments feature significant discounts for new teams in their 20-20 circuit, including free entry for first-time teams (beginning in 2018-2019). SWATA's efforts to improve accessibility, team skill, and public awareness about the game have led VHSL Scholastic Bowl Commissioner [[Fred Campbell]] to dub SWVA a "hotbed of quiz bowl".
 ==2016-2017==

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 | Nov. 9, 2019
-| Legion Memorial Invitational IV (Gate City)
+| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6128/ Legion Memorial Invitational IV (Gate City)]
 | [[Honaker]] A (9-0)
 | [[Virginia High]] (8-1)

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 | Oct. 12, 2019
-| Steele Memorial Invitational III (Honaker)
+| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6026/ Steele Memorial Invitational III (Honaker)]
+| [[Gate City]] A (9-0)
+| [[Virginia High]] (8-1)
+| [[Richlands]] A (7-2)
+| [[Central (VA)|Central]] A (6-3)
 |-
 | Nov. 9, 2019