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Hi, I'm Ian from Ward Melville, and I'm pretty sure we're not going to be there. The person that was going to go from our team (he was unable to get the rest of us into it, some had Science Olympiad) ended up having Model UN, and we probably will not be able to get team and money together in time an...

Is it just me or is this field extremely strong for just a regular season tournament? In attendance are planned to be 7 of Byko's top 50, and among them 3 of the top 25. Is there any hope of it being a re-bracketed round robin for the final rounds as opposed to a single-elimination playoffs? I'm not...

Does anybody know if UC San Diego currently has a quizbowl program? I'm trying to decide between there and Pittsburgh as my #2 choice (behind UCLA), and if UCSD has quizbowl that would pretty much make my decision for me.

theguy914 wrote: 3. one question asked for the derivative of x times e^2x is the answer not e^2x+ 2xe^2x. they had the answer as xe^2x+2xe^2x.

Neither of those is correct.

By product rule:
1*e^2x + x*2xe^2x = e^2x+x^2e^2x

I don't know if anybody (maybe The Infanta) might know, but for Regional Quiz Bowl which regions can get an extra team invite to the final tournament for both and or varsity and JV because 1 team has gone for the past 2 years. Also if possible, can you mention which team it was that made it those ye...

I'm college visiting at UCLA, USC, and UC Berkeley that thursday prior to Wednesday following, so yes.

I don't know if I missed it somewhere in the original post, but what time does the tournament start that morning? What time is it expected to go to? Where on the UCLA campus will it be located?

Ward Melville is bringing 1. The form was e-mailed, and the check will be brought.

Can we get a field update when the registration closes?

I'd like to register a team of students from my school, but we would not be officially going under the school name. Should I put my home address and home phone where it asks for the school address and school phone? Also should I put the parent that is driving us there as the adviser, or should I put...

TheCzarMan wrote: After the conclusion of the preliminary rounds, the top eight teams will be chosen by total cumulative points.

Does this mean W-L doesn't matter?

Ward Melville is currently putting together a team, we should know our four members by Friday.

What is the policy as far as watching tournament matches? Are observers welcome?

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I was just looking into how I would be able to go, then noticed that the date may be problematic for us (and quite a few other New York teams). April 5 is the date for New York State Mathematics League.

That still didn't answer my first question... Just quickly, what exactly are the Jeopardy style questions? Are those just quick one-liners with buzzers, or is it the way that school teachers run jeopardy in the classroom where the teams alternate in question selection and only the team selecting the...

Just quickly, what exactly are the Jeopardy style questions? Are those just quick one-liners with buzzers, or is it the way that school teachers run jeopardy in the classroom where the teams alternate in question selection and only the team selecting the question can answer? If it's like that, would...

Yeah... If it's on the 16th, I would need to leave at about 4:30 PM to catch a flight out of Laguardia to go college looking, but the rest of my team could probably stay for the end of the tournament... but the 9th is free for me and at least 1 other member that I know, haven't checked with the rest...

I'm Ward Melville (the guy in the purple shirt on the team that lost to you guys in the 1st round at HHHE today).

I would be interested in attending, with or without my coach! (He doesn't like out of state trips)

Are we not getting a field update because the only teams attending are Bergen County, Kellenberg and us (Ward Melville) are the only ones attending? Those are the only teams I saw posting on this forum, and with no posts by HSW, those are the only schools I know are attending....

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Today at practice one of the questions was something like:
Which one of Snow White's 7 dwarves...
My friend buzzed in "Grouchy". The whole room burst into laughter.

Can we get a field update?

Our coach does pretty much nothing, lets the teams go where they need and sits in the cafeteria just grading papers. We sometimes even go to tournaments without him! Even in practices, he pretty much sits in the background grading while one of our more senior members reads practice questions. Lately...

I saw there was a pokemon packet, and I was wondering if I could get an e-copy of it, or is there a fee? I didn't see anything in the previous posts. My e-mail is dinoian -at- yahoo -dot- com

How did people do at the KMO this year? What did you all think of the difficulty? Harder than last year, easier? Our school got in the mid 1500s.

I hope to attend with Ward Melville, looking forward to another great tournament with such random lighting round topics as "A category about nothing" which featured Seinfeld 2 years ago, and the Pokemon category 2 years ago, as well as the Family Guy category last year. Are these lightning...

Ward Melville would be interested in attending, but we may be prohibited by lack of funding/coach.

I would love to go, but my team (along with some other NY teams) would be slightly depleted because of New York's Science Olympiad state competition. Also, my coach doesn't really like to do out of state trips, so basically we only go to LIFT and the Hills West Tournament, so that would be preventin...

I tried talking to him, but he wrote me off by saying that this is what has worked. He may just claim this because our school won Long Island Challenge (a show like It's Academic!) a few years back, and this was the method he used to choose the teams.

The way our school chooses the teams is extremely screwed up. For the first 6 weeks (we meet once each week), we have rooms of 8 people all competing against one another, right answers worth 2 points, wrong -1 EVEN AFTER THE QUESTION IS FINISHED . Not only that, but we use Great Auk questions for al...

My worst loss (Ward Melville) was something like 600-90 against Stuyvesent A at LIFT VI. We got completely obliterated, but combined the two teams answered all 20 questions. They were powering every other question! This year, I hope we can narrow the margin to about a 450-200 loss! When I played the...

When are personal stats going to be up? I want to see how my teamates did!!!