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At the 2013 NHSCA National Duals, 187 teams competed over the 3 divisions to claim their title. Over 3,000 wrestlers representing 14 states competed in this event. It is an honor to represent your club or state and compete in "The Battle at the Beach".
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National Duals is wrestled over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. This
is an opportunity to determine the best club/state teams in the country
for the Elementary, Middle School, and High School divisions. The
National Wrestling Duals is the largest dual meet team event in the
history of scholastic wrestling. Last year, 187 teams, with over 3,000
individual wrestlers representing 14 states competed in this event. It
is an honor to represent your club or state and compete in "The Battle
at the Beach". State Champions will go through this event and not be
undefeated! The competition is intense. Participants from the top 4
place finishing teams will be officially declared All-American Team
Build Your Team. Claim Your Title.
Event Details
Each club / state team is encouraged to represent 3 divisions
Divisions and Weight Classes **There is one weigh-in for the entire event. You must be wearing a wristband to weigh in **
High School, grades 9-12, 3 lb. allowance, 106, 113, 120, 126, 132, 138, 145, 152, 160, 170, 182, 195, 220, 285
Middle School, grades 6*-8, 2 lb. allowance, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 112, 119, 127, 135, 142, 154, 165, 180, 230
Elementary School, grades 4-6*, 1 lb. allowance, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 112, 119, 125, 132, 160
6th grade eligibility: 6th graders can determine which division they
wish to wrestle. You can only wrestle in one division throughout the
event.**Grade level for the 2013-2014 school year.
WeightsWhen wrestlers weigh in, we will be using your actual weight to determine your eligible weight class. You will be eligible for that weight and the weight higher.i.e. if you weigh in at 115.8, you will be eligible for 113 and 120.Please keep me in the weight allowance 3lbs for High School, 2lbs for Middle School, and 1lb for Elementary
Team Entry Fee $700 per team (each team may have a maximum of 18 wrestlers ). This is
an average of $40 per wrestler for a team of 18 wrestlers.
**Please note that if you want to bring additional alternates, the fee
is $40 / additional wrestler and we suggest that you try to place the
athlete on a team that has an incomplete roster. This can be done at our
mandatory meeting prior to the start of the event. It is the responsibility of the head coach to see that alternates are
worked in to dual meets. Note that
alternates are not guaranteed exhibition matches.
There is a $100 deposit required for each team that is entered to reserve your spot today!
Registration is now closed. ALL teams MUST be paid in full by Wednesday, May 14th.
team roster is due online by midnight of Wednesday, May 14th. If your
roster is not online by this time, a $50.00 penalty will ensue. This is
for seeding and scheduling purposes. If your roster is not in its
entirety your team will not be seeded.
Table workersEach
team is responsible for their own table worker. He or she will receive
free entry. Team contacts will receive a lanyard at registration. Each table work MUST be wearing this lanyard at the table.
tournament format with complete consolation rounds. Every team is
guaranteed 7 matches. Challenge matches will be offered at a cost of
$50 per team, after the 7 guaranteed matches.
Match Times High School Division - 1.30-1.30-1.30 Middle School Division - 1.15-1.15-1.15Awards Elementary School Division - 1-1-1In
each division, participants from the top 4 placing teams will receive
medals, as well as official recognition as All-Americans.
Team Awards
The top 4 place finishing teams will also receive a beautiful statue.
Cole Baublitz Memorial Award
is given to the first place High School team champion. This award
commemorates a very special wrestler from Diesel who was tragically
killed at age 19 in 2007. Cole
loved the sport of wrestling, the competition, and the joy of the team
unity that prevailed when wrestlers who normally compete against each
other for different schools join forces on the same team.
Tie Breaker Breakdown
3 Way Tie or More
2 Way Tie
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E3: Early Peeks at The Last of Us, Dead Space 3, SimCity 5
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) launched on Monday with press conferences held in downtown Los Angeles by major game companies like Microsoft, EA Games, Sony and Ubisoft. We've included a few interesting announcements on the eve of the main event.
Visceral Games kicked off the Electronic Arts press conference with Dead Space 3, the latest installment of their popular survival-horror game that will be released on February 2013. The new game seems to have traded some horror and moodiness for more necromorph dismemberment with drop-in, drop-out co-op play and a new steely character named Sergeant John Carver.
The game also ventures outside the usual space station interiors and onto an ice-covered planet where Isaac Clark and his new partner fight to survive the harsh climate and combat hoards of ice monsters and the growing necromorph threat.
Maxis' senior vice president Lucy Bradshaw presented two trailers for SimCity 5, a PC game reboot of the popular urban planning franchise that now has an optional multiplayer mode as well as a more socially responsible and green bent. Not much about game play was revealed but the cityscapes in the trailer have a dreamy forced perspective that makes everything look toy-like. Bradshaw also announced that SimCity Social would be coming to Facebook to challenge Zynga's "CityVille" which she indirectly referenced as one of many imitators over the past years.
Most of Sony's press briefing at the Los Angeles Sports Arena focused on Playstation 3 games, notably Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls, starring "Juno's" Ellen Page and "The Last of Us." The latter PlayStation 3 exclusive by Naughty Dog is an apocalyptic role-playing game that follows Joel, a middle-aged man, and his teen-aged sidekick named Ellie as they wander through an overgrown world that's been emptied by a pandemic. The gameplay trailer showed both protagonists climbing through the richly rendered ruins of a hotel where they encountered a group of armed hostiles foraging for supplies. The combat looked realistically brutal and included burning enemies with Molotov cocktails, a shotgun blast to the face and using furniture to bash skulls in real time.
According to Sony CEO Jack Tretton, sixty new games will arrive for the PlayStation Vita in 2012 including Call of Duty: Black Ops Unclassified and Assassin's Creed. The former will have "seamless online connectivity" and may soon feature a multiplayer mode and the latter features a female protagonist. Hulu Plus and Crackle apps will also be arriving soon.
On the more PG rated side, Sony introduced a new product called Wonderbook that uses their Move controller and Playstation Eye digital camera to create interactive, augmented reality books. The first book planned is entitled "Book of Spells" and is a collaboration between PlayStation and Harry Potter series creator JK Rowling who writes new stories for the game. Essentially, players use the Move controller as a magic wand and learn to cast spells.

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What the Indian media will not tell you about Kingfisher Red
So Kingfisher has decided to ground its low-cost airline, Kingfisher Red. Here's what the Indian media will not tell you.
There was a rule that if your airline is less than five years old it could not be allowed to fly international. This was ridiculous: an upstart airline could fly from Delhi to Chennai but not Chennai to Colombo. There was method in the madness. The rule was to prevent Jet Airways from newbie competition. The people who ran civil aviation had a problem. Having made this rule, they had to find a way around them to let Vijay Mallya enjoy his good times.
Here's how it was done. Kingfisher bough Air Deccan, whose owner later regretted selling out when he saw how Air Deccan was being destroyed under its changed name, Kingfisher Red. Now that Kingfisher had bought over an airline that was over five years old, it demanded to be allowed to fly international. The permission was given. Except it wasn't the low-cost Kingfisher Red flying abroad. It was the high-cost Kingfisher. Good times had begun.
Purpose solved, hungama over, Praful Patel taken out of civil aviation, his ruining of Air India to benefit Kingfisher and Jet exposed… Kingfisher Red is shutting down. Bye, bye.
If low-cost airlines are not viable, why was Praful Patel and the entire civil aviation 'sector' promising us good times, and why aren't the other low-cost airlines shutting shop.
Capitalism 101 says if a business is not viable it should die. Apparently that doesn't apply to the civil aviation sector in India.
Back then, 2008-ish, I remember discussing all of this in an edit meeting. I was cut short. "Praful Patel is said to be an honest minister," the editor said. That was that.
Such is the 'economic growth' that is 'trickling down' and bring millions of Indians out of poverty. I don't understand economics. Thank god for that.
September 28, 2011 6:40 PM
How can the airlines be allowed to charge higher than the normal rates? I can understand their giving concession and cutting rates to benefit or which will also benefit passengers but how can they exorbitantly rack up rates like medieval moneylenders? Recently due to agitation in Telangana all road and rail travel was stopped and then Group I exams are going on in Hyderabad as per schedule. Taking this as golden occasion the airlines are reported to have charged anywhere between 12 to 15 thousand rupees for a ticket from Vizag to Hyderabad to the anxious and needy candidates. How can this money-making spree be allowed? There should be some line which cannot be crossed. I had 6 years ago flew to Delhi from Hyderabad for Rs 5000/- or so. So there should be one standard rate, say Rs. 3 thousand from Vizag to Hyderabad, Rs. 3 or 4 thousand from Madras to Hyderabad, etc. which should under no circumstances be crossed. There should be some Airways Regulatory Authority for such price fixation also. Like the Regulatory authority for electricity rates, etc.
September 28, 2011 10:24 PM
Govt destroyed BSNL/AirIndia to promote/profit private operators viz Forward caste.
Praveen permalinkSeptember 29, 2011 12:31 PM
BSNL was being sucked by its huge size lazy employees but not by govt. It's paying 50% of its revenues as salaries to its employees., then where can it get money for upgradation???? Even the so called high paid IT companies too pays only 40% of their revenues as salaries to employees.
Peter permalinkOctober 5, 2011 8:59 PM
In front of money, does forward or backward cast matter? A Raja, part of biggest scam discovered in the history of India, is a Dalit!!
You need to free your mind of such biases.
September 29, 2011 12:34 AM
but the thing is, kingfisher red existed along side with the high cost kingfisher that flew international… so exactly why this random "shut down".. it does seem fishy. i too do not understand economics & how it works alongside the politics of money.
September 29, 2011 3:18 AM
It is telling! It tells about the minister himself who added Rs. 5 Lakh a day in the last 28 months.
Who gives a damn about Air India? Personally "Fly the Good Times" is everyone's motto now.
Where does the buck stop?
Sampath permalinkSeptember 29, 2011 10:16 AM
What you are saying is nothing new…it has been reported time and again..even today…read this…
September 29, 2011 11:53 AM
whats the noise about. This analysis is totally stupid, just one side of the coin. Air deccan did not give you anything for free not even water, not even seat reservation and recently jetlite and indigo are moving to same model. Kingfisher gave you all that at a lower price, crew was the same as kingfisher regular so no return of investment by charging low fare!
Don't you get the simple logic! I think mallya should have scaled down operation like indigo, scale down standard services even then ppl would have complained, its his company let it be, the crew doesn't lose jobs they move to regular kingfisher that what matters. Same thing is going to be with Jetlite aka Sahara is being shut down and only Jet and Jet konnect will be seen in future. Indigo made 2.6 % profit last year cuz of there lowly operation model. Kingfisher as brand cannot do it with the overheads. I think regular kingfisher was way better and made more sense.
anyways airline business does not make a lot of profit its a very volatile market dependent business. As far as AI go, they need to overhaul the whole management and fire some useless staff and kill quota to compete with private airlines.
September 29, 2011 1:01 PM
and this is why we need a better media.. thanks a lot to kafila for bringing such articles
suresh permalinkSeptember 29, 2011 3:49 PM
If I understand you rightly, you seem to be saying the following. One, there is a cosy and corrupt relationship between certain private sector firms and government ministers. Two, the responsibility for this lies in set of policies initiated in 1991.
Your first point is valid but not the second. For instance, Dhirubhai Ambani's rise in the 1980s — well before 1991 — lay in his proximity to the government. This is no big secret. My father, a former bureaucrat himself, told me how in one instance, a policy was changed to allow Reliance to import some machinery without tariff. The policy was changed back as soon as Reliance had imported the machinery!
Many retired bureaucrats have been hired by private sector companies and this has been going on for a long time. This is not due to their managerial or technical skills but rather for their proximity to those still in government. The idea is to use this proximity to influence policy. My father, on retiring, received a number of such job offers. He refused them all because he knew exactly what they entailed.
Can we eliminate this unethical relationship between the private sector and the government? If the experience of other market economies is anything to go by, probably not entirely. A part of the problem is that politicians need money to fight elections and typically firms contribute to parties. In India, there is no proper accounting of such contributions. Prem Shankar Jha, in a recent Tehelka article, suggests state funding of elections to eliminate this problem. That, however, might introduce other problems. In general, I don't think there is a "solution" but we can reduce the scale of the problem by making the operations of the government and sources of funding of political parties more transparent. We don't need to imitate the USA but we can learn from their experience in this regard.
You could, of course, argue for a socialist state where all production is in the hands of the public sector. That would eliminate the problem to which you allude but it would surely introduce other problems; the sort of problems which led to the collapse of the Soviet state and caused China to change track in the 1970s. I would not favour such a move.
We all want a utopia. Unfortunately, there isn't one. The set of policies initiated in 1991 basically exchanged one set of problems for another. On balance, I think we are better off for those policies, though of course, things could be better. I suppose you disagree. As they say, let us agree to disagree.
September 29, 2011 6:00 PM
@ Suresh has rightly said that there exists a unholy nexus between certain Companies & certain tainted ministers. I have not put capital letter's in minister's because they are not fit . Despite that the irregularties GOI does not fire them. It is our fault too because we Elect them.
Pilot permalinkOctober 1, 2011 4:08 PM
While the broad point is correct (albeit already widely known contrary to the author's claims) the article shows some gaps in logic.
(1) To suggest that the thriving of other low cost airlines means that Kingfisher Red should be considered viable is simplistic. Some companies do things better than others, and it is no surprise that a lifestyle oriented airline (Kingfisher) does low-cost poorly. Apple's success doesn't mean that Blackberry will sell.
(2) Capitalism 101 says businesses should die. And Air Deccan/Kingfisher Red has died. Paramount Airlines, ModiLuft, East West Airlines (including its MD), MDLR Airlines and Air Sahara died. And insh'allah so will Kingfisher the way its debts are dragging down United Breweries.
You are absolutely right when you say "I don't understand economics."
Alok Shukla permalinkOctober 2, 2011 4:04 PM
Your analysis makes little sense to me, I would assume that Kingfisher should have not entered low cost airline because never in the world these two areas are straddled together. This is irrespective of whether Praful Patel was corrupt or not. Let us not look for conspiracy theories in these business decisions.
October 3, 2011 11:18 PM
This was ridiculous..
True. That is also true about any government controls. When will the 'progressives' grow up?
Capitalism 101 says if a business is not viable it should die. Apparently that doesn't apply to the civil aviation sector in India.
Again true. Air India, which has an accumulated loss of Rs 20,320 crores and loans and dues to the tune of Rs 67,520 Crores is not going to die any time soon. More tax payer rupees are going to be thrown into this bottom less pit. Ditto about BSNL and other public sector 'enterprises'.
his ruining of Air India to benefit Kingfisher and Jet exposed..
Can't say how many times one hears this line in a day that the good public sector is destroyed for the benefit of the rapacious capitalists. Those halcyon days when the public sector was efficient, customer friendly, profitable etc. etc. Anybody who has lived in India for more than a couple of days in that golden era knows the truth. But hey, why should anybody expect ideologues to see the light?
The unfair competition from tax payer funded (involuntarily of course), losses-no-problem 'public sector enterprises' coupled with punitive tariffs and duties have killed the civil aviation sector. Who's next in line? Telecom? Maybe.
ukderebail permalinkMay 14, 2016 8:22 AM
Someone back stabbed Kingfisher with misguidance if they had pulled along today it would have turned around from RED……Vijay Mallya did not have enough fuel to keep the airline going despite having the best of slots….it was sheer bad luck….his destiny to fail cost him his reputation.