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enough student hosts available for housing. Due to the large amount of participating member schools, most schools would host only one tournament each year, either in the fall or spring semester. In some cases, a school might have hosted two events or even none, depending on the schedule from year to year. The events hosted by each member school would usually differ from year to year.
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The schedule of tournaments for the following year were decided around April. Teams from individual schools would typically prepare months in advance before an EMAC tournament, which was usually scheduled over a weekend, so as not to disturb school sessions (however, as most EMAC events would last on
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The activities would be held in the mornings and afternoons of the tournament, while evenings were usually kept free for the team members to socialize and to experience the host city. The teams were often taken to malls and shopping centers, as well as to visit local or historical landmarks. On many
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Participating schools took turns hosting the various events, meaning that they were responsible for facilitating the events on their own campuses. They were also responsible for housing the traveling athletes with their own students. Occasionally, some students would stay in hotels if there were not
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All EMAC participants were required to sign an official form stating that they agreed to adhere to the Code of
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Typically, each sport would have four separate tournaments, with a distinction made between boys and girls teams, as well as between
Varsity and Junior Varsity teams. This would result in Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls, JV Boys, and JV Girls teams and tournaments. However, both gender tournaments were
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The teams for all 3 events were gender-neutral, as unlike the athletic events, there was no distinction between a boys and girls team. However, both the
Academic Games and the Fine Arts Festival still had Varsity and Junior Varsity teams. The Debate & Forensics did not, as membership to the
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Swimming events. Both sports would have roughly 6 tournaments each (Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls, JV Boys, JV Girls, Under 13 Boys, and Under 13 Girls) happening simultaneously and be hosted by one school.
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D&F teams was open to students of all ages and genders; this made the Debate & Forensics tournament the only tournament without separate
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178:Basketball
162:Activities
133:, and the
202:Wrestling
175:Badminton
38:Dissolved
30:Formation
190:Swimming
187:Softball
167:Athletic
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119:Lebanon
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