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ProfessorIanDuncan

How many players on last year's Hunter A and Hunter B teams have graduated? Will Hunter A finally be beatable? 5: Lily Chen, York Chen, Richard Yu, Paul Moschetti, and David Xu. Hunter A will be Zihan Zheng Marianna Zhang Wilton Rao/Willie Ha/ WIlliam Dou most likely. They will be beatable if Roey ...

ProfessorIanDuncan

Reading poetry and short stories isn't time consuming and it goes a long way.

Same can be said of spark notes.

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I'm afraid that one of our league tournaments conflicts with this date so I can't moderate but there may be a very slim chance that we still bring 1 team.

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I can say for sure that we will bring at least one team but we probably wont bring more than three. In terms of a concrete answer, I'll definitely have one by Tuesday if not earlier.

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SInce spots are filling up quick I guess you can put down Irvington for 2 teams and 1-2 buzzer systems.

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I probably can't make Wednesday next week, so I would prefer to have Cleveland's game on Tuesday. It's not a big deal about being notified as long as you know now when the games are.

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NAC conflicted with senior prom

NAC has 3 dates. why not go to chicago the next weekend, or better yet HSNCT the weekend before?
Well from the sound of it, Smithtown East will be participating more actively this year. I hope to see you guys at at least a few tournaments.

ProfessorIanDuncan

If you need to fill slots then I'll join. As for the fact whether I qualify, Matthew Powers can testify that I get about as many questions as he does when we've played on skype. If I am added, my preference on when to play will change on a week by week basis

ProfessorIanDuncan

Irvington (NY) would like to express interest for 1-3 teams.

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I should probably say that Irvington plans on hosting a tournament on HSAPQ questions at some point in the fall, but until I get the schedule for the local league I can't set a final date. Also I know that an HSAPQ set will be used at UPenn. Are the 2 locations too close to each other to run the sam...

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expressing interest for Irvington. I take it I don't count as an experienced moderator but all the same i am expressing interest in that too.

EDIT: I forget words sometimes.

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SHP is planning to try to come to MIT to play this set before we host it the next weekend!

That's such a coincidence, my team was planning on doing that too. (just kidding)

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Biopics help with history a bit, but sometimes you have to take the with a grain of salt.

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Will the Dorman housewrite available to be mirrored?

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I hereby express interest for the novice division for the first phase (whenever that is), but I have a question. If someone is a member of a winning team in the novice division can they play later in the year in the expert division?

Expect soccer references. :)

Yes. Yes. Oh my God. Yes.

ProfessorIanDuncan

first or second year of HS quiz bowl

Does

count as HS quiz bowl? Does NHBB? I am asking because there are a couple of players that are eligible if they do but aren't if they don't.

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Is the Hunter Novice Tournament a Frosh/Soph tournament?

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One area I wish had another tournament or two was the city of New York itself. Prison Bowl is a thing, and Trinity, which hasn't had much affiliation with the game has attended the past couple of years and done quite well. Hunter also is doing a Fall Novice Tournament, which may be a little bit on ...

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Brian, there will be Westchester tournaments this year, notably two planned in Scarsdale and a potential one in Irvington that Long Island teams should attend. The NY Metro State Tournament last year had only 1 Long Island school and they ended up winning. Westchester is a region that needs to intro...

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though geographically, they're technically the latter

False.I do not accept this statement as fact. Anyway, Ardsley was the first Westchester team to go to HSNCT in years (I assume).

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Queensbury went to nationals last year

Looks like they did OK. 3-3 with losses to two of the best teams at New Orleans.

It'd be nice if NY was recognized for QB aside from just the city area

No one recognizes NY asides from Hunter in places that are 100+miles away.

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MasterMinds teams I would guess can be safely written off, as even the better teams in that competition struggle to reach 300 points in a game on NAQT A-set questions. Do they play with different rules that lead to lower scoring games? I can't believe that the teams are weaker than some Westchester...

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Does High Tech have strong Lit & Humanties players to join with their formidable talents in History & Science? Grace was very good at lit. So i have no doubt that some of her knoledge has rubbed off. Lukas on High Tech will probably round out the A team. Don't really know what his strengths...

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NEW YORK CITY Having played Hunter B at RSI, Hunter is still the team to beat in New York this year, but the graduations have impacted them. Even Hunter B will be a good team this year,the depth of the teams was so deep last year that there shouldn't be any problem. However, I shudder to think what...

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I know that my following statement is going to be criticized but... This was a summer tournament just for fun so having the packet isn't as big of a deal (realistically, no one will mirror this after Ryan's scathing review), and having the first writing experience be for a summer tournament before w...

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Will the stats be posted anywhere? It seemed like it was important despite the fact that this was a just for fun tournament. I can certainly say that I enjoyed myself. It was nice meeting new people and seeing the people I knew again. I hope that the other two days are just as enjoyable.

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I do have a question, I don't think I quite understand the breakdown completely. We have three people (including me) on our team that should be able to play all three days, since we went to the same high school (Ward Melville) and we're all in the same college (Stony Brook). But for Saturday, one o...

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i was under the impression that there were only 3 A sets. anyway Scarsdale is planning a tournament, so if they want to use an a set then we're probably not going to stop them. does anyone know how i would go about acquiring a HSAPQ packet to use for the tournament? i was leaning towards HSAPQ anyway

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Irvington plans on hosting something at some point, as an introductory pyramidal tournament to Westchester. We would prefer to use an easy set like an A set or mirror a set that isn't too hard. But as all the A sets will be used at some point and I don't know what sets are the best to use for introd...

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So ummmm who won?

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ah i understand. i just didnt think of that.

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I am just a high schooler, so clearly my opinion doesn't matter. And i am totally foreign to this format. But why would the problem not just be solved by going into the Final Four with a traditional semifinal? The winner of the winners bracket already received a bye anyway right? Because i haven't b...

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Any updates? Brian? I assume there is/was a hard copy of the playoff bracket in New Orleans

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My point being it's kind of a tick in the column for "NAC doesn't do well at accurately ranking teams due to flaws in its questions and/or format." I am aware. I'm just "that guy" who enjoys answering rhetorical questions. Also i'm not part of many "remember when..." t...

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Remember when Parkersburg returned everyone after finishing 2nd in 2010 and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in 2011?

Yes i do. there was quite a hullabaloo around the bracket when it happened. same thing happened with the #1 seed, Hawken, at that tournament.

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A warning to NAC teams: Harrison, the defending champs, returned everyone from last year's team. They won Indiana's QU State Championship this year and finished a narrow runnerup at NAQT Rotary State (to Culver Academies). They should be considered a strong threat to repeat. High Tech finished 9-1 ...

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I know that i'm wasting my time here, but can we please not use this thread to bash NAC. Its pointless. The people who go to NAC and are on the forums semi-frequently know its bad and those who dont know its bad aren't on the forums. There are some people who are genuinely interested at what happens...

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Does anyone have a list of the Top 20 Varsity who made it? its on the facebook group but off the top of my head in no particular order they are: Alex Frey Mark Arildsen RIchard Yu Bruce McCuskey (top 4?) Bobby Dorigo Jones Ankit Aggarwal Sameer Rai Tabitha Walker Andrew Van Duyn Andrew Salyer Colli...

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1968 DNC made me sigh in amazement. i was positive no one would choose it. i was proved wrong. i dont remember hearing all of them but there are definitely some answer lines i enjoy like edict of nantes and ethelred the unready. just from looking at the list the dick cheney hunting thing seems like ...

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And some people from my team would probably be interested.

Get them interested. They don't listen to me

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Thanks for the shout out Mr. Powers. I also feel the need to include Ryan Rosenberg in that list because he reached the top 16 in the bowl BY HIMSELF.

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Well having a GOOD well rounded comes from having a good program. A good program starts from having good players. Those good players in turn motivate, teach and mentor the lesser players so that the entire team becomes good. Look at LASA and Hunter.

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So... are you saying that no team will get >25 ppb?

i think that only a handful of teams across the country can over 25 ppb on a d2 sct set. my team cant even get it on an a set (like 1.5 ppb away)

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Next week, we'll use an all history packet to prep for NHBB Nationals in the prelim game

Is there any way i could hear this packet despite the fact that i am not on a team in OSPL?

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Kellenberg will be there with one team, two buzzers, and no reader/moderators.

Kellenberg would make 24, i believe, unless i counted wrong. In terms of format, will it be 4 groups of 6 rebracketed for playoffs

Wow i suck at reading.

ProfessorIanDuncan

Unfortunately no teams from Westchester will be able to attend this tournament because of a schedule conflict but good luck to everyone attending.

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It's one thing if it's a player that actually tries to get questions. It's another when you try to be like this kid I think its worth noting that this kid did get questions in previous games and did okay. Not to mention the fact that this was against DCC and they probably like one lined the first f...

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On a side note, at the Connecticut invitational, a younger player from Hanover was actually a little worried about getting the neg prize If i would have been able to drum up a team then i feel pretty certain that i could have won it. And if we had played you guys the teams attitude towards the neg ...

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Wow, holy crap. CR is a school of 2000 kids and we struggle to get more than 6 students to ever come to practice because of all their other activities. How the heck do you get 35 kids to show up to a practice? We can never split practice up because one room would have 2 kids in I can say that in my...

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I will try to talk to my team but it is unlikely that they will respond as it is the holidays and i am unsure of how they react to one more tournament to the busy schedule. But I would like to express extremely tentative interest on behalf of my team.

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