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Bumped for addition of two more current top-15 teams, Hunter and Northmont.

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Texas Quiz Bowl Alliance is pleased to announce the third annual Texas Invitational Weekend of Quiz Bowl , to be held at Rice University in Houston on February 22-24. Teams can expect to play 30 matches over the 3 days of the event. The Texas Invitational consists of two tournaments: Friday night an...

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Since these were recorded at KPRC in Houston, they aired a great deal of matches over the years. The first I can remember seeing was Collegiate beating White Plains 510-370 in the 1990 final. I had the 1991 final on tape for a long time. Jim Paluszak's Dorman team edged Collegiate on the final quest...

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TQBA ran a mirror of KABO September 1st. It was full RR among 10 teams followed by an optional power-matched game. Rice went undefeated. The second-place team, CRACK, was a team of former LASA players with former Seven Lakes player Daniel Chapman. LASA A and St. John's were both 7-3.

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In case this hasn't been mentioned:
Comic Relief does University Challenge

Angus Deayton - Host
North: Colin Murray John Thomson Neil Morrissey Armando Iannucci
South: Sarah Alexander Hugh Grant Omid Djalili Stephen Fry

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I think the problem is that we don't have enough rooms to host a tournament TQBA has a tournament scheduled at Parish Episcopal on Sept. 29, and has in the past hosted at ESD and John Paul II, as well as Plano East and Shepton. Cistercian has declined to host across the years in which these five sc...

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Teams left Chip because they were getting screwed by the arbitrary if not outright fixed judging at the tournament, by the high cost for a tiny number of games, and by the bizarre dressings of an event that is set up to play to a television camera that isn't there. ... they chose to stop playing Ch...

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Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:He means competitors in the economic sense.

My bad. Misinterpreted that, since it was "competitors" in the playing sense who became frustrated with the state of quizbowl, and became those economic "competitors".

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Just from my regional perspective: When I was in high school, NAC was the only option we were aware of (besides Panasonic at Disney World, but that's a completely different animal). Our local TV program was Chip-run; our city hosted his national tournament. Texas began to change when Texaco dropped ...

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Are the initial pools posted anywhere?

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I've asked this question before, but why even include NAC in the "National Tournament" forum's description, if this is how people feel about it? I would put forth, though it's just my opinion, that NAC is under National Tournaments so that those who arrive at these boards not knowing bett...

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Note that I didn’t say anything about higher-quality PEOPLE, because, honestly, as people there’s nothing bad at all to be said about Ariel, Brick, Ernie, Jason, Brooks and Tina Going 20 years back, the problem was certainly not to do with Ernie Anderson or Brick Barrientos (or for that matter, Mik...

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Reading in one of the bottom-end rooms (233 v 238 was the highlight), we averaged 20.73 TUH, with three 23s and one 18. We had several games with between zero and 2 total powers, a winning team with a bonus conversion of 5 (60/360), and a losing team with a bonus conversion of 2 (10/150). Just in ca...

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all I really mean to say is "we all know NAC is awful in a lot of ways, but to a lot of teams, it does not seem awful in nearly as many, and if you don't know about something better, it may seem at the very least acceptable" I do not disagree that plenty of teams can go (and have gone) to...

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there is little about NAC that can be seen to be wrong many of the complaints people have about NAC are not things most teams will complain about as for "Chip being Chip," again, if you don't know what the alternative is, you don't really know what this means. when viewed in a vacuum, the...

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I just went through the list of 100 biggest metropolitan areas in the US. San Antonio area Texas: San Antonio area I started a San Antonio circuit from scratch this school year (taking it from no QB to QB-deficient on Chris Chiego's scale), got sponsorship from the local newspaper and a local unive...

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The results for the St. Mark's event can now be found atop the texasquizbowl.org home page.

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Do any of the St. Mark's people post here, or are we going to go without stats? Also, what packets were these games on?

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On the LIVE BLOG, I was described as wearing a dashiki; while I'm flattered to have been described so colorfully (and moreso that anyone would even be noticing such things!)... I saw you wearing a kufi at the two-day state tournament that Bellaire won in 1995. I remember seeing that. It was bizarre...

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Thanks to all the players, sponsors and volunteers, especially our long-distance travellers, for your parts in bringing this event together.

Final ACF stats
Final NAQT stats

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The Round 17 match between Bellarmine (14-0-1) and Hunter (14-1) is essentially serving as an advantaged final for the NAQT portion of our event. If Hunter wins, they play once more in a winner-take-all match.

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Statroom happy to report all teams showed up before, at, or slightly after 8am, allowing Round 9 to begin on time. Keep an eye on us all day today at texasquizbowl.org.

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http://www.texasquizbowl.org/2012/02/18 ... veritlive/

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Round 1 is under way. We will have a link posted shortly for liveblog and scoring data.

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It is my understanding that we are going to be providing several forms of updates during this event. One room may have a detailed liveblog, while I will be either posting or tweeting round-by-round scores from the control room. If I am tweeting, they will carry a #TQBA hashtag; I may just repeatedly...

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considering the stage of the tournament, this remains the craziest thing I have seen and seems worth a mention here even though it falls short of the standard: 2005 NAQT HSNCT: Fifth Playoff Round - Winners' Bracket Thomas Jefferson A 885, Walton 95 (Walton finished tied for eighth at HSNCT) 26 toss...

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Fred wrote:Did LASA split teams at this?

Though the composition of a LASA A team right now would be guesswork on my part, I would say that the four LASA teams present each had a theoretical A-team member on their roster.

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Congratulations to Cistercian on its undefeated run through the Winter Rodeo, including a 465-200 victory over a three-man Seven Lakes A squad in the tournament final. Junior Vimal Konduri posted 103.33 points per game in leading Cistercian in its 10-0 run, which included only one match closer than ...

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Dominator wrote:When we left, Seven Lakes, Loyola, and Dorman were playing off for third (ranked in that order).

Talking to Romero, sounds like Dorman was third and Seven Lakes fourth.

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The rule stated in the morning was: "The top pool will consist of the top-ranked team in each preliminary pool, plus the two second-place teams with the highest points per bonus." We followed that rule. Carbondale was the 2nd place team in its pool based on PPG. To wit: teams were ranked ...

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Not to be a pain, but... now I'm confused why Belvidere North didn't advance over Carbondale.

2 Carbondale 3 2 0 0.600 398.0 333.0 65.0 34 19 8 100 19.90 4.25 6.62 53 1330 25.09
3 Bel. North A 3 2 0 0.600 357.0 364.0 -7.0 28 21 17 100 17.85 1.65 2.88 49 1240 25.31

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Wait... Carbondale was 3-2 in the morning, but they are in the top afternoon bracket because their PPB is a hundredth of a point better than 4-1 DCC? Please tell me that's an oversight. I'd say "following the rules they stated for playoff qualification" would not be an "oversight.&qu...

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Wait... Carbondale was 3-2 in the morning, but they are in the top afternoon bracket because their PPB is a hundredth of a point better than 4-1 DCC?

Please tell me that's an oversight.

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Okay, I've updated the spreadsheet with all the info I could find. We're up to 1076 stat lines from 60 tournaments on 13 question sets. Best power rates to date, regardless of sets: Dorman A: 10.89 powers per game (BDAT) IMSA A: 10.27 15pg (HT22) IMSA: 10.18 15pg (OLEFIN) Auburn: 9.91 15pg (HT22) &...

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HSAPQ 22

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Congrats to Seven Lakes, which beat Cistercian in the first game of an advantaged final at the end of the double-elimination bracket at HoHoHo. St. Mark's finished third, with LASA's B team fourth. Cistercian junior Vimal Konduri, Bellaire sophomore Ridge Liu, and St. Stephen's senior Shair Ahmed al...

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Yeah, I don't think anyone really wants that, though I may underestimate Father Gregory's zeal. I see no point in arguing over the alleged imperfections of rankings that are vastly superior evaluations than anything I would offer in their place.

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Whatever may be my reservations about systems that rank teams (all of which are imperfect), the fact that when one plays a team competitively, beats that team, and yet they come out ranked higher, well, that strikes me as having a bit of cognitive dissonance which needs correcting. yeah, I don't th...

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Perhaps your PPB from this event will suggest you're a bit underrated. Unfortunately, the power stats and such are difficult to use from a tournament where the vast majority of your competition seems utterly overmatched. See you this weekend. Here are the results of the Edmond Memorial Bulldog Tourn...

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Congratulations to high-school champion St. John's B, beaten finalists Kinkaid A, and semifinalists Antonian and St. John's C.
http://www.texasquizbowl.org/d/@111119B ... dings.html

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The fields for the Bayou City Quiz Bowl Classic high school and middle school events have reached a total of 50 teams.
See the event fields here.

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Express-News Alamo City Quiz Bowl results

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As for Seven Lakes, I thought Jiawei was a Junior this year, hence my very high rating for Seven Lakes next year. Nevertheless, it still has a very deep team and might still be a Top 13 squad despite this great loss. So, I would move everyone up a slot and re-rank it as number 13, given this new in...

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With only 6 games guaranteed, teams have a lot of times in between games. :chip: only gives teams six games these days because he wants to look less deficient when compared to legit quizbowl tournaments. It was four (across three days) when I was there as a competitor. If memory serves, it was thre...

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Our coach forced us to play, even though we played pyramidal tournaments the entire rest of the year. ... Our coach wanted a trophy. ... In '08 and '09 we qualified for NAQT by winning state, but our coach didn't let us go. This is still Dorothy Meek, right? For somebody who was telling newspapers ...

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jgalea84 wrote:Or maybe I played Sid Meier's Colonization too much as a child.

My exact thought. I feel old. Wait, I am old in this context.

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jonpin wrote:Tomorrow's schedule:
Round 13 (9:00am ET)
0208 Illinois vs California
0205 Georgia vs Missouri
1117 Maryland vs Kentucky
1211 DC vs New Jersey
1224 Ohio vs California

Also, Texas, and not California, opens with Illinois.

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Honestly, I DON'T know how bad it was --if at all -- so, SVP, let me know! Hopefully you've followed along with the NSC forum topics, and you're getting a more developed picture gradually. If you have any specific questions about things your students did not witness themselves, I will let you know ...

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Tossup 11 in round 15 was looking for turbulent flow (or turbulence ), and midway through the question read "One contribution to the study of this phenomenon related the turbulent stresses to the mean flow". When I noticed I had read the answer aloud mid-question, I stopped and read tossup...

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Remember-the-Alamo-Remember-Goliad wrote:In fact, when the complete stats are posted, I will need to check and see if we played ANY Texas state teams on Saturday.

Cistercian A played LASA B Saturday when both teams were 6-1, if memory serves.

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