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Irvington would (most likely, I haven't discussed it with coaches, but I feel it is best to wait to do that until there is an actual date) be interested for the 12th - but as the field was closed, would I be correct in assuming we would go on a waiting list in case any of the original teams that sig...

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Date Claims for 2011-2012: March 17:NHBB's Long Island Tournament @ Hills West (on a B Set); also The JBMT at Millburn, NJ (Confirmed on NAQT Set IS 111) This tournament will be played on NHBB's "C" set, ( see http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=12463 ) and it may be he...

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our priority would be bringing in new high schools from within the city White Plains' "WACKO" tournaments in Westchester, played on :chip: questions, actually had a couple of schools from within the city that perhaps you would want to reach out to for this tournament. If I remember correc...

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Dripping Springs State Park wrote:Ardsley would prefer one of the Sundays.

Though I can't make any promises of attendance, it would be far more likely for Irvington to be able to attend on one of the Sundays than on March 10th.

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Hi: We had a meeting today and I was promised that I could get the standings today. Unfortunately, I was misinformed, and the standings are only for the first five rounds. Anyway, here are the first five rounds: http://mmaroney.net/hsw/brainstormers/QuizBowl12/FinalResults.htm Though it is good to ...

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I don't know much about Westchester, but it does seem like that region has generally been stronger than Long Island this year, which makes sense considering the group of seniors that graduated from Long Island schools in 2011. The good Westchester performances are based on a few key players and mos...

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Edward Powers wrote: # 13 Horace Greeley A

It is not a terribly important correction, but, judging from the data provided above, Horace Greeley was the #14 seed (Scarsdale was #13

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To fill in the couple of holes where Jon was uncertain:

Ridgewood A's division was Ridgwood A, Kings Park C, Wheatley B, GNS D, North Shore A, Hunter D

Farmingdale was in the division with Scarsdale

I found my copy of the prelim schedule, so if anyone has any more questions, I can answer them.

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Dave Madden obviously would have all the details, but I believe he is planning to host the second iteration of the Jersey Shore Open this summer.

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Edward Powers wrote:Any news on when stats will be posted? It has been more than a week now.

If it at all like last year, or if what I heard from a student whom I spoke to at the tournament, it may take up to 5 weeks.

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In :chip: games, there is no such thing as underlining, etc. to guide what constitutes an acceptable answer, so once when I answered a question which mentioned a "two word term" with "the dust bowl," the moderator was really unsure of accepting the answer, because of that third w...

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There was one incident where someone's accent made it impossible to distinguish between the words "this," "that," and "the," which, given how demonstrative pronouns tend to indicate what is being asked for, led to a fair amount of confusion. The same moderator also cont...

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Also, there is a history of people claiming that they dislike mACF because the format is too uniform/boring and then not taking advantage of opportunities to play good questions in a four-quarter format, or disliking good questions in a four-quarter format. HSAPQ produced some four-quarter sets, an...

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NAQT allows hosts to opt out of using the math calc TUs, if I recall correctly. They also don't use math calculation TUs at HSNCT. Though any argument for or against computational math can open up many cans of worms, I must admit that this policy does have an unfortunate side effect: reducing the m...

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I am to assume that, based on the fact that you are still asking for potential hosts, that these dates do not hold, correct? Correct. Bidding is still open for all states (and provinces) not listed as "confirmed" in my original post; contact us at hosting (at) naqt.com to submit a bid or ...

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Hosts must make a preliminary announcement including contact information and approximate schedule by December 9, 2011, on the relevant online quizbowl forums and by e-mail to likely attendees. It is hoped that hosts will make a postal announcement to likely attendees as well; NAQT will make its mai...

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The round that had GNS B through F, Ardsley B, and Irvington A, B, and C as an audience may have been the best-attended quizbowl match I have ever played in, and I played in the finals of a national tournament (albeit a not very legitimate one). Just as a note, I am pretty sure your finals game in ...

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Though bringing six teams does make me wonder what the record for most teams is at an NAQT tournament.... I'm not sure what the all-time record is, but I do know that six isn't particularly close. (Start here .) It wasn't an NAQT tournament, but at Dave Madden's Tri-State History Bowl, I distinctly...

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However, divisions would get rid of some of the potentially slightly unfair prelim schedules (i had no problem with them for the most part and i must commend the people who run the tournament for making the prelim schedule as I understand it can be very difficult). One example was Seton Hall, a his...

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2. This tournament really should have 3 divisions next year: Elite, Regular, and JV. Each could have about 30 teams. That would allow for much closer games and smoother logistics. From a competition standpoint, I'm not sure what White Plains, for example, gains by trouncing 5 teams in the prelims b...

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Yeah, that was great of David and Ridgewood to do. Once my thoughts are more coherent, i.e. tomorrow, I'll post my final thoughts, but suffice it to say that while this tournament was a lot of fun and ran very well for so many teams, there were some big problems keeping it from being as good as it ...

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Worth noting, if we get to 107 teams, then 15% is greater than 16. By NAQT's qualification metric, all teams "tied for 17th" (i.e. all 32 playoff teams) would get HSNCT bids. I find it likely that this is not that, but does anyone know what the record is for largest non-HSNCT tournament i...

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OK, so Ms. Cella seems open to the idea of hosting a pyramidal tournament, though we are pibably going to try to find a date other than March 10 (she doesn't want to upset people who already signed up for 4 tournaments of the format as already stated, and if we kept the old chip tournament and the n...

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I will probably introduce the idea of hosting a pyramidal tournament to our adviser next week (we have a pyramidal tournament this Saturday, so I am thinking that I can use the team's experience there as leverage in making the argument) I was also wondering, so that there is some real data backing a...

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I think my argument may apply more in Illinois, when there are a large amount of local leagues that play on weekdays, and relatively cheap and close tournaments nearly every weekend. Maybe...Another thing that is an issue with the local tournaments is that some local tournaments specifically preclu...

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I think people promoting good quizbowl should emphasize that teams don't go to pyramidal tournaments because they're good, they get good by going to pyramidal tournaments. Pyramidal tournaments emphasize learning far more than most other formats. The argument that "We'll, we're not good enough...

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One of the main problems of our team, in my opinion at least, is that there are more people than in the past but they are less committed. This is in itself may present a large problem in transitioning to "good quizbowl" because the members of the team may be less inclined to go out of Wes...

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The things that I stressed when arguing for holding a tournament on pyramidal questions were increased team attendance and price. A pyramidal set and a decent number of games for all teams means at least 8 more teams from the traditional "schools who go to things", plus probably 5-10 more...

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The really direct and immediate correlation between the work you put in to learn things and your success is one of the differences between real and fake quizbowl. Most teachers are fairly receptive to this point since it involves the value of learning and work. In Chip tournaments you pretty much s...

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All the tournaments that seem to fit our schedule (other than NHBB...) seem to be NAQT, not house writes, so, yeah. I do like the idea of bouncebacks though, I think that would help not only our own team/coach feel comfortable, but also any other Westchester teams which would attend, as it does bear...

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Having gone through a very similar process last year and this year (and one that's by no means done), here's what I'd recommend. I had some advantage here in that we had $1000 from NAC last year, although you guys probably have some money from MACC. It does not seem like MACC gains us much money, t...

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Hello, In its simplest form, what I am asking for hear is advice at trying to move a team to good quizbowl which has been deeply rooted into Chip-written questions. In Westchester, (the county where our school is), there are two leagues that hold 4 tournaments per year on Questions Unlimited questio...

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I think our coach will be getting back to you soon, but Irvington is interested in signing up a third team, changing the (2) to a (3).

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This seems like it will be a pretty good idea, and the amount of interest is rather impressive (160 or so people in about 24 hours...) Now that it is made though, I think it is a good idea to make sure anyone on this forum can find the page, so

http://www.facebook.com/groups/143371535773603/

Scaled Flowerpiercer

The JV Winner in Westchester was Irvington B, not Horace Greeley as you have indicated.

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Just to comment upon this point, especially as Ryan was largely vouching in defense of Irvington, I feel it is appropriate to offer my perspective on it. While the schedule did end up being very difficult (in the sense that we went 2-3...) I don't think that it was unreasonable for it to formed as i...

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Metropolitan Academic Challenge Conference (MACC) -State(s) Served: Westchester, NY, occasionally southeastern CT, LI, or NJ team -Area or School the league is based in: Irvington High School -Geographic Restrictions: None I believe -Question Provider: Questions Unlimited -Game Format: Four-quarter ...

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Dripping Springs State Park wrote:Ardsley will try and send a team; the fact that it's on Yom Kippur complicates things, though.

Irvington also may send a team, and the fact that it's on Yom Kippur will also complicate things for us.

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