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My speculation of teams near our region: I think that Shady Side and Stuyvesant will be very good teams this year, with both probably making top 10 at NAQT next year. Shady Side is always good, and always beats us or nearly beats us at nationals. Stuyvesant won our tournament last year, and I was r...

Yeah I'm curious as well...did the Koreans feel inspired by a need to repay the Japanese for the WBC defeat? Did they prove once and for all that it would indeed be more efficient to use that raw fish stuff as bait, or that karate really is hella weak (unless you're under 12 years of age) compared ...

This past year at Maryland (Fall), our team buzzed in on a question where "the Ramayana" was the accepted answer. Our team's lone player of Indian-descent was the one that buzzed in, and answered "the Ramayan." It was rejected, and we protested, claiming that he should know the ...

I just played a pseudo-ACF college tournament with questions between ACF Fall and Regionals levels, and got destroyed due to no sleep, no preparation, and no college-level canon knowledge. And I wasn't aggressive enough. So I'm practically dead now. But powers from my past... He "should have be...

Seconded with conviction. But I think PowerOfChe has a point in that its stupid to buzz in on a random speculative guess unless you are either your teams only real scorer, or you are very good at the topic in question. As for teammates getting mad at you, there are no real ways to fix that situatio...

Wow...I guess we have Brookwood to thank that we went 7-3 instead of 6-4. Both teams went into the game 5-1. We were leading by 5 points with 10 seconds on the clock. Brookwood had a buzzer-beating answer, and thus beat us by a slim margin. That sent them to a 6-1 record and apparently into the top...

Don't convice yourself it would do any good. An opponent of ours was given credit for "Conferate States of America" (a country) after hearing "this legislative body", which sought the Conferderate congress. My protest was denied unanimously by five judges. If "this body&quo...

Although I disagree, I respect your point of view. The real objective is better quiz bowl and your method is one way of achieving it. In my experience, the students begin arguing with and even resenting one another if the criticism is allowed to be free. I don't think I'd balk at conversations amon...

Agreed. Not knowing the answer rarely translates into points. I teach my players that no team member should question in a hostile manner why another team member rang or failed to ring. Nor should team member A chastise player B for aggressively taking a shot at a question because player B got the q...

I took Java and AP but I didn't really pay attention to the different sorting methods. The only one I ever used was bubble sort. Doesnt that have a horrible big O? As I recall, for the worst case scenario (most poorly oriented data for that particular algorithm that there can be, so the order of el...

While it definitely should be frowned upon to discuss specifics per se about the questions (especially as this is not a marked HSNCT thread, but see also Matt's advisory ), what would be interesting to ask is what kinds of computer science questions were asked? Were they more language-dependent or ...