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mithokie

Fred, I see your point about random seeding, and agree with you. I was going with the hypothetical idea that we didn't know the relative strength of the teams heading in, so we would place them randomly. Obviously, we all have a pretty good idea that Thomas Jefferson, Dorman, and Maggie Walker are g...

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A possible alternative format for a 20 team tournament on 12 packets with little information for seeding. AM: Rounds 1-4 Randomly seeded teams playing a 4 round card system as described below, with A and B teams from the same school separated as discussed. http://www.charterschool.org/clubs/academic...

mithokie

Dave, Thanks for doing this. I wish we could have applied, but all grant applications in our district have to be approved by our school board before we can apply (silly bureaucratic rule, but it is the rule nonetheless) and the short lead time did not give us the opportunity to apply due the timing ...

mithokie

Regarding the 4 pools of 7 giving teams 6 games in 7 rounds, you could play cross-bracket games that don't count in the standings during the AM rounds, just so teams don't have byes. Additionally, be wary of your bracketing in this setup, as a team will have to win its prelim pool to be eligible for...

mithokie

I'm a supporter of the free market, and I think it is fine that someone else wants in on the question market. However, I don't see anything compelling that would lead me to want to use these questions for a tournament at my school. The 16/16 format is not the standard, and I would need a really good...

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Blacksburg High School is hosting the inaugural Scholastic Bowl Fall Kickoff on Saturday, November 12, 2011. This event is open to VHSL member schools only, and will be played on VHSL regular season sets 21-28. The event is not a tournament. We want to let schools that do not usually participate in ...

mithokie

Dan, We're definitely planning on coming. I don't know numbers yet, as we've just gotten started with practice. Is there a limit to the number of teams a school can bring? We've had very healthy numbers in practice, and this tournament is so close to home, that we should be able to bring a lot of te...

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Blacksburg High School would like to claim November 12, 2011 to host a Scholastic Bowl Fall Kickoff event. This event is intended to allow teams that use few or no regular season VHSL matches to get 8 additional regular season matches in before most district tournaments occur. We will be using regul...

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Virginia requires coaches to attend a "rules clinic" each year, which is the closest thing we have to a coaches conference or state meeting. Historically they were held regionally. I found that they were a great place to network with other coaches, and to talk up good quizbowl events in yo...

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Charlie is right on about MAILING invites to schools well in advance of your tournament(s) being a great way to get new schools involved. I also think it is a fabulous idea to mail out a written calendar for all of the good pyramidal tournaments in an area to coaches at local high schools. I hosted ...

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NCIS @ Cave Spring:

Stats in Excel Format:

http://members.cox.net/kamikaze1/NCIS1.xls

mithokie

Blacksburg had a great experience at this tournament. Raleigh Charter A gave a truly inspired performance. Blacksburg C started the day against Raleigh Charter A. It was the first match for most of the Blacksburg C members, and they got truly skunked Raleigh Charter got 9 powers in the first match. ...

mithokie

Complete Results: Congrats to George Mason, Christiansburg, and Maggie Walker A Winners Bracket QF (Rd 1) Honaker 180 Parry McCluer 145 Nandua 200 Manassas Park 170 George Mason 350 Mathews 90 Radford 180 Lebanon 165 Winners Bracket SF (Rd 2) Nandua 255 Honaker 130 George Mason 310 Radford 115 Winne...

mithokie

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=265004685104 From the VHSL facebook page and this board: I will add to this as I find more info. Please add results to this board as you know them. Region Qualifiers So Far. State Qualifiers are in bold . A: Region A: (2/5 @ Colonial Beach) Sussex , Windsor, ...

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@ Raynell:

I just wanted to make sure that you knew that 4/23 is Easter Saturday. Many schools will be on spring break that weekend. That, of course, may not affect your planing, and that is fine.

mithokie

Hidden Valley @ Blacksburg 12/9/10

Match 1: Blacksburg 320 Hidden Valley 115 (*** Match counts for district standings)
Match 2: Blacksburg 275 Hidden Valley 140 (*** Match does not count for district standings)

mithokie

Consider Blacksburg interested. We'll let you know how many teams at a later date.

mithokie

As a staff member at Blacksburg HS, I was not very excited about how all of this went down either, even though we ended up qualifying for state through this process anyway. I feel that an attempt to move the competition at least one more time should have been made. I would have enjoyed watching Cave...

mithokie

I heard that Parry McCluer won the Pioneer; but I don't know who the 2nd Pioneer team is. Region C was scheduled for yesterday, but I imagine that it has been postponed due to the weather this weekend.

mithokie

Stats can be found here: stats

mithokie

Thanks for the updates: I was finally able to edit the entry I posted earlier this year (before my transfer caused the end of the EQuInE III). A nice feature would be a delete this entry button, for cases where a tournament is cancelled.

mithokie

No prob on switching dates. I am no official entity. I am just trying to reflect the dates that have been mentioned on the board, for DC, MD, VA, and DE to assist everyone in planning for their tournaments. I am not going to add the LIFT, since there are other places where all of the tournaments nat...

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BTW... I have fixed the school and tournament name above.

mithokie

My apologies to the Ceasar Rodney folks; I didn't realize that Delaware was part of the DC Metro Board. I have added your claim to the list above. Have I missed any other Delaware tourneys? Does Charter have one announced.

mithokie

The changes that are being made are as follows: 1) State tournaments will now qualify the same number of teams as other tournaments. State tournaments that follow a qualification procedure will not automatically qualify every team that qualifies for the state championship, but the appropriate numbe...

mithokie

Auburn High School probably will not be hosting the EQuInE III since I will begin teaching at Blacksburg HS this fall. So unless the yet to be determined sponsor of the Scholastic Bowl team at AHS wants to host a tournament, I would say that it is likely that the EQuInE will no longer be on the sche...

mithokie

I think I may have also misunderstood the fact that pretty much every student knows the formula for such a sum also. Again, my bad. I think this is actually where one of the big mis-understandings occurs. As a math teacher at a small rural public school, I believe that the majority of students do N...

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The supporting argument I give for my contention is that in the notably unbiased It's Academic tournament which my team participates, certain coaches and teams seem to have top teams year after year. If the speed factor of this tournament were simply a randomizer which didn't involve some sort of t...

mithokie

I got off the phone with one of my team's players at about 12:30 (I was unable to attend this one), and this tournament is over. Several teams dropped out at the last minute and it ended up being just two teams. The decision was made to play a best of 7 series. Salem beat Auburn in the first match a...

mithokie

What time is the tournament starting, or more appropriately, what time should we be there? I need to know for arranging transportation.
Thanks!

mithokie

08/22/09 08/29/09 09/05/09 09/12/09 Rumble on the Pike @ Richard Montgomery (NAQT IS-86) 09/19/09 09/26/09 Tournament @ UMD (HSAPQ #8) 10/03/09 10/10/09 SAT Date; Fall Novice Tournament @ Maggie Walker 10/17/09 TJIAT @ TJHSST (HSAPQ #9) 10/24/09 Walt Whitman HS; Fall Novice Mirror 10/31/09 11/07/09 ...

mithokie

Just for clarification, is NCOAST only open to North Carolina schools? (Isn't it your effective state championship?)

mithokie

Regarding AJ's Comment: I answered the Albigensian Crusade question, and then they asked me to spell it. I spelled it Albeginsian, and was marked wrong It was not a case of the reader not knowing the rules; after the match she said she was trying to check for consonants when she asked you to spell i...

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Does anyone have any info on NAQT States beyond Will's post stating that 3/7 is the date? Does anyone have registration information, such as the fee schedule, in particular?

Thanks,

mithokie

Yes, this year is double-elim again. There is a good chance that we move to round-robin at state next year (pending final approval by all of the folks that need to approve it).

mithokie

Auburn High School is expressing interest.

mithokie

Since we have results from all of the 4 A regions, here is the A bracket for 2/28

1st round brackets for VHSL A State

Nandua vs. Lebannon
Rappahannock Co. vs. Auburn
Radford vs. West Point
Honaker vs. George Mason

mithokie

Region C Tournament Saturday January 31, 2009 Parry McCluer HS Buena Vista, VA Round 1 Higland Co. BYE Auburn defeated George Wythe by Forfeit (George Wythe never showed up... we don't know why) Radford BYE James River defeated Patrick Henry Round 2 Auburn defeated Highland Co. 240-105 Radford defea...

mithokie

I will echo that it would not be acceptable for students to compete under the supervision of a parent or without supervision at all at my school (in Virginia) as well. Transportation is not as big of an issue for us as it is for the gentleman from Alabama. I can drive my team to competitions in a co...

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http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/192060

The link is to an article about the TRD scholastic bowl tournament.

mithokie

The Three Rivers District Scholastic Bowl Tournament was held Wed. Jan. 21, 2009 at Auburn High School. The results are as follows: Round 1: Auburn d. Eastern Montgomery 210-175 Radford d. Floyd County 295-95 Round 2: Auburn d. Floyd County 210-150 Radford d. Eastern Montgomery 350-105 Round 3: East...

mithokie

After 4 tournaments, I have definitely identified low bonus conversion as a problem area for my team. There are two matches in particular that I can point to that we had abysmal bonus conversion on that turned matches we probably should have won into matches we lost. (Listing these as BHrd/Bonus Poi...

mithokie

Rather than have a load of e-mail requests for the set, would you be willing to post the set on the quizbowlpackets.com site?

Just a thought.

mithokie

Bob,

Do you have times set for registration and an approximate ending time for the tournament?

Thanks

mithokie

Is there any way for you to share data entry duties with some others? I imagine there are many of us who would not mind taking some time to enter data for the Byko's Quizbowl Quotients. I don't know if the data entry is an easy task to share or not, but if it is shareable, I will volunteer myself to...

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Fred Morlan wrote:
AdamL wrote:Sorry to interrupt this train wreck, but:

AHS Eagles wrote: Thanks to Douglas for enlarging my cannon
Yeah, I'm mature like that
hehehehe

Although it was at my expense, I laughed out loud at that one.

mithokie

While this is not the popular opinion of the majority (or vocal minority/vocal majority???) on the board, I have to agree with David that there is a place for computational math toss-ups in quizbowl. To me it seems like a gaping hole in the distribution when they are completely left out. I also know...

mithokie

Now that we have been PACE certified as well, I can add that automatic bids to the PACE-NSC have been won by Cave Spring A and Robinson A. Congratulations!

mithokie

I think Blacksburg kind of got lucky/unlucky, depending on your point of view, in finishing second in your AM bracket, since it guaranteed you a top 6 finish, but put you up against 4 tough opponents after lunch. In a similar way Winfield A got stuck in the 7-12 bracket by virtue of their losing the...

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The links to the stats are as follows:

Preliminary Rounds Standings
Standings after completion of all afternoon rounds

The Stats page above does not include the final match, but will be updated Monday to include the final matches stats.

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