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Jason Cheng

I have given the following message to the SoCal community:

http://www.socalquizbowl.org/cheating-i ... he-season/

Jason Cheng

EDIT: I'd like to note that I agree with everything Grace and Ben have said in this thread, and any reading of this post should reflect as such After Ben Zhang brought this to my attention earlier today, I found that the breaches in question security most likely did not come from any source in South...

Jason Cheng

Congratulations to Westview A for defeating Arcadia 400-280 in the finals to take first place. Final champs standings are: 1st) Westview A (10-0) 2nd) Arcadia (9-1) t-3rd) North Hollywood (7-2) t-3rd) La Jolla A (7-2) Full stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2247/ I'd l...

Jason Cheng

This post is reserved for field updates and other logistic information. FIELD (05/24): La Jolla (3) Rancho Bernardo (4) Irvine (3) Cathedral Catholic (2) Francis Parker (1) Otto von Besmirch, Kaiser-e-Hand, and the Republick of Quizzing Whorinas (1) Mount Carmel (2) Westview (3) Rancho Alamito (1) E...

Jason Cheng

UCSD Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce: Triton Spring IV LOCATION: UC San Diego Campus, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 We are most likely using our usual spot at the Muir Humanities and Social Sciences Building . As the date approaches we will send out finalized, detailed instructions, both by c...

Jason Cheng

I told myself not to respond, that it would just add fuel to the flame; however, a great many people have advised me to respond - so I am doing just that: THIS IS NOT OKAY - THESE PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT OF ANYTHING BUT ASSOCIATION WITH ME // QUIZBOWL PLAYERS SHOULDN'T PERPETUATE AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHIC...

Jason Cheng

The order of finish was something like:
1) Caltech A (8-0)
2) UCSD B (7-1)
3) Arcadia (6-2)
4) UCSD A (5-3)

And I'm not sure beyond that. By ~50% consensus from the teams, the tournament did not go into playoff rounds and ended after an 8-round RR.

Jason Cheng

I did in fact state that I agree that the leadin on its face was uniquely identifying and was just trying to get analysis of the question from more experienced individuals but I see your point. I apologize and will reserve my discussion of a question for somewhere more appropriate than the containin...

Jason Cheng

Then would it improve the tossup to clue some other sample of reasoning that isn't basically a hashtag argument common to the oral arguments of a large number of other significant cases? Because, as you said, the standing issue is rooted in the judicial section of the Constitution and thus easy to w...

Jason Cheng

these two cases are equally significant From a legal standpoint, they absolutely are not. No precedent was set in the Prop 8 case at the Supreme Court level, and the case's impact only applied to one state. Had the court decided the case in a substantial way (similar to Loving v. Virginia) then it ...

Jason Cheng

The US v. Windsor tossup in Division II Packet 13 was, in my opinion, a little confusing. Vicki Jackson's participation in the oral arguments and subsequent use of the standing issue as one of her arguments was unique to Windsor . However, Hollingsworth v. Perry , Windsor 's companion case, was deci...

Jason Cheng

I have reviewed the 13 packets I played in the prelims and playoffs. There wasn't a single tossup on an individual play. There was a tossup on J.B. by Archibald MacLeish in DII. I thought it was a pretty predictable "fuck you have a 10" in DII, but then again, a lot of tossups last Saturd...

Jason Cheng

No amount of caffeine can beat a good nine hours of sleep. I dunno man, I barely got back home in time to head over to our carpool at 7 AM to State last year. Half of Arcadia A the year before didn't really sleep before tournaments either, and we're basically 2 for 2 on SoCal State Champs in the la...

Jason Cheng

Zachary Yan's suggestion actually strikes me as a good one in the right situation . For example, I directed the outreach tournament Corry is talking about (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1497/), and it took a lot of bureaucratic maneuvering for us to run that tournament at no cost but labo...

Jason Cheng

I didn't think seamount is unreasonably hard--it's definitely something you'd learn in, say, middle school earth science, because they're just underwater mountains that don't break the surface. The problem is, it's such an unorthodox answer line that it'll probably go unconverted in half the rooms i...

Jason Cheng

UCSD is probably sending people to play things for this

Jason Cheng

Congratulations to Arcadia for clearing the field! The standings for the Irvine site of HSAPQ Regionals: 1. Arcadia (6-0) 2. North Hollywood (5-1) 3. Irvine (4-2) 4. Pacifica (2-4) 5. St, Monica Catholic (2-4) 6. Rolling Hills (1-5) 7. Silver Valley (0-6) Brief report w/ commentary and compilation o...

Jason Cheng

Congratulations to Torrey Pines for beating La Jolla 235-165 in a tiebreaker finals and winning San Diego HSAPQ Regionals! Final standings: 1st- Torrey Pines (8-2) 2nd- La Jolla (7-3) 3rd- Canyon Crest 4th- Westview 5th- Rancho Bernardo 6th- Madison 7th- The Grauer School Compilation of Southern Cal...

Jason Cheng

Congratulations to Westview A for winning Triton Winter IV 9-0! Finishing Order: 1) Westview A (9-0) 2) La Jolla A (7-2) 3) North Hollywood A (6-2) 4) Torrey Pines A (7-1) t-5) Madison A t-5) Canyon Crest A t-6) Capistrano Valley A t-6) Scripps Ranch A t-6) Rancho Bernardo A t-6) North Hollywood B F...

Jason Cheng

Whoops, I see what went wrong here. I didn't see it because my inbox-across-multiple-emails shenanigans sorted it into the wrong place. We would've had two weeks to adjust, so there's no harm done either way; just a lot of miscommunication. Thanks!

Jason Cheng

I'll just have to agree with Auroni here, since I, too, literally just found out by reading this thread, without which I might have screwed up the tournament planning Vicky and I were doing just now. No harm done though, all this means is an increased probability that UCSD Auroni will win the Califo...

Jason Cheng

Just a note: SUBMIT in California is being hosted by UC Berkeley, not UCSD. We're hosting ACF Regionals and Triton Spring (our yearly pre-nats high school tournament), facts that could have been warped by hearsay and/or the nature of all-text chats with multiple participants. In any case, it would b...

Jason Cheng

Triton Winter IV has been awarded Platinum Certification by PACE, and the top 25% of the finishing teams will qualify for PACE NSC on May 24-25

Jason Cheng

Field (as of 01/14): Westview (4) Madison (2) Capistrano Valley (2) Scripps Valley Ranch (2) La Jolla (1) Rancho Bernardo (2) North Hollywood (2) Canyon Crest (2) Francis Parker (1) Torrey Pines (3) Carlsbad (2) Mt. Carmel (2) TOTAL: 25 Buzzers: Westview (4) Madison (2) Capistrano Valley (1) Rancho...

Jason Cheng

UCSD is pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Triton Winter on February 1st, 2014 QUESTIONS : We are mirroring the 2014 BELLOCO set, written by Bellarmine High School. Information about the set can be found here . LOCATION : 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California, 92093 . We are most likely usi...

Jason Cheng

The Arcadia season opener last year actually only had 15 teams attend, compared to the previous tournament we'd hosted, which had 24 teams (still not a record in Southern California).

Hopefully, you do host a record breaker this year

Jason Cheng

I don't know how to feel about these rankings. On one hand, it's a big step up from last year, where the Arcadia A I was on didn't get a pre-season ranking. On the other hand, Arcade Fire. Anyway, I'm no expert our Northern counterparts, but I wouldn't have expected "Escobar" to rank so mu...

Jason Cheng

If you've studied the You Gotta Know lists on NAQT.com, you have more exposure to quiz bowl than most other freshmen trying out for your school's team. That's definitely the case with Arcadia, except add "and sophomores, and juniors, and probably seniors." The only way to get better at the...

Jason Cheng

The post and working schedule can be found here:

http://www.socalquizbowl.org/2013-2014- ... ate-claim/

Jason Cheng

Many of us at socalquizbowl.org have done something similar with this lengthy, work-in-progress guide started by Chris Chiego and Dwight Wynne over here:

http://www.socalquizbowl.org/comprehens ... ing-guide/

Jason Cheng

Anyways, since I'm a history specialist with no knowledge whatsoever of pretty much any other subject, I didn't recognize a single clue after that first line, and proceeded to lose that question. Of course, with the packet officially cleared and nationals approaching in less than a week, I suppose ...

Jason Cheng

I am perfectly okay with the field listings as they stand now. In all seriousness, three of our teams are going to be in Nationals division no matter what. Arcadia can bring 4-5 mods and another 4 teams for Regular division, but all that is contingent on whether or not we can actually track down eno...

Jason Cheng

Ladue is #1, they'll assume it's due to lying in an uncompetitive region, neither of which, of course, is even close to right. I think the inherent nature of a national ranking (or at least the apparent one of anyone who reads the About section) is enough to inform people that your hypothetical is ...

Jason Cheng

I'd be happy to join someone's team to make rostering less weird, if said team doesn't mind playing with a guy who's managed to fraud his way into literature for the past year or so

Jason Cheng

Congratulations to all of the winners. We miss you, Dwight! Ditto to that. Now that we've taken up much of Chris' and Dwight's work in outreach and maintaining/expanding the high school circuit, I've come to appreciate just how annoying their jobs were (with only two of them for all of SoCal, no le...

Jason Cheng

Just chiming in to say that flashy, ephemeral things like an opening buzz aren't necessarily bad things. This is a high school nationals, with teams and parents and coaches from all across the country who don't post on these forums attending. We might participate in quiz bowl purely for the sake of ...

Jason Cheng

Corry wrote:At this point, it looks like we'll have 5-7 teams.

7 looks more likely, assuming none of the 29ish people signed up drop two nights before, the act of which is also an Arcadia tradition.

Jason Cheng

Can we get a field update?

EDIT: Never mind I can't read

Jason Cheng

I'd like to play, and if nothing else, will conscript one of the underclassmen from our B or C teams to play with me.

Jason Cheng

It should have been input, but I guess it slipped away from us while we were debating what to do about the circle of death. We stuffed all the stat sheets into Corry's backpack, so we should theoretically be able to fix this issue soon.

Jason Cheng

Congratulations to North Hollywood A for winning the 7th annual Carnal Embrace! Full stats here. After a circle of death in the top bracket at the end of playoffs, Irvine A placed 3rd based on PPB and PPG, and North Hollywood A defeated their B-team in a one round sudden-death final to take 1st. Tha...

Jason Cheng

Yeah, I can confirm this. Other than that, this was a fantastic tournament, and a great time for Arcadia A + the intrepid players (3 of them underclassmen) who wanted to come along with us. Thanks for hosting!

Jason Cheng

From my point of view, I powered This just sort of randomly popped into my head, but how did people take to this question? It was in Round 11, so I think it was part of a half-packet played. Not sure, though. One group created for this cause organized a meeting that is the subject of the film Winter...

Jason Cheng

Apparently the RAF is attending Arcadia Carnal Embrace on 3/23, so I'll tell you how it goes if they come

Jason Cheng

Update: We have received permission to use our school's science building and lecture hall, and are now offering a new discount: Any school that fields 3 teams for this tournament will be able to register a 4th team for free (this 4th team is not included in the minimum fee calculations). Mostly beca...

Jason Cheng

Stats for today can be found here Full recap and SoCalQuizBowl.org write-up here These stats are rough and according to the La Jolla team should be fixed around Monday. Aside from some obvious stat hiccups (unrecorded rounds, extra negs, missing PPB, etc), the tournament today was extraordinarily w...

Jason Cheng

Can I get a field update on this Saturday? According to your email, Arcadia E and F were taken off the waitlist, and I want to confirm that the elusive Santa Monica is still attending :)

Jason Cheng

Arcadia has confirmed two teams for this tournament--we'll know whether the people coming as Arcadia B will be JV or Varsity by the end of this weekend.

Jason Cheng

There's an upcoming tournament at Arcadia on March 23rd (<4 hours drive from Vegas).... I'm sure the tournament organizers of both would be happy to extend a significant travel discount to a new team driving from Vegas. I'd be happy to waive all Arcadia Carnal Embrace registration fees for any team...

Jason Cheng

Quick interest call from Arcadia. My co-captain and I have made attending this mandatory for all members, which means a little more than half our team will attend, so expect around 7ish teams from us, plus 2 buzzers, and possibly a moderator or two. We can dig up more of both of those if you need th...

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