Mar 02 2018

Tournament Status Update

Hello all!

As you can imagine, it’s been a stressful day as we’ve been monitoring the weather and the situation with Fairfax County Schools. Just when we thought we were in the clear to run the tournament at the planned start time, we received an update letting us know that the schools will remain closed until 12 noon tomorrow, with an additional update planned at 11 am.

At this time, we will still be running the tournament. Please add 5 hours to your scheduled start-time to obtain your new start-time (for both Long Term and Spontaneous). For example, if you were to start a performance at 8:30 am, your new start time will be 1:30 pm. We are feverishly working to get an updated schedule posted to our site, but please plan to start 5 hours later than originally planned. Should FCPS decide, at 11 am or before, that they will not be opening the schools for the day, we will provide an additional update as quickly as we can. If the district decides that they will not be opening the schools tomorrow, we will have to cancel the tournament in its current form and figure out a plan C.

We will run the tournament through the evening, and we expect the last teams to be finished performing at about 8 pm. Because of this, we will not be holding a closing ceremony but we will post the winners to our website.

I understand this may cause some concerns, and please know that if we had any other option, we would explore it. It takes about a year to plan a tournament, with that much lead time needed to find a suitable site in FCPS. We know that all of our teams have worked so hard, and we’re trying to do the best we can to allow our teams to compete.

Many thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

~NoVA North Board

 

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Mar 02 2018

Tournament Status

Hello all & happy windy Friday! As you can imagine, we’ve been monitoring the weather and the Fairfax County Public Schools all day to make sure the NoVA North Tournament can go on as planned tomorrow.

As it stands now, the tournament will continue as planned. Should anything change, we will post additional information here and reach out to all of the coaches.
 
Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
 
~NoVA North Board

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Jan 23 2018

Deadline for Advance T-shirt Orders

To take advantage of the currently posted prices for t-shirts, the order must be placed by January 27th (this coming Saturday). T-shirts ordered by that date may be picked up at Judges Training on February 10 at Thoreau Middle School at 2505 Cedar Lane in Vienna.

After January 27 the price for each shirt will be $3.00 more, and they will not be available until the tournament or the evening before.

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Jan 14 2018

Spontaneous Workshop Spots Available

Spontaneous Workshop — A few spots left!

This Spontaneous Workshop is conducted in a “tournament like” environment – it is NOT a competition!

Each Team performs two spontaneous problems and then watches another team perform two problems.  Team members plus coaches (limit 2) can participate.   Partial teams and substitute coaches are welcome to participate if necessary.   Each team must provide a volunteer / judge to help us make the workshop a success.  The coach can be our volunteer/judge as long as the team has someone to serve as the coach for the team.  Cost is $80 per team.  Sorry – no Primary teams.

Click this link for more information and to register:   http://www.novasouth.org/wp/?event=spontaneous-workshop

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Jan 06 2018

Opportunity for Division II and III Teams

Division II and III teams:

The Second City comedy institution has created a 4 week online course customized to Odyssey of the Mind participants aged 12-18.  The next term is January 7 – January 28, 2018.

Reimbursement of the full $150 registration fee is available to the first 4 Division 2 or 3 teams who register and complete the 4 week online course. This opportunity is provided by VOICES, the Virginia Odyssey of the MInd association.  Please contact the regional director with questions or to request reimbursement.

Details and registration can be found here.

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