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I don't know what's going on now. The original date was 10/24, then they changed it to 11/7 since there was already a tournament scheduled for that date. Now there is an email going around asking which date is better. I do not represent the Duke CB team, but they are doing a splendid job of not prom...

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Duke College Bowl has announced that their mirror of the HSCS will be November 7. Information is at the Duke CB web site.

Moved discussion of non-quizbowl event of interest to quizbowl players to Misc HSQB. --the mgmt

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Congrats to Southside. They should be on everybody's radar. They were crazy fast.

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I'll pass it around. Us and Robinson are usually the only teams that travel that far. We're also still waiting to hear when (and if) Duke will hold the Celebrity Shoot mirror, which is often around that time.

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(crossposted from the Tournament Announcement page, but with more NC details) The second Bonfire of the Manatees tournament will be held at Raleigh Charter High School, in Raleigh, NC, on November 14, 2009. This tournament is open to any and all high school teams. We will be using an HSAPQ set. Prel...

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The second Bonfire of the Manatees tournament will be held at Raleigh Charter High School, in Raleigh, NC, on November 14, 2009. This tournament is open to any and all high school teams. We will be using an HSAPQ set. Prelim round play will be Swiss-paired in real time; teams will play 7 prelim roun...

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The Brain Game taping schedule has been released. If you're interested in playing, contact the producer at braingame AT nc.rr.com. There is only one season this year, with only 4 fall taping dates, and playoffs in the spring.

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I would second what Andrew said, but carry the textbook idea further: reading textbooks is not worth your time. Maybe you could gain something by looking through the glossary and picking up some vocab. Textbooks really don't contain a lot of the juicy QB information, though. You need something that ...

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Great article, David. This should be mandatory reading for new tournament directors and staff. I'm happy to see how many of those things we already do.

Everyone else: thank you for the comments. Your points are all well-taken.

Eric

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Norman the Lunatic wrote: That said, in some sense your matchups will be arbitrary because you don't have great seeding data,

That's what I meant.

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Donald: We have used the bracketed approach before, though not with an advantaged final. That would work. David: I know there's no real innovation here, but it's different, if not new, for NC. We'll likely have about 20 teams, and we can do real-time Swiss pairing, and I assume that's better than an...

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Tired of prelims + single elim playoff, I am planning a new structure for Raleigh Charter's November tournament. I am interested in the opinions of those who have spent much time considering the minutiae of these sorts of things, as I am square-headed and tend not to see the flaws. Currently, I am c...

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I love the smell of a new quiz bowl season in the morning.

Given this week at practice:

1. NAMBLA for NAACP
2. "...this amendment named for a Pennsylvania senator..."
team 1: 8th
mod: No.
team 2: 13th

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I have added the Tar Heel Cup, Sept. 26, to the calendar above, suitable for printing.

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The Bonfire of the Humanities will use an as yet unassigned HSAPQ set for the tournament on Nov. 14. If you are concerned about the level of difficulty at last year's tournament, this should not be a problem. We will have entirely new problems this year, I promise.

Eric

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They haven't finalized the taping schedule (as of this earlier this week) yet, but will send out the requests as soon as they do. I suspect it will be easier to get a date as there will likely be the same number of teams applying for more opportunities.

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Word is there will only be one year-long season of Brain Game this year on WRAL. This means 24 matches instead of 18, with the playoffs in the spring. Budget cuts. This leaves more opportunities for you to attend traditional quizbowl events without conflict. Also, WRAL is aware of our announced sche...

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Dwellers in the Crucible wrote:I have always seen those listed as science.

Potato, potato. If mathcomp is bad for math, then it's bad for science, too, for all the same reasons.

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I would assume that math calculation also includes specific subject area math calculation like stoichiometry, calculating the velocity of an object falling from height y, etc.? I see no argument that these are justified because you have to know some chemistry or physics to be able to perform them.

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Disregard other date tables in this thread. 08/22/09 08/29/09 09/05/09 09/12/09 09/19/09 09/26/09 Tar Heel Cup, UNC 10/03/09 10/10/09 SAT Date 10/17/09 10/24/09 Speedway Shootout IV, Robinson High School 10/31/09 11/07/09 Celebrity Shoot, Duke 11/14/09 Bonfire of the Humanities, Raleigh Charter High...

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Personally, I don't think it's very fair to choose based purely upon something like pp20th Which is why we don't. We rank this performance, which is over the entire season, and provide this information for voters. Voters can write in any player they want or rank the players in any way they want. It...

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Inter et Inter wrote: I would strongly suspect that the Tar Heel Cup will be held on September 26th this year.

Eric Grunden likes this.

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It was me. I won him $4000 by knowing which Golden Girl told stories about St. Olaf.

I was bummed because I didn't get to talk to Meredith Viera. Curse you, Leeza Gibbons!

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I do not have a dog in the question format hunt, so I applaud whatever changes the PACE staff feel are necessary to keep producing the high quality packets they do. I am glad to see the bracketing system from this year brought forward.

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I was at a tournament in Lexington, Missouri and the girl who buzzed for Goethe pronounced it go-eth. The moderator stared at her for a second then accepted it. I have heard other people refer to him as that as well. I assume they just have never heard it actually said and came across it studying o...

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For those of you in NC planning to host tournaments or planning to attend, here are some dates to consider: Bonfire of the Manatees II - 11/14/09 (tentative - this will move if it conflicts with the Brookwood tournament) Belles' Bowl (St. Mary's) - already claimed - 2/20/2010 Right Triangle Open - 2...

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I can't speak entirely for NC, but in short, we vote based on performance at designated tournaments within the state (regardless of what out-of-state competitors come in). We are pretty flexible who else we consider, but I think it just boils down to a vote similar to Illinois except we don't have ...

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Edit: Never mind - problem solved. It has nothing to do with quiz bowl. Does anyone know a Whitney Shingleton who might be associated with anyone who might have gone to PACE? Or is involved in quiz bowl at all? A Raleigh Charter coach found a check from this person in one of our cars and we are tryi...

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I was a bit taken aback by how many things high schoolers kept complaining were "stock" at this tournament... Complaining about a question because you got it early or "everyone in high school knows lines from Holmes's The Deacon's Masterpiece, come on guys!" is silly and leads t...

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Is ACE camp any good? I might recommend it to a few of my freshman if its worth it. Always wanted to go myself, but never really had the time IMO, frequently the people who say they didn't like it generally wouldn't have benefited from it much in the first place. I think it's a good crash course fo...

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If it is a Fred Morlan production you can expect fun and squirrels, amirite?

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After tallying the votes submitted by players and coaches, I present to you the 2009 NC Quiz Bowl All-Star Team: Peter Schultz (RCHS) Patrick Nolan (Greensboro Day) Sam Spauling (Cobra Kings) Arthur Kim (East Chapel Hill) Richard Deans (Rocky Mount) Kiel Williams (Early College of Guilford) Ben Stev...

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pln09 wrote:
Quick question: were there bounce-backs? It looks like there were.

No. It was a time thing - considering the low bonus conversion across the board bouncebacks would have added an hour to the tournament.

Eric

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Actual results:

1. Raleigh Charter A
2. Cobra Kings
3. Early College of Guilford A
4. Greensboro Day

playoff and prelim stats are up.

Stat note: NE Guilford did not return for the playoffs even though the entire field advanced; divisions listed in the playoff file are irrelevant.

Eric

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Since the field for Saturday's tournament is rather small, I have decided to make the voting for all-star players an electronic affair. On the NCATA website ( www.raleighcharterhs.org/ncata ) there is a spreadsheet file I assembled from all the individual stat records we had for tournaments in NC th...

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NCOAST Field Update!

Raleigh Charter (2)
Greensboro Day (1)
Cobra Kings (2)
"Green Hope" (2)
Western Harnett (1)
Richmond County (1)
Early College of Greensboro (2)
Cardinal Gibbons (1)
NE Guilford (1)

Hopefully more will sign up, but I blame myself for choosing a lousy date.

Eric

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Matt Weiner wrote:Bouncebacks are fine for keeping everyone in the game

Some areas of the country aren't rich with good teams, and building morale can be important. A more competitive field might not be so receptive to bouncebacks.

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Greensboro Day had plans to go to PACE but ended up not being able to. They are very good this year, but have always had a solid program. I'm glad they represented well.

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Brice: I can hook you up.

Eric

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Raleigh Charter had 1827.

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Mod: please move this to the NC thread. Someday I'll figure out this thing.

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Details are posted in the NC discussion thread. The tournament will be NAQT-supplied this year. This is the NC Open Academic State Tournament, not affiliated with NC State University (in case you are confused). This is open only to NC high school teams of any size and flavor. There is no JV division...

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North Carolina Open Academic State Tournament (NCOAST) Rules, 2009 Tournament to be held May 16, 2009 Eligibility: A. Schools are welcome to register as many as two teams for this competition, although further teams may be allowed by the tournament director. B. For several reasons, this year there w...

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Cave Spring over the Cobra Kings in the finals. The match was tied after the first two parts and Cave Spring pulled ahead in the second half of the TU section. Stats fixed and posted. Prelims are here ; finals are here . There was a problem in the code during the prelims that for some reason tallied...

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Apparently Cave Spring won both the V and JV sides of the Western NC Shootout this past weekend. From Bob Powers' facebook pix it looks like JV beat Freedom and V beat Greensboro Day in the finals.

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Field Update: Early College of Guilford East Chapel Hill Northwood Pasquotank County HS Robinson Green Hope Lee County Rocky Mount Cobra Kings Johnston County Middle College Caldwell Academy Richmond County TJ Classical Western Harnett Greensboro Day Cave Spring Northeastern Broughton St. Mary's As ...

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We will be using NAQT as a question source this year.

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The field is up to 15 teams as of today, March 3. There's still plenty of time to register and plenty of space. Early College of Guilford East Chapel Hill Johnston County Middle College Northwood Pasquotank County HS Caldwell Academy Hoggard Richmond County TJ Classical Western Harnett Add to this ...

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OK. Here goes again: NCOAST will be held May 16 at Andrews High School in High Point, NC. Registration information will be made available shortly. This is the least bad date we could come up with. I know it's the weekend before PACE and only 2 weeks before NAQT nationals. One of these august bodies ...

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The field is up to 15 teams as of today, March 3. There's still plenty of time to register and plenty of space.

Early College of Guilford
East Chapel Hill
Johnston County Middle College
Northwood
Pasquotank County HS
Caldwell Academy
Hoggard
Richmond County
TJ Classical
Western Harnett

Eric

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