Shawn Pickrell - Revision history

David Reinstein at 17:45, 24 July 2019

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Foster Michaelis at 12:47, 12 March 2018

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Matt Jackson at 19:02, 6 January 2013

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David Reinstein at 20:25, 3 May 2011

2011-05-03T20:25:15Z

Ben Cole: Fixed the broken link to George Mason.

2010-11-15T07:48:53Z

Fixed the broken link to George Mason.

Charlie Perkins at 19:16, 27 January 2010

2010-01-27T19:16:56Z

fix>QBWikiBot at 00:54, 25 January 2010

2010-01-25T00:54:11Z

New page

{{Infobox|Name = Shawn Pickrell
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|schoolpast = [[Randolph-Macon]] (1994-1997)
[[George Mason]] (2000)
|highschool = [[Warren County]](1990-1993)
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'''Shawn Pickrell''' has been Commissioner for the [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl|Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl]] since the 2000-01 season. In August 2007, the [[MSHSAA|Missouri State High School Activities Association]] selected him as the vendor for the 2007-08 season. He is also noted for running 1996's Randolph-Macon [[Harvest Bowl]], which was quite possibly the worst tournament in history, as he and the team had not written enough questions for the event and did not let attending teams know until noon of the tournament.

Pickrell is a 1993 graduate of [[Warren County (Virginia) High School]] and a 1997 graduate of [[Randolph-Macon College]], where he started a team. While at Randolph-Macon, Pickrell also directed the Commonwealth Academic Tournament, a 34-team high school tournament, and the Larvae Festival, a 5-team freshman/sophomore tournament. He also attended [[George Mason University]] in 1999-2000 and started a team there as well. The R-MC team died as soon as he graduated, while the George Mason team survived a year. While at Mason, he directed two summer [[trash]] tournaments called [[Capital Punishment]]. While the first was decently-received, the second was criticized for overly forumlaic questions (the Mason team wrote the entire tournament.)

Pickrell had interviewed for the Commissioner job in 1997, when the Scholastic Bowl competition was beginning, but [[Claude Sandy]] was selected, due to his experience running Virginia's Academic Decathlon competition. Sandy retired in the fall of 2000 after the death of his father. After Sandy's retirement, Pickrell was interviewed and selected for the job.

Over his term as Commissioner, Pickrell has gradually made tossup questions more pyramidal, although many teams criticize the continued inclusion of computational math, foreign language, English grammar, and vocabulary questions.

Pickrell was then selected to write the [[MSHSAA|Missouri State High School Activities Association]]'s district and state tournaments in the late summer of 2007. As such, many conferences and independent tournaments have sought to employ Pickrell as their question vendor. However, the strain of overseeing the production of 55 MSHSAA and 68 VHSL matches proved too much, and Pickrell withdrew from the Missouri market in the spring of 2008.

In his non-quizbowl life, Pickrell is married with a daughter, lives in Vienna, Virginia, and works as a UNIX system administrator in Arlington, Virginia.

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 '''Shawn Pickrell''' is the CFO of [[HSAPQ]]. He was the Commissioner for the [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl|Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl]] from the 2000-01 season until the 2008-2009 season. In August 2007, the [[MSHSAA|Missouri State High School Activities Association]] selected him as the vendor for the 2007-08 season. He is also noted for running 1996's Randolph-Macon [[Harvest Bowl]], which was quite possibly the worst tournament in history, as he and the team had not written enough questions for the event and did not let attending teams know until noon of the tournament.
-Pickrell is a 1993 graduate of [[Warren County (Virginia) High School]] and a 1997 graduate of [[Randolph-Macon College]], where he started a team. While at Randolph-Macon, Pickrell also directed the Commonwealth Academic Tournament, a 34-team high school tournament, and the Larvae Festival, a 5-team freshman/sophomore tournament. He also attended [[George Mason]] in 1999-2000 and started a team there as well. The R-MC team died as soon as he graduated, while the George Mason team survived a year. While at Mason, he directed two summer [[trash]] tournaments called [[Capital Punishment]]. While the first was decently-received, the second was criticized for overly forumlaic questions (the Mason team wrote the entire tournament.)
+Pickrell is a 1993 graduate of [[Warren County]] and a 1997 graduate of [[Randolph-Macon College]], where he started a team. While at Randolph-Macon, Pickrell also directed the Commonwealth Academic Tournament, a 34-team high school tournament, and the Larvae Festival, a 5-team freshman/sophomore tournament. He also attended [[George Mason]] in 1999-2000 and started a team there as well. The R-MC team died as soon as he graduated, while the George Mason team survived a year. While at Mason, he directed two summer [[trash]] tournaments called [[Capital Punishment]]. While the first was decently-received, the second was criticized for overly forumlaic questions (the Mason team wrote the entire tournament.)
 Pickrell had interviewed for the Commissioner job in 1997, when the Scholastic Bowl competition was beginning, but [[Claude Sandy]] was selected, due to his experience running Virginia's Academic Decathlon competition. Sandy retired in the fall of 2000 after the death of his father. After Sandy's retirement, Pickrell was interviewed and selected for the job.

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 |highschool = [[Warren County]](1990-1993)
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-'''Shawn Pickrell''' was the Commissioner for the [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl|Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl]] from the 2000-01 season until the 2008-2009 season. In August 2007, the [[MSHSAA|Missouri State High School Activities Association]] selected him as the vendor for the 2007-08 season. He is also noted for running 1996's Randolph-Macon [[Harvest Bowl]], which was quite possibly the worst tournament in history, as he and the team had not written enough questions for the event and did not let attending teams know until noon of the tournament.
+'''Shawn Pickrell''' is the CFO of [[HSAPQ]]. He was the Commissioner for the [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl|Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl]] from the 2000-01 season until the 2008-2009 season. In August 2007, the [[MSHSAA|Missouri State High School Activities Association]] selected him as the vendor for the 2007-08 season. He is also noted for running 1996's Randolph-Macon [[Harvest Bowl]], which was quite possibly the worst tournament in history, as he and the team had not written enough questions for the event and did not let attending teams know until noon of the tournament.
 Pickrell is a 1993 graduate of [[Warren County (Virginia) High School]] and a 1997 graduate of [[Randolph-Macon College]], where he started a team. While at Randolph-Macon, Pickrell also directed the Commonwealth Academic Tournament, a 34-team high school tournament, and the Larvae Festival, a 5-team freshman/sophomore tournament. He also attended [[George Mason]] in 1999-2000 and started a team there as well. The R-MC team died as soon as he graduated, while the George Mason team survived a year. While at Mason, he directed two summer [[trash]] tournaments called [[Capital Punishment]]. While the first was decently-received, the second was criticized for overly forumlaic questions (the Mason team wrote the entire tournament.)

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 '''Shawn Pickrell''' was the Commissioner for the [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl|Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl]] from the 2000-01 season until the 2008-2009 season. In August 2007, the [[MSHSAA|Missouri State High School Activities Association]] selected him as the vendor for the 2007-08 season. He is also noted for running 1996's Randolph-Macon [[Harvest Bowl]], which was quite possibly the worst tournament in history, as he and the team had not written enough questions for the event and did not let attending teams know until noon of the tournament.
-Pickrell is a 1993 graduate of [[Warren County (Virginia) High School]] and a 1997 graduate of [[Randolph-Macon College]], where he started a team. While at Randolph-Macon, Pickrell also directed the Commonwealth Academic Tournament, a 34-team high school tournament, and the Larvae Festival, a 5-team freshman/sophomore tournament. He also attended [[George Mason University]] in 1999-2000 and started a team there as well. The R-MC team died as soon as he graduated, while the George Mason team survived a year. While at Mason, he directed two summer [[trash]] tournaments called [[Capital Punishment]]. While the first was decently-received, the second was criticized for overly forumlaic questions (the Mason team wrote the entire tournament.)
+Pickrell is a 1993 graduate of [[Warren County (Virginia) High School]] and a 1997 graduate of [[Randolph-Macon College]], where he started a team. While at Randolph-Macon, Pickrell also directed the Commonwealth Academic Tournament, a 34-team high school tournament, and the Larvae Festival, a 5-team freshman/sophomore tournament. He also attended [[George Mason]] in 1999-2000 and started a team there as well. The R-MC team died as soon as he graduated, while the George Mason team survived a year. While at Mason, he directed two summer [[trash]] tournaments called [[Capital Punishment]]. While the first was decently-received, the second was criticized for overly forumlaic questions (the Mason team wrote the entire tournament.)
 Pickrell had interviewed for the Commissioner job in 1997, when the Scholastic Bowl competition was beginning, but [[Claude Sandy]] was selected, due to his experience running Virginia's Academic Decathlon competition. Sandy retired in the fall of 2000 after the death of his father. After Sandy's retirement, Pickrell was interviewed and selected for the job.

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 In his non-quizbowl life, Pickrell is married with a daughter, lives in Vienna, Virginia, and works as a UNIX system administrator in Arlington, Virginia.
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 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]