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Thanks for the update!

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Hey, Fred. Do you anticipate having these complete in what remains of March?

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vishdog101 wrote:I'm just surprised Texas didn't get an A to an A-.

We appreciate the positive recognition we received from Chris, but acknowledge our work is far from done here.

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Is it possible that that journalist could be a quizbowl player? I don't know of any journalism majors or freelance writers among the community, but they have to be out there somewhere, right? So, yeah... the problem isn't finding the writer. The problem is finding an interested outlet, as Chris exp...

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The team, made up of seventh- and ninth-graders, made it to the finals. Chip actually re-used questions from a practice set in the finals of his "national championship" tournament. Just to tidy up "finals" terminology so we can string the man up properly and prevent confusion: T...

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Just wanted to think Collin and his team for their work on this. Good times were had.

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I have suggested that pronunciation guides be printed with light grey backgrounds to better allow people to see punctuation. ... I find it much easier for my eye to skip over PGs I don't want to see when they're shaded like above (and I hope it's not just me, otherwise this would be a truly quixoti...

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Where and when should we gather?

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On the drive back to San Antonio, Dennis and I wound up being moved into the kitchen of the Black-Eyed Pea in Hillsboro due to a tornado touchdown in town there. It missed us by about 2 miles to the northeast. The weather added about 2 hours to a 5 hour trip. Could've been a lot worse.

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I just wanted to say how impressed I was with the depth of the delegations from Georgia and Kentucky. The Georgia group, led by the three River Trail squads, Sutton, Chamblee and North Gwinnett, emphasized the quality of the Peachtree State circuit. So too the Kentucky delegation, led by the top 11 ...

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Damn -- that's a face I recognize from HSNCTs past, certainly. Thanks for sharing. Really sad, scary news.

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Thanks for the insight, Jeff.

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Hi, Jeff. Will NAQT be considering a jump to 272 again? If so, when do you expect that discussion to occur? I notice that the bump to 272 last year occurred on March 6.

Also, does NAQT have a multiple of 16 beyond 256 in mind that it considers the event's logistical maximum?

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The United Stats of America wrote:At this year's MSNCT and HSNCT, http://www.naqt.com/stats/player.jsp?contact_id=135975 was the stats room's favourite name.

He did appear for Greenhill as a ninth-grader this fall. Eligibility confirmed.

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Losing to the eventual national champions at a regular-season tournament on a protest decided by their coach, who was running said tournament. Because :chip: era concepts of impartiality are fun. We had upset them in prelims at nationals the prior year, but there was no way we should've been within ...

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That was not at all their story by the time they got to me. If those were the facts I was given, I would never have initiated our earlier conversation, after which I thought we were working with the same information. I will ask them to clarify the situation. So their story is that their guy audibly...

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Somebody in the other thread said that different systems have different ways of breaking a tie between simultaneous buzzes, and that in some cases there's always one color that wins, etc. This seems like incredibly relevant information that should be shared with the community. TQBA has at least one...

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That was not at all their story by the time they got to me. If those were the facts I was given, I would never have initiated our earlier conversation, after which I thought we were working with the same information. I will ask them to clarify the situation. So their story is that their guy audibly...

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moderators tend to be understanding of buzzer issues and if no one is buzzing and you're frantically trying to buzz and it's not working, say something and they'll recognize you. I actually thought it was common sense/universal knowledge to spaz out while frantically waving your hands saying "...

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moderators tend to be understanding of buzzer issues and if no one is buzzing and you're frantically trying to buzz and it's not working, say something and they'll recognize you. I actually thought it was common sense/universal knowledge to spaz out while frantically waving your hands saying "...

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Can Texas (14-1) still win outright with a win over Virginia and an Illinois loss to Missouri? Trying to keep up without today's live results.

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Texas is odd in that you either have to take players from the last two years or go way back into the early 2000s or late 90s. Just considering folks who graduated more than five years ago here's what I'd consider: Susan Mitchell Chris Frankel Vik Vaz Maybe either Eric Kwartler or Eric Whitman Smith...

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I'd like to credit NAQT for the method they've taken up for evaluating new staffers on Friday night. For those unaware, volunteers who had not read at an HSNCT before were paired with experienced HSNCT readers for the practice rounds, allowing the older volunteers to determine who should only be sco...

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Cool, the stats page is updating. Thanks to whoever is responsible for that.

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The Predictable Consequences wrote:Jason Flowers is tweeting LASA scores @historytime. I'll also be tweeting some superplayoff and playoff àscores (not top 8 though) @rbmrosenberg

We have access to St. John's and LASA results, but that leaves us missing a game or two each round. SJS beat Farragut by 200.

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Will Superplayoff scores be either tweeted or posted this morning?

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Why is Jesuit--a perfectly competent team on good quizbowl questions and probably the best team between Georgia and Texas--always choosing to go to the worst tournaments? This just seems baffling especially since they have so much good QB experience. Because they are perfectly aware that they have ...

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Friday was the IESA State Series in downtown Peoria, which Daniel Wright won in AA. Given that the Sectional qualifier was Monday (and DW's Sectional included Marshall and Station), trying to make plans ahead of time would have been complicated, to say the least. It is known yet if next year's IESA...

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:
etchdulac wrote:Hey, Fred. Did you wind up not having time for a pre-SSNCT post? Or is it still forthcoming? Just wondering.
Finals week. Only thing being ranked right now is how sad I am.

Understood. Good times!

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Hey, Fred. Did you wind up not having time for a pre-SSNCT post? Or is it still forthcoming? Just wondering.

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Mr. Joyboy wrote:
I guess you didn't come to Bulldog days. Other people possibly coming are Canzhi from Reagan and Roger from somewhere in Ohio.

Canzhi decided to go to Berkeley.

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I will let you know when that is settled, if Joel doesn't beat me to it.

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There's no reason that this site should not be on your list, right? Joel posted the below about a week ago.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =8&t=15131

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Howard wrote:Out of curiosity, have we invited the press to HSNCT, NSC, or NASAT with the lure that x,y,z local teams will be there.

For HSNCT: Yes, multiple times.

My (former) employers covered our first local event, in a sense; it helped that they were sponsoring the event.

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Matt Weiner wrote:We're working on getting a stream of the finals room running at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasat-test-room . If this doesn't work, we have a separate recorded podcast running that we will post as soon as possible.

The final will start in about 15 minutes.

Awesome. Thanks.

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Will the second final match between LASA A and Ladue be available on one of the above four links?

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Does anyone know if 440 is the highest losing score in any HSNCT match ever held? I doubt there's a simple way to confirm this statistic, but I'd be interested in hearing if there is.

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As a staffer, I was very happy with how the assignments for the Friday night scrimmages and the schedule for the Sunday consolation rounds were handled. They were much, much better than last year. I also meant to thank Nathan and whoever else put the work into the logistics for friday night. I was ...

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These are the 2013 HSNCT team previews and predictions assembled by the advisory board of TQBA, hosts of \ Our National Champion pick I heard from Sameer that John Cherian will not be playing HSNCT. Would this affect TQBA's national champion pick? Possibly. Bellarmine's stats at TI-ACF were remarka...

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These are the 2013 HSNCT team previews and predictions assembled by the advisory board of TQBA, hosts of Texas Invitational V . Our National Champion pick Sunday hopes for Texas' top teams Houston's 7 HSNCT teams Austin's 7 HSNCT teams Dallas' 4 HSNCT teams San Antonio's 4 HSNCT teams

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Bad Boy Bill wrote:A map of the HSNCT attendees.

Sorry if anyone is mistagged.

The Clark that's going is Tom Clark HS from San Antonio. Dallas Clark is... a tight end.

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They played a couple of events this school year. Danny Chupin from LASA and Daniel Chapman from Seven Lakes are there, as well as one former St. Mark's guy whose name I can't unearth right now. Isn't Jiawei (Seven Lakes '11) there too? Jiawei is at UT, but not doing quiz bowl to my knowledge. The U...

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TroubleClef wrote:I'll be attending UT Austin. I'd like to keep playing, not sure if they have an active team.

They played a couple of events this school year. Danny Chupin from LASA and Daniel Chapman from Seven Lakes are there, as well as one former St. Mark's guy whose name I can't unearth right now.

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No idea. That's just what I transcribed from the posted listings downstairs.

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Through Saturday preliminary play:
#1 Barrington A, 8-0
#2 Kealing A, 7-1
#3 Longfellow A, 7-1
#4 Kealing B, 7-1
#5 St. John's, 6-2
#6 Kealing C, 6-2
35 teams advance to Sunday play.

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Joshua Rutsky wrote:How about a list of really good moments in quizbowl sportsmanship

TJ Appreciation Thread, PACE NSC 2011

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jonpin wrote:Boerne & Boerne-Champion

Boerne High and Boerne Champion are the two public high schools in Boerne, Texas.

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Bumped for addition of LASA B, LASA C and Team Schindler.

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Perhaps someone who knows the history of these things better than I do can help me here, but to go from UR (unranked) to a national ranking of #2 is a nice bit of news copy. :smile: Yes, when you compose that bit of copy, do make sure to note that the alleged #2 team in the country was unable to wi...

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It is worth noting that both LASA and St. John's split their A teams at this event. LASA's two semifinalist teams were three players each. The team of three juniors had one normal A team member on it. In two matches with Cistercian, this LASA subset lost twice by a total of 65 points. The St. John's...

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